Game-Hating Gov. Goes Bad

[Albion Knight]

Game-Hating Gov. Goes Bad

Ordinarily, the moral turpitude of the people we elect to lead us doesn't warrant a mention on our website--we're too busy waiting for Mario Cart Kart to come out--but today's political scandal warrants a mention.

According to the New York Times, New York's Democratic governor Eilot Spitzer is enmeshed in a prostitution scandal due to wiretaps that seem to show that the Guv engaged the services of a high-price call girl. He's expected to give a statement this afternoon. Why should gamers care? Because Spitzer has been an outspoken advocate of tougher, mandatory regulations on videogames. Here's what he said during his 2006 campaign for governor:

Like all parents, I know it is increasingly difficult to protect our children from negative influences… self-regulation doesn’t always work… we have learned that when self-regulation fails, government must step in… we must do more to protect our children from excessive sex and violence in the media…​

Media content has gotten more graphic, more violent and more sex-based… Currently, nothing under New York State law prohibits a fourteen-year old from walking into a video store and buying… a game like ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ which rewards a player for stealing cars and beating people up. Children can even simulate having sex with a prostitute…​

Perhaps if people stuck to pretending to have sex with a prostitute, they wouldn't destroy their political careers... just a thought.

I love the last bit :lol:
I bet his wife is thinking "I wonder what he'll look like as a penniless looser after I take him to the cleaners in divorce court"
He'll want that money back after she's though with him that's fo sure.

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[Dark Drakan]

Re: Game-Hating Gov. Goes Bad

Funny about people such as this lecturing others on the rights and wrong of todays society, ignorance and stupidity is bliss and all that.

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: Game-Hating Gov. Goes Bad

Hypocrites. They are everywhere.

 

[suffering]

Re: Game-Hating Gov. Goes Bad

Games are not for simply killing things! It is an artform.

 

[Solus]

Re: Game-Hating Gov. Goes Bad

Games are not for simply killing things! It is an artform.

So is killing :shifty:

 

[andythegill]

Re: Game-Hating Gov. Goes Bad

Think a word can sum all this up... OWNED.