World Wrestling Entertainment has invited Glenn Beck to appear on its television program Raw after he attacked the WWE as “the stupid wrestling people” for introducing a Tea Party character that he says amounts to “demonizing” the tea party.
WWE, founded by two-time Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon and her husband Vince McMahon, creates larger-than-life characters and pits them against each other in wrestling matches. Linda McMahon herself even entered the ring in the past.
In a segment on Wednesday on BlazeTV, Beck criticized WWE for bringing out a new characters, Zeb Colter, as the manager for recurring character Jack Swagger. Colter uses phrases like “We the people” and appears to be a tea party character. Adding to that perception is the fact that his last name bears a homophonic resemblance to conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
The Colter character is racist and xenophobic, saying things like “how do we get rid of ‘em” and saying this country is “not the land of the free and the home to whoever wants to cross our borders.”
Beck said that WWE was saying, with this character that “anytime you use any of those phrases,” like “we the people,” among others, “you’re a racist moron like this guy.”
