Last Week Tonight the Other Night
On this past Sunday's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the topic of the main story was professional wrestling. It is not a subject I have any interest in, although happily the show took the one perspective I could tolerate -- trashing the owner of the WWE, Vince McMahon, quite an odious man. While I don't find professional wrestling the wonderful entertainment that Oliver does, I think they did a terrific, often very funny, but also blistering and at times even touching job at dealing with the problems McMahon has created for so many of his employees -- in large part because he's been able to get away with calling them independent contractors rather than employees, which they are.
My one quibble with the story was one aspect of McMahon's story which got totally ignored. I don't know if it was an oversight (and if it was, it's a major one), or they didn't want to go in that direction, but I think they should have. And it's that McMahon's wife Linda not only is a former Republican candidate for the Senate in Connecticut (which she lost), but she's been in the Trump cabinet for the past two years as head of the Small Business Administration. Only the other day, she announced she was leaving the post -- but to lead the major Trump for 2020 Re-election PAC, America First Action. Personally, I think that's important to at least have mentioned.
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