Glenn Beck has clearly gotten a taste for blood, as he
continues his temporary crusade against
Grand Theft Auto -- and it WILL be temporary, as he'll get bored of it when his viewers do. Here we see him talking to Dr. Cheryl Olson, co-author of
Grand Theft Childhood, and as you can tell from his flabbergasted face, Beck seems quite disappointed that she's an expert who, for once, is NOT saying things he agrees with.
It's quite enjoyable watching him struggle to find a way to twist the argument back into the "GTA is evil" sentiment after Dr. Olson undermines his entire point. His shallow attempts to cash in on the controversy (ironic that HE's the one who says "M" stands for "Money") come to a head when he randomly, for no reason, blurts this little gem of wisdom out during the interview:
I will tell you that all these video gamers… they’re bloggers, as well as video gamers - they’re writing all kinds of stuff about me [that] I’m the enemy now of video gamers. I could care less about video games. Video game bloggers? They’re losers…
Yup, that's us. The very same bloggers you guys rely on to look trendy and cool nowadays are losers. I'm not even offended by that, actually. If Mr. Beck wants to tar an entire blogging industry with the loser-brush, that's his business. Our business, however, is posting a YouTube of his stupid ramblings so we can all get hits off it, without providing a single shred of a f*cking rating to CNN.
So suck that one down, mate.
[Thanks to Jeffrey Strike]
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Wow. I think that's the worst "news report" on video games yet. And I don't mean worst in as in "Omg game bashing with no actual facts," I mean worst as in I don't know what the fuck I just watched.
I have no idea what purpose that served. Especially Beck's rant about bloggers, it was completely out of context. wtf.
And then these people wonder why everyone under the age of 60 are getting their news from blogs and such.
Some of these CNN personalities belong on Weasel News.
"Our Lord"......not mine. I still don't understand why these people complain about this game harming "our kids", when it is in fact rated M and not for 'kids'. When I bought GTA IV I was carded. Glen Beck is a 'holier than thou' self righteous blow hole.
I'm of course excluding the fact that he mentions the AO rating, and doesn't have the slightest idea what an AO rating is, and that GTA4 doesn't have anything the would require and AO rating.
This would make his whole argument null and void. But researching topics before you talk about them on national television just doesn't seem to happen anymore.
So what we have leprosy now too?
Maybe he has a point. I only watched someone play GTA4 last week for about half an hour and imagine my surprise to wake up this morning and realise my arm had fallen off.
*end of sarcasm*
I think we've seen just about every agrument anti-videogames "crusaders" can throw at us haven't we?
Most of them can be proved wrong by one simple fact. I haven't killed anyone. I don't think I know anyone that's killed anyone but if I do it wouldn't be because of videogames. It would be because of alcohol.
ha hah parents "don't know how to opreate the controls"
Make way for the new generation of super smart bio altard super human children!
Does this mean If I was to have an annoying little breat of my own I will suddenly forget how to opreate all electonic equipment?!
oh god well there is another reason for me to put any child I may have up fro adoption as soon as possible.
Well damn my friend has a kid and he can still play hell he must not have much time left before he turns into one of them!
his kid will be smarter than him to figure out the complexty of pushing the 4 buttons on a gamepad and move d-pads and sticks.
At least it;s not mechwarrior where the is 25 + keys that must be pushed to piliot your mech that is for the next gen super human childern!
Oh man just wait until kids get to Steel Battalion and it's 20 pound controlers they will have robot bodies and theere brains will be encased in transparent jars to operate such a game!
GTA..violence is optional..no nudity (so far).
Compared to say..
God of War, where the violence is insane and there is actual nudity.
This is why I don't watch television news anymore.
I love how he reacts when she actually says something intelligent. And Cube...if I handed my mother a videogame controller, she'd probably just look at me and laugh, to say nothing for PC controls or the rest of the parents in my family.
My god that guy is such a douche bag!
I'm glad I live in Australia now, while we do get edited down video game violence, at least we don't get douche bag idiots talking about violence in video games and about video games in general when they have absolutely no idea what the fuck they are talking about.
Now this, fellas, means war.
So what you are telling is..
compared to the common controler of a game console.
the device known as the "child proof cap" created by the goverment to protect childern by being so complicated a child of certain age can not open it, yet is made for an adult to figure out with ease in goverment testing for a set amount of time.
So the adult in the same test when givin a device known as "common game controler" gives up before picking up the object letting the child win by default in it's operation?
So if an adult wanted to open a child proof cap bottle and wanted to see the contents of said bottle would be something the adult does not want the child to come in contact with.....
They would not try to operate the child proof cap and void all knowlage of it's contents and give it to the child and allow said child time to learn how to open the child proof cap and gain acesss and contect to it's contents since the adult did not know how to opreate the cap?
That's not news. Also, why does their 'research' involve making kids play M rated games? Oh right, because the M stands for money.
My question is, if video game bloggers are losers, what does that make us video game *readers?!* Or for that matter people who take the time to comment that video game bloggers are losers...
His face when he realises she's not entirely on his side is priceless. Also leprosy.
Cube.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3639/what_gamers_want_family_gamers.php
Gamasutra posted a study recently involving families with younger children, and the parents often commented on the complexity of the controls; I'm specifically referring to sections 3 and 4 of that article. As for your "child proof cap", I'm afraid that I'm having trouble seeing exactly what you're trying to get at.
I think guys like this crave attention so the best thing the online gaming community is just ignore the guys saber-rattling. He clearly thrives on this attention for ratings and posts like this.
Best let him report on other bullshit. Perhaps the 'Black Music' causing kids to shoot each other... or Iron Man fooling kids into thinking that if they cover themselves in foil they can, infact, fly.
Out of touch old guy who doesn't want to face the larger issues the US has which are actually responsible for all the bad things that have happened, instead he decides to jump on the bandwagon and point fingers at GTA.
I find it really weird that everyone keeps citing 'Picking up hookers and killing them with the baseball bat' as one of the deplorable acts in the game, every time someone mentions that I automatically think - "you haven't played the game".
The importance of video games and the continuing increase in the cultural importance of them is the biggest fear of these older generation people, they can barely keep up with the internet, throw video games into the mix and their heads will just explode.
I refuse to even watch the YouTube video. Any and all respect I had for Glenn Beck just went completely out the window — kinda like any shred of logic in his rantings.
That an adult can open a complicated for a child "child proof cap" but I guess they can't work the game controlers while there kids can.
How many of these kids are opening child proof caps!? oh my god they are super human! it's all that UV rays from the ozone layer going awyway.
Just think if they get into other things like train sets! what will the parents do they will not be able to work it and the kids will start a mini economy world wide micro shipping of ants to ant farms around the world and make millions to fund there robotic bodies!
That an adult can open a complicated for a child "child proof cap" but I guess they can't work the game controlers while there kids can.
How many of these kids are opening child proof caps!? oh my god they are super human! it's all that UV rays from the ozone layer going awyway.
Just think if they get into other things like train sets! what will the parents do they will not be able to work it and the kids will start a mini economy world wide micro shipping of ants to ant farms around the world and make millions to fund there robotic bodies!
That an adult can open a complicated for a child "child proof cap" but I guess they can't work the game controlers while there kids can.
How many of these kids are opening child proof caps!? oh my god they are super human! it's all that UV rays from the ozone layer going awyway.
Just think if they get into other things like train sets! what will the parents do they will not be able to work it and the kids will start a mini economy world wide micro shipping of ants to ant farms around the world and make millions to fund there robotic bodies!
Samit, give it a watch; it has one of the doctors from Grand Theft Childhood, and his reactions are pretty funny.
That look on his face when she contradicts him is made of so much win.
Also, I think Cube is pointing out the irony that parents can open a "child-proof" cap, but somehow wouldn't be able to operate a game controller. Thus saying that it is ridiculous that a cap that their kids cannot open is not too complex, but the parents learning to play games their children play to judge the content for themselves is too complex.
I THINK that was his point.
pretty much yes, but I wanna make it fun for me by make up stupid stuff.
He reminds me of ghey!
I got to "all these video gamers" and just couldn't be bothered listening to this tripe anymore, I wouldn't even bother giving him publicity. The "Video games are evil!" bit is wearing thin now.
Leprosy? Well that explains a few things. Rockstar shall hear from my lawyer! :( :( :(
Meh, I've seen worse reports. He was so all over the place he barely had a point - seriously? leprosy? - and what little point he did have she canceled out quite well.
She's no Tanya Byron though. (*fap* *fap *fap*)
and I must say in that article with not putting a whole lot of time in at (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3639/what_gamers_want_family_gamers.php?page=3)
At no point when then came out and I was in like pre- school or kindergrarten did I ever get the "A- button" confused with the word A and said A" sound rather than "AH" and neither did any other kids I was with so... If it was not a problem then why is the wii "A button" a threat to all children reading english text?
as this womoan states in the article.....
"An interesting example was the use of spelling in tutorials. One parent remarked, "I spend all day enunciating letters phonically to help my little girl at school, and then all my hard work is undone by the game joining up all the letters again." These kids are being taught to pronounce letters the way they sound in words rather than (as used to be the case) as abstract concepts. For example, they are taught to pronounce "a" as an "ah" rather than as an "A" sound."
What?! You know how muched I looked at the A buttons of controlers my whole life and I always knew it was the A button. Not anything else.
What are these new parents smoking? I was never taught any of this and I could tell what the correct terms are the entire time.
Apperently the super human children don't have logic chips in the robot bodies!
"You know how muched"
Yeeeeah, cube, maybe you should go back to school and learn something from those super human children.
Losers FTW! :-D
Each and every one of you. Losers.
I actually agree with some of hat he has to say. *Shock horror!*
About the way society is heading, but to pin it all on GTA 4 undermines his whole point.
Take the hip hop music scene*.Every other song is about guns,bitches and money and it has a whole scene built up around it thats based largly on bravado and violence.
Now im not saying everyone who listens to hip hop is going to join they're nearest gang and start busting caps in peoples asses, but that scene promotes violence and disrespect to women a 100 fold over the gaming scene, so why not focus on that?
I mean, most standard hip hop nowadays covers the same aspects, where as a gamer could go from playing GTA 4 to playing something as in-offensive as Parappa the rapper.
Don't think im singling out hip hop as the root of all evil but thats just one of the many things that springs to mind.
But also I'd like to point out, while flicking through the channels last night i came across (bad choice of words) a TV program about sex that left NOTHING to the imagination. Now atleast games have a rating, TV stations just think that all children magically dissapear off to bed at 9pm.
Ya know, everyday i feel a little more like mary whitehouse :-/
that lady was the smartest person ive seen talk about gta on tv....oh and he diddnt say tv was a cause of "evil"..like he did in his last crazy ass rant
LOL that really WAS out of context. I like how he looks disappointed and off to the side of the screen like "who the hell brought her in"
Cube's posts are messing with my mind!
There are so many grammatical errors, I think my mind has been broke. I think I witnessed a couple spelling errors too...
Oh GOD! Did I write properly? I'm so confused.
I wish I was joking... I'd getting dizzy...
i love that lady! she knows what's about the game and wow, glenn beck.....who is he to judge people he doesn't even know?what a jacknut.
Well...that was kinda embarassing to watch. Poor guy, making an ass out of himself while talking about a subject he clearly knew nothing about.
How come this clown is on television? Shouldn't he be handing out soft drinks on the local 7-11?
it was pretty wonderful when she brought up Luddite fears of paper back novels and 1930s gangster films. I'm going to go grab my tommy gun and blow up a train now.
Oh who cares? This is just some small little man stuck in a corner, diverting attention away from his incompetence and towards us evil gamers. He can't even remember his own introduction. I mean, I'VE never heard of this schmuck, so I know I'm certainly not blogging about him. I bet he wishes people did, just so he could be relevant.
Tell me when an educated person is talking shit, then I'll give a damn.
People will be dumb.
I like to think he's read all of the internet hate posted everywhere about him and cries himself to sleep at night, alone in his cold bed.
I didn't bother to watch his video but he clearly has seen some loser bloggers in his time. I think we all have. (Okay, maybe just me.)
Well Jim, I've never head of this guy until you mentioned him on Dtoid. So I'm going to assume that he is also a loser.
Also, he looks like a douchebag
People still watch CNN? O_o
When is there nudity? If I remember correctly all nipples are covered up. Christ if I wanted to see nudity I would rather search the Internet any way or have fun with my fiance, why would I play GTA IV?
Oh yeah and i don't beat hookers with a baseball bat, I use a knife or a pistol.
I sincerely hope that we can all pitch in and contribute to his misery, hood_954. What a pathetic hack.
Beck got pwnd. He must be rated M for moron. Or R for retarded. Or E for everybodygetsitbutyou.
.... KENNEDY!
btw.
I've given up trying to get any worthwhile information from television long ago.
As far as I'm concerned, they are all just talking heads.
Trolls on TV...
Since you made a point that makes me look stupid, I'm going to talk about myself and then attempt to insult bloggers. lol
Boy, this lady is awesome, though. Seriously, I'm glad she's out there to make good points like this.
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This douche only WISHES he was important enough to be considered the enemy of the industry.
Ironic he calls us losers when he's on TV spouting nonsensical bullshit about a topic he doesn't understand or even try to understand. Looks like I'm not watching CNN anytime soon.
@Pagster - know your history Jack Thompson before his rampage on games went after Hip Hop...but now if anyone (white) were to try and attack it they would be labeled racist.
Truth be told it is not the media that is corrupting minds it is the lack of attention paid to children by their parents.
Cheryl Olson needs to go on more of these shows. She does a excellent job providing a reasonable voice to the debate. I'd love to see a well moderated discussion between her and Jacko on the subject.
Man that was good
-"Parents need to talk to their kids about these games"
-"Uhhh... umm... You know, umm, bloggers all play games and bloggers are losers because they hate me because I hate games so I hate them isn't that funny?!"
You know, I barely even paid attention to his rant on video games. I was much more focused on the fact that he blames Television, Magazines, and everything else in out society for making our society bad.
Yes, let's all go back to being farmers and playing with hoops and sticks. Because nobody was ever violent or depraved before those evil, evil MASHEENS were invented.
I wouldn't sweat it, it's not like this guy has any credibility anyways.
I thought Glenn Beck was a blustering moron before it was cool. Seriously, between Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Nancy Grace (I assume all of these were brought on to CNN to try and win back viewers from FOX News), it just makes you want to punch yourself in the face in despair at what we are calling news these days.
she didnt knew what face to put in light of the sarcasm of that guy.
We are all loosers people, deal with it.
people give Fox News a lot of shit, which it deserves most of the time, but i think the larger problem isn't Fox specifically, but 24-hour news networks in general, evidenced by this latest stunt by CNN. think about it; they run "news" for 24 hours every day and most of the time, there isn't really that much true news anyway. therefore, they have to sensationalize, repeat and beat to death every scrap of loosely defined news that they catch wind of to compete with each other. and what do they do the rest of the time? they air opinion shows and one-sided interviews with panels of "experts" to fill the gaps. that's why i don't watch CNN, Fox, MSNBC or any of the 24-hour networks. it's the same shit repeated ad nauseum, spun to the point of ridiculousness and it's a complete waste of my time.
Nice journalistic aside he creates for himself there. I think I almost understood the link for a second. When faced with adversity the best action is ranting about the way you wish the news segment was progressing, and throwing in leprosy for good measure.
Also @Pagster. I think you're oversimplifying things if you want to blame some media for the 'downfall of society'. Whats your solution?? Have the government regulate everything?? It falls back on individuals, and the necessity to educate your children and be honest with them.
I work in an emergency department, I see the kids who are going to be criminals one day, and I dont pick them by the GTA 4 shirt on their back, or the rap music playing on their brothers ipod. It's the way their parents dont interact with them, or look blasted out on crack, or the fact the kids presenting with the third fracture in 2 years from another 'fall down the stairs'. These parents are the people fucking up (y)our society, not hip hop and not videogames.
What a Douche. Name calling? I don't think I'm watching CNN anymore, already quit watching Fox News...
You have to love after he figured out she wasn't going to be led on by his questions he just started completely disregarding her.
My roommate and I were watching this last night and when he asked her "well isn't the game teaching kids to find prostitutes?" And she answered "well most kids say they never knew about them, you don't need them to 'win' the game" was awesome.
Pnwed indeed.
I thought she did a fine job, especially considering the title of her book. I am sure Beck brought her on because of that and was mistaken.
this guy is such an uber-tool.
see how he just looks away while she's giving a response that he's not looking for. man, fuck this dude.
@Pagster
Sorry, but as an educator, I gotta agree with BlackSunEmpire on this one. I've seen to many kids with bad tendencies, with parents who don't know how to raise their kid. I've got parents who believe their child can do no wrong (thus no punishment), another whos dad treats his mom like crap (he shows me a little respect for being male, but he constantly fights the female teachers), another whos mom blames us for his not doing home work (she wants us to bribe him with our money), and the list gos on and on.
Parents have the greatest impact on a child's development. Besides, every kid I talk to has already played GTA in some form (beyond GTAIII).
This is funny. This guy is a wanker. We shouldn't be dignifying him with a response.
Who the fuck is this idiot.
Jesus H Christ, this guy is an absolute moron and his behaviour throughout the interview towards the woman who is being interviewed is terrible.
Wow, I guess America really is a land of opportunity if a total waste of skin like this can get a slot on the telebox for a major network.
i just love that he clearly had no idea what was in cheryl olsens book and merely assumed from the title that it would support his viewpoint. And attacking people who disagree with his viewpoint by calling them names? Seriously? How is this man still in employment? This guy is a total dinosaur, and not the cool kind like velociraptors or stegosaurs but the creepy pedo kind like barney.
The very first thing he says is "nudity"... I've played the whole game through and have yet to see a nipple.
the NEW Jacko!!!