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Originally Posted by El_Absoluto
Now you are just talking out of your ass.
PR nightmare????
Lawler is the only person in the fucking world who is allowed to be ofended and he was standing right there being part of the segment.
So... stop pretending... pussies.
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Obviously he agreed to it or it wouldn't have happened. I can see why he would too; it might seem a good way to get some heat for Punk. Where it goes wrong, IMO, is that some subjects – heart attacks, cancer, that sort of thing – are too personally familiar to a large percentage of people and a lot of them (not all by any means) will be disturbed on a deep level and no, I wouldn't call them pussy or weak in any way for that. When you take a real life heart attack of a personality viewers are familiar with and play with it that way, you run a risk you don't with fake drama, fake ick factor and sex jokes.
I wasn't offened, but I didn't think it was brilliant television either. To be honest, what followed Lawler's return speech was no big deal to me, but the audio of his wheezing at the mic - which wasn't intended as 'edgy' – made me uncomfortable.