August 13, 2007 Observer Newsletter: Vince McMahon lashes out amid congressional investigations, Pacman Jones & TNA

After a second Congressional committee requested all WWE drug testing records, and Vince McMahon returned to television and acknowledged the fact in anything but a conciliatory fashion, a curious game is in play.

The big problem is that it’s a useless game, because ultimate the game is over the health of the wrestlers, which at this point with the high injury rate in his company and frequent deaths of young wrestlers, should be the very thing McMahon would want to eradicate from the business.

Worse, even in the guise of his Mr. McMahon character, it’s one thing for the owner of a private business to make the reference that Barney Fife could do a better job in regard to the investigation, but quite another for the head of a publicly traded company to do so. “Barney Fife,” the bumbling deputy in the old Andy Griffith TV show, is a favorite reference by HHH when it comes to describing various incompetent people, so that’s likely where the line came from.

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