'Smackdown' commentator smacked down

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If there are any WWE fans reading this thing, you (like me) hate Michael Cole, the gangrenous leg of Smackdown‘s commentary team. So you’ll be pleased to learn that he’s in hot water. Apparently, he outsourced the making of a Vince McMahon Kiss My Ass cartoon to an anonymous Flash animator, who allegedly stole plot elements and the central idea from Assy McGee, a show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim about a vigilante policeman who is “literally

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