Post by Pennyroyal_Tea (admin) on Dec 23, 2004 15:34:57 GMT -5
I guess I'm the only person left on Earth, or one of the few anyway, who watches MSNBC in the morning and I'm a former Miss Georgia Amy Robach (think younger, hotter Debra Norville who is leaving MSNBC in January by the way) assignment change away from hitting the clicker. My loyalty paid off as Vince McMahon addressed the nation this morning.
About 9:30 a.m. CST Vince was interviewed by one of the faceless rotating NBC men that work with Amy Robach. He did a pretty good job covering up the fact he knew nothing about sports entertainment by asking the same question twice only once "What about the actual performance? What did it consist of" He was respectful and didn't make wrestling jokes. Heck, he acted as if he was talking to a Head of State or something.
The Mr. McMahon character was up first and on a mini-rant about how the media has it all wrong concerning troop moral. He dogged the media saying lots of wonderful things are happening and "all you hear is stuff about Rumsfield." Vince said the troop moral was good.
Vince continued ranting about the media and bad news saying, "What the hell do you expect? It's a war!" He concluded the thought by saying he would like to see more balanced reporting on the war and not just so much about the bad stuff.
In a shocker, MSNBC Man said "wrestling websites are reporting" that some of the wrestlers at WWE did not want to go on this trip. At least three times during the interview Vince said the trip was voluntary. He also went into promotional mode saying, more than once as well, that "WWE is one of the nation's greatest exports." He said even Iraqi service members and workers were in line to meet "the superstars" get autographs and take pictures.
In the background video starts running showing Big Show Paul Wight playing basketball with people in uniform who look exactly half his size. Show is at the top of the key and handling the ball with his right hand and looking like he knows what he is doing in his Magic Johnson crouch.
I talked to former Tennessee Tech and current Auburn Tigers new men's head basketball coach Jeff Lebo about the Big Show on a radio show years ago in Cookeville, Tennessee. He said he recruited Paul Wight in college and said he was a very good player, not clumsy at all. Lebo said Wight was just a tad slow for a basketball player but was very coordinated and was "the overall biggest man, with the biggest hands I've ever seen."
MSNBC Man smoothly eased into saying something about the "scantily clad women" and the nature of the show while at the same time not talking down the product or coming off as condescending. Vince told him that WWE owns that demographic, repeated the "nation's greatest export" line and said that was what they, young people, enjoy.
Keep in mind Vince was in full WWE promo mode here. The next video clip's timing had to be unintentional but it looked like Trish Stratus was getting tossed in the air by male troops repeatedly like a cheerleader. At the exact same time Vince says "They (the troops) want to FEEL the WWE Superstars".
Vince came off well in what, for a hard news interview with Vince, seemed unusually long. Maybe 10-minutes or more. He was recognized as royalty by MSNBC. When asked, yet again, about the show and what it consisted of Vince got in a plug by saying it would be on UPN on Thursday night.
Credit: PWTorch.com
About 9:30 a.m. CST Vince was interviewed by one of the faceless rotating NBC men that work with Amy Robach. He did a pretty good job covering up the fact he knew nothing about sports entertainment by asking the same question twice only once "What about the actual performance? What did it consist of" He was respectful and didn't make wrestling jokes. Heck, he acted as if he was talking to a Head of State or something.
The Mr. McMahon character was up first and on a mini-rant about how the media has it all wrong concerning troop moral. He dogged the media saying lots of wonderful things are happening and "all you hear is stuff about Rumsfield." Vince said the troop moral was good.
Vince continued ranting about the media and bad news saying, "What the hell do you expect? It's a war!" He concluded the thought by saying he would like to see more balanced reporting on the war and not just so much about the bad stuff.
In a shocker, MSNBC Man said "wrestling websites are reporting" that some of the wrestlers at WWE did not want to go on this trip. At least three times during the interview Vince said the trip was voluntary. He also went into promotional mode saying, more than once as well, that "WWE is one of the nation's greatest exports." He said even Iraqi service members and workers were in line to meet "the superstars" get autographs and take pictures.
In the background video starts running showing Big Show Paul Wight playing basketball with people in uniform who look exactly half his size. Show is at the top of the key and handling the ball with his right hand and looking like he knows what he is doing in his Magic Johnson crouch.
I talked to former Tennessee Tech and current Auburn Tigers new men's head basketball coach Jeff Lebo about the Big Show on a radio show years ago in Cookeville, Tennessee. He said he recruited Paul Wight in college and said he was a very good player, not clumsy at all. Lebo said Wight was just a tad slow for a basketball player but was very coordinated and was "the overall biggest man, with the biggest hands I've ever seen."
MSNBC Man smoothly eased into saying something about the "scantily clad women" and the nature of the show while at the same time not talking down the product or coming off as condescending. Vince told him that WWE owns that demographic, repeated the "nation's greatest export" line and said that was what they, young people, enjoy.
Keep in mind Vince was in full WWE promo mode here. The next video clip's timing had to be unintentional but it looked like Trish Stratus was getting tossed in the air by male troops repeatedly like a cheerleader. At the exact same time Vince says "They (the troops) want to FEEL the WWE Superstars".
Vince came off well in what, for a hard news interview with Vince, seemed unusually long. Maybe 10-minutes or more. He was recognized as royalty by MSNBC. When asked, yet again, about the show and what it consisted of Vince got in a plug by saying it would be on UPN on Thursday night.
Credit: PWTorch.com