Brilliant Idea: Make A Video Game Where Kids Can Shoot Presidential Candidates!
The idiocy never ceases to amaze me.
From The Smoking Gun:
JANUARY 22–For the aspiring young assassin, a popular online games site offers kids the opportunity to assume the identity of a leading presidential contender and then shoot their political opponents in a series of armed confrontations in the White House.
While the ammo is paintball, the game on the highly trafficked miniclip.com site allows kids to train a rifle scope on six presidential aspirants and squeeze off a hail of shots (which are accompanied with a rat-a-tat sound). The game, “Presidential Paintball,” features six candidates in the crosshairs: Barack Obama; Hillary Clinton; John Edwards; Mitt Romney; John McCain; and Rudy Giuliani (it seems the game was developed before the ascension of Mike Huckabee).
If a candidate wins a head-to-head confrontation, he/she advances to a new shootout, which occurs in various White House settings, including outside the Oval Office. When a candidate gets blown away, bloodlessly, a screen appears noting that they have been “eliminated,” not killed.
To better direct a fusillade, young gunmen can use their computer’s mouse to place a crosshairs on a candidate’s head or body.
Of course, the imagery of Obama and Clinton, both of whom have been the target of threats and receive Secret Service protection, being targeted in such a manner–by children, no less–might be seen as troubling in some quarters.
No? Ya think so?
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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pmI’m down for shooting Hillary, Obama, or Edwards.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 pmI just went and played it..it was fun being Mitt Romney and playing paintball against Hillary Clinton. Just seemed like a paint ball game to me.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm