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Senator Clinton Slams GTA
Joining the ranks of such luminaries as Jack Thompson and Governor Blagojevich, GamesIndustry.biz has the word that Senator Hillary Clinton has joined right wing advocates in decrying the gaming industry as a paragon of loose morals and corrupting influences. From the article: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them...This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place." Commentary available at The Australian. Update: 03/30 02:22 GMT by T : Thanks to reader mantle_etching, here is a link to the entire speech as delivered, so you can judge its content for yourself.
You think killing prostitutes are bad? Wait until you see soldiers team-killing each other in CounterStrike.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
... but did you ever notice that not a single politician slams Thief?
Trolling is a art,
It is wrong to murder prostitutes after you have sex with them.
Unless they charge more than $50, then its ok.
Did she actually use the word diss?
Hilary Clinton... used the word 'diss' in a sentence? Hilary Clinton?!?...
Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse???!?!
Are we sure it wasn't George Clinton?....
When I'm bashing the brains out of a hooker, I like to pretend its you.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I was murdering prostitutes WAY before GTA came out.
I'm still waiting for a game that will depict Clinton's white house years.
Leisure Suit Larry don't got shit on Bill!
but she used Word's grammar checker to prepare her speech...
"...it's OK to diss people because they are a woman"
Dat ho' be trippin', yo!
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
"Hey Hillary, looky here, I just blew up a tank with the rocket launcher, whooo-eh."
"Shut up Bill, I pandering to parents that don't take the time to raise their own kids here"
-or so you'd think
Those Australian papers always distort the truth. The distinguished Senator from New York clearly said "color."
Kids don't grow up to become prostitute-murdering psychopaths because they played a videogame that "taught them it was cool."
But my mom said I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up!
Although, I hear the last two presidents have been stoned already.
No, one of them did'nt inhale.
I doubt she said "colour"....
As an American, she'd have said "color" instead.
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Heh nice idea but not really the way it works. One obvious example is that of the 10 commandments. Those hold from the Old Testament. There is very little about the new covanent that directly conflicts with the teachings of the OT and most of that regards salvation.
I don't ask you to be me. I only ask you not expect me to be you.
"And so I ask you this one question: Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
The people who love to play GTA post in anger.
The people against GTA post in anger.
In conclusion: people who post about the debate of violent video games are more likely to kill than those who don't.
Data: 1000 posts so far to sample.