"Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hit man or a video gamer."

Well isn't that interesting?  I guess Jack "McCarthy" Thompson may have a point---never in the course of human events has a man shot another in the face unless the shooter was a hit man or a video gamer.  My apologies, not only for the inherent sexism of the previous sentence, but to those here who are fans or at least apologists of McCarthy; I'm certain that in his favor there were communist elements in the US, but that the opportunist got carried away with his crusade and communism only became a red herring as he became corrupted by power.  Thompson apologists could do the same---there are elements of video gaming that are bad, and I'm not just talking about THQ games.  Even so, just as there was "Good Night, and Good Luck," I wonder what future movie will depict the brave IGN article writers (I refuse to call them reporters).  "A Winner is You," perhaps?

- Source:  http://ds.ign.com/articles/711/711312p1.html

Now that Jack Thompson doesn't post on the internet anymore, the only people who should be upset about what he says are the obsessed at GamePolitics.

Or a paintballer. Or a squirtgunner. Or a rubberbander. Or, if you wanna go down a certain road (I don't), an enlistee.

Or back in the day before video games, my sixth-grade teacher liked to tell this story where he got one of the neighbookhood kids in the eye with a blunt arrow during a game of Cowboys and Indians. Guess I should report the filthy hitman to the Feds, huh?

Here's a good corollary to the above statement: "Nobody talks out their ass unless they want votes or attention."

Jack Thompson is a self-hating gamer. Yeah, he says all this stuff but I just know he's a Tetris addict or something. Then he hates himself himself for playing and slices himself with razor blades.

Jack Thompson naked, except for his stained y-fronts, blood streaming from his chest and a dirty razor blade lying on the bathroom beside his old first generation gameboy.

In the mirror we can see that across his chest it reads - GAMER.

Times like this... make me wish I could draw.

READING JUNKIE, rather

Here's some more b.s. from Thompson.

http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=2659

Don't forget bukkake!

Look...the kid was an 'a-hole'...plane and simple...a mistake on the human race, let's move on...

Jack Thompson, is all about personal gain, is anyone taking him seriously?

http://jackthompsonisadouche.ytmnd.com/

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I hope not anymore.

That was one of the most downright enjoyable things I've seen all week.
The Price is Right theme ROCKS!

...or they're drunk.

[joking] I bet you Jack Thompson or someone close to him was vicitimized by a gamer...and that's why he's so traumatized by them.

If he's enough of a crazy hypocrite, he's going to grab a gun and start the purge us video-gamers!

In Soviet Russia, gunners get shot! [/joking]

Or he really is just an attention-whoring, vote-grabbing drunken whore.

Well, at least he thinks they're art!

Yeah, I noticed that too.
Kinda ironic that one of the biggest opponents of Video Games is one of the few non-gaming entities that acknowledges games as art.

Why hasn't this guy been parodied on South Park yet?