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Jamie Rosen wrote:

> Michelle Steiner (michelle{at}michelle.org) writes:
> 
>>In article ,
>> dq831{at}freenet.carleton.ca (Jamie Rosen) wrote:
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>>
>>>(Please note that I'm not saying Americans are any of those things, 
>>>just that it would be a good way to get someone over as a heel.)
>>
>>With all the gung-ho troop support that the WWE has been doing lately, I 
>>doubt that they will do that.
> 
> 
> I do too. But the WWE has always shown in the past a willingness
> (sometimes an eagerness) to fly in the face of What Makes Sense. :)

The Hell you say.  Really?

> Besides, they were plenty willing to let Nowinski go out there and use
> perfectly sound (rather than "Iraqi sympahtizer") anti-war
rhetoric, and
> they've go La Resistance.  I think that, barring a Hogan-in-a-mask
> approach, making Mr. America a heel may be the best way for them to go,
> since his advance promos seem so over the top.

IMHO, I think it's to portray Mr. America as a cartoon-like character. 
Sort of like a lot of the 80s and early-to-mid 90s WWF guys.  Hopefully 
updated a slight bit for today, but then Hurricane is a lot like the 80s 
characters and is actually over.

> Of course, this view may be filtered as a result of my being Canadian.

Michael


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