“Are You an ‘Electronic Child Molester?’: 10 Dumb Quotes
About Video Games From Pols And Pundits,” produced by Nick
Gillespie and Meredith Bragg. About 80 seconds.
Original release date was Mary 7, 2014 and the original write-up
is below:
Plato famously banned poetry from his Republic.
Well, he had nothing on today’s politicians and pundits, who
really, really, really hate video games. Here are 10 great
quotes that bring the stupid like
Grand Theft Auto brings the awesome.
- If you’re a parent and you allow your son or daughter to watch
this…you’re a lousy parent.”—MSNBC host Ed Schultz, talking about
Grand Theft Auto V,
September 13, 2013.- “Grand Theft Auto…encourages [children] to have sex
with prostitutes and then murder them.”—Sen.
Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), July
14, 2005.- “Every school massacre can be traced to the young killers’
addiction to violent video games.”—conservative activist Phyllis
Schlafly, September
10, 2010.- “These games teach a child to enjoy inflicting torture.”—Sen.
Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.),
December 9, 1993.- “And let us say to the Nintendos and the other games, if you
are going to be sick, we are going to find a way to protect this
country from you.”—former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich,
May 12,
1999.- “These electronic child molesters have little sense of
restraint or boundaries.”—Ralph Nader, October
27, 1999.- “[Some games] are more akin to hate speech than free
speech.”—Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.),
June 14, 2006.- “Video game violence & glorification must be stopped—it is
creating monsters!”—Donald Trump, December
17, 2012.- “This is all about [gamers’] lust for violence and the
industry’s lust for money.”—state Sen. Leland Yee
(D-Calif.), January
26, 2013.- “I think videos games is [sic] a bigger problems than guns
because video games affect people.”—Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.),
January 30, 2013.
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