Jaded Times

In the largest irony bid I’ve seen since Bush proposed conserving energy, activist Jack Thompson has offered $10,000 to charity if a game company will produce a game from his bizarrely hypocritical concept:

I have a modest proposal for the video game industry. I’ll write a check for $10,000 to the favorite charity of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc’s chairman, Paul Eibeler – a man Bernard Goldberg ranks as #43 in his book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America – if any video game company will create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006 like the following:

He goes on to describe a game plot consisting of the father of a child who was brutally beaten to death by gamers taking violent action against the gamin industry and fighting the FBI. Is it just me, or does this sort of discredit his punditry?

Another quick note: He cites Goldberg’s book as a source. I find it humorous that people are starting to take anything that comes into print as a reliable source; I mean, hell, anybody with enough money can self-publish, or anyone with an interesting idea can find a house willing to publish their work. It doesn’t make them a journalist (and I use the term loosely with Goldberg, who actually is a journalist, at least technically). I mean, he also listed Barbara Streisand and Harry Belafonte in the top 100. Not that I totally disagree on Streisand, but I can easily think of 100 more destructive members of our society than her. I do applaud him for including Springer, though (link to summation of list).

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