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A First Time for Everything

I’m going to go way out on a limb here: Professional wrestling and necrophilia have never come up together in a political campaign before today.

Now the YouTube videos of those old WWE sketches that Connecticut Democrats were flagging to reporters as a hit on Linda McMahon have been yanked after WWE complained of copyright infringement.

David Kurtz

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