Tivo Alert: Jack Thompson on Glenn Beck Show Tonight

Jack does not have the balls to go on a call-in TV show because the switchboards will be jammed with pissed gamers who want to give him their two cents. Cue the censors.

@Andy and @Sherlock

Yes, please. Both of you write a letter to him. You can honestly say you were fans of his show and can couch the language in such a way that he will understand where you car coming from. I'm afraid that if I tried I would come off as being critical, contradictory, and offensive. Just reading his show excerpt on it I wanted to scream. There are three people and two of them think the game is fine, but of course it is the host who is sure he is correct even though he is in the minority.

For the record, I'll be giving this a pass. I think that watching that would give my blood preasure more of a rise then getting hit with three blue shells right before I would have finished Star Road with tripple starts on the 150cc class.

I will personally see that my Tivo is completely incapable of recording that clown shoe even if that means setting it on fire.

I, personally, would love to believe that there is a conspiracy against him because then he would have something to do besides trolling all news sources for tragedies around the world he can blame on video games.

I am just waiting for something big to happen like a tornado hit a nuclear plant and it explodes. Jack Thompson jumps into action (on Fox, of course) and immediately starts blaming Sim City because it teaches people who to control the weather to destroy facilities like nuclear power plants and that it is a civilian killing simulator.

I am surprised we didn't see him on Fox talking about every hunting arcade game on the planet when Dick Cheney shot his friend while hunting. Maybe his wife wasn't sick at the time and had the strength to prevent him from looking like a complete ass.

I guess he will talk about all the violence in the history of the world and how it was all based on primitive video games and how the illuminati has plans to kidnap him to help increase their profit shares with the Take 2 EA deal and they won't stop prank calling him until he does.

Why anyone would give him a spot on national tv, let alone the time of day (looks a little pedo... ish in his picture there) to spread more propaganda is beyond me.

I can't wait to have him disbarred and have the Jack Thompson spam engine brought to a screeching (and probably kicking) halt. It will give him the opportunity to see what a real lawyer does during work hours.

@ dmr9748

you leave Iron Man out of this. Him, Professor Xavier and their illuminati have nothing to do with J.T. looking like an ass....or do they?

Okay, so here are my predictions:

1) Jack complains about GTA4, he gets some cable air time, and convinces some t.v. hosts with no real minds of their own that he is right.

2) A month goes by.

3) Everyone forgets what Jack was complaining about, GTA4 keeps breaking sales records, and nothing has changed.

oh god HIM! the satin of lawyers and the satin of news programs...my fellow gamers...this is gonna be one painful youtube video watching [im not watching glenn beck for jack!]

@GreatNocturn357

satin? Or Satan?

Cheater, I can't listen to it here, what's going on with Adam Sessler?

@GreatNocturn;

I'd love to be the satin of anything. Satin is nice, soft and shiny.

I think you meant Satan.

Unfortunately, I'll miss that one due to my inability to watch pompous cable "news" pundits bloviating on topics they have no understanding of. Whenever I see Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, etc.,etc. come on, my bullshit filter kicks in to high gear and despite trying to watch them, all I can manage to do is wonder why they squint so much, and I spend any remaining time pondering the question that belongs to the answer 42.

We know how this will go.
Glen Beck:Videogames are bad!
JT:Totally!
GB:Wow! We have so much in common!
JT:Let's take off our shirts and kiss!
GB:What?!
JT:Ugh...nothing, nothing...

I won't watch the TV show, but I tried to listen to the radio station. There was supposed to be a strong channel around here, but I couldn't pull it in, other stations were around it, but not the one I wanted to here. I might listen to the story tonight, but I think I'll be too busy playing games to listen to that blow hard. The only reason I wanted to listen to the show was Adam Sessler being on. He isn't the best person to debate JT because he gets upset too easily.

@ GP
"claims that gamers vandalized his house last night."
Oh, how is he sure it wasn't Rockstar or the Florida Bar? Even the government is out to get him, so maybe the FBI decided to have a little fun...

Oh wait, it can't be the Illuminati. He already had them hanged at his last trial that was not about video games and his own disbarring.

Oops, I forgot, that was in Jack's head along with other various stories like how he single handedly fought off Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Cobra, Skeletor, and a pack of evil Amazonian Pygmies while winning a poker championship match on a steamboat speeding out of control, upstream, on the river stix.

*their

One thing I love about this, so far it isn't just Jack's word against no one else's.

Did the ECA get Adam to do this, or did he do it on his own? Or was it just Rockstar's doing? Whoever it is, they do need a round of applause for taking the incentive, especially if it is the ECA for putting someone with the facts against the lairs & misinformed.

Like the ECA admitted in the past, their problem was ignoring such issues and letting "massacre chasers" take over.

Now Thompson, who says that he is portrayed in the game and claims that gamers vandalized his house last night.

SS or it didn't happen.

Seriously, SS, please. I just want to see it =)

I am glad that Adam Sessler is working for the defendant. I love his soapbox online show.

They need to get Wil Wheaton on against Jack!

@ Nightwing

I also doubt the veracity of Jack's statement, as we all know he loves to play the victim/martyr card (as most Born Agains do) and will take any opportunity to make us gamers look bad.

If true, however, it only continues to demonstrate how dense Jack is. The notion that he has brought all this trouble on himself because he has acted like a total dick to just about everyone he has met continues to escape him.

I guess he could tell they were gamers because they had controllers in their hands.

I know every time I try to spray paint graffiti on someone's house, that damn cord gets in the way.

Jack Thompson for the EPIC Fail!

@Chris: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90102764

It should be available around 6pm EST today.

Someone should get the vid for this once it hits youtube or something so people who miss this can see it later. This is gonna be hilarious.