Under the Radar

WWE has a voter registration program called “SmackDown Your Vote!” As a part of the program, they sent wrestlers Dave Batista and Candice Michelle to the Democratic National Convention. It was a nice gesture, but there was one glaring problem: Batista and Candice, the two whose job it was to stress to young people the importance of political involvement and voting, were not registered to vote.

The duo were interviewed today by everyone’s favorite reminder of how plastic surgery can be a godsend, the “lovely” Greta Van Susteren, and Candice said “David and I, we actually went to Rock your Vote today, and we both registered.” So not only were the two main representatives of the WWE’s youth-oriented voter registration program not registered to vote, but they had to go to another youth-oriented voter registration program in order to actually register.

If any billion dollar company other than the WWE had set up a program like this they would be the laughingstock of the business world. But it’s World Wrestling Entertainment, and who really pays any attention to World Wrestling Entertainment?

World Wrestling Entertainment has the benefit of being considered such a joke of a company that they can fly under the radar in a way that allows them to get away with things that no other publicly traded company possibly could. Let's face it: any company that can get away with their Champion, Triple H (who wears iron crosses on his tights and proclaims himself the “King of Kings” in what must be an effort to equally offend both Jews and Christians) performing a simulated act of necrophilia on his opponent’s dead sister on national primetime television without a peep from the media is operating in a world so insulated they might as well be living on that speck of dust with the Whos.

It’s amazing what kind of stupidity you can get away with when no one is paying attention. Just ask Congress. (Zing!)