Posted on 07/21/2006 6:54:54 AM PDT by presidio9
Madison Ave. ad execs are so bent on taking control of America's children, they'd put computer chips in kids' brains if they could, Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday. Saying advertisers have found so many new ways to get at kids through video games and the Internet, Clinton warned that we're verging on a society out of a grim science fiction novel.
"At the rate that technology is advancing, people will be implanting chips in our children to advertise directly into their brains and tell them what kind of products to buy," Clinton said at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The New York Democrat said the country was performing a "massive experiment" on kids who average more than six hours a day with media and advertising, soaking it up through TV, computers, games and iPods. She said the fastest growing advertising market is the 6- and under set, and that children's health is already being hurt by products like Camel's candy-flavored cigarettes and junk food sold with tips for video games - used to sell more junk food.
"People are spending billions and billions of dollars enticing children basically to be obsessed with food," she said. "These foods are almost universally unhealthy." Clinton has offered legislation to study the effects of the "advertising-saturated, media-intense" world on kids.
Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University, said Clinton and other politicians like to attack advertising because it's easier than trying to ban bad food products or fund broad education programs.
"To go after advertising really makes no sense," he said. "It's sort of a backdoor tack, but it's the safer one politically."
As opposed to brain washing them from birth the way Hilda beast and the libs want to do.
Well, Hillary should no. Her husband authorized the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
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The Clintonistas called people "crackpots" for saying the same thing Hil is saying.
no = know
"people will be implanting chips into our children to advertise directly into their brains"
Cankles has finally gone completely cukoo for Cocoa Puffs.
To do the mind control one first needs to have minds to be controlled. Otherwise it is Pavlovian conditioning.
Mrs Clinton,it's a good thing that you implanted a chip in the brains of Maggie Williams and Bernie Nussbaum.Otherwise,it's unlikely that they would have participated in the felonious coverup that took place in the hours and days after the untimely,unexpected,and violent death of Vincent Foster Esq.
...or the DNC..24/7. Can you imagine a Susan Estrich voice talking in your head, saying "we are your only hope. Eat your soybean cupcake and tell mommy to vote democrat. Or we're all going to die."
GSlob, they are just making you say that to throw us off the track. See if you still think that while wearing an AFDB.
It sounds like she is defining a problem so that she can propose a solution. Whatever she has in mind will, of course, be "for the children." Whatever it is will enslave said children and society into the type of socialist society she and her husband have always envisioned.
She's more frightened they'd be programmed to vote Republican.
Leni
Oh, I thought she meant corn chips. What what could
be wrong with that? Little salsa, little cheese and
you got nachos.
I thought Hil was ultimately against nachos.
Waddya mean, "could be"...?
There are some out there who believe video games are one reason the IQs of children went up in the 20th century. If that's true it might have helped had Bill and Hillary spent more time with them.
That's because she'd rather they be put in the left wrist.
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