[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by Seph I still can't get over Meltzer being stupid enough to make a holocaust joke. Didn't he give Cornette shit for the fried chicken thing several years ago?

Not several. Just a couple. And to me, that hypocrisy was the real punchline.

Originally Posted by GD Meltzer has a history of making tasteless comments. While not as dire as the holocaust joke, I vaguely remember him commenting on female performers getting cosmetic surgeries.

At least with the cosmetic surgery thing, he was trying to make a point about the trend that female talent was clearly and obviously taking for getting fake tits and botox and their faces pulled taut en masse (and with some varying degrees of shitty results) because, somehow, the consensus was they seemed to think, for some reason, weren't pretty enough already. And the allusion of that reason was that higher ups in various companies, especially WWE, seemed to be steering their ladies in such a direction directly or indirectly. Hell, you had what ended up becoming one of - if not THE - top female talent in the biz at one time, and she was self-conscious about her tummy... when she had amazing (and I daresay yummy) abs, by the way. If someone has body issues about one of their best features, I'm pretty sure some of that had to be fostered by the environment. Especially when that environment had a conga line of ladies taking time off to get chesticle implants, but having "heat" with the company for announcing stuff like getting pregnant or announcing engagements/getting married (which means they can't be marketed as "hot single women in your area").

However, HOW he said it was clumsy, and left the impression that he was just bashing the women themselves. Then when he got yelled at by some of the wrestlers, he tried to backtrack and apologize, and was yet another statement that, had ANYONE ELSE tried to say what he said, even if they made the point clearer, he would have be the first to chastise them about how "tasteless" it was, and announce that they should have known better than to say such things publicly, and possibly even write an obituary about their career.