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Enough and more has been said about Jack Thompson and how he is wangling his way onto public television by giving people fodder on videogames and how they’re supposedly to blame for all the violence that happens in the world. But still, when you are an attorney, you don’t really expect that someone would go on television without any facts backing him up and blabber anything and everything that pops into his head.
Yet, that’s exactly what’s happened. Jerkwad Jack went on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews to talk about how the VATech massacre is all the fault of Counter-Strike, but one thing he wasn’t expecting was getting his ass kicked all over the place and being made a complete idiot on national TV! While Jack claims over 80% of the male population at VATech plays computer games, Chris refutes him by saying how the students are actually into healthy sports like basketball and that there’s no evidence of a violent videogame subculture on campus. However, when Jack drags Counter-Strike into the mix and how it helps prepare mass murderers for their massacre by “training” them to keep them heartrate down and stay calm, he gets more than he bargained for, which was a couple of soundbites that he could paste all over his website. Chris, armed with real evidence, brains and a sharp tongue takes the “School Shooting Expert” to task, claiming instead that Cho was actually working on his English essays instead of playing the “murder simulator” on his PC and how Jack was making stuff up and forcing his theories on the masses without proof. Basically, Jack goes down the toilet the moment he opens his mouth, continuously blithering on about the FBI, the Secret Service and about “hyper-reality situations in virtual reality”, whatever that means.
It appears that in a bizarre turn of events - the VTech killer Cho Seung-Hui was, after all, NOT inspired by violent video games to do what he did. The so called “EXPERTS” were quick to jump onto the blame game, instead of actually focusing their energy on the families of the victims. And to think that these idiots get publicity AND money to talk trash!
To lay all their theories to rest, Cho was emulating NOT a video game, but a Korean movie, when he killed those innocent people. He had probably seen the ultra violent Korean film “Old Boy” way too many times. Probably because he knew that emulating pixellated killers wasn’t as much fun as emulating someone on a 16mm reel! Cho had emailed videos of him striking poses resembling popular scenes from the movie, to NBC in between the shootings.
Cho was on a completely different ‘mission’ when he stepped out of his house and from what you’d read about his agenda, its clear that he wasn’t trying to emulate anything he’d ever seen in any video game.
People like Jack Thompson need to get one thing straight - the facts outweigh the fiction. Get your facts right and don’t be hasty to give us your so called “expert opinion”. Before you jump up to make a quick buck and get your 15 second slot on national TV, do a little thing that we’ve done here - it’s called “RESEARCH”!
It took the police almost a full 24 hours to ID the Virginia Tech shooter, but all it took was a couple of hours for “School Shooting Expert” and crackpot ambulance chaser-cum-attorney Jack Thompson to get himself an audience with the nation on Fox, citing videogames as a cause for such violent events. As if post-9/11 terrorism and and radical fundamentalism wasn’t getting enough attention in the ratings-hungry world of modern day media, such comments on major news channels just serve to add fuel to the fire, with one news channel’s opinion being paraded around as hard facts on another.
With the unholy politico-legal-media complex driving American society in general, it is not unusual for major news channels and obviously biased TV anchors to run with the story, callously ignoring the sentiments and the anguish of the people who had suffered the real loss in such a tragedy in return for some snappy soundbites. So who cares if the story is cooked up by an attention whore? No one cares about the ethics of journalism and how the media actually has to serve a purpose beyond furthering its monetary interests. How is it that we let people like Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil McGraw get away by touting opinion as fact whereas I can’t walk into a crowded theater and yell “There’s a bomb in here!” How is it different? In both cases, isn’t a lie being perpetuated by people who have absolutely no right to do what they are doing? But no, they praise such people and call them “experts” despite the fact that the lawyers and psychotherapists have little to no real world experience on the things they claim to be experts on, even as they desperately try to make people believe that breast implants and cellphones cause cancer or in this case, how videogames turn people violent. Hit up the jump to read more on this…
How low does a person go to capitalize on someone else’s tragedy? Apparently not low enough. In line with being the complete asshole that he is, Jack Thompson has cracked down on today’s Virginia Tech shootings and blamed it on, guess what, videogames! Going on Fox News, this “School Shooting Expert” (BAH!) talked at length about videogames being “murder simulators” and linked them to the rise in school shootings. And the sad joke is that, as of now, no one really knows what really happened up there in VATech. But obviously Jerkbag Jack doesn’t care about all of that!
What pisses us most about this douchebag and his idiotic rants on national television is how his comments will be gobbled up the mindless masses who would like nothing more than make videogames the sacrificial scapegoat in one of America’s worst tragedies. So the shooter was apparently an Asian, and may or may not have been a student, which means that the chances of the police actually finding a violent videogame in his room are extremely high. Heck, my friend’s 16-year old sister likes Gears of War, so hey, show me one average teen in today’s world without a violent videogame on their shelf!
Like VJ said quite sarcastically in a conversation soon after, after all, videogames did create violence in the world and the Nintendo DS is used to secretly molest children. Baseless accusations seem to be the latest media craze these days, with anything and everything being said in the name of soundbites. More on this breaking news as it develops, even as our heartfelt condolences go out to those who lost their friends / family in this atrocity.