Only in America, Only on Fox: WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Obama-Clinton Smackdown Proposed

YA (Yet again), herein at least, both "America" and "the Americas" are considered North, South and Central. How's that for dogma?

But it's indeed a bit too difficult to imagine this being breaking news on any major news network other than Fox:

WWE Invites Obama, Clinton to One-on-One Smackdown

by FOXNews.com

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama — Get in the ring.

That's the challenge from WWE, which has issued an open invitation to the deadlocked Democrats to settle their differences "the American way — in a wrestling match."

Seriously.

World Wrestling Entertainment aired the video invitation Tuesday, calling for a bona fide smackdown on Monday night RAW April 21.

"What we're trying to do is provide both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama an opportunity to speak to more than 8 million viewers of our program … which is the night before the Pennsylvania primary," WWE spokesman Gary Davis told FOXNews.com.

Original Report Link

A video of the WWE invitation to Clinton and Obama is supposed to be here, but wasn't when this Ho tried to watch it.

As the Fox report also noted that, "What exactly the world of professional wrestling expects Clinton and Obama to do in that ring is unclear", it seems apropos to offer up this depiction from editorial cartoonists Cox & Forkum -- nice name -- circa, AD.2007.Jul.26.EDT:

Knock Down, Drag Out

Urm... a mea culpa may be in order, too: This post is in part a dig at our gonzo mate over at Saigon's WWE (Wild, Wild East). DEC oi, it might take a while to nudge the smackdown crowd out Google's top spots on that acronym. ;)