Oh Jeebus! Lieberworm to grandstand about video games on CSPAN today

[Greeby]

At 11amEST today on CSPAN1

Congressional News Conference
Annual Video Game Report Card
National Institute on Media and the Family
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 195527 - 11/29/2006 - 1:00 - No Sale

Lieberman, Joseph U.S. Senator, D-CT
Walsh, David President, National Institute on Media and the Family

In an annual news conference at the beginning of the holiday shopping season, participants talked to reporters about their rating of videogames and several video games with violent or sexual content. They also showed brief examples of several of the games. Following their presentation they answered questions from reporters.

Program contains content that may be objectionable to some viewers. <----------- (no kidding :eyes:)

[rpannier]

1. Another sign of peace and prosperity breaking out everywhere in the world

because this nonsense is the order of the day.

[Richard Steele]

2. Yeah, he's really on top of things. Important things.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Joe plays well to the nanny state leftists.

Always has. The Tipper Gore faction can't ban nearly enough shit, that is when they aren't too busy dreaming about how they can draft all of our kids.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. this is great. He is making himself irrelevent.

perfect

[Ian David]

5. I doubt they'll be talking about the Left Behind Game

Progressive Christians oppose Left Behind game
Christian Alliance for Progress denounces video game, based on a popular series of apocalyptic novels, that it terms "violent" and based on "religious fundamentlism".

Tuesday, November 28, 200
by Ekklesia See all articles by this author | Tags: left behind, progressive christians, fundamentalists


A range of Christian organisations in the United States are concerned that a major evangelical publishing house is promoting a video game which they say legitimates a violent and hate-filled world view based on religious fundamentalism.

At a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, the Christian Alliance for Progress is joining with CrossWalk America, the Beatitudes Society and The Center for Progressive Christianity to protest the release of the ‘Left Behind: Eternal Forces’ video game, a companion to the best-selling book series of the same name.

Critics say that the ideology of the game corrupts the Christian message and is based on distorted readings of scriptural texts which have been discredited by scholarship and are recent deformations of the Gospel tradition.

Many organisations and individuals are asking Tyndale House to disassociate themselves from the product. CAP’s letter declares:

“The Christian Alliance for Progress deplores the release of the video game Left Behind: Eternal Forces in which the game's object is to convert or kill any who stand in opposition to the ideology that the game and its companion book series seek to promote. We urge the game's sponsor, Tyndale House, a Christian publishing business which used to be concerned with sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, to recall its values and withdraw its support for such an un-Christian enterprise as this.

More:
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=134&id=6801&t=Progressive+Christians+oppose+Left+Behind+game

[noahmijo]

6. The Media Marketing Accountability Act

http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=208614&&
Senator Joe Lieberman: News Release

This is the kind of shit I would expect from Republicans and is also why I will never support Hillary Clinton for anything.

[Orsino]

7. Beats workin'.

If it weren't for video games, he might have to face some of the problems he helped create.

[blm]

10. It's Joe's job to BLOCK Iraq withdrawal plans from Democrats, dontcha know?

.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. I'm sure the voters of CT will punish him for this when he up for reelection

Does anyone know when he is up for reelection?

[Larkspur]

9. He's up for re-election in 2012

[Zodiak]

11. But he can be told to stuff it in '08

if we pick up one more seat in the Senate.

[Larkspur]

19. Yep, I hope to help out some Dem senate candidates so that

their numbers neuter Lieberman's ego.

[ComerPerro]

26. you've got to be fucking kidding

[Ha Ha Ha Oh Wow]

12. isnt he also against rock music too?

there goes guitar hero 3.
dont take away my guitar hero joe!

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. You're thinking about Al Gore and his wife

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. No.

Lieberman was being PMRC too.

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. Maybe that was why Gore chose him as his runningmante in 2000?

:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. Part of the reason.

Gore picked Lieberman to counterbalance because he was conservative. It counterbalanced Gore's liberalism.

[Freddie Stubbs]

24. Also the Jewish factor, which helped in Southern Florida

Not enough, but the Democratic ticket did better in Broward and Palm Beach Counties in 2000 than they did in 2004.

[kentuck]

13. Yes. Let's not talk about your support and promotion of the war in Iraq...

what's the old saying about defeat having a thousand orphans or victory a thousand fathers or such?

[progdonkey]

14. Saw one of those a few years ago... (funny story)

I wrote this post a few weeks ago re: C-SPAN censoring profanity, nudity, etc. but since it relates a rather funny story about Lieberman at an earlier "Report Card" press conference (I assume it was; I don't remember exactly), I'm reposting it here. Please to enjoy. ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=4542&mesg_id=4558

[SoCalDem]

15. It aired live this am..standard Joementum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2824965&mesg_id=2824965

[Javaman]

16. Ah the joys of video games...

I first wrote this way back in march. nothing like digging up dead topic for lieberman, huh?

There you go! Video games are the root of all evil....

You know I was just saying to a friend while I was playing grand theft auto, "you know, I have this crazy urge to go out to kill and main people souly for my own enjoyment, what do you think, bob?"

Bob thought for a moment and said, "well, dave, I have had this unquenchable thirst for blood lately, as well, and I believe that a little mayhem and destruction are in order."

So bob and I walked out to the car, pumped up with excitement from our afternoon playing grand theft auto and filled with delusions of grandeur, we hit the road with a mission.

As bob and I casually mowed down one pedestrian after another, I turned to him, mid killing spree, and said, "you know bob, I have been thinking, do you think it's the failure of society that has turned us to this life of mayhem? Or do you think it's the failure of strong parental images, guidelines and lack boundaries set for us that has lead us down this road?"

We both momentarily chuckled at my pun, but bob thought for a moment, looking but not really "seeing" as one innocent person flew over our hood after another, then turned to me thoughtfully and said, "you know dave, you might just have a point there, I feel that if my parents were more like parents and not wanting to be my "best friend" (bob loves doing that finger thing for parentheses), I would have had the structure in my life that I so desperately crave on a deeper emotional level".

I really enjoyed bobs introspective moments that allow me to explore the deeper issues of life. "I concur", I stated and slammed the breaks on the car, just short of a family of 5 in the middle of shopping mall.

We exited our vehicle and turned ourselves in. We both felt better at taking responsibility for our actions.

Now as bob and I sit in our maximum security cell here in texas awaiting our death in the gas chamber, I look back and think of all the errors I have made. But also at the irony. bob and I killed people and now we are being killed to show that killing is wrong. Life is just so kooky, ain't it?

[Hippo_Tron]

18. Hey Joe, which one of these do you think teaches our kids that violence is okay?

Video Games or Illegal Wars?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. Follow the money.

Who's got the most to lose from video games?

[Freddie Stubbs]

27. Parents?

:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. LOL.

Good one.

[pdxmom]

25. He supports real violence and torture, death and mayhem and wants

to send more over to Iraq to engage in it, but has a "concern" about pretend violence, which is something that can be monitored by parents in their own home. This is just disgusting and proves he's a Repuke. Only Repukes are that hypocritical.

[shadowknows69]

29. Is he going to include America's Army?

The official US Army shooter released free to the public? It's been called a recruiting tool and I've played it it's pretty intense. Definitely not for kids but they can play it without restriction IIRC.

[PVnRT]

30. If Joe is correct

then Japan should be the most violent nation on the planet. You should see some of the games that are hits over there which aren't imported here.