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Senator Hillary Clinton slams Grand Theft Auto ("major threat" to morality)
Eurogamer.net ^
| 3/29/05
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: auto; clinton; grand; gta; hillary; major; morality; nannystate; senator; shesconservativenot; slams; theft; threat; videogames
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To: Moral Hazard
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:00:08 PM PST
by
506trooper
(No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
To: Sybeck1
unfortunately i cant find one. but i expect that God-forbid when Terri dies, all the senators will be forced to go on record about it, so i await.
and then when she runs in 08 we'll slam her as a flip-flopping liar on all fronts. well not flip-flopping exactly, but you get the idea.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:02:23 PM PST
by
LoudAmericanCowboy
(''If the president just does more of the same every day...I may be handed Lebanon..."-John F'n Kerry)
To: Libloather
There goes the black and youth vote!
To: Delphinium
"What kind of adult would want to play a game about stealing cars, having sex with prostitutes and murdering them?"
I know, especially since it's so much more fun to do it in real life. Kinda lazy to do that in a game.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:03:23 PM PST
by
G32
To: Libloather
Hillary Clinton, Champion of Morality, goes after video games, of course to her, partial birth abortion is the pinnacle of morality.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:04:14 PM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Molon Labe! FMCDH!)
To: G32
And I always thought I had lived such an exciting life?
To: Libloather
What about the RAPIST, Hillary?
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:07:19 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(MOCKING DEMOCRATS 24/7 --- www.rightwingparodies.com)
To: Libloather
Oh no, what is happening to me? I have agreed with Jesse Jackson, and Hilary both for the first time in the same day.
To: Libloather
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:09:18 PM PST
by
freepatriot32
(If you want to change goverment support the libertarian party www.lp.org)
To: Annie03; Baby Bear; BJClinton; BlackbirdSST; BroncosFan; Capitalism2003; dAnconia; dcwusmc; ...
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:12:03 PM PST
by
freepatriot32
(If you want to change goverment support the libertarian party www.lp.org)
To: Libloather
I thought minority children were too poor to afford systems to play these games...[/sarc
To: Delphinium
What kind of adult would want to play a game about stealing cars, having sex with prostitutes and murdering them?
The game is pretty open ended. You gain nothing in the game by killing the prostitutes. The game itself is no more violent than the "Resident Evil" games or even the "Ghost Recon" shoot 'em up games. In fact these two game have more realistic game play than GTA. GTA is a fantasy, you can get away with anything, but not without consequence, since the cops in the game will come after you and overwhelm you if you shoot it out with them. It is no more a game for kids than "Pulp Fiction" or "Showgirls" were movies for kids. I would not take a kid to see those movies, I would not get them "GTA" either.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:20:20 PM PST
by
speed_addiction
(Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
To: Delphinium
I have agreed with Jesse Jackson, and Hilary both for the first time in the same day.Some of us call it Bizarro World. The worst cases have been documented happening near the global Daylight Savings Time change. As soon as the next presidential election is over, things should return to normal...
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:20:26 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Start Hillary's recount now - just to get it out of the way...)
To: Libloather
I think the game would be more acceptable if after raping the woman you suggest putting some ice on it.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:25:16 PM PST
by
mowowie
To: dirtboy
what is worse? The moral damage in a video game that is not real or your husbands actions in the oval office? HMM, I don't think you will answer that one anytime soon.
To: Moral Hazard
ROFLMAO.
That Hillary is thus advocating for prostitutes' safety, while she allows her husband to walk the streets, is hypocrisy at its finest.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:38:13 PM PST
by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
To: speed_addiction
Coincidently I have just been arguing with my 3 grandsons about that particular game being inappropriate for 7,9, and 12 year olds.
Their mother allows all of them to play it.
I am the mean grandma.
To: Libloather
You don't think they will actually dare talk like this through the next election?
To: Libloather
political kicktoy I like it. She has qualities not of leadership but of demagoguery. And fighting battles of the past.
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posted on
03/29/2005 3:42:44 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
To: finnman69
Why not start with Breakfast Cereal commercials?
It's cool for Barney to steal the Fruity or Coco Pebbles.
Lie, cheat, steal, whatever it takes to get your Cookie Crisps.
Break into factories to get some other cereal.
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