For people not following, let me be clear that Alberto Del Rio is a babyface (good guy) and tea partiers Zeg Colter and Jack Swagger are heels.
Note how both wrestlers break kayfabe (the sacred code of wrestling where one never admits that anything is scripted) at 1:38, just to twist the knife in Glenn Beck. I love how they condescendingly explain what a "promo" is. Then the way they effortlessly go back into character at 4:46 is wonderful.
Beck didn't show up to Raw, but WWE did broadcast a reporter failing to get an interview with him at his headquarters. Not since Dusty Rhodes have I seen left wing positions so clearly paired with stereo-typical professional wrestling virtues. Given wrestling's history as a cultural bellwether, this strikes me as a very good thing.
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