Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Time For This Sham To End

We don't agree on much, but ESPN Radio host Colin Cowherd and I can see eye to eye on the fact that grown "adults" that partake in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) are nothing more then "booger eating losers who never grew up." Harsh, but true.

With the recent development that WWE performer Chris Benoit decided to murder his wife and seven year old son before hanging himself in his Georgia home, the ugly question which has plagued the WWE and other legitimate sports leagues has become front page news. I think that with the way the WWE is trying to spin Benoit's death, they are even more guilty of not only condoning the use to illegal substances, but also pushing the company's performers to using steroids and other controlled substances to be at the top of their "sport."

Monday night, as news was still coming out of Georgia of the Benoit family deaths, the face of the organization, and all around dickhead, Vince McMahon decided to pull his regularly scheduled Monday Night Raw show for a three hour tribute who had just murdered his wife and seven year old son. That was wife and SEVEN year old son. Did I mention he murdered his SEVEN year old son? Yeah, that guy, was given a three hour tribute so his fans could pay homage to a man that was such a coward in life he had take out his frustrations on his innocent family. Note to people who watched that broadcast, you people are the reason 40 percent of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 and that there were weapons of mass destruction. You pathetic losers.

Not only did McMahon not apologize for highlighting the life and career of a family annihilator, but he issued a statement saying that the media was sensationalizing the story and making false claims that Benoit flipped out because he was on steroids. Ah Vince, steroids were found in his home and it's only a matter of time before the tox screen comes back positive for steroids and controlled substances. Yet, WWE lawyers are trying to spin this more than Ann Coulter at a trans gendered convention. Their latest salvo, the claim by WWE lawyer Jerry McDevitt that Benoit and his wife, Nancy, had been arguing over the past few weeks about their son, the very one that was murdered on Sunday morning, and his care. Benoit's son, Daniel, had a developmental disorder known as Fragile X Syndrome, "an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism," according to McDevitt. Benoit's schedule made it difficult for him to be home to care for the boy, and Nancy Benoit would argue with Chris about taking more time off to help with the kid.

A palpable excuse for what he did, this clearly is not. Benoit gets no sympathy for being an animal and a degenerate. However if this is the line of reasoning the WWE is putting out there, along with their claims that this was premeditated and not something caused by 'roid rage, then the WWE obviously learned from the Republican spin machine in Washington and are putting the blame squarely on the son. See, if we are to believe the WWE, then it was poor Daniel's fault he was disabled that caused his dad to flip out. In a classic game of blame the victim, the WWE would have you believe that the rock star lifestyle, along with the pharmacology degrees many learn on the wrestling circuit have nothing to do with why a maladjusted steroid abuser, who only knows and is rewarded for settling an issue with violence, as fake as it may be in the ring, could be left to his own devices and murder his family. Sure, and guns don't kill people, people kill people.

At the end of the day, what are we left with? Well, three dead people is one thing, not to mention the sick and twisted thoughts of a man in Benoit, who saw his son was physically and mentally challenged, and who's reported solution for the problem was to inject his son with steroids because he claimed Daniel was undersized. That, according to reports which indicate that the coroner discovered needle track marks on the seven year old's arms. And this is the man that deserves a three hour special retrospective, a man who not only found comfort for his family when he was strangling his bound wife, and held his son in a wrestling choke hold long enough to choke him to death. Again, WWE fans, you people are closely becoming the scum of humanity, and you douche bags illustrate, along with Vince McMahon and his ilk, exactly what is wrong with this country.