You lie, Mr. President

Earlier this week, former WWE exec Linda McMahon, who's running for a Senate seat in Connecticut, attempted to draw away some of the criticism she's getting for leading a company where her husband made a female employee bark like a dog and her son-in-law boinked a corpse. To do this, she pointed to a recent video message President Obama recorded for the troops which will air on the WWE's Tribute to the Troops program this weekend. Mrs. McMahon reasoning is this: the President supports the troops; WWE supports the troops; therefore, the President supports the WWE.

Despite this being a deductive fallacy, we still think Linda has a point about President Obama on board with the WWE's programming. And why not? As McMahon says, the WWE does a lot of good things for the community, for charities like Make a Wish, and for the American troops overseas. However, the President is saying that in no way was that message meant exclusively for WWE's Tribute to the Troops.

Apparently the President simply records generic messages for armed forces and sends them out to all sorts of media outlets on the off-chance that one of them might want to air them. One of those, of course, being NBC, which just so happens to be showing a rasslin' show shot in Iraq in front of a couple thousand servicemen and women this very weekend. An odd coincidence indeed, but like he says, he doesn't mention WWE by name, so there's absolutely no connection there.

Again, Linda McMahon's reasoning is a little faulty, but that doesn't mean she's not right. Now, we're not going so far as to say that President Obama reads our blog (we keep pretty good track of our readership - it's easy when there's only three of you), but he certainly hasn't balked at the idea of using the instant audience professional wrestling provides in the past. We should probably remind you of this gem:




That was during the campaign, and yes, Randy Orton's reign did come to an end, but he also regained the title a couple of times, so we can hardly say you've enacted any real change there. He still terrorizes the WWE at will. We're going to call that one a wash at best.

But it gets worse. Take a look at this video from a Democratic primary debate, where then-Senator Obama practically channels Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson to "lay the smack down" on Hillary Clinton.




You can't tell us that he didn't tune in at least a little bit during the Attitude era. Hell, everyone did, so that's no big deal, sir. You can tell us.

Finally, President Obama even has WWE entrance themes, which has to be proof that he's at least somewhat associated with the WWE. There is, of course, his campaign entrance:




And now they're already working on his second theme, to use when he goes back on the campaign trial for the 2012 election. Since we're buddies with the WWE interns, they sent us a rough cut, though it's anything but rough:



With this preponderance of evidence, it seems to be nothing but the truth to say that the President not only supports the WWE, but is involved in some of the backroom politics. We suggest you come clean about this, Mr. President, because it's the sort of thing that can come back and bite you. Until then, the Laugh Twins will be watching.