This isn’t the first time Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro has name-checked video games in a rant meant to inflame people scared of any change to gun ownership rights. But this weekend, Pirro’s comments were made from the NRA’s bully pulpit.
https://lastchance.cc/fox-news-hosts-guns-vs-video-games-argument-doesnt-mak-5981501%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
An address at the NRA Annual Meetings—reported on by Raw Story— Pirro said the following:
How dare you compare me to a nutjob on the lunatic fringe in desperate need of medication doing nothing but watching Hollywood’s blood-soaked movies and playing the liberal Hollywood’s violent video games for days at a time…
Now, these remarks channel real anger. (They’re at 04:20.) But Pirro misses the mark by assuming that video games are made by the Hollywood studio system and assuming a political bent on behalf of the companies that make them. It seems like like her call-out is just another bullet point to be ticked off a list without ever really understanding the thing she attacks.
[Via Raw Story]
(Thanks, tipster mr_raccoon!)
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