Posted on 03/29/2005 2:31:51 PM PST by Libloather
Hillary Clinton slams GTA
GamesIndustry.biz
New York senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton has launched an attack on violent videogames, singling out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto titles as a "major threat" to morality.
Clinton, who is reportedly planning to seek the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2008 election, has aligned herself with hardline right-wing Republican senators in order to pressure Congress into researching the impact of electronic media on children.
"Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them," she said in a statement on the issue. "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."
She wants a $90 million investigation to be launched into the impact of games and other electronic media on the "cognitive, social, emotional and physical development" of children, according to a Sunday Times report.
Clinton has been joined in her attack on violent games by Republican senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum - the latter of whom is best known for his outspoken stance on homosexuality, which he is accused of comparing to bestiality in public statements.
American political analysts have noted that Clinton has taken on some increasingly right wing stances on domestic issues in recent months, in an effort to win support from traditionally Republican voters in the next presidential race, with videogames being merely the latest political kicktoy to be adopted by the ambitious senator.
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She should go after Hollywierd!
...interesting, not a word about Terri S...(after Limbaugh chided her for it.)...so she comes out making a statement about GTA.
...Some say she's a Master Political force...and now she is heading for the Political Tall Grass...she has a tin ear and fat thighs.
You still haven't taken a stand on Terri Schiavo's case.
Looks like Web Hubbel's kid to me.
Did she say diss? Ugh!
"Hillary now does the Sister Souljah routine, straight from the Clintonista playbook."
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Actually this is round two of the Sistuh S. thing. The first was her comments about abortion needing to be rare, or whatever she said.
It worked for Bill, so she thinks it will work for her. Unfortunately, she may be right. When she dissed abortion on demand she didn't get any grief from the usual suspects at NOW, so they are offering her a pass just like they did Bill. Considering the razor thin margins which decide national elections, she could definitely get enough of the sheeple to believe in her.
Next she'll get "poisoned" and drop out for a month to return as a "survivor" while the Blue "spontaneous people" Revolution takes over the center of DC. The OSCE will be along shortly to proclaim the Republicans stuffed ballots, etc.
Did they carry over the feature where you hire a hooker, screw her in your car then as she leaves you run out with a crowbar and murder her to get your money back? Saw a former roommate playing the second game. That was one of those "fun" features.
yep but my weapon of choice is a chainsaw or machete :)
Maybe she is upset because of the name of the game.
PERHAPS it should have been called, "BILL CLINTON'S TERM IN OFFICE", or "GARY CONDIT'S POLITICAL CAREER".
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