Comments on: When politicians attack http://rhinocrisy.org/2005/07/when-politicians-attack/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:07:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2005/07/when-politicians-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Anonymous Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:21:24 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=341#comment-21 i agree that it's total demagoguery, but she and her nonprofit pals all had a much better grasp on the subtleties of the situation than you give them credit for. they all said they weren't letting parents off the hook. and really, they weren't just ranting about GTA -- they said "it adds porn to an already violent video game." in fact, they complained more about violence at the press conference than they did about sex, but they knew that sex would get the story in the paper. and it did.<br/><br/>the law she's proposing mostly aims to enforce the existing ratings system for games. which would be a fine idea if age limits ever worked at all and if that didn't put a huge incentive for corruption onto the group that assigns ratings.<br/><br/>oh well! <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="rhinocrisy.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="">hedgehog</a> i agree that it’s total demagoguery, but she and her nonprofit pals all had a much better grasp on the subtleties of the situation than you give them credit for. they all said they weren’t letting parents off the hook. and really, they weren’t just ranting about GTA — they said “it adds porn to an already violent video game.” in fact, they complained more about violence at the press conference than they did about sex, but they knew that sex would get the story in the paper. and it did.

the law she’s proposing mostly aims to enforce the existing ratings system for games. which would be a fine idea if age limits ever worked at all and if that didn’t put a huge incentive for corruption onto the group that assigns ratings.

oh well! 

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]]> By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2005/07/when-politicians-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Anonymous Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:11:05 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=341#comment-20 Gah. I wish one of her youthful staffers would explain to her that she's in dire danger of alienating the geekier-youth that she'll need to both campaign and vote for her. I'm no fan of video games, especially violent ones, but yeesh. This is exactly the line of argument that makes her it-takes-a-village aphorism (one I support when it's being earnest) look ridiculous. <br/><br/>There are so many better things for the Senator from New York to be working on . . .so frustrating. Who do these people hire? <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="sahelidatta at hotmail dot com">Saheli</a> Gah. I wish one of her youthful staffers would explain to her that she’s in dire danger of alienating the geekier-youth that she’ll need to both campaign and vote for her. I’m no fan of video games, especially violent ones, but yeesh. This is exactly the line of argument that makes her it-takes-a-village aphorism (one I support when it’s being earnest) look ridiculous.

There are so many better things for the Senator from New York to be working on . . .so frustrating. Who do these people hire? 

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