(OLD news) So-called pundits make me lose faith in humanity.

[Aridas]

If this is the best they can come up with, we're all doomed as a species.

http://gamepolitics.com/2006/11/18/bill-oreilly-slams-playstation-3-launch-gamers-ipods-tech-not-in-that-order/

[ITOS]

This is the part that I don't get:

I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They're not playing the video games. They're killing real people over there.

So does he want us to put down our games so that we can go and kill people for real or does he want us to send our games to the "jihadists"?

[Cvstos]

I wonder if that got him a World's Worst Person in the World award from Keith Olbermann for that day...

[Reese Tora]

Darn those kids and thier new-fangled phonographs/cassette players/CD players and thier darn Jazz/Rock/Hiphop/Rap music.  They'll be the downfall of the nation, mark my words.

The ravings of an old man on his porch step, disseminated via mass media.

[Aridas]

What I don't get is why he's so worked up over people playing video games instead of doing drugs...

[EvilIguana966]

O'Reilly tends to be on the correct side of the political isle, but he seems to get stuck on certain issues that he really doesn't understand.  When you are more knowledgeable about a subject he is railing against, it is often painful to listen to him.  Some of what he is saying here merits consideration, but he doesn't seem to be considering those points constructively.  Of course, he could be far worse, but he's still being far from helpful.  I do think he tries to be fair, but his biases keep him from getting there sometimes, just like they do for all of us. 

[Ryudo Lee]

Of course, he could be far worse

Yeah, he could be Jack Thompson.

[Valynth]

Okay, video games!=drugs.  For one thing video games don't have the physical chemical addiction of things like opium or alcohol.  For another, it's simply entertainment, something to get you away from the real world for awhile.  If you're gonna get on to games for that, why not get on to television?  Or art? Or movies?  Or fictional literature?

All these things were made for entertainment, to escape from reality and be happy for a few moments.

Will some abandon reality all together?  Yeah, Alonso Quixano proves that this was possible long before games were availible.

If you don't know who that is, read a freakin' book.