Thompson runs from debate with tail between his legs

[CptStern]

Game Attorney challenges Thompson to deabate, he accepts then backs down


in an interview with gamecloud Tom Buscaglia, Attorney had this to say:

I think that Jack Thompson is sort of like the Organ Grinder’s monkey without the Organ Grinder. He is just dancing around for attention and doesn’t seem to have much concern for whether what he is saying is true or not, he just wants people to listen to him ..... I have had a couple of people ask me if I would debate him and I suppose I would, but I wouldn’t bother to call him and set it up."



jack sent him an email:


Subject: Just tell me where and when, Tom


Tom responded with:

Full Sail, Orlando, January 17th or 18th


Jack responded with:


"Tom, if you actually said the below, then I’m not interested in a debate. As to being the “laughingstock of the South Florida legal community,” maybe in the circles in which you travel. Are you familiar with the Biblical principle that “a prophet is without honor in his own backyard?” I have to get out of this Hell-hole to get people to listen to me, and not gamers whose frontal lobes are fried. Please note, further below, what this organ grinder’s monkey has accomplished despite people like you, and please also note that a respected, prominent liberal and I have a speaker’s bureau which is putting real debates together for us on college campuses. Sorry to burst your self-satisfied bubble, Tom, but I don’t do debates with people who lie about what I do. You’re a liar. That’s why people in your industry eat up your drivel. "


...what a fool


Tom's blog

original interview from gamecloud

 

[Top Secret]

Freakin' pwned. What a pussy.

 

[kirovman]

I always have faith in Jack Thompson to make an idiot out of himself. Just good to see that he's losing credibility everyday. Fabulous!

 

[Maxi]

Indeed he is. Fabulous!

 

[Dalamari]

Lol, Jack Thompson is old news, he really has nobody left to back him Fabulous!

 

[<RJMC>]

coward

 

[DreadLord]

coward

Fabulous!

 

[Sulkdodds]

Jesus, he just gets funnier and funnier. I wouldn't have thought it possible but he manages it. Fabulously!

 

[ríomhaire]

Oh Stern, you always give me the opertunity:

 

[Glirk Dient]

Fabulous!

too fabulous!

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Oh Stern, you always give me the opertunity:

Please tell me she got the kids out of there ffs..........:O

Damn I misread title thinking " Holy shit is he finally gone?!" But oh well, still great news......:thumbs:

 

[JNightshade]

FLABULOUS!

 

[Yuri]

Thompson is a hero among men. A Prophet, so to speak.

Damn you all to hell, sinners.

 

[burnzie]

Funderfull.


... damn

 

[CyberPitz]

Shenstastic!

 

[Cormeh]

Are you familiar with the Biblical principle that “a prophet is without honor in his own backyard?” I have to get out of this Hell-hole to get people to listen to me

Aye, reyet.

This man is quite mentally unbalanced. Or just stupid.

 

[Apocalypse89]

I, for one, feel sorry for Thompson. Senility hit him damn hard.

 

[Jintor]

How old is he?

 

[ríomhaire]

How old is he?

Actual or maturity?

 

[el Chi]

1. I have to get out of this Hell-hole to get people to listen to me, and not gamers whose frontal lobes are fried.

2. You’re a liar.

1. ANY time someone makes an intelligent response or challenge to Thompson, I've seen him either ignore it or retort by merely calling them stupid. Well done Thompson, that's how most people argued when they were seven. And he passed the bar HOW, exactly?

After that team responded perfectly to his bastardised take on Swift's "A Modest Proposal", he claimed that he was being ironical and that gamers were generally too stupid to understand that and what "A Modest Proposal" was about.

The sheer arrogance of that statement astounded me, especially considering that he himself didn't follow the lines of "A Modest Proposal" - that conceited, repugnant little man attempted some kind of poor update of it to try and prove a point, whilst all the while not actually getting the point of Swift's work.

It honestly beggars belief that he feels he can be so smug and self-satisfied as to broad-brush gamers purely because they indulge in a pass-time he dislikes. It's judgemental, it's immature and it is NOT the way to prove a point, nor is it a way to gain any form of credibility whatsoever. Especially when his allusions to being an intellectual of some form are so horrendously misguided.


2. Thompson, as we all know, is a bastion of truth, objectivity and decency.

He makes grand, hateful accusations against the gaming industry and the gaming community with twisted "evidence" and a lot of ascerbic, unfounded rhetoric that often seem to consist of his own opinions as if they were gospel. Couldn't some of his claims - games cause violence and murder etc. - be considered tantamount to slander or libel? After all, if he accuses GTA of inspiring murders or aggression, that would seem to me to be only a few steps away from openly accusing Rockstar of manslaughter.

If I may return to his modest proposal to the gaming community... A person who publicly states they will make a sizable donation to charity, only to back out on the flimsiest, most contrary and dishonest premise is below contempt. It only adds fuel to the fire of what a nasty piece of work he truly is.


On a lighter note: Fabulous!

 

[kirovman]

I nominated Chi to destroy Thompson in a head-to-head challenge!

 

[el Chi]

I sent him an e-mail once - well-structured, well-mannered and well thought out, if I do say so myself - to voice my dismay at his call to ban the very production of Bully.
It went along the lines that, whilst I was unsure of quite how Bully as a title would play or exactly what it would contain, it was not within his rights to make such demands.
If he wanted it to stop its sale in his state then he may exercise his limited legal powers to attempt to block that. If he wished to do it nationwide then that is his choice, but he has no jurisdiction outside the USA and it is arrogant and disgraceful that he should feel he has the right to inflict his own ethics on the whole world.
That really disgusted me.
I also implored him not to judge all gamers on the basis of the ones who sent him hate-mail. You know, just so he could understand the kinds of people he was really dealing with were not the minority that contacted him through the medium of complete idiocy.

Unsurprisingly, he did not respond. Perhaps this is due to the vast amount of correspondence he gets, but I'd like to put it down to the fact that he has the debating capacity, and mental age of a petulant infant.
His actions are akin specifically in this matter are simply akin to a child stamping his feet until he gets his own way. Thompson will, I have no doubt, be stamping his feet for a long time yet.

Fabulous!

 

[ríomhaire]

I sent him an e-mail once - well-structured, well-mannered and well thought out, if I do say so myself - to voice my dismay at his call to ban the very production of Bully.
It went along the lines that, whilst I was unsure of quite how Bully as a title would play or exactly what it would contain, it was not within his rights to make such demands.
If he wanted it to stop its sale in his state then he may exercise his limited legal powers to attempt to block that. If he wished to do it nationwide then that is his choice, but he has no jurisdiction outside the USA and it is arrogant and disgraceful that he should feel he has the right to inflict his own ethics on the whole world.
That really disgusted me.
I also implored him not to judge all gamers on the basis of the ones who sent him hate-mail. You know, just so he could understand the kinds of people he was really dealing with were not the minority that contacted him through the medium of complete idiocy.

Unsurprisingly, he did not respond. Perhaps this is due to the vast amount of correspondence he gets, but I'd like to put it down to the fact that he has the debating capacity, and mental age of a petulant infant.
His actions are akin specifically in this matter are simply akin to a child stamping his feet until he gets his own way. Thompson will, I have no doubt, be stamping his feet for a long time yet.

Fabulous!

ríomhaire want Thompson banned, RÍOMHAIRE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT!

 

[CptStern]

some good points el chi


we may not take him all that seriously ..but given the right opportunity normally rational parents respond well to fire and brimstone rhetoric even if it is Thompson who's spewing it. It bothers me to no end that he would drag religious concepts into this debate. That's fast becoming his method ...just a matter of time before he calls gamers "godless" or "sinners" ...that'll play well in small town america

 

[Dr. Freeman]

coward

times a 1000.
this shows that fruitcake Thompson doesn't really have anything to debate and as soon as someone steps up to challenge him, he backs away and hides behind email.

pathetic.

 

[el Chi]

just a matter of time before he calls gamers "godless" or "sinners"

Well, he wouldn't be the first, he won't be the last.

 

[Beerdude26]

Well, he wouldn't be the first, he won't be the last.

Then we shall unleash Jesuit upon him!
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