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The Associated Press and other news sources indicate that Connecticut Democrats and others connected to incumbent US Senator Chris Dodd’s re-election campaign are already alleging illegal activity against Republican Senate hopeful Linda McMahon, wife of WWE co-founder Vince McMahon and herself the former CEO of WWE.

The allegations? Well, Dodd’s campaign has been trying to discredit McMahon by highlighting tawdry scenes from past WWE broadcasts, including a “simulated rape scene” in a sketch involving promoting a match between Triple H and Kane; the sketch was performed as part of the controversial WWE Attitude era.

The videos Connecticut Dems were using to back their misleading allegations were found on YouTube.com. Apparently, WWE asked YouTube to remove the videos and YouTube complied. Dems allege this is “illegal campaigning” in behalf of WWE for Linda McMahon.

Unfortunately for Dodd and the Dems, the law seems to be on WWE’s side; YouTube.com often has copyrighted material available on their site without proper permission being obtained, and while they try to contain it themselves, the volume of material uploaded makes it a massive task.

However, whenever any copyright holder requests specific material to be taken down, YouTube always complies quickly. WWE’s position is that they asked YouTube to take the offending videos down because they were copyrighted material used without permission, not as a campaign favor.

Our view at ProWrestlingViews? Dodd’s campaign has to be scared of Linda’s name recognition if they’re nitpicking over YouTube copyrighted material removal issues like this. It’s a huge stretch to call that “illegal campaign activity,” even if WWE did target those videos revealed to exist on YouTube by the Dems’ campaign charges. They’d find traction easier complaining about WWE’s past history of promoting unhealthy weight loss supplements. But not by much.