Tag: Mark Penn
By Ben Masel, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 07:54:21 PM EST
Tags: Wisconsin, Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton, censorship, videogame censorship (all tags)
Posted on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 07:54:21 PM EST
Tags: Wisconsin, Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton, censorship, videogame censorship (all tags)
The demise of the Clinton campaign was sewn just after the 2004 election, when pollster Mark Penn sought to explain the Bush victory among so-called "values voters."
He found that uptight parents were less concerned with abortion than the idea of their kids watching "Sex in the City," "pumped into their homes" which they'd never seen, and was then only on cable, and playing "violent videogames."
The next year, Senator Clinton held a press conference with Joe Lieberman and Republican Senators Santorum and Brownback, threatening the game industry with legal restrictiopns if they didn't "clean up their act."
Clinton allies introduced State Laws, with press releases claiming "86% of 16 year old boys play 'these' games."
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