Flash game teaching kids to kill the president!

[CockroachMan]

from Kotaku:

The Drudge Report this morning, too busy apparently reporting on the bird flu fears of India and Hackabee's cash flow problems to do any digging, threw up a headline this morning on their site decrying the Presidential Paintball flash game we posted yesterday.

The headline: Online shooting game lets kids target presidential candidates... doesn't really paint a accurate picture of the cartoony paintball game most likely created more for readers of the Drudge Report than for the Dora set.

The link jumps you to The Smoking Gun's write up of the miniclip flash game which describes it as a highly trafficked game that "allows kids to train a rifle scope on six presidential aspirants and squeeze off a hail of shots." I guess it's important to say it's a game for kids, because, you know, adults don't play political flash games. I guess kids are the ones playing the game being created for the New York Times too.

The article: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years...1miniclip1.html
the "presidential murder simulator": http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years...1miniclip5.html

After reading this.. and that Mass Effect thing.. I fell sorry for my north american gamer fellows.. I have nothing against your country or your people.. but your media is really stupid!

 

[Mortenga]

Hey kids!

Go shoot the president with a paintball gun.