Senator Hillary Clinton slams Grand Theft Auto ("major threat" to morality)

Eurogamer.net ^ | 3/29/05

[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.

[dfwgator]

"The moral of the story is, don't be a dick, Dick."

[Sybeck1]

Has she got a quote out there on Terri yet?

[Bahbah]

She wants a $90 million investigation to be launched into the impact of games and other electronic media....

This might be the most revealing sentence in the piece. I wonder who gets to do the "study".

[AmericaUnited]

How can we fool them today? More morphing into the "red-state candidate".

[CIDKauf]

Amen. But Hillary will not side against the LA/NY liberal cultures in the music, movie, or television industries.

[Bahbah]

If Hillary really wants to get into destructive cultural influences she should start with rap music.

She should start with her so-called husband.

[CIDKauf]

majot threat to morality is Bill Clinton

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"This is Hillary's version of conservatism. Spend 90 million of taxpayer money on a study. Then do nothing."

Boy. Did you ever NAIL it! Kudos. She's such an @ss.

I'd love to have Hitlery over to our house for a game of GTA. We ALL play it; the teens, the DH & me, your basic 'Soccer Mom.'

So far, none of us have gone homicidal...and that's saying something with three teen boys in the house. (I meant me, not them, LOL!)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I don't play GTA but I do play Pirate Cove where I torture prisoners, kidnap people and run brothels, gambling halls and other dens of iniquity. Not to mention a spot of betrayal and assassination now and rampant percolating.

So far I have managed to keep reality separate from fantasy but if I ever start saying "Arrr Matey" y'all had better run for cover.

[Libloather]

Has she got a quote out there on Terri yet?

Haven't seen one. Anything from the NAG camp?

[Deetes]

Ahh Jezzz not this ..... Who is going to post it ?

[Deetes]

Ahh Jezzz not this ..... Who is going to post it ?

[CIDKauf]

The Arkansas "free study group" of course

[NormsRevenge]

Coming Soon to PlayStation..

A Bovine Rodham Clinton Production

Grand Theft Cattles Future

[aculeus]

You would think she might have better things to do - like making sure all sexual predators in Chappaqua are registered...

Zinger!

[You Dirty Rats]

Instead of running for President, Shrillary should get a role in a remake of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". We all know what role she fits like a glove.

[Mudboy Slim]

The HildaBeast is PREY...MUD

[Moral Hazard]

""Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them,"

That's just wrong! Children should learn that when you receive a service you pay for it. You don't kill the provider!

[Delphinium]

CHILDREN should NOT BE PLAYING games for ADULTS.

Would this be a good game for anyone?

What kind of adult would want to play a game about stealing cars, having sex with prostitutes and murdering them?

[SweetCaroline]

"This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman,

....NO NO NO Hitlery, it was your husband who taught the kids that!!!!