Loss Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Wow, they are really hyping up Iraq's deadline to leave Kuwait as the Ultimate Deadline. This is so unbelievably disgusting that I don't really know how to react. I'm not even offended. I am too shocked that this stuff actually saw the light of day to be offended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 Pretty shocking that they use a 60 minutes sytle news item and tag in Slaughter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 Iraq had a deadline of 1/15 to withdraw from Kuwait before the UN Coalition went to combat. The WWF touches on this...for the sole purpose of setting up a Sgt. Slaughter promo saying most of the same stuff as before about standing side-by-side with President Hussein. The U.S. on the verge of war is basically being treated the same way as a WWF title match. I think it's possible to incorporate current events into a wrestling angle in a reasonable, if not necessarily tasteful, way. But it needed something besides the WWF's hamhanded, sledgehammer of plot approach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Talk about the special deadline for Saddam to leave Kuwaitt. They probably wished the date was the same as the Royal Rumble to play it up even more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooner Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 It's been over 20 years, and I still can't believe they did this. Utterly tasteless from the WWF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 More of the same crap from Slaughter and Adnan. There really isn't much new to say here. I'm surprised that at least some stations didn't pull Superstars and Challenge, and I'm doubly surprised that USA didn't complain about this stuff being rerun on Prime Time and All American. Either they all thought that no one with any sense could possibly be disgusted by pro wrasslin' or none of them were paying any attention to what was going out over their airwaves. I lay the percentage of each at about fifty-fifty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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