This video uses the music from Bright Eyes' When The President Talks to God to parody anti-game activist Jack Thompson.
The new lyrics were penned by Super Columbine Massacre RPG creator Danny Ledonne and singer/guitarist Cory Antiel, who performs the song.
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Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Hey Jack, how do like my new signature.
-Jack Thompson is the only person to ever win against Chuck Norris by Christian debating him to the point Chuck Norris went insain from hearing such stupidity and killed himself.
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Hahaha! Good laugh.
I must say that when Jack always professes his religion as a motivation for doing this I feel relieved that I am an atheist.
Pitty there wasn't an 11th commandment: Thou shalt keep thy religion to thy self
Hehe thank you.
I just like the line.
"When JT talks to God." You know it's opens up a world of possibilities so thanks Dennis and since I'm a BRITISH person can FREELY take the piss out of him without getting this chicken shit in my face screaming I WANNA SUE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
Ugh I hate him...
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
@Dany LeDonne:
So, did you give Jack a call as requested and, if so, pray tell, what did want to talk to you about?
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Jack hung up on me twice. The first time was directly after he declined consent to having the call recorded. After I turned off the recorder, I called again to tell Jack what I thought of his book and why I made the music video. However, these answers proved uninteresting to Jack as he "already knows them" so he interrupted me. At that point, Jack foretold of a wrathful God who would punish me for denying him and mocking Jack's faith. Then he hung up again.
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So, basicly he acted like...himself! Thanks again man, I have a couple non-gamers singing it now because of the blatent stupidity and hypocrisy inherent in the clips you used for the video.
Epic Win my friend.
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Thanks for the response and the info. I'd suspected that a conversation with Jack wouldn't go well.
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Sounds like Jack is one of those old "fire and brimstone" Christians in the vein of Mrs. Carmody from Stephen King's The Mist. I have the feeling that if something like that actually happened, Jack would be just as quick to call for "expiation."
The only difference is that Mrs. Carmody was actually able to build a following and gain power and influence. Jack never managed to do that. Also for those of you who read or saw The Mist, we all know what ultimately happened to Mrs. Carmody. The legal equivalent will come in a few months.
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Yeah, well, that's because mrs. Carmody played on people's fears... except that, in that situation, their fears were VERY real, whereas the fears of video games are so fake he can't even hold a flock. Plus, imagine, if you will, if JT was in mrs. Carmody's place... he'd be without followers in an hour or so, because if anyone would disagree with him, they would be immediately thrown out to the Mist. :P
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
a wrathful god doesn't sound at all like a loving god
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
So God is Jack's 'heavy'?
'Mr Thompson is very annoyed with you...'
Does kind of fit in well with the song, Jack Thompson isn't talking to God, he's putting words into God's mouth.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
When Jack Thompson talks to god, God is playing GTAIV and telling Jack "Fuck off Jack I'm killing cops... fucking cops."
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
JT provides me with a daily dose of entertainment.
I kind of hope he still goes around acting like a buffon after he is disbarred.
Its great entertainment to laugh at his irrational thinking.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Please people.... This is a serious matter....
Jack Thompson DOES talk to God... And God does reply back to him....
He says:
"F*ck off"!!!!!
-God
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Yes, Duncan, he does say that. I hear him loud and clear every time he tells Jack that.
I AM A LOST SOUL, CONDEMNED TO HAUNT THE DREAMS OF JOHN BRUCE "JACK" THOMPSON UNTIL HIS CRUSADE AGAINST VIDEO GAMES ENDS. SOMEONE, PLEASE! END MY SUFFERING!
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I AM DOOMED TO HAUNT JACK THOMPSON'S DREAMS UNTIL HIS CRUSADE AGAINST VIDEO GAMES ENDS.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Was wondering how long it would take before old jack'o showed up.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Obviously, this shows how biased GP is
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Haha yeah, Danny showed me that the other day and I sent it to the ECA via email. :D
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Jack Thompson is the only person to ever win against Chuck Norris by Christian debating him to the point Chuck Norris went insain from hearing such stupidity and killed himself.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Anyone else have any Jack Thompson facts?
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Song is kind of pointless. Not very clever. I do like the clips though.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Thanks to everyone for posting. Obviously there are some real Jack Thompson fans here - myself among them. I was inspired to write this after reading Thompson's book "Out of Harm's Way" because the book really alternates between Jack's personal culture war and his conversations with Jesus Christ. I found it terribly interesting how he wrote about feeling Jesus working through him as he sues people. So the question became, WWJS - who would Jesus sue?
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Love the vid man. It just fits what we've seen from the guy for years.And you have my utmost respect for actually managing to read his book without (before?) using it as either grill starter or toilet paper.
One question, WWJS...how would that work? Doesn't the guy downstairs have all the lawyers? Or does he just have the hypocrites like JT?
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
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That sounds creepy...like, Mein Kampf(sp?) creepy.
-GRIZZAM PRIME(c)is property of the U.S. Marine Corp. Wetworks Dept., and also The Incredible Hulk-GRIZZAM PRIME is not to be associated with GRIZZAM 512 or any other GRIZZAM entity under penalty of law, so sayith ZARATHOS.
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It does bring forward the question of who Thompson blames when things don't go his way, after all, he can hardly say that Jesus made him lose after telling him to sue in the first place.
I suppose that's why he has to blame some kind of conspiracy, if he didn't then he'd have to hold Jesus responsible for the failures as well. So, therefore, the only thing that could possibly go wrong with a court case that was 'divinely inspired' is that a vast over-arching Satanic conspiracy was aligned against him to prevent him from doing Jesus' work.
Which, oddly enough, is more or less what he does claim.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Nice! I loved the Thompson samples/clips...
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Wow... that singer sounded like he was trying hard not to break off into an angry rant about JT. He sounds so pissed you can hear the suppressed rage in his voice.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Have you seen the video for that inspired this parody? It's brutal. Bright Eyes looks like he is about ready to tear the mic stand down and pull a Hendrix on the guitar (I watched a Tonight Show with Jay Leno clip. Not sure if that is the linked one at the moment). There are a few more videos out there, and he looks equally pissed in all of them. The singer did a terrific job of conveying that sense of disdain and repulsion over.
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After educating myself (I'm not much of a bright eyes fan, his voice annoys me. Makes one wonder how I like Kurt Cobain's), I'd have to say the other guy seems much, much angrier. Of course that's opinion for you, and you know what they say about opinions.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
How DOES one become a campus shooting expert?
I mean..... Besides the obvious way....
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Wait at the end did I see Fox call him a "camups shootings expert" or was that just my mind playing tricks?
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Fox is kind of like the News version of an AOL chatroom, never believe the profiles ;)
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Nope, they did call him that at one point. Probably needed needed something better than "ambulance chaser" to justify putting him on the air to stir the pot and raise ratings.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
Ugh, I never heard his voice until I watched this video...MY EARS ARE BLEEDING!!!
-GRIZZAM PRIME(c)is property of the U.S. Marine Corp. Wetworks Dept., and also The Incredible Hulk-GRIZZAM PRIME is not to be associated with GRIZZAM 512 or any other GRIZZAM entity under penalty of law, so sayith ZARATHOS.
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
A fitting "GTFO" present for a failed crusader. Bra-VO! <3
... wait what was I talking about? Lost my train of thought. :P
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
And on the sixth day, God said: "Let there be Jack Thompson". And there were lolz...
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
very well done, good lyrics, good voice on the singer, nice editing of this tv spots
Jack is going to try and sue you and look silly so good job on that as well
Re: Music Video: When Jack Thompson Talks to God
ugh, sorry but I couldn't help but thinking that that guy takes "neck beard" to a whole different level through the whole video
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Heh, I grew up seeing musicians like Mick Jagger (did that man ever have a redeeming visual feature?) and David Bowie (in full Spiders from Mars regalia), you sort of develop a thick skin regarding the appearance of performers, it's part of the ethos ;)
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Hehehe Sums up Thompson nicely, 'never mind facts, right and wrong are what I say they are!'.
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ROFLMAO
so how long before JT sues them under false accusations, under a perfectly legal parody?
JT made himself a public figure, therefore it is 100% legal to mock him as such last i checked.
otherwise its yet another "The first amendment protects only me" thing from JT, as this is covered as free speech and in no way threatens him or his family.
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A side note of sorts. The flashing of all the Thompson images brought back some fond memories of his chicanary on the airwaves, but I have never found a video of his 'prediction' of Columbine a week a priori. Does anyone know where I can find it, or if it is even available? I am deeply curious to see some of his older...work. Yes, we will leave it at 'work' for lack of a better term.
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that song is full of win
Jack Thompson makes us real Christians look like trash
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To true,to true.
I've been saying that for months,but that was a pretty funny vid.,eh?
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No, he just makes himself look like trash. I don't believe that any one person can speak for others.
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High-larious
Can we somehow nominate this for a grammy award? That way we can stick it to Thompson just a little bit more.
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Yes! I was really hoping to see this get some attention. Danny posted it in one of the Thompson threads a few days ago.
Not only do I want it to get positive attention here, I also really, really want to see what Thompson does about it.
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I love the stumbling ramble at the end. Gotta plug the book :-P
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That's...really something. Bravo.