May 13, 2008
Since the April 29th launch of Grand Theft Auto IV, fans have been scouring the game for Easter Eggs, those secret items tucked away by game designers and prized by fans.One persistent claim is that GTA IV's Statue of Happiness, the game's take on the real-life Statue of Liberty, bears the face of Hillary Clinton. Senator Clinton, of course, was the leading political critic of the Hot Coffee scandal which surrounded the last major release in the series, GTA San Andreas. You can compare the images and decide for yourself.
We've also heard that the tablet held by the statue makes reference to Hillary, but we've not seen proof of this yet. Perhaps we should grab a chopper in-game and check this out...
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Re: Is Hillary Clinton's Face on GTA IV's Statue of Happiness?
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IT IS HILARY CLINTON!
Statue is probably Hilary Clinton, it is holding a coffee cup (which is "hot" due to the steam coming out of it) (since Hilary Clinton was a huge critic in San Andreas' "Hot Coffee".) And if read quickly, Statue Of Happiness sounds like Statue Of A Penis. (lol)
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Why am I not surprised
...after I found out on what sort of people live there: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a50425a-1f86-11dd-9216-000077b07658,s01=1.html
I'm not judging the entire population based on this article. It just saddens me that people are very much capable (and willing) to say the sort of stupidity presented in the coverage.
Yeek
Yea, I see it the same way man. That very last comment of the articale made me cringe in particular. Implying that anyone is a "full-blooded american", it's really messed up.
(also GP, think you could do something about the capchat?, it's really hard to make out some of the letters with the current images.)
I was just at the Statue of
I got a chopper and got up
I got a chopper and got up close to the statue and the plaque actually reads as follows:
Send us your brightest, your smartest, your most intelligent,Yearning to breathe free and submit to our authority,
Watch us trick them into wiping rich people's asses,
While we convince them it's a land of opportunity.
JULY IV
MDCCLXXVI
Heh. No Hillary reference there, though I still think the statue's face is based on her.
That photo of her makes it
I think it looks like
W00t w00t
huh huh huh...
Exactly, that statue and her are one and the same. Theyre made for each other, like twins.
Now I can't wait for my brother to get GTA4 so that we can confirm this.
Someone must look into this.
some very unusual things on that statue lol....
OH SHI- DIVIDING BY ZERO THEN!!!
I think she's a robot.
The hilinator... Yeah. She'll be the end of us all! No wonder those obama people talk about how Obama will bring them hope... HOPE AGAINST THE EVIL ROBOT MENACE!
The case that the statue was made after Hillary Clinton becomes a lot stronger.
Good show, Rockstar. Good show.
Knowing Rockstar, I betcha it was modeled after the she-Furher.
Send us your brightest, your sharpest, your most intelligent,
Yearning to breathe free and submit to our authority;
Watch us trick them into wiping rich people's asses,
While we convince them we're a land of opportunity.
Followed by "July 4, 1776" in Roman numerals.
Actually he was a Cardinal, and it wasn't the devil that looked like him. He was painted among the people in hell, and was painted with donkey ears.
And I'm curious to see what Rockstar eventually says about this.
from the wikipedia about the Sistine Chapel:
The Last Judgment was an object of a heavy dispute between Cardinal Carafa and Michelangelo: the artist was accused of immorality and intolerable obscenity, having depicted naked figures, with genitals in evidence, so a censorship campaign (known as the "Fig-Leaf Campaign") was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) to remove the frescoes. When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns," Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld. It is said that when he complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain.
The genitalia in the fresco were later covered by the artist Daniele da Volterra, whom history remembers by the derogatory nickname "Il Braghettone" ("the breeches-painter").
Is there such a thing as a funny pun? The search continues ;)
just joking ill just shoot the statue every time i play to relieve the frustration
Re:
s i knew their was a cup of coffee but just this morning i was playing with dome folks and discovered, yes it is steaming! they also told me about the hillary clinton thing. I think it is cool like the heart but....why? I mean that is one of the most popular things in the game. They will waste it on a year lasting joke? That is the kind of joke that can not last forever. The coffee cup is a forever lasting joke along with the heart inside but in 1 year when she loses the election they will still have to keep that up. I am not saying GTA sucks or that it isn't funny but..eh i dont know
@riff raff Are you serious?
@riff raff
Are you serious? Ye god that's funny.
Oh and I thought the coffee cup was just a swipe at consumerism and the prevalence of starbucks but yeah it could be hot coffee after all (and don't forget Hillary is a new york senator).
But why would they model the statue afte Hillary Clinton? They certainly have no reason to praise her.