WWE pulls racy clips used against Linda McMahon in tight senate race

GlobalPost

World Wrestling Entertainment continues to remove controversial video from the internet that’s jeopardizing the political fortunes of its co-founder, Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon.

WWE has asked YouTube and Vimeo to pull clips of implied necrophilia and some depicting the company’s founders, Vince and Linda McMahon, participating in a smack down with their children and an actor playing Vince’s mistress.

While the clips aren’t helping Linda’s campaign, Democrats backing Rep. Chris Murphy have embraced them, and that’s not sitting well with WWE.

“Some of this footage has been misused in political environments without any context or explanation as to when it was produced,” a WWE news release said, according to CBS.

WWE has asked the file-sharing websites to pull the offending episodes based on copyright infringement.

The Democrats had used a highlight reel containing the raunchy footage against McMahon.

WWE says its racier roots don’t reflect the current state of professional wrestling.

“It’s being presented as today’s WWE, and it does not represent our PG-family-friendly entertainment of today,” WWE representative Brian Flinn told CBS.

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The footage in question, West Hartford News reports, includes scenes of the McMahon children confronting Vince about a mistress as Linda sits silently in a wheelchair.

In others, wrestlers simulate sex ringside (hidden from view) or women clad in underwear kiss in the ring.

At a funeral home, a wrestler disrobes, undresses a female actor pretending to be a corpse in a coffin and climbs on top of her.

“Linda McMahon made millions peddling sex, violence, necrophilia and abusive treatment of women to kids – all at the expense and safety of her own workers,” state Democrat chairwoman Nancy DiNardo told Fox News.

“Despite (WWE’s) best efforts to play cover-up, they can’t erase Linda McMahon’s past.”

The McMahons respond by saying WWE is more soap opera than reality.

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