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November 9, 2004 Link to this post
When comments are misinterpreted...
This one is worth reading, too - though I'd hasten to encourage anyone choosing to participate in the discussion to STAY CALM and leave the fanboi-ism at home. Matt Hamilton pointed out a thread on the Free Republic website - the title of the lead-off article says it all: 'Microsoft video game "a damning condemnation of the Bush Administration"'. The entire premise is based on a reported comment by Joe Staten in Entertainment Weekly:
"You could look at it," Staten says of his Halo 2 storyline "as a damning condemnation of the Bush Administration's adventure in the Middle East."
(Realize that I gave you zero context for that comment.) The next 130+ posts are a stream of anti-Democrat rants that range from one-liners to multi-paragraph denouncements of Joe. Finally, at Comment 137, Joe himself steps in. Turns out the original reporter missed a small bit in that quote. It's the sentence immediately following the original quote, and it reads "But you'd be wrong." To this point, comments were popping up every couple of minutes... in the 46 minutes SINCE Joe posted, not a single person has piped up. In any case, Joe's comment is a nice insight on what the main plotwriter felt you should be able to take home from Halo 2's story... you should go read it. And maybe keep an eye on the thread, to see if any of the visitors who so harshly maligned Joe before they knew the score (and before they knew he'd show up) can swallow their pride and apologize... (Louis Wu 02:19:48 UTC)
