Glenn beck and thompson talking shit right now.

[Iliketobenaked]

UGH on the glenn beck show,beck says we are training our kids to be killers etc
and training our doughters to be whores

still this pisses me off though.

 

[CptStern]

it's on his website

http://www.glennbeck.com/

but I'm not subscribing to his site to watch it Beck's an alarmist idiot

 

[VictimOfScience]

He is one of the most annoying men on TV. Hate is a pretty good word for what I feel for him and his ilk.

 

[WhiteZero]

Glenn: There is no distinction between reality and a game anymore.

Moron...

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Damnit, and to think I bought that bastard's headphones.

He had me fooled thinking he was a pretty cool guy.

--

Oh wait lol no, I'm thinking of Ben Heck.

Stupid similar sounding names.

 

[Calhoun]

There is no distinction between reality and a game anymore.

He's correct. Some crazed student from a rival school last week took a large confidential suitcase and we had to go hunt him down. We retrieved that suitcase without incident and caused a lot of damage and casualties to the rival school, except in our absence, somebody went and stuck an electro-sapper on most of the stuff that we were working on out in shop at our school, and we lost most of it. We haven't found that guy yet, but when we do, oh we've got just the heat treatment for him.

 

[Stormy]

Link? There is a ton of shit on that website :S

 

[Trevelyan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzr138ijmaQ

Me rantee very much!

P.S Does he say "whatever happened to porn?" at the end.

 

[WhiteZero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzr138ijmaQ

Me rantee very much!

P.S Does he say "whatever happened to porn?" at the end.

He said "Whatever happened to pong"

 

[Lucid]

I've always hated Glenn Beck, he takes everything to its upper most extremities.

Used to be forced to watch his show whenever I was on break at work.
Luckily since baseball season's on, I get to watch the ball game for 20 minutes.

 

[mastag]

wtf, isn't he supposed to have people on his show with VARYING opinions?

Guy from the PTC and Jack Thompson?!

 

[Eejit]

He's correct. Some crazed student from a rival school last week took a large confidential suitcase and we had to go hunt him down. We retrieved that suitcase without incident and caused a lot of damage and casualties to the rival school, except in our absence, somebody went and stuck an electro-sapper on most of the stuff that we were working on out in shop at our school, and we lost most of it. We haven't found that guy yet, but when we do, oh we've got just the heat treatment for him.

Was it those Blue school bastards again?

 

[Avoidist]

Was it those Blue school bastards again?

I hear they are very industrious.

 

[Tyguy]

god forbid someone under the age of 18 plays an M rated game, but thats ok...little billy just discovered cigarettes, now he doesn't want to play GTA!!!!

PRIORITIES FTL

 

[The Monkey]

I'm suprised Thompson didn't like GTA IV. He is, after all, such a huge fan of the series.

 

[Shoes_Buttback03]

He's correct. Some crazed student from a rival school last week took a large confidential suitcase and we had to go hunt him down. We retrieved that suitcase without incident and caused a lot of damage and casualties to the rival school, except in our absence, somebody went and stuck an electro-sapper on most of the stuff that we were working on out in shop at our school, and we lost most of it. We haven't found that guy yet, but when we do, oh we've got just the heat treatment for him.

Wins a cookie made out of internet.

 

[Raziaar]

I was about 15, 16 when I played GTA III.

And look at me. I'm a violent lunatic.

 

[WhiteZero]

I'd just list to relay this post made by a well educated, good friend of mine, as I made a comment about what Glenn said on my private forum. Heres my statement:

Oh, and just to post some of the controversy about the game, heres an excerpt from the Glenn Beck show about the game:

Glenn: Sarah, please, tell me you have a problem with this game. You're pregnant. Please tell me you're not going to let your children and you're not going to let your husband ‑‑
Sarah: My husband has a copy and plays it all the time.
Glenn: What do you think about having your husband playing a game where he can have sex with a prostitute and then beat her to death with a baseball bat or take a chain saw and saw her in half?
Sarah: I see no problem with it, because there is a distinction reality and the game.
Glenn: There is no distinction between reality and a game anymore. Doesn't anyone see what is happening to ‑‑ no ‑‑ tell me the distinction ‑‑
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/9452/

*chalks up a retarded mark for Glenn*
Sorry Brian, I know you like the guy...

My friend's reply:

I'm afraid I'm going to have to take issue with you on this, WhiteZero: not so much your point, but your methods.

I just read the whole article on Glenn's web site (thanks for the link), and there was more to the last comment of his that you quoted in your post. I'm not saying it was intentional on your part, but cutting his statement off there goes a long way toward making it seem more retarded than it actually is.

Let me summarize the point that Glenn was trying (and largely failing) to get across. Immediately following his, "There is no distinction between reality and a game anymore" line, he cited the cases of teenage girls uploading videos of themselves beating up another girl onto Youtube. His producer Stu then pointed out that, despite the game selling 11 million copies, you don't see 11 million cops getting run over. Okay. Fair enough.

Then Glenn noted the interesting results of tests the US Army conducted starting during World War I. They found that your average grunt who's only trained to shoot paper bullseyes in basic will only shoot at humans 20% of the time in actual combat. When the Army switched from bullseyes to silhouettes, the number increased from 20% to 50%. Finally, when they started training soldiers using realistic computer simulations, the figure jumped all the way up to 100%.

Now, don't confuse Glenn with the likes of Jack Thompson. I've never heard him advocate banning games or suing retailers and developers. He's more concerned about the desensitization of society that he sees GTA as a simultaneous cause and effect of. These things are a self-perpetuating cycle. Somebody produces something considered shocking by current standards. People are attracted by its novelty and eventually get desensitized to it, so it takes something even more outrageous to get the same effect, etc.

Stu might have a point that the crime rate is going down and that games like GTA can't be shown to have influenced people's behavior, but I don't think that was Glenn's point. Think about how GTA IV would've been received just 20 years ago. I remember people boycotting Punch Out! back then. Go read Gabe's interview with his WWII vet grandad, who, based on having lived the real thing, discouraged people from playing games like Call of Duty.

America's relationship to violent media is like a junkie's drug habit. There's a desensitization factor in play that continually escalates the size of the fix you need for stimulation. If the games coming out nowadays are any indication, we're freebasing moon dust just to get to normal.

Something to chew on.

 

[Krynn72]

I'd just list to relay this post made by a well educated, good friend of mine, as I made a comment about what Glenn said on my private forum. Heres my statement:


My friend's reply:


Something to chew on.

Thats pretty much the point I was making in the other thread. But is there any evidence that desensitization actually increases the likelihood of violent behavior?

 

[jimbo118]

Just saw the Beck thing, jesus some people love the sound of their own voice Fail.