I posted a rather long article about this controversy on August 24, 2005. I had originally set out to write a brief commentary, but while I was perusing numerous regurgitations of the newswire, checking my facts and quotations (as I slowly came to the realization that I wasn't really all that shocked or outraged), I began to sense this groundswell of massive wrath, judgment and condemnation, so I decided to simply report that instead.
I also posted that article over at Blogcritics where the tedium of a discussion in which almost everyone was in agreement about the offensiveness of Reverend Robertson's latest foot-in-mouth moment was only broken when commenters began drifting off-topic.
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Article comments
1 - John Bill
Thats the whole point. Pat and his ilk are always making a big deal over minor things like video games. So I say pay back is a mother.
2 - Margaret Romao Toigo
Indeed, payback is a mother. But it isn't really necessary as the Reverend's credibility (and that of those people and groups with whom he is frequently associated) sinks a little more with every over-the-top remark he makes.
3 - Mark the Sane and Sensible
And your credibility, Ms. Toigo, sinks even further when you continue to attack benign and harmless targets who don't deserve the scruntiny you accord them. An offhand remark on a TV show is blown up into a cause celebre by muckrakers like you who have some twisted agenda against American religious leaders.
4 - Mark the Sane and Sensible
John Bill: Obviously, you aren't a parent, because many current video games are NOT "minor things" in the hands of children. You need to adopt a broader perspective on the impact of sex and violent content in certain video games.