Jack Thompson 2: Cruise Control

Jack Thompson on WCPO

Jack Thompson continues to be such a nonsensical villain to the gaming industry that a person might half-suspect he is part of an elaborate prank.

Thompson operates – in public – with such self-parodying gusto that he could only be the brainchild of a man who playing a satirical devil’s advocate. Like Ted Turner thinking up the mother nature-hating bad guys in his “Captain Planet” cartoon.

Yet Thompson keeps going. At least he is somewhat entertaining.

It appears the searing letter from David Walsh struck a cord with him. GamePolitics continues to follow the story. In response to Walsh’s words, Thompson penned to…Sen. Joe Lieberman

Dear Senator Lieberman:

I received late last Thursday a remarkably false and hurtful letter from someone who is a friend of yours and who used to be a friend of mine, Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family. Two people who got Walsh's letter are you and Doug Lowenstein of the ESA. Therein is the explanation of why it was really sent.

It continues:

But if Dave had a problem with my "tactics," I believe you and I both know, as people of faith, that the Biblical principle is that you go privately to the person with whom you have a disagreement and express the concern. Dave NEVER did that. Why?

And:

I wish you all of God's best. I wish people like Take-Two all of Satan's worst. Dave Walsh would not say that, and that is part of his charm. Some of us were not called to be charming. I want to win this thing, not for my sake, but because lives are at stake.

But that’s not all of our Jack Thompson news today. The gaming community has responded several times to his announcement that he will donate $10 thousand to charity if someone makes a game based on his scenario of a vengeful father butchering people in the game industry. It seems, however, that none of the games made to suit his demands are sufficient. And he also says that he was just kidding about donating the money to charity.

Good one.