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Part Five: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards

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Rick Santorim's Lobbying to Deregulate Wrestling

LZ Granderson: Rick Santorum used to take state lawmakers backstage at WWF events where they got free food and liquor in a way that didn't technically violate the law. LZ: The committee members were less interested in worker safety than they were in trying to parse out the question of whether or not wrestling was real. "It's like embarrassing that they're this hung up on it," he says. 'I don't know about that'

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