Rant #1,479: The Hulkster Gets Pinned to the Mat ... By Words, Not Muscle

I am sure that you heard late last week that the WWE canned Hulk Hogan, fired him for uttering a racial slur.

The whole thing came out due to his sex tape mess, where he is arguing that a former friend tried to blackmail him by making a sex tape with Hogan as its star, without the pro wrestler's knowledge.

Evidently, eight years ago, Hogan was being interviewed on Sirius radio, and he uttered the slur related to a story he was telling listeners about, related to rappers, his daughter, and a then-beau that she was seeing that was going to bankroll her career.

To put it in a nutshell, Hogan basically said that he was becoming very friendly with some rappers in Florida, they used the N-word all the time, used it to address him, and he then started to use it, and he asked, "If they can use the N-word, why can't I?"

And for this, something that happened eight years ago, he was canned by the WWE.

Boy, if this isn't a case of people in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones, then what is?

The WWE, as a major, multi-billion dollar corporation, is trying to save face here, but aren't they about the biggest hypocrites in the world?

The WWE is built on being un-PC. The very foundation of the company is built on stereotypes of every kind.

And they sacked Hogan because he said something supposedly heinous eight years ago?

This is the same organization that not only uses rappers for musical segments on its shows--no, they don't allow the N-word in their music on the show, but that is clearly not the point here--but they revel in black stereotypes.

Take their current tag team sensation, called The New Day.

Three wrestlers enter the ring, prancing, dancing, jiving, twisting their voices so they sound like the most stereotypical of blacks, and they get away with this.

And there have been others in the past, resembling pimps, who have pranced down the aisle toward the ring, or have been used in subservient roles.

And what about other stereotypes that are perpetuated on their shows?

Let's see ... all Irish people love to fight ... very tall people are brutes ... and the worst one of all, that all of their female talent must be whores because they dress like streetwalkers.

And then there is the bullying aspect, which is as part of wrestling as the "1-2-3" on the mat is.

This is an organization that is following the PC Police in its efforts to make everything "right?"

And remember, Hulk Hogan said these things eight years ago. He has apologized in 2015 for some things he said in 2007. He has also tried to save face, and save the WWE's face, by saying that he resigned, that he was not fired, but that is hogwash.

He is/was/will always be their biggest star, and you must have a valid reason for sacking such a star.

The whole thing smells of PC Police nonsense ... I mean, will Chairman Vince McMahon swear that he never, ever used the N-word in conversation? Can anyone swear to that?

I know that I can't, and yes, I find the word repugnant, too, as I do ethnic slurs against Italians, Irish and Jews, among others.

But have I uttered the word? Yes, I have. Not on a tape, mind you, but in private conversation I have uttered the word, sometimes as a example of what one should not say, as I explained it to my son when he was younger, and he was confused by its usage in modern pop culture.

But back to the WWE ...

It appears that in our PC Policed society today, we are on a witch hunt for anything that goes against that group's policy, no matter when it was made.

Although I cannot stand Paula Dean, she has been the victim of this witch hunt, too, trying to perpetuate this nonsensical "white guilt" thing that the PC Police have festered on our current time.

I don't know about you, but I have no guilt about anything, racial or otherwise. My people have been persecuted, too, but I don't hold it over the heads of people.

But this white guilt thing is popular, today, for whatever reason, and things done in a different time are just as suspect as things done today.

But some people are immune to this. Rappers certainly are. For some reason, they are allowed to spread their repugnant behavior all around, and are not subject to any discipline, figuratively or literally, at all.

Heck, what they do is A-R-T.

For the WWE to go after one of its own icons, a guy who helped make the WWE what it is today, is ridiculous, to say the least, in particular related to an incident eight years ago.

They should be ashamed of themselves, and the next time I see the New Day, I am just going to scream ...

As we all should.

Phoney is as phoney does.