Hillary Joins Holy Joe and Brownback To Resurrect the Culture Wars - Takes on "Manhunt 2"

[jefferson_dem]

Now here's some principled leadership we can all be proud of. 'Atta girl, Hillary. You go get those evil video games!

Hillary Clinton Joins Joe Lieberman To Resurrect the Culture Wars
Posted December 10, 2007 | 03:28 PM (EST)

I guess this must be one for those of us who spent the 90s wanting to throw large objects through the television set as we watched that sanctimonious, finger wagging, judgmental scold Joe Lieberman on the floor of the Senate joining with the Republicans to derail the constitution over Bill Clinton's zipper:

Senators Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Evan Bayh (D-IN), and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) called for a thorough review of the video game ratings process in the wake of "Manhunt 2" receiving a "Mature" rating. In a letter to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), the Senators detailed how the change in rating opened the door to widespread release of the game, which depicts acts of horrific violence.

Well that is just peachy. Do we suppose Hillary sat down and actually played Manhunt 2 on the campaign trail in order to arrive at this conclusion, or did she just take Joe's word for it, much like she did when she voted for the Kyl-Lieberman amendment that others have quite rightly pilloried her for? Because Joe, you'll recall, was a useful idiot for the Bushies when they discovered Iran had no nuclear weapons program and they had to find another reason to bomb them into the stone age -- something they neglected to tell the public about. And despite the fact that Clinton's excuse for voting for the AUMF was that she had "bad information" from the Bush Administration on the Iraq weapons program, she decided to trust them -- and Lieberman -- and amp up the Iran war rhetoric.

One wonders at what point she will stop following Lieberman over the cliff.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/hillary-clinton-joins-joe_b_76133.html

FULL TEXT of Hillary's presser on this pressing issue is hosted on Holy Joe's site -- http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=287809

[rinsd]

1. GK already beat you to the latest smear by assocation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3818294

[jefferson_dem]

2. Ooops. Thanks for pointing that out.

We wouldn't want any "smear by association" here on DU, would we?

[dionysus]

3. where's the smear there? she's with holy joe on this one..

[geek tragedy]

5. I don't think that's a smear.

She did sign that letter, right?

[regnaD kciN]

6. In the world of Hill's Shills...

...any inconvenient fact becomes a "smear." :eyes:

[endarkenment]

4. I am sure that slick high priced consultants

are involved in the decision making to go after this complete non-issue. Like the Fake War on Drugs Not Produced and Marketed By Big Pharma, it is Panderland, a glorious opportunity to take a STRONG STAND on an issue that nobody wants to risk opposing. It makes me very unproud to be a Democrat, to know that we stand for so little, that we have no spine, that our principles are whatever the consultants tell our candidate plays well with their focus groups.