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Conservative Washington Times Rips Video Game Bills, Democrats

Washington, D.C.'s other newspaper, the right-leaning Washington Times, took shots at video game legislation and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in today's editorial.

Noting that the Federal Trade Commission's Hot Coffee report is expected soon, the Times foresees a new wave of video game sales legislation.

(GP: The Times must mean a new new wave, or else they simply haven't been paying attention to the current flood of game-related bills.)

Decrying video game legislation as "mostly symbolic," the Times points out the inevitable First Amendment issues raised by content legislation before getting around to a bit of Democrat-bashing.

Along with Hillary, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) comes under fire for his co-sponsorship of the Family Entertainment Protection Act (FEPA), currently under consideration in the United States Senate.

"Smells like opportunism to us," the Times writes.

Curiously, the Times fails to mention that several conservative Republican senators have also jumped on the video game content bandwagon, including Sam Brownback (R-KS), who chaired a March 29th subcommittee hearing on the topic and Rick Santorum (R-PA). Additionally, Republican state legislators have sponsored video game legislation this year in Minnesota, Maryland, Louisiana and Oklahoma, all states which have either enacted or seem certain to enact video game laws.

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[info]beardoggx
2006-06-05 12:21 pm UTC (link)
Curiously, the Times fails to mention that several conservative Republican senators have also jumped on the video game content bandwagon

Considering they lean to the right, they'll take any opportunity to trash the Democrats.

Anyway, any scoop on what the FTC report will say?

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Color Me Not Surprised
[info]houstondragon
2006-06-05 01:04 pm UTC (link)
"Smells like opportunism to us," the Times writes.

NO WAI!!11OneleventyBBQ!

Seriously. All anyone has to do is look at the current burning issues that are being addressed by our "leaders" in Congress to realize that the majority of them are too busy peering out from their own nether regions to actually be bothered to, you know, GOVERN anything resembling a society. That's WAYYYY too much hard work.

Baseball steroid abuse, gay marriage, immigration amnesty, and let's NOT forget the hoopla over the fact that the Louisiana (Quick! Louisiana, elect Jackie Boy! He's hard at work protecting TEH CHYLDREN!!!) representative's office was searched LEGALLY under due process, and revealed that he was, in fact, a bribe pandering scumbag, but Congress is still howling over the idea that they might not actually be outside of common law.

Political pandering by our elected officials prior to an election year. Do tell. And they wonder why everyone considers them 1) inept, 2) corrupt, and 3) foolish.

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Good show, good show
[info]terminator44
2006-06-05 01:09 pm UTC (link)
Even though the editorial ignores the conservatives in the battle against video games (including everyone's favorite fruitcake, you know who I'm talking about), it completly owns the Clinton-Liberman bill. Hopefully editorials like this one will show the public just how stupid these bills are.

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[info]chenry
2006-06-05 02:45 pm UTC (link)
Oh WOW a conservative newspaper spinning things so its the other guys' fault. there's a surprise!

oh WOW! people with political agendas being hypocrites! I'm totally flabbergasted by this turn of events. Shocked and astounded.

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[info]pcjunkie
2006-06-05 02:49 pm UTC (link)
Wow, I never expected to find myself agreeing with a Washington Times editorial, but this one is pretty good.

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[info]typhoid
2006-06-05 03:43 pm UTC (link)
I'm just so sick and tired of Ms. Clinton's "It Takes a @#$%*# Village" nonsense. You know what? YOU raise your kids. The rest of us are out trying to *gasp* breathe our last *gasp* moments of Freedom.

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[info]mephistote
2006-06-05 08:27 pm UTC (link)
It takes a family to raise a child.
It takes a village to raise an idiot.

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Why do I even bother?
[info]grimm24
2006-06-05 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Ugh, seriously, a conservitive newspaper defends games and bashes democrats who are the MAJORITY of polticians against games, and all I see if blah blah blah conservitives stink blah blah. Why am I not suprised.

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Re: Why do I even bother?
[info]sprngpilot
2006-06-05 06:48 pm UTC (link)
... and you don't think it's odd that they skip over Republicans who support these crappy laws? So, if we point that out, we're somehow in the wrong for calling them on their bias?

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Re: Why do I even bother?
[info]terminator44
2006-06-05 07:17 pm UTC (link)
I never thought I'd find myself agreeing with you, but I do see your point. Honestly guys, does it really matter who pwns FEPA as long as it gets pwned? Not all conservatives are idiots, neither are all Democrats for that matter. And it is true that most of the anti-game politicians (Joesph Liberman, Hilary Clinton, Leland Yee) are Democrats.

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Re: Why do I even bother?
[info]grimm24
2006-06-05 07:55 pm UTC (link)
Agreed.

I mean just because someone belongs to a certain party dosent mean they support what the majority of that party represents.

I mean im a republican, but does that mean I agree with the hypocritcal asswipes who are trying to avoid the FBI? No.

I do agree that they were mistaken to skip over the asswipes from the GOP who also are against games. Oh course its not as if they said oh republicans had nothing to do with this. If they did I would be pissed off as hell

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Re: Why do I even bother?
[info]longtimelurker
2006-06-06 02:44 am UTC (link)
The thing to keep in mind is that most of the anti-video game organizations when you look into are in fact Republican. I can only see certain Democrats demonizing video games due to ignorance as well as pandering for Republican votes.

Sadly that is what a lot of Democrats in office do instead of rallying people on what the Democratic platform is based on and actually getting people to vote.

The Republicans get away with a lot of voting abuses such as cutting legit people off rolls by the hundreds of thousands that would according to the Republicans have voted Democratic.

Add in other nasty Republican voter tricks it's a a wonder why the IRS hasn't revoked a lot of Republican orientated churches tax-exempt status.

Oh Grimm here is another story of our supposed Justified wars successes in bringing the Iraqis democracy and freedom. http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060603-101334-8512r.htm

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[info]brendanthejedi
2006-06-05 05:02 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I agree with them, but as stated by others, its funny how they don't mention the Republicans who side with them. Also, we all know Liberman is an almost a Republican anyways.

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[info]sprngpilot
2006-06-05 06:46 pm UTC (link)
"Also, we all know Liberman is an almost a Republican anyways."

Eh, I think he's something different altogether. Less Republican, more Carebear-Nazi.

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[info]grimm24
2006-06-05 07:56 pm UTC (link)
Ugh, Lieberman is anything but a republican.

He's simply a democrat who has the soul to admit that the Iraq War is justified

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[info]brendanthejedi
2006-06-05 10:15 pm UTC (link)
I'd rather not get into an argument over the war, but I'm just going to leave like this. At this point it doesn't matter whether the war was justified or not. What matters is how the war was handled. Battle wise, we won the battle, but we've lost the war because we didn't take care of the nessary infastrutural neccisties that the Iraqis needed. We didn't give them law, so they looted start and musseums and then allowed annarcy to take hold. We didn't provide clean water or power so they many of people have sided with Al Quida. Tacticlly we won the battle, but realisticlly we've lost the war.

And about Liberman. He seems to side with the Republicans on the issues that count, like on the privitisation of social security and afformentioned war in Iraq. Hell, he's even been endorsed Sean fucking Hannity.

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[info]longtimelurker
2006-06-05 11:34 pm UTC (link)
Grimm Liberman is a Republican.

How was the Iraq war Justified? They had nothing to do with 9/11 they had no weapons of mass destruction. Al-Qaeda wasn't in Iraq in fact Saddam hated their guts and they him. He was trying to infiltrate Al-Qaeda so if they set up a cell in his country he could find them and wipe them out without any fuss. He was a lot better then numerous other Middle Eastern leaders. Certaintly the Iraq were far far better off under him namely no street crime for decades. Now dozens of people get kidnapped in broad daylight and get their heads chopped off or worse. You got Islamic leaders killing people for listenting to Western music as well as any woman or doesn't wear a headscarf. Women under the new Iraq we installed in a few years will not be able to vote, divorce, have a job, education etc.

Republicans vote for Lieberman more then they do for their own Republican candiates in Conn.

Lieberman is a known staunch Republican supporter who has funneled enormous money to the Republican party his own money and money he raised.

"I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he's completely lost the plot or he knows he's spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he's not talking about any country I've ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting."

As stated by the Time Magazine Bureau chief Michael Ware who got out into Iraq every day.

've spent the last three years immersed in this conflict, but after only two months away I'm amazed at how quickly this war has mutated into something even worse than it was before. We're now seeing a sectarian element nothing like we've previously seen. Even ordinary families, people who are in no way combatants are suddenly talking about fellow Iraqis in terms of "us" and "them."

...

Saddam's trial is nothing but a distraction. To the Iraqis, there's no question of Saddam's guilt, or of the final outcome of the judicial process — Saddam will die. The question for them is, why is it taking so long and why is he being given a platform? For whose benefit is this trial being run? For Western domestic consumption; it's for the international community. It's not the healing or reconciliation process for Iraqis some might like to make it out to be. Saddam has been the dominant figure in the courtroom and the political winner.

From http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1173647,00.html

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[info]goodrobotus
2006-06-05 07:15 pm UTC (link)
Whilst I agree the whole picture is not being presented, it's good to see, at least, that the paper has got the right general idea. I just hope the American public wakes up to this sham before it's too late.

Kinda reminds me of 'election promises' in the UK, every 4 years politicans make a whole bunch of promises, most of which are never ever kept. Personally, I think there should be some kind of contract between politicians and their voters that makes them accountable for their own bull.

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It's the exact opposite where I live
[info]elricbrother3
2006-06-05 09:59 pm UTC (link)
Long Island's Newsday is largely democrat and blames everything on Bush or any republican in office. They mostly do bushbashing though. Half the staff plays videogames so they don't blame stuff on them.

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[info]dustin1986
2006-06-06 05:45 am UTC (link)
Check it out!

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3151147

Not a bad article.

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