a quote from robin williams comes to mind.
"....people so anal even the british said "get the f--- out!""

All that and no distain for CNN for posting it? If Fox News would have aired that with that anonymous sourced quote we'd now be reading 400 comments but how biased Fox News is. Makes one wonder.....

Hahaha. Neophobia.

You would be ashamed of your porn because of the puritannical sexual values that so many people in the USA cannot seem to let go of.

If someone tells ME that they have a collection of porn, it's no big deal and I probably would not react much at all other than "...oh, that's nice...", but most Americans don't act that way.

Why can't someone call him out on his bullshit? Anyone because this is getting bad to the point of ludicrous.

what's maddening to me is that i wrote a paper researching video game legislation and i came across quotes from other politicians stating that they pass these bills with the FULL KNOWLEDGE that the bill is completely unconstitutional, and just hope the courts will 'bail them out'....all because they don't want to have the reputation as "the person who voted for violent video games".

While i personally wouldn't mind the ESRB ratings actually being enforcible by law. ie, retailers selling M or above rated games to minors should be fined or otherwise held accountable for their actions (not for the children's actions if that is the case)

Qualifying and treating all "violent" computer games as pornography however is a gross generalisation and just goes to show how badly informed politicians sometimes can be, and how far they will go to get some votes. (because, while this has been going on for a longer time, i find it mighty convenient that it is all coming to a boil in an election year)

@anele

"they pass these bills with the FULL KNOWLEDGE that the bill is completely unconstitutional, and just hope the courts will ‘bail them out’….all because they don’t want to have the reputation as “the person who voted for violent video games”."

You'd be surprised how this crap comes up at election time. They'd rather be known for voting for a bill that cost taxpayers money, than be known for voting "for mentally molesting teh childrenz"...

While video games are going to be in the political crosshair for quite some time, these laws will never get very far. There is now precident that these types of laws are unconstitutional, and the state legislatures are going to keep trying slightly changing the wording each time and the courts will strike it down, each time the precedent gets stronger and stronger eventually a law makes it to the US supreme court when it's struck down and then it's all over because it's taken so long for this process to happen that the people who are making the laws are the same people who were once gamers, such as you and me. Same story different title as Comics, Rock and Roll, women with short hair and showing their ankles, etc.

Stupid politicians

woo the media is at it again

ohh well all for ratings and nothing for responsible reporting

it makes you wonder how many more things they keep repeating is just lazy reporting

im honestly starting to question the whole global warming is humans fault.

amongs many other things the media just repeat over and over.

Politicians are just doing their job to fullfill what the US wants.

The US wants to be a puritanical, conservative society...that's completely open-minded and diverse with many lifestyles!!

And I want a cartoon show that's realistic and down to earth...that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots!!

CNN isn't above lying in any regard- they are basically a liberal fox news (albiet not as in your face hypocritical as fox).

A few months back, they did an interview with John Cena and edited it to look like he admitted to doing steroids. WWE put the unedited interview up on their site which proved CNN was deliberately doing a hatchet job.

CNN and Fox are doing well to ensure they become less and less relevant as their geezer viewers die off...with fewer and fewer younger ones watching every day.

Whatevs. It's just TV news. The only folks that rely on TV news are old white retards and fat housewives.

@ Thestripe

unfortunately, its "old white retards and fat housewives" who have the most control over what passes for ok in this country.Have u ever even looked at congress? i think 98% of them fit into that category

There has been much talk about pornography, so I am going to add onto it.

In the US, Canada, and many other countries, kids see sexual like acts, women being striped to thin bikinis, sexual talk, etc. But once you see a nipple, all hell goes loss. Kids see everything about sex other then sex itself. Society is full of hypocrites.

Balanced would have been the opinions of two childern with opposing view, or two parents with opposing views.
The natural inclination when putting forth a child/teenager as one side, and a two parents as the other is to serve as a generational divide in the report.
No uninformed adult will offer the child's opinion the same credence as that of two parents when viewing the report. Thus it's unbalanced.

A more sensible approach would have been a member of the mayor's office (not anonymously talking rubbish) and a lobbyist from the games industry.

The overall story carried a balanced message, but the interviews were your typical "kids vs. adults" slant. I realize it would be difficult to find a kid who'd say that some games are too mature for them. But they cannot find a parent who is opposed to the legislation? That one mother pretty much said, "Pass these laws so I don't have to be actively responsible for my child's entertainment choices."

Psh. It won't pass, and a few more politicians will get a kick in the teeth. Business as usual.

That's ok - yeah...
Ban the games and the Porn.

And all the while - the politicians are doing it IRL cause they rock.

Actually, there has been more 'sex talk' on the news over that %##$%^ Spitzer and this other piece of human $@$^ - the Detroit mayor.... and what else? Had that Foley guy a while back.

Who needs porn and violent video games? Just watching our politicians is like porn, really - and they wage war on anything that moves - there's your violence!

They just want us to buy THEIR PRODUCT (aka News media hype) and get away from the Games and XXX Porn - that is taking away their popularity.

How on Earth are games like porn?! Okay, you've got games like 'Leisure Suit Larry' but they have 18/AO labels, but yes, something like 'Manhunt' is equievelent to porn isn't it. Why? You kill someone! 'OH NOES! I STABBED SOMEONE! it's the same as WATCHING SOME PEOPLE SCREW EACH OTHER!' ¬¬ The government drives me NUTS with drivel like that coming out there mouths!

The thing is, though, that the mother do not need these laws passed since each and every store and retail chains, at least in the US, will card each & every child trying to buy a M-rated game. Personally, I think parents need to do some old fashioned parenting...

Gotta love the zooming in on Manhunt 2 and the cheesy "Game Over" at the end of the video...

Well...

I'd let my kids watch a porno WAY before I'd let them play Manhunt...

But generally I agree, games should be classified the same way that movies, books and music is.

"[Violent video games] can be as harmful to minors as pornography"

First of all, where are you getting this? Has it been proven? No. Quit spewing bullshit.

Second, how is pornography harmful?