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Former First (although certainly not his last…) Lady and current New York senator Hilary Clinton has waded into the ongoing GTA debate on the side of right-wing America, calling the game a “major threat” to morality. According to the Sunday Times, she wants a $90m investigation to be launched to study the effects of violent games on children.
In a statement made on the issue, Senator Clinton said that she was concerned that children were playing games that “encourage them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them” going on state that there is a “silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it’s okay to diss people because they are a woman, they’re a different colour of they’re form a different place.” Good use of the word “diss” Hils.
All of this may seem a little out of character to those of us who know Mrs Clinton as a steely yet seemingly balanced individual, certainly when compared to loons like Tipper Gore and Lynne Cheney but it’s been noted recently that she has been taking an increasingly right-wing stance on domestic issues. With the Democratic presidential candidacy for 2008 firmly in her sights, Hilary has been trying to win traditionally Republican hearts by aligning herself politically with right-sided senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum and by taking a hard(er)-line approach to issues such as violence in the media. It would seem that these days, GTA is just another political tick-box to…erm…tick.
But here at Pro-G we’re not too cynical about things like this. We fully expect HC to come out next week and criticise lax gun-ownership laws in America and the increased culture of fear that news stations seem intent on creating – right after Rockstar stop marketing an ostensibly adult product to children.
