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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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manta's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:16
manta
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.
Harknett's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:18
Harknett
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.
Alpha 87655320875's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:19
Alpha 87655320875
"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.
manta's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:19
manta
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.
Major Mustard's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:20
Major Mustard
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.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:22
Cube
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!
cbre88x's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:27
cbre88x
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.
Peronthious's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:28
Peronthious
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.
vampireblood's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:33
vampireblood
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.
AlucardX24's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:33
AlucardX24
Now this, fellas, means war.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:42
Cube
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?
lowercaseluke's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:45
lowercaseluke
That's not news. Also, why does their 'research' involve making kids play M rated games? Oh right, because the M stands for money.
metromapper's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:45
metromapper
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...
garrfunkel's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:47
garrfunkel
His face when he realises she's not entirely on his side is priceless. Also leprosy.
Peronthious's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:51
Peronthious
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.
Demios's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:52
Demios
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.
Tamz's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:52
Tamz
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.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:56
Samit Sarkar
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.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:57
Cube
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!
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:57
Cube
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!
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:57
Cube
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!
Peronthious's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 05:57
Peronthious
Samit, give it a watch; it has one of the doctors from Grand Theft Childhood, and his reactions are pretty funny.
geekjutsu's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:04
geekjutsu
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.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:05
Cube
pretty much yes, but I wanna make it fun for me by make up stupid stuff.
razerangel's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:06
razerangel
He reminds me of ghey!
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:15
ScottyG
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*)
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:23
Cube
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!
munkeex's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:28
munkeex
Losers FTW! :-D
Oolong's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:28
Oolong
Each and every one of you. Losers.
Pagster's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:30
Pagster
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 :-/
Church Of Hot Addiction's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:31
Church Of Hot Addiction
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
Nessie's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:32
Nessie
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"
animateria's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:35
animateria
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...
Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:36
Qraze
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.
misfit's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:47
misfit
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?
Killzig's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 06:54
Killzig
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.
Phoenix Gamma's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:04
Phoenix Gamma
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.
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:16
wardrox
People will be dumb.
hood_954's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:17
hood_954
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.
liquidninja's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:19
liquidninja
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.)
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:23
EternalDeathSlayer
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
Redeye's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:26
Redeye
People still watch CNN? O_o
amalgamut00's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:28
amalgamut00
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.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:29
Char Aznable
I sincerely hope that we can all pitch in and contribute to his misery, hood_954. What a pathetic hack.
DeusPayne's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:39
DeusPayne
Beck got pwnd. He must be rated M for moron. Or R for retarded. Or E for everybodygetsitbutyou.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:46
Jim Sterling
.... KENNEDY!



btw.
neist's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:47
neist
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.
Alarka's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:48
Alarka
Trolls on TV...
necrozen's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:48
necrozen
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.
plm4's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2008 07:50
plm4
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