Jack Thompson gets schooled by MSNBC
Posted by LOC on 20 April 2007 - 19:15 · 33 comments & 22715 views
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#1 Posted by WelshBluebird on 20 Apr 2007 - 19:37
- brilliant. thank you MSNBC, we just need a more mainstream news source (prehaps Fox, as they were the idiots who allowed him on air) to discredit him, them perhaps the general public will ignore JT?
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#4 Posted by spacer on 20 Apr 2007 - 19:56
- Having just finished reading Jack Thomspon's open letter to Bill Gates, I'm pretty sure I have dain bramage now.
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#5 Posted by Ash on 20 Apr 2007 - 20:09
- Blah, 10 million xbox 360s sold, 2 school shooting that I know of in the past year. Thats a verrrry tiny percent. And thats not taking into consideration other consoles & PC gaming, so that percent got even lower.
It's like saying eating a hamburger or sneezing causes people to do this.
I am not a huge fan of Microsoft or Bill Gates, but blaming him first of all, especially for a game his company didn't even publish, and the fact it was noted that apperently this kid wasn't into video games = very bad mistake by Jack Thompson and I hope to hell, Bill Gates personally & Microsoft as a company both sue his *** for defamation. -
#5.1 Posted by NightmarE D on 21 Apr 2007 - 06:07
- He could easily get some jail time for what he's said about Microsoft creating Counter Strike and Bill Gates being responsible for the shootings. Neither are true and he said it all while being on TV where he can't deny he said it.
No wonder he completely failed as a lawyer. If Bill Gates decides to take this to court, Thompson might as well just give up now. He'll be completely screwed. Yes I mean the prison version of screwed. He better get used to screaming out the name Bubba soon.
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#7 Posted by neufuse on 20 Apr 2007 - 20:54
- Finally people are starting to go against this idiot... now if they would stop giving him air time all together...
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#8 Posted by aldrlandon on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:05
- That guy is crazy. It seems like he can't get any of his facts right before he opens his fat pie hole.
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#9 Posted by MrCobra on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:09
- Is there a public e-mail address for him floating anywhere? I feel the need to write him a letter.
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#9.1 Posted by LOC on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:15
- I think he had one out there, but he had so many "evil" emails coming in he nuked it. I could be wrong. But you need to understand, he doesn't need to get angry overly violent sounding emails telling him where to stick his ideals, he needs calmly written, intelligent stuff to show him we gamers aren't the violent raping, mutant, whatevers he thinks we are.
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#9.2 Posted by Glassed Silver on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:23
- Quote - (LOC said @ #9.1)I think he had one out there, but he had so many "evil" emails coming in he nuked it. I could be wrong. But you need to understand, he doesn't need to get angry overly violent sounding emails telling him where to stick his ideals, he needs calmly written, intelligent stuff to show him we gamers aren't the violent raping, mutant, whatevers he thinks we are.
Know what I mean?
well put, bro
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#9.3 Posted by The_Decryptor on 20 Apr 2007 - 22:49
- Quote - (LOC said @ #9.1)I think he had one out there, but he had so many "evil" emails coming in he nuked it. I could be wrong. But you need to understand, he doesn't need to get angry overly violent sounding emails telling him where to stick his ideals, he needs calmly written, intelligent stuff to show him we gamers aren't the violent raping, mutant, whatevers he thinks we are.That has been shown not to work.
Know what I mean?
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#9.4 Posted by +rm20010 on 20 Apr 2007 - 23:03
- Quote - (The_Decryptor said @ #9.3)Quote - (LOC said @ #9.1)I think he had one out there, but he had so many "evil" emails coming in he nuked it. I could be wrong. But you need to understand, he doesn't need to get angry overly violent sounding emails telling him where to stick his ideals, he needs calmly written, intelligent stuff to show him we gamers aren't the violent raping, mutant, whatevers he thinks we are.That has been shown not to work.
Know what I mean?
He still calls you crazy.
Indeed. It got to a point where he set up an autoreply bot for that email box, scanning it every now and then to respond only to mails he cares about - namely, the heads of those parent groups and anyone that kisses his arse.
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#10 Posted by Glassed Silver on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:19
- cheers
Glassed Silver:mac
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#11 Posted by bucko on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:23
- I play Counter Strike Source almost every day, you don't see me going out and killing 30+ people, because I'm not MAD!
It makes me think religion is more to blame than violent video games, they (terrorist) seems to do it all in the name of religion (almost using it as an excuse).
I think violent video games are a good thing if used at the right age, because it stops people doing it in real life.
Valve should sue Jack Thompson for being unfair on them in the media spotlight.
I don't know much about this guy because I'm from England but poweruser.tv went on about him a lot. -
#11.1 Posted by LOC on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:35
- With Thompson it is religion actually, I didn't add that to my little editorial because I didn't want to start a massive flame war - but Jack Thompson is very religious and does use religion in his lawsuits and other nonsense he spouts out.
I don't want to start anything here either, but he's always quoting the bible or something religious and if you are against him your a sinner and are going to burn in hell pretty much. I am just lumping together of course, he doesn't say these things often and not specifically I don't think. I saw a story on digg once about him going off at a college (religious college btw) and blaming the downfall of our society on gamers and the evil bible bashers etc. -
#11.2 Posted by NightmarE D on 21 Apr 2007 - 05:58
- He uses religion a lot, but he's no man of God. Saw him on something once a while back and he was quoting scripture that he obviously was making up. I'm not as religous as I used to be, but I've read the bible 3 times and he was completely making up stuff.
I saw him on Chris Matthews the other day and Matthews was proving him wrong left and right and I was sitting here cracking up. Thompson was annoyed but trying to hide it and kept spouting off lies and Matthews turned around and proved him wrong each time then Matthews ended the interview and I actually stood up and started clapping. Someone finally made him look like the pure idiot he is on national television.
I'm just waiting for all the gamers to start spreading that video all over YouTube, Google Video and anywhere else they can
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#11.3 Posted by EJocys on 24 Apr 2007 - 14:10
- Quote - (NightmarE D said @ #11.2)He uses religion a lot, but he's no man of God. Saw him on something once a while back and he was quoting scripture that he obviously was making up.
10 Commandments by Jack Thompson
1. Worship no Doom but Pink Ponies;
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any poster of any thing that from FPS game;
3. Thou shalt take the name of the Gordon Freeman in vain;
4. Remember the sabbath day; in it thou shalt not do any play;
5. Honour all thy neighbour's game bashers;
6. Thou shalt not frag unless thy President and have legal right to do so;
7. Thou shalt not commit "Hot Coffee" patch;
8. Thou shalt not steal console from thy shop;
9. Thou shalt bear false witness against games;
10. Tou shalt not covet thy neighbour's Xbox 360 or PS3;
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#12 Posted by Aahz on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:28
- Jack sure does have a lot of interest in what young males are up to...makes ya think huh?
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#13 Posted by stifler6478 on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:38
- MSNBC is my hero right now.
-Spenser
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#14 Posted by Croquant on 20 Apr 2007 - 21:54
- Video games don't kill people, people with semi-automatic weapins kill people.
See the difference?
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#15 Posted by +warwagon on 20 Apr 2007 - 22:12
- I think just because seat belts kill a hand full of people every year we should take them out of all cars.
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#16 Posted by solardog on 20 Apr 2007 - 22:51
- Nice little rant. I hope you aren't thinking of voting for Billary, she's just as bad. How the crap did I get on Democratic underground? I could have sworn I hit my Neowin link. Calm down. Jeez, how f'n pathetic, Tanner.
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#16.1 Posted by +rm20010 on 20 Apr 2007 - 23:05
- WTF? This 'rant' is about a psychotic lawyer, not about your bull**** politics.
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#16.2 Posted by solardog on 20 Apr 2007 - 23:13
- Quote - (rm20010 said @ #16.1)WTF? This 'rant' is about a psychotic lawyer, not about your bull**** politics.
Whoops. I had Fred Thompson in mind. Sorry about that. Sorry Mr. Tanner. I welcome all the flames I am about to receive.
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#17 Posted by Sp3ctranova on 21 Apr 2007 - 04:52
- Thompson is the party pooper to end all party poopers; a skidmark on the underpants of society.
Still, always fun hearing about him gettin' schooled.
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#18 Posted by NightmarE D on 21 Apr 2007 - 06:13
- What's funny is that he's saying video games drives us all mad. Look at whose completely obsessed with them and does nothing but talk about them
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#19 Posted by PatrynXX on 21 Apr 2007 - 15:49
- I'd say the news media is more at fault than anything where people can escape to. Heck the news media especially NBC proved that if you kill a bunch of people, you can get instant fame once your dead. This will only encourage more people. The main problem with the killer here is more the system failed. They simply didn't enforce the laws.
In this particular case for once I'd actually agree that perhaps some professors should have a gun to protect the students.
Perhaps Mr. Thompson needs his own head examined for anger management? Wonder what violence he grew up on. -
#19.1 Posted by werejag on 22 Apr 2007 - 06:47
- Quote -The main problem with the killer here is more the system failed. They simply didn't enforce the laws.
the laws was enforced to say other wise is to vastly uninformed. watch fox news? seem you get this trash thoughts from them.Quote -I'd say the news media is more at fault than anything where people can escape to. Heck the news media especially NBC proved that if you kill a bunch of people, you can get instant fame once your dead.
the news media isn't at fault for anything . the tape and media files from cho was legit news and needed to be told. believe in censorship?Quote -This will only encourage more people.
and reading the the bible teaches more about sex and violence is ok then cho's videos. should we burn them????
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#20 Posted by Phil1208 on 21 Apr 2007 - 23:20
- im still unable to comprehend how Halo can teach someone to snipe, im sure it doesnt take wind speed or direction in to consideration, or things like hand shake/trembling. <sarcasm>il have to play it again just to be sure though</sarcasm>Quote - (NightmarE D said @ #5.1)He could easily get some jail time for what he's said about Microsoft creating Counter Strike and Bill Gates being responsible for the shootings. Neither are true and he said it all while being on TV where he can't deny he said it.
No wonder he completely failed as a lawyer. If Bill Gates decides to take this to court, Thompson might as well just give up now. He'll be completely screwed. Yes I mean the prison version of screwed. He better get used to screaming out the name Bubba soon.
He could probably get sued for mentioning Counter Strike in the first place, as it could be seen as advertising. and if the channel he was on doesnt have rights to advertise CS. then theres another law suit
Jack Thompson was not alone this time around however, as TV shrink Dr. Phil also blamed video games, though nothing specific. Howard Stern himself called out Dr. Phil on that one. And now MSNBC has come out swinging against Jack Thompson. Citing a few interesting factoids, MSNBC pretty much discounts everything Mr. Thompson has said over the past few days. Mr. Thompson for example, contends that these types of school shootings would never occur if it weren't for violent video games. Yet MSNBC reminds Mr. Thompson that the 2nd worst school shooting in US history occurred way back in 1966, long before Grand Theft Auto 3 turned our youth into walking Postal doods. Pong wasn't even created yet, and we all know how violent Pong was. Hardball with Chris Matthews also let Jack Thompson have it the other day, where Chris Matthews pretty much called him out on everything he said. Oh and let us not forget, that since video games have become more popular over the past few decades, violent crimes have actually decreased in this country, and youth violence rates have also decreased.
Over and over again Jack Thompson proves he is just a zealot out there to push his own values on everyone else, and video games are his favorite target. This time people are fighting back more than ever. The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) is out there talking to the media, and Empire Arcadia in association with the ECA are planning a gamers rally in NYC on May 5th to oppose Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil. The rally will allow gamers to mourn over the tragic events at Virginia Tech, and to protest the constant blame game Jack Thompson and others play. When will we as gamers stand up to Jack Thompson and all the others who are out there to blame video games on all the ills of society? Or will be just sit back on our behinds and play our games and let them continue to blame everything on games, and eventually have their way and ban/control them?
Oh and did I mention that Mr. Thompson actually sent a letter to Bill Gates, blaming him and Microsoft for this terrible tragedy? What?