Last Monday Night Shawn Michaels got completely screwed in his match with the viscious, undefeated, and unbelievably talented Umaga. Check out the video (and note Jim Ross's reference to The Sopranos ) for how it went down--if you like high theater, you'll love the action, and you'll want the Heartbreak Kid to have his revenge.
Notice how, towards the end of the video, Shane McMahon exploits the Rhetorical Situation to the fullest through mimicking Michaels' big move--here "Shane O'Mac," as his father likes to call him, shows an acute sense of audience awareness, not to mention an instinct for humiliating those with whom he disagrees politically.
And as you can see here, the great Triple H was escorted by the authorities out of the New Jersey arena for possessing illegal Cuban cigars. But the cigars were planted on him by Mr. McMahon (But perhaps Triple H really is the father of Stephanie McMahon's newborn daughter, in which case The Game gets the last laugh, as it were)!
In any event Harrogate agrees with the people on this: he doesn't like dirty rhetoric, and therefore despises Mr. McMahon.
The Main Event on Monday Night presents yet another chance for Umaga to get what's coming to him, as Triple H, aka The Game, aka The King of Kings, will square off with him. Harrogate predicts that McMahon will find some sneaky way to get Michaels out of the arena so that Triple H is surrounded by numbnuts, with no allies.
Tomorrow Night Harrogate begins live update blogging of Monday Night Raw. Check it out from 8:00-10:00 p.m. central time.
2 comments:
What, no feedback on these videos, on my analysis of what went down in Jersey last Monday?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
megsg-h, I am deeply disappointed in you. The live blog, you must read, have to read, need to read, gotta read. It's a good way to segue into the carnage without actually having to witness the more Nietzschean aspects--at least until you're ready for those. Which is what the video clips are for.
And, trust the video clips I'm putting up there.
As a fellow scholar of rhetorical situations, you need to, want to, have to, got to see these clips.
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