Jack Thompson is an odious worm

[Linflas]

He is currently on Fox News tieing in the Virginia Tech shootings to computer and video games. When will the news media finally learn not to let just anyone exploit their airwaves during incidents like this to push an agenda?

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[Queasy]

Damn. I was just wondering how long it would be before we heard from this asshat.

Beat my guesstimate by a good day.

Can't believe anyone would go to him on anything anymore. Especially so soon after the incident and without all the facts known.

 

[UberNeuman]

It's Fox News.... what did you expect......

 

[Steve]

"Counterstrike:Half-Life"

 

[meltdown75]

I played Vice City for about an hour yesterday. I think I'll go jack a cop car and run some vigilante missions.

Oh yeah, I'm sane. n/m

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: UberNeuman
It's Fox News.... what did you expect......

So when a Stern caller pranked Peter Jennings and ABC news during the OJ thing you said ABC News... what did you expect...? I wouldn't be at all surprised if he is making the rounds of all the cable news programs at the moment. This is not about a particular network, it is common to all of them when incidents like this occur.

 

[JS80]

lol yea i was listening to that tool what a douche

 

[TheTony]

Nothing more than an attempt to capitalize on fear, which also happens to equal ratings for the network.

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: UberNeuman
It's Fox News.... what did you expect......

So when a Stern caller pranked Peter Jennings and ABC news during the OJ thing you said ABC News... what did you expect...? I wouldn't be at all surprised if he is making the rounds of all the cable news programs at the moment. This is not about a particular network, it is common to all of them when incidents like this occur.

Fox News called him a "school shooting expert".

 

[nakedfrog]

I can't wait until this creep is COMPLETELY discredited and no one bothers to pay attention to him any longer.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: UberNeuman
It's Fox News.... what did you expect......

So when a Stern caller pranked Peter Jennings and ABC news during the OJ thing you said ABC News... what did you expect...? I wouldn't be at all surprised if he is making the rounds of all the cable news programs at the moment. This is not about a particular network, it is common to all of them when incidents like this occur.

Fox News called him a "school shooting expert".

I guess that ranks right up there with "John Basedow, Fitness Celebrity"

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Linflas
He is currently on Fox News tieing in the Virginia Tech shootings to computer and video games. When will the news media finally learn not to let just anyone exploit their airwaves during incidents like this to push an agenda?

Never - the news media exploits the events just as much. When stuff like this happens they start covering it non-stop, airing all sorts of speculation and conjecture just so they have something to fill the time. And despite the absurd amounts of time the cable news networks spend on these stories, you still get more depth from the print media.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Like the giant walking advertisements - just don't look. Ignore his rantings and ravings. Don't even give him the credit of being mentioned in a flame-post on a blog.

- M4H

 

[yllus]

Linflas, others, please edit your posts to not use his last name - censor out a couple of letters, you get the idea.

Generally I'm trying to head an effort to make him disappear from the Internet. Join the fight!

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: yllus
Linflas, others, please edit your posts to not use his last name - censor out a couple of letters, you get the idea.

Generally I'm trying to head an effort to make him disappear from the Internet. Join the fight!

Should we try to start a "Jack Who?" movement? Might be a little tricky to do without mentioning his name, though.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Linflas
He is currently on Fox News tieing in the Virginia Tech shootings to computer and video games.

Hey, don't talk bad about the resident Republican media heros on Fox.

 

[techs]

Good Lord!
From Wiki:

Thompson first met Janet Reno in November 1975, when he applied for a job as an assistant State?s Attorney in Dade County, but was not hired...

Thompson gave Reno a letter at a campaign event requesting that she check a box to indicate whether she was homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Thompson said that Reno then put her hand on his shoulder and responded, ?I?m only interested in virile men. That?s why I?m not attracted to you.? He filed a police report accusing her of battery for touching him.
In response, Reno asked Florida governor Bob Martinez to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. The special prosecutor rejected the charge, concluding that it was ?a political ploy.? Reno was ultimately re-elected with 69% of the vote. Thompson repeated allegations that Reno was a lesbian when she was nominated as U.S. Attorney General, leading one of her supporters, lieutenant governor Buddy MacKay, to dismiss him as a ?kook.?

In 1990, after his election loss, Thompson began a campaign against the efforts of Switchboard of Miami, a social services group of which Reno was a board member. Thompson charged that the group placed ?homosexual-education tapes? in public schools. Switchboard responded by getting the Florida Supreme Court to order that he submit to a psychiatric examination. Thompson did so and passed, and since then has stated on more than one occasion that he is ?the only officially certified sane lawyer in the entire state of Florida

 

[gcy]

Florida Bar is seeking sanctions against Thompson for allegedly making false and disparaging comments about a judge and several lawyers.
Link

Can't wait till the day he get disbarred.
:disgust:

 

[manowar821]

Well that was fast. I mean, there are still bloody victims laying on hospital beds being treated, and this cvnt-rag is already trying to exploit it to further his nut-job conservative agenda?

He needs to be stoned, now.

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Linflas
He is currently on Fox News tieing in the Virginia Tech shootings to computer and video games.

Hey, don't talk bad about the resident Republican media heros on Fox.

Haha, oh I'll talk bad about the "heroes" on fox. They're pigs, and not even an hour and a half into this ordeal did I hear them start whining about violence with children and video games.

I'm THIS close ::makes motion:: to firebombing their AM1280 radio station here. I mean, if I were an extremist..

 

[Phokus]

What an a-hole. However, he's nothing compared to those super a-holes, the phelps. I can't believe they're going to picket the funerals.

 

[Termagant]

Despite how kooky Jack Thompson may be, he may be right in that violent video games and media are a bad influence.

As has been brought up in the inevitable gun control thread also on this forum. There is little correlation between gun laws and gun ownership and crime rates.

The question is why do these random killing sprees occur in the US seemingly more so than in other nations. The reason may be some unique American aggressiveness or repressed social frustration. I would say that exposure of individuals with these problems to violent media certainly does not help the situation.

I know this is an especially unpopular view on a computer nerd forum, and people will claim till the cows come home that they are not influenced by any media, but the truth is not so clear. The human subconscious is influenced and scarred by violence. I believe one of our other forum posters is a more influential and knowledgeable authority on psychology and could elaborate further.

 

[Vinnybcfc]

Originally posted by: Termagant
Despite how kooky Jack Thompson may be, he may be right in that violent video games and media are a bad influence.

As has been brought up in the inevitable gun control thread also on this forum. There is little correlation between gun laws and gun ownership and crime rates.

The question is why do these random killing sprees occur in the US seemingly more so than in other nations. The reason may be some unique American aggressiveness or repressed social frustration. I would say that exposure of individuals with these problems to violent media certainly does not help the situation.

I know this is an especially unpopular view on a computer nerd forum, and people will claim till the cows come home that they are not influenced by any media, but the truth is not so clear. The human subconscious is influenced and scarred by violence. I believe one of our other forum posters is a more influential and knowledgeable authority on psychology and could elaborate further.

Well we have the same computer games and movies in the UK so it must be because of something different like gun laws maybe

 

[Termagant]

Originally posted by: Vinnybcfc

Originally posted by: Termagant
Despite how kooky Jack Thompson may be, he may be right in that violent video games and media are a bad influence.

As has been brought up in the inevitable gun control thread also on this forum. There is little correlation between gun laws and gun ownership and crime rates.

The question is why do these random killing sprees occur in the US seemingly more so than in other nations. The reason may be some unique American aggressiveness or repressed social frustration. I would say that exposure of individuals with these problems to violent media certainly does not help the situation.

I know this is an especially unpopular view on a computer nerd forum, and people will claim till the cows come home that they are not influenced by any media, but the truth is not so clear. The human subconscious is influenced and scarred by violence. I believe one of our other forum posters is a more influential and knowledgeable authority on psychology and could elaborate further.

Well we have the same computer games and movies in the UK so it must be because of something different like gun laws maybe

I believe it's a combination of things. But with an apparent higher American prevalence of homicidal people, perhaps curtailing violent media is the correct course of action. What's good for the goose isn't good for the gander if the British can control themselves better after viewing violence.

 

[Vinnybcfc]

Originally posted by: Linflas
He is currently on Fox News tieing in the Virginia Tech shootings to computer and video games. When will the news media finally learn not to let just anyone exploit their airwaves during incidents like this to push an agenda?

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Jack trying to claim he was motivated by video games; Does he have inside information about the killer that no one else does?