WWE Bans Joey Styles From Making Political Comments On.....

WWE officials recently told Joey Styles he is no longer permitted to make posts on his Twitter account concerning politics. There was tremendous heat on him on the part of corporate officials for fear of an advertiser backlash towards the company website, where he reigns as the Director of Digital Media Content. There was also concern that his comments could reflect badly on Linda McMahon as she is a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education, not to mention the SmackDown Your Vote! campaign as it is supposed to be nonpartisan.

Styles last made political comments on his Twitter account on June 5th.

Vince McMahon was said to be enjoying Styles' pro-Republican beliefs, which is why he was able to do them for a few weeks. Internally, it was noted that the former ECW announcer went from being a red-headed stepchild in the company to being a favorite of McMahon. Even though those close to Styles say those are his real political views, others say knocking Obama gets over big with McMahon.

One person who was in the company's "inner circle" a few years ago said employees have gotten favored status based on being outrageously outspoken towards the ultra conservative side. The person also said political discussions occur all the time on McMahon's personal jet (which the writers also take to and from television) and in internal meetings as there are always anti-Democrat discussions.

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Ha! What a political opinion can do to help your status with Vin Man....

Finally it pays off to actually be associated with a political party! Seriously if you put yourself into a party and just say you agree with them 100% you become really close minded. And has anyone ever been 100% right about everything? I think you should decide what the most important issues are to you in a race for office and vote for the person who agrees with your side on that issue. Not just vote for him because you decided to place your faith in the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. I'm pretty sure no one will care about what I just said but oh well. lol

StuffOfLegends wrote:

Finally it pays off to actually be associated with a political party! Seriously if you put yourself into a party and just say you agree with them 100% you become really close minded. And has anyone ever been 100% right about everything? I think you should decide what the most important issues are to you in a race for office and vote for the person who agrees with your side on that issue. Not just vote for him because you decided to place your faith in the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. I'm pretty sure no one will care about what I just said but oh well. lol

While I agree with you that it is necessary to consider both sides of all the issues, I have found so far that when considering the most important issues to me I end up voting almost universally for the same party. For me personally it's not about putting my faith in a particular party, it's just that in investigating the issues I find myself very closely aligned with the official platform. Some of us are just less moderate than others.