May 5, 2008 -
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle... Morons!N'Gai Croal, Brian Crecente, Stephen Totilo... Losers!
So sayeth Glenn Beck, anyway.
Beck exploited the popularity of the Grand Theft Auto IV phenomenon again this evening. It was Beck's second GTA IV-themed segment in the last few days.
GamePolitics readers will recall that Beck allowed Jack Thompson to smear the ESRB and several major retailers last week without once advising his CNN Headline News audience that they were listening to a lawyer facing possible disbarrment.
Dr. Cheryl Olson, co-author of Grand Theft Childhood was Beck's guest this time. She was quite reasonable, but Beck made faces during certain parts of her commentary.
The highlight of the segment came when Beck played the role of the martyr:
I will tell you that all these video gamers... they're bloggers, as well as video gamers - they're writing all kinds of stuff about me [that] I'm the enemy now of video gamers. I could care less about video games. Video game bloggers? They're losers...
UPDATE: Mark Methenitis, an attorney who pens the excellent Law of the Game blog, has written an open letter to Glenn Beck regarding Jack Thompson's appearance.
Comments
Well said.
This guy is very different from JT.
JT wants to be remembered as the guy who brought down Take-Two and exposed the video game industry for what it is... Whatever the hell that means. We already know if we keep on him like a bad cold he goes crazy and pretty must eliminates himself.
Glenn Beck is a different animal. He's provoking the community so he can make himself out to be a martyr. If we were to make him, "flamed to a cinder" then we really would have created the monster to superceed JT. He will go back into obscurity faster than you can say Paris Hilton soon enough. Let him have his ignorant opinion and let it lie as such.
http://www.destructoid.com/ten-golden-rules-of-the-anti-videogames-lobby...
1: Exaggerate, twist, but above all ... LIE!
2: Fear is the best insurance that money can buy
3: Your experts are experts. Experts that contradict you are not experts
4: Use terms like "desensitize" as if they actually mean something:
5: "In GTA, you can hire a prostitute, beat her to death and then steal her money."
6: Pass yourself off as an expert
7: It's always about the children
8: Circular logic works because circular logic works
9: Hypocrisy, always hypocrisy
10: Never actually PLAY the game
LOL, if Glen Beck master this rules, he will conquer Jack Thompson´s place.
Huh, funny thing is, you can do that in real life too. Anyone else notice that?
“Gamers? Losers?! Inconcievable!”
Darn you Black Mantra, you beat me to it ;)
Beck making faces reminds me of Bender from the Breakfast Club, he just can't keep his opinions to himself for five minutes.
Enuff sed.
Glenn Beck obviously has the mental capacity of a 3 year old and only gets into fights when he has the MASSIVE upper hand.
Cooooooooooward.
I'm making a bullshit call to anything he says.
Take a minute, turn it off and go get some sun -- use SPF 60 for the first few days, though.
;)~
"Because all of these bloggers started coming after me, you know, in some sort of witch hunt, I decided, oh, okay. I offhanded said, in a joking fashion, they're all losers, I even said, to piss them off and now look at you. You're so obsessed with it. What time did you get up this morning to make sure you could call? How many hours have you spent thinking about this?"