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Fox News Lies, Makes Stuff Up

Uros "2Lions" Jojic

02:59 am EDT @ January 22nd, 2008

Filed under: FOX NEWS, MASS EFFECT, SEX

In what has to be one of the most erroneous, malevolent and downright sinister reports on a video game I have ever seen, the pure evil which is Fox News calls the Xbox "SeXbox" in relation to supposed "full digital character nudity" in Mass Effect.

Now those of you who have actually played the game (unlike anyone at Fox News, or the "experts" they brought in to slam Mass Effect) will know that the "sex scene" in Mass Effect is about as graphic as "sex scenes" in the Humphrey Bogart classic, "Casablanca."

You can see this truly despicable report here:

But, moving on, if Fox News is able to lie THIS much about something as ultimately trivial as video games, can you only imagine how much they lie about wars -- where people die, where children die and lives are ruined and lost. Is the absurdity of all of this sinking in yet?

And they say Hitler didn't leave a legacy in this world. Like hell he didn't.

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	Vader	[STAFF] Jan 22 2008, 03:06 am EST
	Reply My semi-senile-at-death's-door-video-game-hating grandmother is more objective than these guys.

	SubForce	Jan 22 2008, 03:17 am EST
	Reply Damn it all. I am a 42 year old male who enjoys gaming. My son also enjoys gaming and it is something that we hsare opinions on. What is a good game, what makes it good and so on. We play many of the same games and to have some pompous, arrogant assfuck tell me what I should have in my house is beyond the pall. If you don't like it, don't buy it. I do watch what my son plays and do offer my opinion as well as his mother. There is no need for 3rd party intervention here. You really don't know what is good for me or my family so they should keep their own 17th century opinioins to themselves. BTW, their own news report SHOWED the offending scenes they seem to be worried about. Digital is bad but Foxnews plastering pictures of the mayor of a town in only her underwear is just fine. Huh??? Sorry for the rant. I am all for good parenting, but I am fully capable of making the decisions for my own children. Not every adult or child wants to play the 15th iteration of mario brothers their whole life.
	Corpse Grinder: Well said Schnitzel_Bob: Hey, I agree, but Mario Galaxy is great.

	Neil	Jan 22 2008, 03:26 am EST
	Reply Living in the UK, during the Iraq invasion we watched Fox with our jaws on the ground due to the nonsense they put out suposedly as 'news'. And the anti-French stance they took was pretty scary to be honest - shame so many American bought into it :/

	Verita$Aqetas	Jan 22 2008, 03:37 am EST
	Reply It only goes to show you that fox news really is just full of shit. That one lady on there saying she only cared about data with that horrible smile on her face. Poor fude from spike shouldn't even have wasted his time talking to that closesd minded bitch. And as far as kids playing video games alione being dangerous?! cooomeee on, Id rather a kid playing a video game then with a real gun etc. Jeez. USA needs to loosen up about sex and video games. I mean look at Japan, the amount of rpg love games that fill the selves there would give that lady a fucking heart attack. (then again, Japan does have tentical porn, which is kinda freaky)

	eph	Jan 22 2008, 03:37 am EST
	Reply Hitler did leave a legacy. He didn't wipe out your slavic race, and as a result, your piece of shit race has spread accross the globe. Go back to your hellhole of a country, pig farmer.
	Tricky_Fingers: We prefer the term "Livestock Engineer", thank you ve… 2Lions: lol, I like pigs. tommo: When Hitler decided he needed one of the most industr… Doomsday.: well said tommo!! BmmB: Yes, well said tommo!!!

	ZeroWolf	Jan 22 2008, 03:56 am EST
	Reply Poor Geoff they didn�t even give him time to defend the game, love the way how he asked the lady if she played mass effect before. Objectifying woman, full of nudity, sexism, Luke skywalker meets Debbie does Dallas � WTF this doesn�t even sound like mass effect.

	Un Om Bun	[STAFF] Jan 22 2008, 04:04 am EST
	Reply Look at the healthy and clean americans. Look at how they care about issues. How neat and beautiful they are. They just shine with christian virtues and concern for the future. Watch the attractive blonde closely... SHE IS CONCERNED FOR YOUR CHILD. No, I really mean it this time. She goes home after work and starts to suffer and cry. For. Your. Fucking. Child. She never goes to orgies. In fact she's still saving herself for the wedding night. That perfect wedding night... with the perfectly big penis that can go anywhere. "In, out, in, out, oooh yeaaah... it's so beautiful ! So moral and right. Thank you God for this sexy body, I just know I deserve it." Now look at the rest of the Barbie and Ken dolls. Are they impressive or what ? I don't know about you but I can almost feel the righteous hand of the Lord lifting me up whenever I see them debating and analyzing. The gentle, yet firm grip of the Lord on my tushy lifting me up to the gates of Heaven. And I'm having visions of my dead pets waving their paws at me and singing "glory hallelujah !" for the human race :) You know what kids ? I think that in the end, everything will turn out fine.
	fieldcar: (tear) that was bootyful. Pathfinder: un om bun I love your posts, you should be a staff wr… Un Om Bun: :) Well I'm flattered. And glad that my crude sense o… Vilor: Well nice that you have fanbois, but my question is w… chief1015: wow and Vilor is from germany too, un om bun we dont …

	Vodoo	Jan 22 2008, 04:28 am EST
	Reply TV sucks...nuff said.

	Jayh	Jan 22 2008, 04:31 am EST
	Reply Fox has always been reporting from their own twisted reality.. every time i make the mistake of watching it, I just get mad, they are fucking liars

	Wangernumb	Jan 22 2008, 05:13 am EST
	Reply Methinks they read a single paragraph from Kevin McCullough's 'expose' on Mass Effect (only want to mention his name so more people can laugh at him) Kudos to Geoff for piping in with what needed to be said, shame no one listened to him. Seems some gamers are getting quite pissed off over this, I just find the shocking quality of journalism hilarious.

	Terminator	Jan 22 2008, 05:14 am EST
	Reply Once again Fox shows its' true colors. That damn "news" channel favors the Republicans at every turn, so I don't watch it very much. I'm not surprised they did this to Mass Effect, although one of them should have PLAYED the game first.
	ZoneDaiatlas: And let's not forget MSNBC or what some people now ca… Terminator: Truly spoken.

	Aurelius	Jan 22 2008, 05:23 am EST
	Reply Fox is known for having politically Conservative Republican hardliners at the helm but going so far as to lie about anything, not just games, is dispicable. I love Mass Effect, I enjoyed the sex scene, but I didn't get to tell Shepard how hard to hump... I'm about as Conservative Republican as one can get and it almost makes me want to become a democrat... but their even worse about games.

	murdaugw	Jan 22 2008, 05:26 am EST
	Reply What a load of crap, I'm 47 years old, the average person playing these games are adolescent males makes me laugh. Oooh a digital boob turns me on give me a break. I keep track of what my kids play. The parental stuff on these machines work if you use it and use it right. This panel of people they had on this report sound like a bunch of pansies. I love how they always talk about stuff that they know nothing about. Have an opinion about things they have no clue about. I've been playing games since pong and it hasn't desensitized me. I'm a very sensitive guy, can't you tell?

	ksaplostra	Jan 22 2008, 05:56 am EST
	Reply Uros you're orginated from serbia arent you? You should know first hand about how much corporate news lie.... 99 ring a bell?
	2Lions: Exactly why I hate this sort of bullshit so much. Of … ksaplostra: Oh well dear friend so did for Greece too :D

	saidkg	Jan 22 2008, 06:01 am EST
	Reply I'm sure my kids won't play no damn computer games on my xbox, so I keep it locked with my shotguns. And tuna. And guns. Amen.

	Schnitzel_Bob	Jan 22 2008, 06:40 am EST
	Reply Fox news is obviously terrible, but let's not pretend that other Media outlets are paragons of journalistic integrity. Have you ever watched CNN? It may not lie as outright, but using it as your only news source will give you eye cancer. As for the game, who gives a shit if there was nudity? I'm pretty sure that at 21, I'm prepared to see whatever the hell I want. Subforce is right: responsibility ultimately lies with parents.

	IcedEarth	Jan 22 2008, 06:57 am EST
	Reply This is just one reason I don't bother watching the news. It's all the same bullshit. Fox is just a little more blatantly bullshit.

	fieldcar	Jan 22 2008, 07:00 am EST
	Reply As a conservative I can honestly say that fox is my only resort for TV news thats somewhat fair, but they've got a long road ahead of them if they want to gain a viewer. Every American news channel misrepresents, misinterprets, skews, and distorts a very large portion of what they dish out. Tv does suck... i don't watch it anymore, i just come to AT for my daily dose of insanity. I'm pissed that they cut off the defense of the games too. I wish they would have thrown out some age stats and compared content to what is acceptable in rated R films or just plain ol' TV shows.

	future man	Jan 22 2008, 07:09 am EST
	Reply Shit fuck.
	fieldcar: touch�

	Vivid	Jan 22 2008, 07:31 am EST
	Reply Yep Fox news fucks news, what else is new?

	Alkarzar	Jan 22 2008, 07:40 am EST
	Reply I reject your reality and substitute it for my own
	Vodoo: remove "it for"

	Stabby	Jan 22 2008, 08:42 am EST
	Reply No different then CNN and MSNBC though, just there on the left and far left. I don't agree with them if that's what was actually said, but many times I've seen the hippie-fascists distort what was actually said by Fox. Really just have to watch both and make up your own mind, although i know that's not the in thing to do now. I do have to laugh though that people wine about the 1 right wing news station compared to the sea of left ones.
	Schnitzel_Bob: You obviously don't have a clue what the left even is. Aurelius: Since it seem you don't know: Facism is ultra-conserv… Stabby: ok what i was saying was the far left are now just li… Stabby: sorry for posting 2 times in a row, thought of a way …

	DeviantSmacktar	Jan 22 2008, 08:47 am EST
	Reply what a bunch of bullshit, its shit like that is why Jack Thompson is still a lawyer, and why Hilary Clinton can even be considered for president, video games are evil, people who play Mass Effect are Satan worshipers, all games that deserve an AO rating, get them, Mass Effect is barely gory, has a few vulgar words in it, and half an alien boob, bring down the rafters the Sign is Nigh.

	fieldcar	Jan 22 2008, 11:08 am EST
	Reply "all games that deserve an AO rating" thats too kind... we need to stop them completely, as in bar them legally from making M or AO games. /sarcasm

	Annihilator	Jan 22 2008, 12:25 pm EST
	Reply Wow..... could this so called "panel" have been any more one-sided. I swear to god, I see crap like this and it just makes me realize how fortunate we'll all be when this group of narrow-minded people die off and those who grew up with this media take their place. And who the hell does that cunt-bag author think she is? "Darling, I read the reports blah fucking blah...." Yeah, I've read reports too, reports that said WMD is in Iraq, and we all know how that load of crap turned out. This just goes to show how ignorant people are and how lazy they are when it comes to researching things themselves. Being spoon-fed is so much easier as this dumb bitch has clearly shown.

	Cowflab	Jan 22 2008, 12:33 pm EST
	Reply Wow, that was pure bullshit. Conservatives must be afraid of their own sexual organs.
	fieldcar: As a conservative I fear my gigantic cock... will cla…

	psydude20	Jan 22 2008, 12:46 pm EST
	Reply "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

	TooDrunkToFunk	Jan 22 2008, 02:12 am EST
	Reply Cooper Lawrence: "Psychology Specialist". A perfect example of Fox's use of unqualified and agenda-driven babblers to brainwash and manipulate those that are barely aware in the first place. She looks better suited to giving head than to understanding head.

	Un Om Bun	[STAFF] Jan 22 2008, 03:09 am EST
	Reply Just watched this garbage again and I cannot believe how stupid and hypocritical these people are. If I had a computer when I was 15, I would have under no circumstance looked for sex in videogames, but on porn sites. Capish ? Every sane teenager knows that there's a lot more to see on the web than in Mass Effect. Oh, and somebody name 1 bad thing about breasts. Find just 1 negative aspect and I'll start taking these TV puppets seriously.
	snarkbite: "Oh, and somebody name 1 bad thing about breasts. Fin…

	Templ	Jan 22 2008, 03:37 am EST
	Reply The sort of crap that these assholes put out of their filthy sewers makes me feel ashamed of being a human.

	albundyhere	Jan 22 2008, 05:05 am EST
	Reply for a lesbian, the first ladyboy really has a thing for men.
	McSwifty: love the avatar!!! - ThunderCats....Hoooooooooooooooo…

	THE MAC GOD	Jan 22 2008, 05:25 am EST
	Reply Bottom Line: Parents: Do your goddamned JOB.

	VDgiver	Jan 22 2008, 08:51 am EST
	Reply Wow, what a poorly written and poorly reported article. Your Casablanca reference is awkward, and the mini-rant on Fox News is out of place and hackneyed, and reads like it belongs on some third-rate politics message board. By the time I reached the Hitler reference, I was rolling my eyes. Comparing x to Hitler tends to make your argument weaker, since it's such a cliche. Of course, I hate/distrust Fox News as much as any other normal human being, but yeesh, poor job all around.
	GLForce: Are you serious ?

	Anticitizen714	Jan 22 2008, 09:33 am EST
	Reply In other news: Sugar is sweet, increases short-term energy levels.

	run_like_snot	Jan 22 2008, 11:15 am EST
	Reply It's funny how they think it's the first time for this first time for that. The first time I saw a sex scene in a computer game was in 1980 something when some kid from Eastern Europe did a little game for the speccy and your spindly little graphic would take the elevator to different floors and do the women. It was funny. Hilarious. And stuff. The next time was Mafia. Heh that was funny. Actually it wasn't it was part of the story. The next time was ummm dunno maybe vampire bloodlines? it starts with a sex scene of sorts. Anyone play Post Mortem? that had graphic violence with tit on the show. Ah well. Stifle creativity, sex is not part of life! Games for mature people should not have mature themes! let's all play "Pacman" and "Pinblall". Bleh. I have to say that I don't have kids, maybe my opinion would change if I did. But at the same time I know for sure that I am an adult, I choose the art and entertainment that I expose myself to. If I don't like something I tend to ignore/move away/do something else. If I had kids I'm pretty sure I would play my mature games, watch my mature films and read my mature books away from them, until they grew enough up to choose for themselves.

	Un Om Bun	[STAFF] Jan 22 2008, 12:40 pm EST
	Reply Anyway, who are these idiots pretending to protect ? The wax figure on the left whines that he doesn't want his 6 year old daughter getting her hands on mass effect. Ok, explain this then. How does a 6 year old get past the main menu, or the first fight ? How would that be possible if even her father is incapable of playing Pony Puppy Pansy Princess or whatever he says he bought her. And here's an even better question: how many 6 year old girls are interested in sci-fi rpgs ? Let's talk about the Britney Spears wannabe who preaches Pac-Man and the other stone age games. Why isn't she worried about young girls modelling themselves after slutty pop queens who invade their senses from TVs, billboards, clothes, drinks and so on. What has a greater influence on their young, impressionable minds ? Asses, sports cars and retarded lyrics on MTV or some obscure and censored sex scene in a game they never heard about ? I won't even mention young boys getting their innocent minds warped by a virtual blue nipple. I mean, come on ! Boys have always been dirty minded pigs. We all know it. Really now, do we even need to see porn to be sex starved pervs ? Of course not. We are that way by default.

	ButterfliesAreFree	Jan 23 2008, 10:09 am EST
	Reply Yes, Fox News's typically slanted take on this story is reprehensible. BUT, comparing misleading reportage to the slaughter of 10,000,000 innocents in the 20th century (that's what Hitler did, by the way) is utterly despicable. You, Mr. 2Lions, need to remove your head from your ass, asap.
	snarkbite: It's a metaphor not an analogy - you tard. You don't …

	cloh2083	Jan 23 2008, 05:23 am EST
	Reply OMFG - I was just watching this conference the other day about the growth and sophistication of news. Now this BS Fox news and the equally biased Today Tonight counterpart in Australia have totally debased 'news' into no more than the sophistication of sensationalism. Check out how little time (and the amount of interruptions) afforded to the true gaming expert, and the amount of time dedicated to that one-sided 'impartial' feminine 'panel'. Makes me laugh my socks off. Hell, if you can't watch over your own kids - you might as well don't have sex in the first place! Where's your restraint?! Ever heard of locks? Time to use them to lock up the games and in the process your chastity belts! Blowing people away? Ummm...hello? Some opponents in Mass Effect are hostile aliens? Perhaps those in the panel would encourage their kids to kiss Alien vs Predator and 'make love, not war'. It cracks me up seeing so much stupidity - the West Wing already showed how stupid some politicians, senators and constituents are - this just enforces it all. Do these people have an education?

	Foo	Jan 23 2008, 06:53 am EST
	Reply Fox lies about everything. I watch it sometimes, just to laugh. Only far far far right people can even chock it down.

	skribb	Jan 24 2008, 11:58 am EST
	Reply Fuck Amerikkka
	chief1015: now thats just rude, Im sorry that wherever you live … chief1015:

	Halomizer	Jan 24 2008, 03:43 am EST
	Reply At least someone was there to tell the truth about the game and not use "statistics". Fuck fox news.

	Amok	Jan 25 2008, 03:34 am EST
	Reply I think a point y'all are missing or avoiding is they don't mean to say the truth or speak the voice of reason. They mean to influence the ignorant masses into thinking as they wish. Oh-so sadly, they can even be so obvious as this and still succeed too well at it.

	heater	Jan 25 2008, 08:39 am EST
	Reply Uh ya fox news lies about everything. You Should All Watch This Video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428 It's crazy, and will make you all more aware of the media you are watching.
	snarkbite: Thanks for the link! Sure is sobering.

	chief1015	Feb 03 2008, 10:35 am EST
	Reply "adolesent boys are the ones playing not their fathers" could this bitch be any more nieve I play more than my 17 yo son he plays MY 360 he has an xbox original and a PS2, FOX did accomplish exactly what they set out to do, they got everyones attention, they had to do something to get it because frankly they suck, and that reporter' wow she came to a gun fight with a water pistol. " I havent played it myself" then shut the fuck up bitch talk about what you know like the producers couch, at least the spike tv guy tried to set her straight but she kept interupting so much she didnt hear a fucking thing except the sound of the producers zipper
	snarkbite: Just goes to show that a set of Chi-chi's and a prett…

	ReinventTheExit	Feb 18 2008, 12:57 pm EST
	Reply Yep, Fox is trying(yet again) to try and tell people how they should run their lives. Anyone who tries to debate it are shot down by being called "Imorale", and completely ignored. P.S. And it's not like we can truely blame video games for our violence, look at us we're at war.