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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.
You would think she might have better things to do - like making sure all sexual predators in Chappaqua are registered...
Hillary now does the Sister Souljah routine, straight from the Clintonista playbook.
LOL
GTA isn't anymore threatening than any other make believe video game.....
but it is tons of fun to play :)
"Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them,"
CHILDREN should NOT BE PLAYING games for ADULTS. Having played GTA, it's clearly not for kids. I think teenagers could play it with adult supervision, but that's a decision for the parents.
This is Hillary's version of conservatism. Spend 90 million of taxpayer money on a study. Then do nothing.
If Hillary really wants to get into destructive cultural influences she should start with rap music.
"This is Hillary's version of conservatism. Spend 90 million of taxpayer money on a study. Then do nothing."
Naw, they will rail against the game while making excuses for real crimes and those who commit them.
actually if you really want to get into it, start at birth.
My parents taught me early the difference between reality and fantasy.
I have played GTA many times, doesn't make me want to go out and have sex with a hooker and then kill her. Maybe she needs to address "the village" that is raising the people that she is convinced mimic this game.
No. She should start with the corrupt and unethical practices of government officials and their spouses, and the message it sends our youth when those behaviors are rewarded rather than punished.
Well, it worked for Bill ... remember the Clinton Body Count list?
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Actually, she should start with the nonsense that goes on within her own party! Next she could spend time looking into how she and her husband 'influenced the culture in a destructive and negative way'.
Hillary!'s husband has done far greater damage to morality than a video game ever could.
I really like her solution - spend more money on a study.
Shrillary, you've just entered ... The Xander Zone!
Sounds like we all need to go out and buy our own individual copies of GTA, and all its sequels and expansion packs.
Give it time.
Billary will propose nationalizing the video game industry.
And by the way, its a damn good game.
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