After WWE heels Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter delivered a politically-themed "State of the Union Address" during Monday's Raw, WWE announcer Jerry Lawler was fed sarcastic lines about Swagger & Colter getting fan mail from conservative commentators Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh.
Alex Jones's website, InfoWars.com, responded to WWE's creation, saying WWE is "creating a racist wrestler to demonize the Tea Party," which is a branch of the Republican Party. The website notes Swagger is being positioned in this manner before facing Mexican wrestler Alberto Del Rio for the World Title at WrestleMania.
Jones's website also notes the interesting angle of WWE head Vince McMahon's wife, Linda McMahon, unsuccessfully running for the Senate in Connecticut twice on the Republican ticket.
Jones's website opines: "This is part of the divide and conquer tactic of cultural subversion to manufacture racial division and to characterize the Tea Party, conservatives, libertarians, opponents of uncontrolled illegal immigration, and constitutionalists as racist, extremist radicals who should be pushed to the fringes of the political discourse.
"Now the demonization runs so deep that it’s even being bolstered by WWE wrestling. The fact that WWE is owned by Vince and Linda McMahon, who are part of the Republican establishment, also tells us a lot about how grass roots conservatives and libertarians are viewed by those near the top of the power structure."
Jones's website says they responded to WWE's new program because WWE programming reaches millions of Americans every week who are seeing this characterization of the Tea Party.