Jon Stewart the other night did a piece on the absurdity of congress debating yet again the influence of violent video games, concluding that the House of Representatives is comprised largely of "insane jackasses."
I found on You Tube a clip Stewart showed of Pennsylvania Republican Joseph Pitts pontificating on which kids are most likely to be influenced by video games. Check it out here.
Pitts says, "A wealthy kid from the suburbs can play Grand Theft Auto or similar games without turning to a life of crime but a poor kid who lives in an area where people really do steal cars or deal drugs or shoot cops might not be so fortunate." (!)
I dug around on the web a bit and couldn't find record of anybody calling Pitts out for his racism and classism. Found very little reportage, in fact, of folks calling Pitts and company out for wasting tax dollars talking about video games. The party of small government...ha! And only a few days after deciding to raise their own salaries while NOT raising the minimum wage.
When I was a boy (do ya like my grumpy old man voice?) it was hours and hours of inane talk on the congress floor about Ozzy Osborne records. Luckily John Denver (rip), Dee Snider, and Zappa (rip) set them straight. Who will step up? South Park will skewer on the telly but we need disparate (Denver and Zappa side by side...what a sight) voices to hit the capital.
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