The Funkasaurus Is a Creep

How surprising that this guy here is a creep, couldn't have seen it coming
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George Murdoch, otherwise known as Brodus Clay in WWE or Tyrus in TNA/Impact, is in some hot water over at Fascism Central, err, I mean Fox News. He was mysteriously moved off his Fox Nation show (Fox News' streaming service) Un-PC, which he co-hosted with professional grievance peddler and former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry in April. The move didn't happen coincidentally; as fate would have it, Murdoch was a creep. He sent lewd and aggressively sexual texts to McHenry. Obviously, McHenry didn't want those texts or else this might not have been an issue. In response, did Fox fire Murdoch and give McHenry a settlement as compensation for her mental anguish? lol no, they just moved Murdoch onto another show, NUFFSAID, and kept trotting him out as a guest on other higher profile shows.

A vast majority of wrestlers lean conservatively. Sure, you have your odd communist like Dick Togo, your random Labour Party enthusiast like Zack Sabre, Jr., or a handful of "Hillary Men/Women" like Kenny Bolin and Angel Orsini. However, most of them vote Republican to some degree, and if you polled a locker room, you'd find Trump voters of varying degrees all over the place, whether or not they were as loud and obnoxious about it as Colin Cassady... err, I mean CaZXL. However, only two of them sold out hard enough to appear on the GOP's nominal propaganda arm, cable division: Murdoch and John Bradshaw Layfield. To keep that company is incredible in a bad way. Given how people at that network treat women historically, and how toxically masculine the world of wrestling is, it shouldn't be a surprise that Murdoch got got for being a creep. It's still abhorrent, mind you, but things don't have to be shocking to be ghastly.

As for McHenry, the temptation can be strong to not feel anything for her. She is one of the most annoying Tomi Lahren clones on Twitter, almost taking the conservative victim complex mentality to parody levels. That being said, it doesn't matter if you're annoying and awful or a "saint;" no person deserves to be bombarded with unwanted sexual advances, whatsoever. To believe she might deserve the wave of creepdom despite rejecting and rejecting them over and over makes you no better than the idiots on the right and at Fox News who can't seem to stop facing these kinds of accusations.

Much in the same way that Bill O'Reilly kept his Fox News show despite having to pay out a steep sexual harassment settlement himself, I expect nothing to happen to Murdoch. Fox News, in addition to being President Trump's bullhorn, is a place that was founded on and built around the disrespect of women more than anything else. Even women like McHenry who willingly betray the causes that affect their gender positively will be treated the same as someone neutral or on the left. They don't care, which while par for the course, is a sad state of affairs.