Leave it to Hilary Clinton to miss the nail and and, instead, bash her thumb with the hammer ...
"Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes then murder them.. This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different color or they're from a different place."
Nice.
(I'm assuming she's talking about the Grand Theft Auto series here but if anyone wants to correct me please feel free.)
And so to the point. The global market for videogames is growing every year BUT it's nowhere near the global market for music. The current "next big thing" in the music world is rap, gangsta rap, etc which reaches a much biggger audience then Grand Theft Auto does. So my question is, why is the lovely Hilary not attacking the content of rap music with it's overtones of bigotry, drug dealing, pimping and gun use?
Examples - how about 50 cents P.I.M.P.:
I ain't that nigga trying to holla cause I want some head I'm that nigga trying to holla cause I want some bread I could care less how she perform when she in the bed Bitch hit that track, catch a date, and come and pay the kid Look baby this is simple, you can't see You fucking with me, you fucking with a P-I-M-P
And Dr Dre's 187um
I got the gauge, a uzi and the mothafuckin 22 So if you wanna blast, nigga we can buck 'em If we stick 'em then we stuck 'em so fuck 'em!"
All prefectly respectable according to Hilary who obviously never watches MTV, misses all reports of gang violence in the press and lives in some special dream world of her own making. I'm not going to say that videogames don't influence kids in any way (they obviously do) but music (and video) has a much greater reach when it comes to audience size. Only last week four seperate releases from 50 cent made the US Top Ten - apparently some kind of record, but who's tackling the problems caused by rap music? No one! So until some pillock in power makes the connection between rap and violence, videogames continue to take the rap (so to speak).
Looks like the music industry has so much more cash influence over politicians then the games firms do. Not that I would ever suggest politics is corrupt in any way - nor would I suggest that when it comes to influencing people it's OK for the most powerful man in the world to get a blowjob from an intern, lie about it and get away with it. Now that would never happen, would it Hilary love ?
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