Funny Poltical Ad
Nov 6th, 2006 by Brian A. Thomas
Check out the Wrestling ad on this page. Right after he says he is working with Hillary Clinton to limit inappropriate material (read censorship) in children’s video games he elbows the wrestler coming up behind him.
First there’s the fact there is no inappropriate material in children’s video games. There is violence and sometimes sexual content in games made for, marketed to and sold to adults but in games rated for kids you’ll have a near impossible time finding material that is “inappropriate.” It is parents who give the games to their kids, even though there is a giant, impossible to miss M on the game.
It’s odd how the liberal big government people in the media gave Republicans a hard time when the whole Janet Jackson Superbowl thing happened, and yet had the Democrats been in charge the exact same fallout would have happened. As a matter of fact, since the Democrats tend to be far more pro-censorship then Republicans they probably would have carried it further then the Republicans did. Of course, had Libertarians been in charge there probably would have been little fallout at all, probably fine for Janet due to public demand, but that would be about it.
Another odd thing is that Santorum was on the video game industry’s side just a few months before when he was one of only 3 Senator’s to stand with the game’s rating board with their educational efforts.
The funniest part of the ad however is that he just finishes talking about censoring violence out of video games and then elbows somebody. So violence is okay in political ads, but not video games?
