FOX ....the Jerry Springer of the news world. Jacks just the comedic relief.

Look on the bright side. When the older generation of conservatives that Fox news caters to are no longer around, Fox news will either probably cease to exist because no one from this generation will watch them, or they will start raving about how great games are to cater to the masses. In the meantime, if you get bored one day, make a list of the companies that advertise on Fox News and write them a letter explaining why you are boycoitting their products.

I though you weren't gonna post this?

He's a lawyer for not much longer

@Untouchable

Then he becomes a "First amendment Expert"

Wow. Well, what can you expect from a network who puts Ann Coulter on with a caption that says anything other than "Professional Troll".

Wish I could get Fox over here - we don't have enough good comedy channels.

Apparently the first amendment only applies to JT, and doesn't apply to video game developers, GP, or anyone who disagrees with him.

There's a reason I don't trust Fox anymore.

Apparently the expertise they want in the first amendment is how to suppress it.

I can't find the video.

GP: yeah, sorry about that. Looks like Fox  moved it...

Um... pardon me Dennis, but exactly WHY did you fold to that 'demand' of his and actually post this matter unrelated to games? I mean, i'm not gonna whine about it, but i just figured that was reason enough not to post it. That's all.

He's a first amendment attorney.

He's just fighting to protect his own first amendment rights.

This isn't the first time he's been given the title "First Amendment Expert" or anything similar.

But, based on his own comments during his Bar trial and a great many interviews, John Bruce is actually an "expert" in the "John Bruce 'Jack' Thompson First Amendment" which states he is free to speak whatever he wants, usually false statements, and everyone else must only speak what HE approves of. Everyone else must go to prison for opposing him.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

The Mouths of the world are laughing at you America.

Just goes to show what Jack Thompson will paste onto his mugshot for the idiots of the world on Fox News. All I can say, he's not an expert on the First Amendment. Here's the Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

What he's doing is distorting this Amendment and I won't take it. Too many people have payed with their lives for his freedom and he's distorting it. All I can say is no, no, NO!

Nigthwing's right. This isn't the first time Jack's passed himself off as a "First Amendment Attorney" when he's anything but an expert on the First Amendment. This is not news.

Davcube also has a point. Why did you give into this dickwad's demands, Dennis as he chided you for not covering this story last week? You're only giving this ass the attention he wants.

GP: you miss the point, my friend. I have no interest in the his Fox appearance for its own sake. I just thought that the picture was priceless and a good feature for April 1st...

You misunderstand guys and gals...

Thats not the American First Amendment but FOX's..


FOX's first amendment:
"Be proud and turn and bend news to your advantage regardless if its fact, videogames are thy enemy and must be smitten in every way possible"

So yeah, following that JT is labeled correctly

Actually, I am an expert in the First Amendment. What truly is hilarious is the suggestion that Dennis McCauley is a \"journalist.\"

Jack Thompson, First Amendment Expert

We can only hope they accidentally left off "anti-" before the caption.

@Jack Thompson, Attorney:

I wouldn't call a long and storied history of complete and utter failed attemps to censor speech "expertise." Seems to me, on your track record, that you're "clueless" about the First Amendment.

@Jack Thompson, Attorney

Your complete and utter lack of respect for your rivals/competition destroys what very little credibility you have left in the last few days of your ending career.

As an offended, working, sane, respectable gamer (who loves violent games and absolutly oppose the selling of violent games to underaged customers) by your actions ; please save yourself and apologize to the bar for all the strains you have sinked it into to gain some time, really.

P.S.: With all due respect, I humbly ask you not to sue me for diffamation. I might be canadian, but the way I figure it, I can hide behind the First Amendment, LIKE FOX SEEMS TO BE GRANTING YOU.

Thank you, have a nice day, and quit please.

An angry red-headed secretary and gamer.

You should add "Criminal Conspiracy Expert" and "Forged Loyalty Oath Expert" to your resume.

@Jack Thompson:

The Ol' Bill o' Rights has withstood attack from many like -- and better than -- you. Wanna bet it'll be around long after you're gone?

And that's Bill o' Rights. Not Bill O'Reilly. You do understand the difference, don't you, Jack?

@JDKJ

I doubt he understands that difference. I mean, holy crap that's a real post. Can anyone link to the vid? I wanna see this for myself.

John Bruce,
Whether that was you or not, you are as much an "expert" in the First Amendment, school shootings, or even the law as Fred Phelps is an "expert" in sexuality.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

@ Jack Thompson, Soon-To-Be-Disbarred Attorney

Aww Jack. ::pats head:: There, there now. You're just pissy 'cause Dennis exposed you for the vindictive asshole you are now, isn't it? Here, have a cookie. Now go back and sulk in your corner.

Non vidja gaem related.... on FOX NEWS? OMGWTF! O_O

OH_Cool. I wanna be a "first amendment attorney" too. How many cereal boxtops do I have to send in?

@Nekowolf

*Nekowolf crawls into a corner, dies, and implodes, just to get away from reality*

Oh, my God! Jack killed Nekowolf! THAT BASTARD!!!

@Jack Thompson:

You look haggard, Jack. Are the conspirators wearing on you?

Lemme stop laughing for a minute to get in a proper reply...

Good one Dennis :)

I just had an evil thought. What if we put ol' JT in the same room as Keith Olberman?

[...] Jack Thompson is still awaiting a decision that may or may not result in disbarment.  Game Politics has procured transcripts of testimony from Jack’s misconduct trial despite threats to sue the site.  The transcripts offer a keen insight into the pundit who still is able to provide “expert analysis” on Fox news. [...]

”First Amendment Attorney”? Who's First Amendment does this guy actually care about? No one but his own, that's who's. At every turn Jack Thompson seems to wish to halt anyone and everyone's first amendment right if he does not agree with him, but then when he's not tolerated being the complete asshole that he is, he not only claims that people are stepping on his first amendment right but that they're also doing it because of his religion. What a crock of shit! Jack Thompson you are such a worthless scumbag.

@John Bruce "Diddlekins" Thompson

Your comment made me lawl.
If you are a first amendment attorney, then I am an Astroturf muffin.

Time to give Jay Tee a separate column on GP. He's about to lose his job, we need to take care of him.

@Jack Thompson, Attorney at lol

As someone who has received an "Art Censor of the Year" award, the only thing you are an expert at with respect to the First Amendment is undermining it. You cannot just reinterpret it or ignore it when convenient.

@Jack again

Addendum:
After you get disbarred, are you going to be here more often? I mean, how else are you going to waste all that extra time you'll have when you can no longer waste it on lawyer-in-name-only activities?

Ah, of course! Raising the flag is protected speech, because it's patriotic, and God loves patriots. So he would defend that kind of free speech.

Remember, folks. The only free speech worth protecting is the kind you agree with. :P

Between this incident, Bill o Reily calling everyone a nazi, and the idiots on Fox and Friends, I must say that is the stupidest network to get your news from.

@Jack Thompson

You're an expert at attempting to avoid keeping to the First Amendment, that's about it.

Haha! I wholeheartedly approve of this offbeat April 1st post. Though, admittedly, GP doesn't need my approval for posting anything. He needs -Thompson's-.

--Majeen "Hryuu"

@JT:

OK, since you're a First Amendment expert, answer me this question:

WITH SPECIFICITY how is the MA bill on video games constitutional? Don't forget the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments in your explanation.

It's not FAUX news, it's FIX news. Get it right, guys.

The underlying concept seems to parallel English classes. The idea is that before you can break the rules, you have to learn the rules. :)

At least we know what his new job is going to be...

Is this the coverage he was crying about you not covering? The non-game related one?

I love you Faux News!

@Jack Thompson

if you know shit about shit regarding the first amendment, how come ALL your bills you authored were shot down on first amendment grounds.

[...] GamePolitics pokes fun at FOXnews for something that’s a real joke, but not in the April Fool’s Day sense… [...]

C'mon, GP, seriously you're fucking with us.

Seriously, its not funny.

Admit its a prank...

Please?

:'(

@Jack Thompson, Attorney

Just because FOX News says it doesn't make it true.

Food for thought: MSNBC and CNN no longer want to have you on their shows.

I should sue fox for blatant use of a zippyisim.....

ummm gp you left the door open again

@JackDon'tKnowJack

Just read that article. Wow, he really does know nothing about journalism, infact i think he knows more about writing a biography that he knows about a news report. (FYI, showed an excerpt of his book to a teacher friend of mine, and she asked what grade level he was, when I told her that he was a lawyer, she just shook her head and sighed.)

I know I havn't posted here for a while, I decided to make a comeback post.

Here it is, MR.B's second by second disection of the video from the Fox News website.

03:42 Host E.D. introduces John Bruce as a first admendment attorney and someone who is familiar with that road in the story.

03:22 John Bruce mentions that there is a strip club on that road called "Tootsies". Then he says, "There are thing going on in that would embarass Eliot Spitzer" (one day he's complimenting Eliot Spitzer, the next day he's slaming him).

03:15 He says that the city fathers should cover the strippers in "Tootsies" with American flags from the car dealership. My question is, is covering nudie dancers with American flags would be disrespectful of the American flag? His statement raises many questions.

03:08 to 03:03 What does being pratriotic have to do with invading Canada Jack?

02:05 "Let me explain the consitution to the city fathers," oh no, typical John Bruce rant up ahead.

01:38 to 01:20 (cue Fox News stock footage a American flags and various pratiotic images while John Bruce is talking about the US solders dying overseas)

01:05 to 00:54 John Bruce says, "And when government starts geting into the motivation of speech uh, and to regulate that and as to regulate speech itself and well you get gosteping bridgades that I think that everyone should aught to be concerned about". After review those nine seconds over and over, my jaw fell though the floor. That one statement completys underminds his crusade against the game biz for the past 15 so years. WOW, I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HE SAID THAT! Those nine seconds can possibly make a awesome Penny Arcade comic strip. I'm still in shock. (P.S. Thanks for posting this great story Dennis)

00:40 Jack says that he will be attending the next city commision meeting of Hollywood representing said auto dealer.

I forgot to mention that the videos on the fox news website can be rated from one to five stars (sort of like amazon.com). So when you guys head over to fox news, be sure that you give the "Cooper Lawrence" treatment to the videos that Jack Thompson is in :)

@LurkerX

Freedom Fighter? He's trying to ban games under the delusion that he's trying to prevent school shootings! How the hell is he a Freedom Fighter?

I dont understand why these laws dont work.

Because its is so readily apparent that eliminating the sale of pornography to youths has so successfully dropped the rise of STI's and Teen pregnacy

its just common sense to apply the same approach to games to cause the elimination violence in youth.....

The fact that as videogames popularity had increased exponentionally since the early 90's violent crime in youth dropping in the same period is just the game lobbiest paying for the national census to allow them to peddle thier smut to our children..

*Looks at pic up top*

Ha.. haha... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

*expert

@Unbiased

i think you have an extra "Un" in your handle.

@ unbiased

FLAME ON!!!!

Just a note..

It says First Amendment Attorney. It doesn't say 'for' or 'against'.

@Unbiased

Pardon?? I've been reading GP for years, I'm pretty comfortable with the assertion that if GP has a "wack liberal agenda" they've done a poor job of communicating it, because I don't personally have any idea what that could be.

It's not like Dennis milks the site for donation money. True, I haven't always agreed with the things he says/reports, but that's natural. I swear at the nightly national news to.

So maybe you could illuminate what us as to what GP's wack liberal agenda is??? I see no reason not to take him at his word when says it's not content related and he just posted it for laughs. You have to admit, airing "first amendment attorney" underneath Jack Thompson is just asking for it. That's about three inches short of full-blown satire.

@Unbiased:

How is it false? Did he force his way onto the network against their permission?

sorry Jack, the First Amendment does not grant you the right to infringe on the First Amendment rights of others.

@ Mr B

I lol'ed at the part about the strip club. "There are things going on in there that would embarrass Eliot Spitzer?" Gee, how would he know that, hmm? ;)

I've long suspected a guy like Jack would have some major skeletons in his closet. People who go around making themselves to be so self-righteous like that usually do (to wit, Spitzer as well as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard). Wouldn't surprise me if he partook of more than a few lap dances. Maybe his signature ought to be, "Jack Thompson, Miami Strip Club Patron" ;)

C'mon, Jack. There's no shame in that. Some of my friends in fact are strippers and porn stars! :)

"Jack Thompson: First Amendment Lawyer" is almost as ridiculous as "Mass Effect: 'Se'xbox." Both of which come from Fox... Interesting coincidence, huh?

But honestly if I worked at Fox *Shudders at the thought* I'd switch that to "Jack Thompson: Soon to be disbarred 'lawyer.'"

Jack Thompson saying he's a First Amendment expert is like me saying I'm a liver expert. I know what the liver is and what it does, but I really don't have much of a clue on how it works.

This is why I boycott ALL News Corp products.

jack is his own year 'round april fools joke.

I'm just itching to hear "April Fools" Because I just died on the inside...

And the winner for biggest oxymoron of the year goes to

Fox News.

Consequently the winner for the weakest excuse for 'journalism' award also goes to Fox News.

[...] - Jack Thompson now wants to defend the First Amendment?  Jeez Jack, don’t you sound stupid enough already?  (GamePolitics) [...]

Sorry, in my first sentence replace the word footage with picture.

"Actually, I am an expert in the First Amendment."

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Best laugh all day. Too bad I didn't get to play any April Fools jokes this good.

I guess Jack must have some inkling of what the first amendment is, seeing as how he tries to suppress it every other day. In all seriousness, though, is it legal for them to represent Jack as a lawyer when his status as one is questionable?


@unbiased

Fine. Let's go to la la land and pretend for a moment that you're right. Then so what? It's the internet. The best thing about it is the freedom to spew whatever you wish. If we are such whack liberals, there's thousands upon thousands of other things you could be doing than wasting your time here. But you might simply be just a hit and run poster, so who cares anyway?

....Ok, very funny Dennis. Jokes over....Wait, its NOT an April Fools joke? AHH!!! *jumps out a 2 story window*

Jack Thompson: First Amendment Expert. Now I've seen it all--he's an expert on violating it, that's for sure.

In truth, Jack is an expert on narcissism. If he thought it would get 2 minutes on television, he would be an expert on girls' shoes, or or garden clubs, or sponges, or moons over Miami. His greatest expertise, in my opinion after being subjected to his endless press releases, ravings, idle threats, and bullshit is: self-destruction. He's a master at that. Just watch him go up in flames and burn out, and wait for his ashes to blow away in the Miami breeze.

@Ebonheart

I've always been partial to "newstainment" ;)

I think there's something that everyone is missing in this discussion, nowhere does it say that they're talking about american consititutional law.

They use the term "First Amendment" without context & you all presume its the freedom of speech thing but I think it's more likely that he's an expert at the first amendment to the thursday breakfast menu at the international house of pancakes. You know, where they put pineapple fritters & bacon on the menu...

What picture? There is no picture in this post.

@Jack Thompson, First Amendment Expert:

Rule 4-7.2 of the Florida Rules of Conduct states:

A lawyer shall not state or imply that the lawyer is "certified," "board certified," a "specialist," or an "expert" except one who complies with the Florida Bar's certification plan or is so certified by an organization other than the Florida Bar or by another state bar.

You may want to consider the possibility that claiming you are an expert in First Amendment law is a violation of Rule 4-7.2. Unless, of course, you are in fact the proud holder of board certification as a First Amendment expert by a qualifying organization. Or do you think a "free speech" defense will get you off the hook?

Did you know that if you type "souless republican whore" into Google, Ann Coulter comes up? Sweet!

Oh Faux News, your candor and view of the world never gets old.

Oh wait, yeah it does.

Later on tonight, I'll try to write up a word for word and second by second transript for people who can't access the video (being outside the US, low speed internet connections).

@ RB

But if you put in "Ladies from hell" in the wikipedia search, the fourth one down is Hillary Clinton. An no, that wasn't what I was looking for, was after information of a Scottish Brigade.

@ metroidprimegmr
Those "/" are a good sign of someone (ab)using a proxy, which people online have been using forages....

these guy should make standup comedy,seriously .
Wouldnt it be Ironic if he was a succes and hes main public were gamers? comon we all have fun ,and not with him.

@Evilninja

Now that you mention it, that is funny.

DAMN YOU FOX! DAMN YOU!

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