You all agree with Rush Limbaugh on this issue! Really, you do!

" @Dalai: I agree with his point, but he loses me the moment he blames the Democrats for wanting a bill that was put forth by a Republican governor about an issue that Republicans traditionally favor (censorship of art). "

Rush is a douche, 
 
But on the few issues you agree with him on, It's nice to have a loudmouth douchebag screaming at people for you

I'll let the government butt in all they want if I can do it to spite Rush Limbaugh.

Queue Neo.
 

Republicans have been just as willing to infringe on free speech and freedoms in general (ie. Patriot Act). 

But he still manages to blame democrats and liberals in something unrelated.

This makes me miss Liberty City radio. Maybe I should boot up GTA4 and go for a drive...

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lols @ gamers talking politics and law. just lols.

" @Undeadpool said:

" @Dalai: I agree with his point, but he loses me the moment he blames the Democrats for wanting a bill that was put forth by a Republican governor about an issue that Republicans traditionally favor (censorship of art). "

There's a lot of Democrats that are for censoring video games too. Hillary Clinton for one. >_> And Obama isn't a big fan of them either. "

Actually, Rush Limbaugh agrees with me.

" Wow, most of the community is actually cool with Rush in this thread. Everybody else just thinks it is a political move, or PR, and still hates his guts just because his political views are different than theirs.  And somehow, we have people talking about racism here. "

Although he's right in his opinions on the matter he seems to have twisted it a bit to make it pro republican. Which is... weird.

" He's right in saying that the market should determine what the market can produce, and that the government shouldn't mess with it. However, when he starts getting partisan he loses me. It's everyone's fault. "

Whoever made the comment about the broken clock being right twice a day is right.
 
According to Rush healthcare is about the government talking away your rights, instead of, you know, stopping you from dying.
 
It just so happens that in this case the government IS trying to take away your rights.

Glenn Beck is pro Gay Marriage. It doesn't make him any less of an ass hat. Same goes for Limbaugh.

He's right about free speech. He's wrong about who's to blame. Even when he's right about something he still finds a way to put it into pompous, hateful old man speech.

" @damnboyadvance said:

" Wow, most of the community is actually cool with Rush in this thread. Everybody else just thinks it is a political move, or PR, and still hates his guts just because his political views are different than theirs.  And somehow, we have people talking about racism here. "

So you know the motivations behind why people don't like him? Someone in my family has Parkinsons so when Rush decided to make fun of a Parkinson's victim for "playing it up" I decided, peppered with his regular chauvinistic tendencies, media whoring, and pathetic drug habit, that he's a bad person. Where are the political views again? So maybe don't speak to why other people have the opinions they do, jackass. "

Rush is a drug addict and likes videogames. he should be on a poster in most of your rooms.

" @TheBlindChessman: Well, government healthcare will take away a lot of people's rights. A friend of mine's uncle almost died while in Canada because their healthcare system was too messed to get him checked out. While the idea of the government making sure everyone in the country can recieve medical treatment sounds great, if the government goes about it like they go about everything else, it will be way less effecient, end up costing taxpayers more money than if people pay for their own medical insurance, and a lot of people won't be able to recieve the same treatment compared to the current system. It comes down to the government trying to control things they have no business in, much like this video game law. "

A lot of pathetic people in here. O hey he is kewl for video games, I guess I can fully support him now. AMIRITE?!

You win this round, Rush. I definitely don't like him now by any means but I think this may be the first time he's ever said something that I can agree with. 

Oh, me and another person agree on one thing but disagree on many, many others. I respect him now.

While I guess I agree with Rush on this one thing, it doesn't stop the guy from being a bigoted asshole. 

I like the libertarian side of him, in the same way I like most republicans. Sadly, most of them only like libertarianism when it is to their direct advantage, as soon as there an immigrant, muslim or other who wants the same rights, they tend to forget their fine speeches about the constitution.

Valid point that Rush seems to fully endorse freedom among video games, except notice the caller said "the Government."  
 
Go back and reread that, THEN go and listen to Limbaugh's show for no more than five minutes. Any time the word "government" is uttered, it is used derisively to mean the Obama administration. It doesn't matter that Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is one of the main combatants in this. As long as "the Government" is involved and stomping on a conservative's God-given right to free speech, than Rush is all for it. 
 
Rush doesn't "like" video games. He's all for it because "Barack the Magic Negro and his gang of Liberals" aren't. His words. I'm still not buying his bullshit.

"And somehow, we have people talking about racism here. "

I'm sure there are many things Rush and I agree on (politics definitely not being one of them). I still don't respect him as a human being. 

Of course I agree with the main point, but he lost me at the trans fat comparison. It doesn't match up at all. Any 65-year-old who's spent his life shoveling fried chicken down his gullet can get MediCare, meaning that the mistake of maintaing such a poor diet is a mistake for whose correction the government is in some way responsible. Therefore, it's not unreasonable that the government would want some regulatory power in the food/nutrition arena; such power allows it to reduce the injustice of the situation: that responsible people who make an effort to eat healthy are paying for the treatment of some ass who's too lazy to resist the opposite temptation. I would think that someone like Limbaugh would be all for that reduction. Not only that, but if the government makes people eat better, then people will need less health care, and taxes that go toward those services will drop. I would think that Limbaugh would be all for that, too.
 
But there's no parallel in the video game issue. The government has no stake in it. No taxpayer money is going toward any form of aid for specifically those kids that have allegedly been adversely affected by video games (few and far between, I must assume, and perhaps no greater in number than those who have been equivalently affected by literature or film or television). So if they want to regulate my food, that's fine; their responsibility to take care of me when that food does harm me earns them the right to do that. But if they're going to sit there doing nothing about the so-called threats of video games-- which, by all means, Government, continue to do; they exist only in a negligible, government intervention-unworthy form, anyway-- then they need to SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET THE FUCK OUT.

Suddenly I find that regulation would be a good thing :P 
Not really, but could you imagine?

Rush isnt always wrong. In the same vain I dont always agree with him. 
 
The reason he agrees with this view point is as he states, its all about free speech. They're trying to make it so its not about Free Speech (which blows me away... has Arnold Schwartzeneggars(sp?) brain fallen out? Has he forgotten the movies he's made? Are you serious? Games aren't the same my ass- I smell foul play on this one). 
 
Its fine they haven't thrown it out yet, let them make their case. Its full of trash, though. Seriously, games are subject to free speech just as much as movies or anything else that entails viewing, hearing, or reading. The whole thing is just silly.  
 
You can believe what you want, its your human right. When you start trying to force views on other people you are now enfringing on their human rights. Thats how it is.

He made some very valid points. I agree with him 100% and I hope Arnold fails with his law. 

This shit is stupid. Who cares how Rush feels about video games? Anyways, it doesn't feel relevant to the issue, it's apples and oranges, Here we got video games being put up in the supreme court to determine if they need government oversight and then you got a fat prick on the radio who says YES VIDEO GAMES ARE GOOD and somehow you want me to care. Fuck this noise.

Californians are idiots for voting him into office in the first place. 
 
Every time I hear him rant about the ultra-violence in video games, I just remember how shitty his movies would have been without them.   
 
You guys elected Mr. Freeze.  You deserve to have your video games regulated.  Have fun being the quirky, wacky state now.  Geniuses.  

Screw that fat, racist bastard. He's always been a hypocritical asshole, he doesn't believe anything he actually said there. He's just saying "yay video games" because it serves his current agenda.

censorship of art and expression =/= regulation to keep thing in line with other people.

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"
— Frédéric Bastiat  (The Law)
 
(This next quote addressed to legislators)
 "Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
— Frédéric Bastiat (The Law)
 
These quotes pretty much sum up my entire view on government and law.