Unlike Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity is a Pro-Video Game Conservative

"Conservatives are generally idiots."

You lost all credibility right there. Making generalizations is what the anti-video game supporters thrive off of. Don't stoop to that.

The only reasons Hannity dosen't have a problem with games are:

1. He isn't trying to sell a book in which he bills himself as THE great crusader for right wing cultural values.

2. He is a devout believer in the MaGicAL powers of the free market. Hey Sean, how're we gonna' deal with school funding issues? "Free Market!", poverty? "Free Market!" health care? "Free Market!", Darfur? "Free Market!"

Slightly of-topic but I heard there was some more youtube responses to o'reilly other than the infamous 8 year old. Where might I find them?

I've always liked Hannity. He's a REAL conservative, not one of the chumps who claim themselves to be conservative yet obviously aren't as they are for bigger governments and more power to politicians. Not a big surprise here though. Hannity and I usually see eye-to-eye on issues

Well at least some one likes us.

While Sean is a bit of an odd ball and very much a rightist, he's suprisingly accurate in his observations, if not the most diplomatic of people. I listen to him online mainly for humor, as some times he goes off on a rant and it's a riot. For the most part though, hannity is just a younger, more in touch person then O riely so it's hardly a suprise for him to be a bit more in touch with the current gen.

Still doesn't change the fact that he's a bit overzealous and egotistical, but hey, what radio host isnt?

'One should not base their opinions of Conservatives on the likes of Bill O’Reilly. He and Rush Limbaugh are media whores, not conservatives.'

Well, I'm in the UK, so I don't really have too much experience with the American political parties, so apologies if I seemed like I'm stereotyping, in the UK 'Conservative' basically means 'Afraid of change' (That's an extreme definition by the way, not party policy). So you could effectively have 'Conservative Democrats' from a UK perspective.

@Beacon --

I was just going to mention the age factor. Also, Hannity has kids and O'Reilly does not. The fact that he can play and enjoy a Nintendo Wii with his kids is simply awesome. If only more parents (Democrat AND Republican) could be involved with what their kids were doing, the world would be a better place.

@ Verbinator

What? We shouldn't be critical of Bill O'Riely because of Hillary Clinton, Lieberman and Blagovitch passing/making up laws that sacrifice first amendment rights in the name of gaining votes?

If you think this site isn't harsh on all gaming critics, and supportive of all pro-gaming peeps, you seriously need to LURK MORE or gb2demonoid. I mean, just read this pro-hannity article above our heads, or scroll down a bit and edumacate yourself about a certain D-gov.

Also, try and learn the difference between true conservatives and progressive assholes trying to win votes/support from "conservative" Christians and luddites. Democrats aren't the only progressives right now, and given how much the Republican party has tried to change about the powers of our Federal government (deciding marriage laws, keeping people on life support, etc) I think you might want to be careful about who you label as conservative.

O'RLY is an I with certain conservative viewpoints who is actually very progressive.

Defending games against political assassination definitely creates one of those "strange bedfellows" situations. It's often difficult to be a conservative (let alone a religious conservative) and participate in these forums when more than half the commentary borders on, if not totally crosses over into character assassination, name calling and other forms of hate speech directed against both conservatives and Christians.

Protecting games against censorship and persecution is not a clear-cut case of Church Ladies vs. "what we think is fun." For every faith-based conservative trying to manipulate the law to protect "the children" from what they dislike about games, there were as many or more liberals trying to bring about laws to do the same thing but for different agenda reasons.

Here's a thought for a New Year's resolution: we keep the gratuitous partisan sniping to a minimum, focus our harshest criticism on those who ignorantly (and repeatedly) attack our hobby/profession, and continue to look for positive ways to support those whose job it is defend games against ignorant legislation and malicious litigation. (As an aside, and maybe GP noticed this himself, but many of the ideas we've discussed on our forums later became the text of talking points for people at both the ESA and the ESRB).

Urge to kill fading...

'believe me, the jihadists? They’re not playing the video games. They’re killing real people over there.'

It's always funny when Bill O'Reilly proves the Anti-gamers wrong unintentionally.

So while JT goes on about banning computer games to appease Terrorists, Bill is contradicting him by saying that American kids play computer games and don't kill, whereas 'jihadists' don't play computer games and do kill.

These people are funny in a 'can't remember what we said 30 seconds ago' kind of way.

3 posts in a row....damn :( Curse you lack of Edit button.

I meant NOT locked up in their own technophobia, sorry.

Wow, now I have my first reason to actually like Sean Hannity. *shiver* Although, I'm sure Hannity just makes other Mii's of people he doesn't like, sort of like when Colbert made the new speaker of the senate as a Mii, and beat her up in Wii Sport's Boxing game. ;)

At least I can't fault him for liking the Wii though. It does seem like a really good system that all members of a family could enjoy, and maybe that'll mean parents will actually pay attention to their children and stay involved in the process of what kids play on their game systems.

Dare I say that this is completely ludacris. Who's to blame the people whom make the video game or the parents who buy the video games for the children nonchalant and oblivious as to what they're buying. THERE'S A LABEL PEOPLE. If the parents were really concerned in the first place they would have read it and then there wouldn't be an issue about their child playing a violent video game and going off mimicking it. No one really brings up the fact that the kids cannot acquire the rated M(mature) games without an adult and that if the parents buy it and try to sue the company they really have no right to do so! Games are a good source of entertainment...IF you can handle it. If you can't it's plain and simple that you need to avoid video games at all cost. Also what about the company's that advertise in video games...what will happen to them?! If we banned a video game that they have advertisement in that may spark another controversy. Who might say that video games are a necessary evil. Also the video game controversy will probably die out in a decade just as the magazine, television, movie, and comic book controversy's. It's basically just a fad and as a new media comes along the attention will be pointed towards it.Okay so it might not die out completely but it will come up for like one week and be shunned to the side.

Watch for branches while riding your high horse. It gonna hurt like hell when one gets you right across the face and knocks your ass onto the ground.

You are the only idiot here. As a right leaning moderate I find O'r to be antiquated and technophobic. That is not a horrible thing it is the truth. Plain and simple.

Now, go use some clearsile and let the grownups talk.