Your Tax Dollars at Work

As usual, popular culture/media is being scapegoated for the failures of proper parenting. The John Stewart clip sort of points that out, in a funny way no less.

Let's see, wasn't it music a few years ago? And then wasn't it comic books, and television, and radio even further back?

It's kind of sad seeing these "experts" giving some pretty silly explanations (probably stuff they pulled out of their booty). I liked how some of those congressmen said they were "gamers", and then mentions Pong, or "knowing enough about the game" for Civilization 4 (no doubt he just saw it was a contemporary game, and decided to just throw that out there).

I also loved the Congressman saying "suburban kids can play games okay, but kids in the ghetto might be influenced by that stuff", but conveniently leaves out the Columbine incident, which, if I recall, consisted of 2 suburban kids?

I wonder what "dead hooker" they'll use next to place blame on, probably virtual reality or robots next lol.

I'm sure millions of people have grown up with games, and have turned out pretty decent overall in society/life. Yes, there's those whacko nut cases like Columbine unfortunately, but then again, drinking kills more people than video games, last I checked. And the vast majority of people I know that drink are still pretty decent people overall (although yes, there are the "bad" cases there as well). And then there's that "neglecting your child" thing too that some of these people seem to overlook (the abusive/neglective parents aren't to blame, it must be video games' fault why the kid became a criminal!)

Jam it back in, in the dark.