Oprah's #1 prodigy, the bald-headed freak known as Dr. Phil, is now trying to steal Jack Thompson's crusade and make it his own. What a dick! Of course, he sorta looks like one too, but let's move on. Look at what this talking head had to say on Larry King Live:
“The problem is we are programming these people as a society. You cannot tell me - common sense tells you - that if these people are playing video games where they’re on a mass killing spree in a video game, it’s glamorized on the big screen, it’s become part of the fiber of our society. You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath, or someone suffering from mental illness, add in a dose of rage, the suggestability is just too high. And we’re going to have to start dealing with that. We’re going to have to start addressing those issues and recognizing that the mass murderers of tomorrow are the children of today that are being programmed with this massive violence overdose.”
Come on Phil, there's already one crazy Jack Thompson, we don't need another. Or do we? Hmmmmm.
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2:01 PM on 04.17.2007
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My opinion of DR Phil went way down when he jumped on the Anna Nicole thing....he's nothing more than a Media whore now.
Then again.....didn't he give his whole audence Wiis?
EEdiot!
QUAXX0RS
One of his English professors today said his writings in class were strange enough for her to report on several different occasions. Maybe we should blame books for people getting shot.
Accountability seems to be America's problem. It's never bad parenting or just some fucking insane person that gets the blame. It's how media influenced their decisions. It's such bullshit.
Way to go you self-defeating dumbfuck.
What about Saddam Hussein?
Or Hitler?
He's the feel good pill for all the fat-assed middle aged women in america.
Jesus I hate fucking talk shows. I watched his show that was like a 6 month report of that girl that got kidnapped down in Jamaica(?) last year. He had the mother on was suggesting to her that her daughter had been sold into the white slave sex trade. What a fucking tool. That's reassuring, seeing covert video footage of creepy looking men scouring for your daughter in pedophillic Mexican brothels.
I'd want my kid to be dead at that point.
Dr. Phil: The creepy low-life shitscum you can turn to when you think your life can't get any worse.
It's really sad to see them attack games without having any information to back it up.
Imagine how sweet it would be if the Industry started firing back and suing these people for making false claims.
I mean really to say a game trained us to use guns is ridiculous.
STUPID ROBOT!
Banning or censhorship isn't the way to go though.
is an excuse to attack games movies etc.
back then it was demons on records...
now it's "brainwashing" on games.
God forbid they find a copy of Gears of War in
this stupid ass Korean kids house...!!!
i wish i had met him so I could have beat the shit out of him
for being a spoiled brat asshole loser college-educated
lucky to be in the US fuckhead.
those Columbine losers too!!
and ya they play crazy shit and are crazy it is not a good combination....
the only real problem in phil saying this regarding VT tragedy, is that noone knows a reason, cause, motive, history for and about the incident. So to be jumping the anti-violent media ship is way too early for this tragedy.
the guy's made me sick for years, this just makes it worse.
we could just blame it on George Bush, cause everything is his fault
haha
Hitler used to play Mario Paint... not sure about the others.
Dear Dr. Phil,
I seen you on CNN the other day talking about the recent and tragic Virginia Tech shootings. You said that video games are what made the shooter do something like this. How do you know that for sure? Have you not seen or heard about violent movies and TV shows? Heck, there has been violence even before TVs, computers, and video games. Anyway, I have been playing video games since I was five years old and you don't see me shooting or harming anyone. Please stop with the un-creditable information. You are starting to sound like Jack Thompson.
Sincerely,
Aj Collins
If you want to send him a comment, here is the link. http://www.drphil.com/plugger/respond/?plugID=9164
1. Make real-life weapons not-so-easy to pick up.
2. Celebrate.
dont forget to add
a smidge of a father thats to busy for his kids
a pinch of an alcoholic mother
a dash of pornograpy
and a heaping helping of no love.
and you got a person who will kill even if they havnt played a video in there life.
video games have nothing to do with it.
damn jerks.
AS he said--"a psychopath, a sociopath, or someone suffering from mental illness." Which means not a normal person. I know that horror movies went through the same ordeal back in the day, and they are still around. That is why there is a rating system for games...To keep them out of the hands of children. If a child has the game, maybe we should be looking at the parents instead.
So you get someone who is fucked in the head and let them kill people virtually.....wow that almost states the obvious if they are messed it doesnt matter if they read a book about killing they still might adapt and believe it to be real/ok to do. The bibel has the debil in it so that means god says killing is ok...right? Burn every piece of knowledge that man kind has ever produced about any kind of violence then we will all be safe.
Put an alcoholic in a room full of alcohol and they will drink. Put matches in the hands of a 10yr they will burn somthing, give a murder a gun theywill kill someone. Let a blind person drive, they will crash....needs I go on?
I agree but I don't even think parents shouldn't give their kids violent games. My parents just taught me correctly, I guess. They told me that this is make believe, and death is a horrific thing in real life. I've played FPS mature games all my life, starting with Wolfenstein 3D and I've never found the need to go kill someone. I haven't even been in a fight since 5th grade..
he's not calling games murder trainers, just pointing out that violent media can have an adverse effect on emotionally unstable people. i agree.
[b]That part isn't hard to believe at all. Someone who is unstable won't need much, if anything to cause them to go over the edge. The problem is, you can't single out music, or videogames as the cause of this. An unstable person could just as easily freak out over seeing a kitten, or some other harmless (non-related) object.
This sort of behavior happened long before video games came on to the scene, and will still be around if video games leave us. People are always looking for something to point the finger at when tragedy strikes, or to help us deal with the things we cannot explain. Just so happens that video games are the current scapegoat.
This will change with time, as those in office will be gamers themselves. Then this shit will cease.
"You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath, or someone suffering from mental illness, add in a dose of rage, the suggestability is just too high."
Well ... no shit. DPhil answers his own question: games don't turn normal people insane, it's just that, every once in a while, a psychopath (to use his words) gets his hands on Doom. Every once in a while, some psycho stabs someone with a butterknife, but we haven't outlawed those yet.
1. Make real-life weapons not-so-easy to pick up.
2. Celebrate."
^
Canada.
Hey I might be a bit of a sociopath, and I just got finished playing Hotel Dusk. I think I'll go solve a crime, TAKE THAT society.
Before you know it I'll be playing that Trauma Center game and saving lives. Will my reign of terror ever end?