Delicious Irony: Judge Who Nixed Blagojevich's Game Law approved FBI Wiretap of Crooked Illinois Guv
Delicious Irony: Judge Who Nixed Blagojevich's Game Law approved FBI Wiretap of Crooked Illinois Guv
December 9, 2008
Pop Quiz - the following line is from:
- A Grand Theft Auto cut scene
- The potty mouth of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
I’ve got this thing and it’s f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for f***in’ nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.
The answer, as you might have guessed, is Rod Blagojevich.
The foul-mouthed Guv was picked up on FBI wiretaps trying to figure out how to trade his constitutional ability to name a replacement for Barack Obama's remaining term in the Senate for something of value to himself. The chicanery over the Senate appointment is but one of several corruption charges against Blagojevich.
And, in a yummy twist of fate, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly, who ruled in 2005 that Blagojevich's video game law was unconstitutional, was one of two federal judges who authorized recent FBI wiretaps that led to Blagojevich's downfall.
In fact, a reading of the FBI's complaint against Blagojevich shows that both the Guv and his wife have a penchant for dropping the F-bomb. And this is the guy who was so concerned about the mature content in GTA?
In still more LOL-type Blagojevich news, GP reader amuler1 reminds us that - at least according to Jack Thompson - Blagojevich asserted that violent video games were behind February's shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University. In a February 16th press release, Thompson wrote:
Today at 3:55 pm, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was interviewed on the Fox News Channel about yesterday’s massacre at Northern Illinois University. When asked why these school shootings are occurring, the Governor stated, “A lot of people smarter than I can be asked that question, but I believe we have to look to the violent entertainment that glamorizes and motivates and trains people to engage in these behaviors, most especially video games.”
The Governor echoes what Miami attorney Jack Thompson said on Fox News this morning at 10:15 am this same day, as he noted that the Virginia Tech and other school shooters have been immersed in these murder simulators.
At the time we were unable to confirm Thompson's assertions regarding Blagojevich's linking of NIU and violent games, although we have no reason to doubt that Thompson is correct concerning what the disgraced Guv may have said.
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DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
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It is a delicious irony, you must taste it! Was GP ever able to find out what Thompson was asserting when he says that the video game industry lied in court?
nah... he always says stuff like that.
As far as I can tell, when you disagree with Jack Thompson, you're wrong. When you're paid to disagree with Jack Thompson, you're lying.
When Jack supports you, then your political career is finished...
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LOL, they will need also to mouth wash Blagojevich...
The motivational pic...
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you know what really grinds my axe for this type of scumbag? its not the fact that he tried to ban video games.... its rather the fact when he took $8 million from a children's hospital to build a horse racing track... tell me that's not despicable and i'll show you a shitbag
Jesus Jack Jones Thompson.... is dead... (funeral udruge, followed by Celebrate :D )
WTF?!?! where's that story? O.o
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http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/081209_FINAL_complaint_cover_and_aff.pdf
read p.g. 36 and you'll get the full story in this complaint
Jesus Jack Jones Thompson.... is dead... (funeral udruge, followed by Celebrate :D )
It's not his fault! he was obviously playing GTAIV with it's much-publicised "Corruption" mission
Anyone else hearing Penn & Teller in their head?
"And then there's THIS asshole!"
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Anyone know when the episode JT did with those guys is supposed to air? That's gonna be some good TV!
I believe it is suppose to be the first episode of Season 7, either way it wont be until (I'm guessing) March at the earliest and July at the latest...
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I've been waiting for that one for so long. I love Penn and Teller, and I hate JT. Anyone seen the dolphin episode? LOL.
I love it when corrupt politicians go down in flames. Think of all the other elected representatives that are involved with scandals such as this.
So, let me get this straight. Gamers are the absolute scum of the Earth... and the people who hate us are the ones who are crashing and burning.
I think the gods of gaming are finally fed up with all this nonsense.
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All the more reason to celebrate Wintereenmas.
Dennis, could you add a comment in there about how the VT shooter never played video games please? I just can't stand an article that says anything about the VT shooting and video games and doesn't mention that there is no evidence that he ever played the things, and that his roommates thought he was weird because he would never play with them because he thought video games were stupid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho
http://kotaku.com/gaming/hardball/clip-jack-thompson-gets-hardballed-253...
http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12287/No_Games_Found_in_Shooters_Do...
Wow there is a lot of stuff about that kid online. Only JT ever said anything about videos in high school form what I could find though. Maybe he fabricated it to try to get the guy to shut up so he could get the rest of his point across, either way... no evidence that this guy ever played video games. Hell, even my friend that only played video games when he was younger and barely does now has Sims 2 on his computer.
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Didn't he play Sonic years ago? Although how that translates to the shootings, I can't quite figure out.
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Oh come on, that's too easy. Sonic shoots about at high speed like a bullet out of a gun! If the link were any more obvious you wouldn't need a crippling mental disability to see it.
Since the city I live is boarderline to Blagojecvich's state, I have been hearing of this news all morning, day, and night in all the local media outlets! I can tell you right now, even St. Louisians don't like this man, and he's from Illinois!
I am so happy this man is exposed for the fake he is! This calls for a celebration!
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That is just beautiful... Kudos to the Judge.
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Oh, and about the Jack Thompson deal, I may have heard Blagojevich was speaking with him after the NIU school shooting. I am going to check any sorces of that and come back with some more infomation
"We may be human, but we're still animals" -Steve Vai (World's greatest guita
Reporters should always list the party to which a politician belongs when they make the news. Even when the news is bad.
This guy is a Democrat and a scumbag.
. . Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates . .
Reporters should always list the party to which a politician belongs when they make the news. Even when the news is bad.
................Whyyy?
Game on, brothers and sisters.
Yeah, let's be divisive just for the sake of being divisive. :p
Ha, ha, ha... If you don't already understand the importance there's no reason to explain it to you. And, it has nothing to do with divisiveness.
*edit* - That's not intended to be a sleight at you, I hope you don't take it as one.
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You mean that rule where most of the time news shows put either the (D) or the (R) after a politician's name? I thought they only did that for senators and representatives?
True, they tend to not do that for governors unless the story is about a debate. I'm just glad that yet another rotten apple is getting trashed.
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Hipocracy.... so satifying
A corrupt politician, from Illinois...are we really that shocked? Of course im sorry for his family though it sounds like his wife may have been in on it as well.
Forgot about his gaming connection, well done GP *Tips hat*
A corrupt politician, from Illinois...are we really that shocked?
Only by the shear brazenness of this particular politician. Blatantly shopping around for bribes for appointment to the US Senate is a new one. A bloody stupid one as well to do so when he know's he's under scrutiny.
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Will do, and here I thought I was just meeting my badass quota for the week.
Testing. Sweet.
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No offense, because I like your quote, but don't you think it makes you appear arrogant to have your signature be a quote from yourself?
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Just take off the "-me" part and it will be good.
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Dude do not listen to these guys, keep the -me simply because it does make you look arrogant, internet modesty is highly overrated.
You lousy Americans! Just when Canada starts to have an interesting political season, you have to go and show us up. ;D
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Yay! Finally some internet "criticism" of Americans I actually don't mind to hear, lol. The internet hates us anymore Even though technically, you're 'American' too, along with the Mexicans. It's not like the US owns the whole continent, lol.
We should ship some of our disgraced politicians your direction once they get out of jail, that way you can sit back and have a good laugh :P
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We're close to having our first african american president, and all these corrupt politicians are beign brought down.
Beautiful.
that guy is like Tony Montana.
One must remember the more corrupt high society( IE the part of society that leads the populace) the more moralistic they get.
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Low society is the same way. Look at all the devout Christian rednecks and white trash folk who are wife-beating, gay-hatin', bar-fightin', child abusin' lowlifes.
Sinners pray the loudest.
I live in illinois and its about time he got arrested and i love yummy irony.
Shobidoo, the hardcore gamer
So, we got Eliot Spitzer and then this guy. Sweet, now all we have to do is see if Leland Yee do something way criminal (or very terrorists). I did found out that he shot down a peice of legislation where it could have ban Lead in children's toys. Why would he turn that down? I got a few ideas why:
-He's probably working with the communist government in China. Remember we had many products recall because of high levels of dangerous chemicals. Do you also remember that the computer hackings was thought to came from China, what if he's the one helping with that.
-He's in league with Al-Queda, or Iran.
-Just wait until he do something stupid.
Anyway to answer that pop quiz, I don't think it's from GTA. Nope, it's probably from the movie Scarface, and The Departed. I think this guy was secretly listening to gangsta rap music.
Hi Everyone,
In light of all the events around Blagojevich, I created two Blago games as political satire here:
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I beleive it is fitting that the very industry he tried to pass legislation on now has games making fun the situation he is in in the currentl headlines.
Regards,
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