I think the comment on the bottom of the screen was enough. I mean anyone is gonna see something moving on their TV. If they see it and they dont like it, then they should turn it off. Don't sit there and watch it if you are gonna be offended!

I don't think there's anything wrong with demonizing -- or defending -- Bush, except that it has no place here, a site about TV. That poster was a spammer/troll who wanted you to visit his/her web site. Best to ignore all cracks -- don't take the bait. Or, go visit his/her blog site (tvjabber.com) and argue there.

Edit: It was 300,000 total in all of the mass graves combined.

"The biggest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush, has attacked and killed over 100,000 innocent civilians in Iraq."- tv shows Saddam Hussein: 300,000 dead found in one mass grave outside of Baghdad, more than 20 others like that have been found. He also had Chemical Ali gas the Kurds and killed thousands of them too. Not to mention people he would have killed just because he wanted to. Need I mention the 'professional' rape teams he had? Countless women were raped and brutalized while their husbands were forced to watch. Most of the time after being raped the women were killed. Usama Bin Laden: Responsible for '93 WTC attacks, Africa Embassy bombings, 9/11, Bali attacks, Jakarta attacks, etc... Taliban: Killed millions in soccer fields in Afghanistan because they could. Little girls were raped if they tried to go to school. Some women were on lock down and were in prison for years, just because they were women. Somalian Warlords: Commited genocide in the early 1990's by starving their own people. Attacked U.N. Aid workers. Sudanese Warlords: Presently committing one of the world's largest genocide campaigns. Slobidan Milosovic: Responsible for the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia, Kosovo, and other Balkan states. Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi: Orchestrated attempted chemical attack on Jordan. Responsible for thousands of Iraqi murders on regular people just trying to vote, or go to the store, or send their kids to school. Kim Jong Il: North Korean defectors report all sorts of torture and murder for his own personal amusement. People are starved in the camps, and children are kidnapped on a regular basis to go serve him. Millions have been murdered under his rule. Now, I suggest you start getting your facts straight. I am getting damn sick of hearing the bashing of a man who is attempting to help the victims of these brutal people. The things you say undermind that work, and in the long run helps the terrorists by decreasing morale among the troops and people across the world. It is misleading and unethical. On a more serious note, I suggest you take a long look at the info I have posted above. Maybe you should change your stance. I'm not saying you have to like Bush, or even agree with him, but maybe you could find it in your heart to stop demonizing him. Also, if you still think that Bush is the world's greatest terrorist, maybe you should go visit a victim of those terror attacks and ask them their opinions. Oh yeah, you can't. Most of them are DEAD.

If they couldn't change the tape, then how did they insert a comment from one of the commentators earlier in the show about the London bombing. It also was not just men in hoods carrying a wrestler off. There was also a big sub-plot about another arab wrestler not wanting to get involved in a match he was sure to lose, but was convinced to martyr himself by the main arab wrestler. Az

I don't think there's any question that the WWE is over the top. Poster #1 already adressed that, and beat you to the notion that they'll go even further at some point. Similarly, the character of Hassan, and whether he's positively or negatively stereotyped, isn't being contested either. The issue is whether UPN erred in broadcasting that particular show on that particular day, and in my opinion, and many others, they did. And if the WWE can incorporate this debate into later "plotlines," all the more power to them. But it's kind of neither here nor there, as are issues of whether or not people like the WWE. This issue revolves around UPN.

WWE once did a necrophilia angle. So let's put all thoughts of "did WWE go too far?" out of the conversation. They haven't even put all their toes in the water yet. The whole gimmick behind the Hassan character is that people are more sensitive to what he does because of his Middle Eastern roots. He does the same things everybody else does, but people hate him more because they associate him with terrorists. It's only natural, since WWE has been going with that storyline for awhile, that they could play it up more toward the line and have Hassan doing more blatantly terrorist-like things, all the while saying "Hey, just because I'm Arabic doesn't make me a terrorist!" If you hate the WWE product, then don't watch it, don't talk about it, don't pay it any attention. If they manage to get you upset enough that you tell all your friends about it, and then your friends go and watch next week, you've now become the audience. You think they don't know what they're doing? they've been playing the audience manipulation game for decades. They've already written in UPNs complaints to the storyline. They love it.

Actually, people complain all the time about how Middle Easterners are continually portrayed as terrorists (and Mexicans as criminals, and Italians as the mafia, etc). And if it had been a scripted drama, most networks (at least CBS, ABC, NBC) would have replaced it last minute with a different one due to the sensitive nature of the event, the feelings of the audience, and so on. America's Top Model would have been an excellent substitution; I'm sure the majority of the demographic would have been mollified with such a replacement.

A) UPN had the tape by Thursday morning, so there is nothing WWE could do about it. It was UPN's call to air it, and they decided to do it. B) They couldn't just air a fear factor rerun, because not all UPN affiliates have the rights to show fear factor. Syndication is done at the local level, not nationally. C) They could have edited in a previous match. D) They could have shown America's next top model or whatever programming UPN does run. E) It was just some guys in hoods carrying off an Arab-American that lost a match. It wasn't like the terrorists bombed the building the matches were taking place in, or the bus the guys rode to the arena in, or anything like that. F) If it was an episode of 24, no one would complain that they have terrorists as bad guys on the show, but lord knows wrestling can't do that.

Word to Emily with regard to both posts. UPN exhibited profoundly bad taste in airing that episode. I'm sure they could have replaced it with another rerun of Fear Factor or something. It's really no coincidence that the only time I actually watch UPN is when Veronica Mars is on. VM excluded, UPN has bad taste, bad timing, and bad judgement.