Yesterday, we told you that Manuel Noriega is suing Activision. Today, MSNBC covered it, and Mika Brzezinski was kind enough to inform us that Activision is just as bad as a convicted murderer and tyrant.
Just in case you’re not thoroughly annoyed, Brzezinski went on to state that video games cause brain damage. Her co-host, Joe Scarborough, meanwhile basically revealed he’s every annoying gamer joke rolled into a big fat bundle, so we’ve got the full range of newscaster silliness here.
In case you were wondering, there’s no actual scientific evidence that video games cause brain damage, being as most studies that claim the contrary are questionable at best. Really, if you think about it, the concept is ridiculous; if that were the case, watching television would also cause brain damage.
But, in the interests of fairness and journalism, we decided to do some research and see if Activision really was as reprehensible as Manuel Noriega. Noriega’s a convicted murderer, drug lord, racketeer, and money launderer, as we detailed in our post yesterday.
Activision, meanwhile, let’s see here… uhhhhh… supposedly they take confidentiality a little too far? Maybe? But who knows? Perhaps Brzezinski is onto something. Perhaps Bobby Kotick is the head of a vast, criminal underground that poses as game developers but really engages against crimes against humanity in order to sell more Call of Duty games. Perhaps he’s the secret power behind all the evil in the world!
Hey, it could happen. Maybe Brzezinski could try and do some actual reporting for us, instead of coughing up tired old cliches, and find out.
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Morning Joe is an insufferable show. It’s the embodiment of the modern elite chattering class: privileged, entitled, and absolutely out of touch.
Mika reminds me of one of those vapid DC or Greenwich wives.
What a cunt.
There’s dumb, there’s “reality show” dumb, then there’s “so dumb you have to be second banana on MSNBC” dumb.
Let’s face it, at this point, if you work in cable news, at all, you got a lobotomy.
@Dan Seitz – Or if you *watch* cable news at all, you might as well get a lobotomy. The only thing dumber than cable news is broadcast news, and vice versa.
Well Brzezinski has something in common with the rest of the internet then, as EA and Activision are routinely trotted out as the worst things ever. God I hate “gamers”
I love gaming but I hate the attendant baggage.
The answer is Noriega, lady. Noriega is worse.
Dumdum.
What is this nonsense? Uproxx taking bad about the preferred network of the progressive liberal? Has someone with a brain started working there? Seriously Uproxx, just stay far far away from anything political related. Just focus on review and recaps and leave politics to the grown-ups.
Where’s the politics in this? This is about idiocy, plain and simple.
It is the fact that people have hate-boners for Fox News that makes internet commenting insufferable for everyone who doesn’t have hate-boners and give a crap about Fox News.
Wow MSNBC said something this stupid before Fox News I am surprised. Though MSNBC is just as bad as Fox most of the time, but neither have been as bad as CNN lately.
“watching television would also cause brain damage.”
Doesn’t it?
Watching Youtube clips of television can cause brain damage. I know I’m partly to blame because I pressed “play”. But that 1:35 video killed brain cells that I could have used to drive my car or remember to turn off my stove. If I die or kill someone it’s on MSNBC.
Boom, double indemnity!