Tuesday evening on the Fox News channel, they featured a segment called “WWE’s Tea Party Stunt,” and went on to describe the angle in the WWE involving Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter.  They described it as “bigoted wrestler criticizes immigration in America.”  The program went on to say the WWE is “mocking” the Tea Party movement in the U.S.

Several media outlets have been covering this angle today, which has led the WWE to issue an official response.

WWE’s senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications Brian Flinn issued the following statement to The Hollywood Reporter:

“WWE has a long history of creating fictional characters that serve as either protagonists or antagonists, no different than other television shows or feature films.  To create compelling and relevant content for our audience, it is important to incorporate current events into our storylines.  WWE is creating drama centered on a topical subject that has varying points of view to develop a rivalry between two characters. This storyline in no way represents WWE’s political point of view.”