May 1, 2008 -
We've just had an e-mail from Miami attorney Jack Thompson (left) to say that he would be on the Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News this evening at 7PM & 9PM Eastern (second one is a repeat)...
GTA IV will be the topic, along with, apparently, Thompson's issues with the Florida Bar.
Thompson will also be on NPR's Talk of the Nation at 2:40 PM Eastern.
UPDATE: It's on as I type this. Adam Sessler from G4TV is leading off... Now a guy who played GTA IV for 28 hours straight... Now Thompson, who says that he is portrayed in the game and claims that gamers vandalized his house last night.
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That is all to common. Apparently the only way they are stop a game from selling is to make people tried of hearing about it. I have learned to hate games I never played just because even after the game stops being popular there will be some group that will bring it back up just to bash on it. Toss in JBT who never knows when to quit and.... well you can pretty much figure out the rest.
You forgot one thing:
11) I lost my train of thought.
also.. if he goes on tv and openly criticises GTAIV, and perhaps (predictably) calls for sales of it to be banned.. isnt hat infringing the agreement hehas with take two?
@GP
can you possibly attempt to record this and post a link to it when available?
Fail
Also, @Gaddez, you fail on multiple levels.
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evidently Glenn Beck thinks GTA IV is a kids' game. Ironically enough, he wrote a book with this tagline:
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
This will be GREAT TV for "moral crusaders" everywhere.
So he is likely ti discuss the Florida Bar eh? Figure he is going to try to make them look high handed or criminal. Show how Judge Tunis is against him and should be stripped of her robes (before she can do anything to him). Sad the things that draw news.
1.) I was on 60 minutes.
2.) I wrote a book.
3.) Buy my book.
4.) I predicted Columbine.
5.) I represented families in Kentucky, Alabama etc.
6.) Cop-killing/murder simulators.
7.) These kids are are training, quite literally, to kill.
8.) V-Tech shooter was gamer/fan of Counter-Strike.
9.) These "murder simulators" are marketed to kids.
10.) The Florida Bar is persecuting me because I am a Christian/whistle blower/Batman "Christ" Revere in a briar patch.
There, that will be JT's "interview". Hope that saved everyone some time and brain cells.
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
You would think that if you had GTAIV, you would be playing it instead of reading this...
I don't own it myself, but it might interesting to see how this interview will turn out.
(so he already has no idea who JT really is.)
Guys, this will be about as balanced and fair as the Alamo.
Can we talk about something other than GTA IV now?
Seriously.
JT: "Tunis recently asked for an extension on the deadline for her verdict. This is unfair because i won't be able to spend time with my wife. She has cancer you know.
???: "Didn't the proceedings end in December?"
JT: "......I was on 60 minutes."
???: "That's... nice, Mr. Thompson."
I can't see any serious peoples seeing this trash. Jack won't get any more audience that he got with Fox News.
He's going to just ask JT questions out of the "Questions JT wants to be asked" handbook, agree with everything he says wholeheartedly, then claim afterwards that he asked tough questions and got real legitimate answers based on facts.
I wrote a comment to him asking if he'll discuss the many John Bruce quotes available on his wikiquote page. Or if he'll mention that GTA IV was not designed for children etc. I was very respectful.
You forgot:
11) I drafted a law that unanimously passed.
It is important for us all to be paying attention to this. With the popularity of Second Life being a political arena now, the idea that video game releases are now being considered potential cinerama box office money siphons, and how much publicity that games are getting (TV shows, news segments, constant coverage on the interwebs etc), the importance of us watching this and respond is undeniable.
We have to speak up for our hobbies. As sad as it is that these people let so much fear, and snobbish attitudes rule their lives, we have to be able to listen.
I'll be tuning in.
He is kinda over the top when it comes to culture issues, but he's not as bad as Michael "Movies with smoking should be rated R" Medved. On politics, he really does have a lot of common sense, but seriously, if games really were training kids to visit prostitutes and then kill them, how come it never actually happens in real life? There are an incredible amount of gamers in the country. I don't know how many so I won't speculate, but if they really were "murder simulators", how come there isn't rioting?
I was just going to say that. The people that watch shows like Glenn Beck and have people like Jack Thompson on have alreayd made up their minds and will agree. There is nothing we can do to change their minds.
Secondly, In a few months when JT is disbarred who is going to want him on TV?
no way glenn rips into him. Glenn totally agrees with jack. according to the discussion they put on glenn's website today. he things games alone are the single cause for the depravity of our culture.