Confessions of an Undercover Geek

My co-worker Matt showed me this comic from PVP. It asks the question about Hillary Clinton starting making a deal about of Grand Theft Auto’s Hot Coffee sex mod coming out.

Did she not think it was Grand Theft Auto was violent before hand?

This is something I have written about in the past.

Hillary Clinton, her highness of moral excellence, announced today that she is going to be sponsoring legislation that will toughen the penalty for those who sell mature video games to minors. This is in response to the recent revelation of a mod to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, called Hot Coffee, which is a mini game containing explicit sex scenes. I think Hillary Clinton has it all wrong on this issue.

Hillary Clinton thinks that the answer to children playing Grand Theft Auto and a whole lot of other violent video games is to pass another piece of legislation. Minors have had no problems getting the game in the past why does she think that a stiffer monetary penalty is going to be much of a deterrant. If i had to guess, I bet she could care less about violent video games. She is using this oppurtunity to pander towards conservative groups to prepare for her run for the White House in 2008.

Why did she make an issue of Grand Theft Auto now? Why didn’t she make an issue of the game when it was released? Did Hillary Clinton think the game was perfectly harmless before the game mod came out? (more…)