Alert the media! (oh, wait, I am the media.) The Republican party is using video games to tantalize and lure young people!
According to a report from completely objective news organization Fox News, The Conservative Political Action Conference being held this week will feature the XPAC Lounge, a "hub of fun" stacked with Xboxes and Wiis, junk food, foosball and hippity-hoppity music, all designed to dazzle the youth by making Conservatism "fun," "rad," and/or "totally in your face."
"We're gonna have the most popular games. There'll be Guitar Hero. There'll be Dance Revolution. There'll be Call of Duty," said Kevin McCullough, a radio host who created the XPAC Lounge with actor Stephen Baldwin.
Once you're tired of playing games, the XPAC Lounge will host a late-night "rap/jam session" on Thursday and a conservative comedy lineup on Friday. Basically, the lounge gives younger members of the cause a place to go when the older conservatives are attending $1000 a plate dinners. It only costs $20 for a three day pass!
The Republican party, as a rule, doesn't appeal to young voters -- look at the dismal result for McCain in the last election. But young people don't generally vote, so it works out even. Do you think the GOP using games and snacks is a viable way of creating interest among young people? Or is it the core values of the party that keep most young people from signing up for the Republican cause?
Update: it bears mentioning that XPAC Lounge organizer Kevin McCullough appears to be the same guy who, a few years ago, wrote a column claiming Mass Effect contains "the most realistic sex acts ever conceived," and that players can "hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of" and that "Mass Effect can be customized to sodomize whatever, whoever, however, the game player wishes...With it's "over the net" capabilities virtual orgasmic rape is just the push of a button away." So the guy knows games!
Source: Fox News
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MaceMan2091
Hooray for liberty minded individuals! In case most of you didn't know old school conservatives like TJ and GW didn't like big government spending on dumb crap other than fixing 2-foot deep potholes on the road. The government we have had for the most part, past 10 years, is growing insanely fast. The real conservatives like Ron Paul, want to bring stability back to this government and the economy that's too abysmal to fail.
Warning:
Beware of Neoconservatives! All they wanna do is start wars for political gain. *cough* Sarah Pailin *cough*
anotherbender
right, left, right, left......why cant either one of these parties just be honest "STRAIGHT" and say ..."hey sorry America, honestly we don't know what we are talking about anymore....we have grown to big for our britches. while we would like to keep everybody subdued, there are roughly 308,720,084 U.S. citizens and counting (http://www.census.gov/populat ion/www/popclockus.html)....wh en our government was established 234 years ago, all we had to deal with were 13 colonies and a bunch of pesky Native Americans...which we just called injuns....and after we killed most of them off them we best be startin to breed like rabbits, and invite everybody else to come on over...we got all this wilderness we needs to be explorin, cutting down trees and railroads ta build.....course none of us real white folk who came over on the may flower want to do the "actual" work here....so when you're finished we aren't going to actually thank you...or pay you.
oh sorry...i went off there for a min...hopefully somebody gets my point....govt controls FCC...FCC controls TV, radio,and probably soon the internet that you are allowed to see in the USA (please lets hope that never happens! and lets see this post get banned for some reason)
All I'm trying to say is that this country's politics are as archaic as a commodore 64. can we get an upgrade please? come on USA 6.0! cant we just do what apple did and make the new government like an iPad? sure it seems cooler than iPhone or Ipod touch but in the end we ALL know were getting screwed....without the courtesy spit.
Octaviux
its best to leave your political opinion out of gaming news articles because it doesn't matter which side you're on 50% of your viewership is going to hate your comments.
xboxslives
Dude decent story but little less bashing on FOX news I am so tired of it I use to watch just to catch the lies oh wait sorry there truths but I am sick of it & it is not point trying to install common sense into a broken drone...
The event sounds like fun, I am left leaning independent but I would certainly go to the event, love to enlighten some of these Republican officials, Plus Corrupting a Republican Gamer girl sounds like fun Let me stop before I sound like I am living up to the Stereotype that I am young dumb lazy gamer that only cares about video games & chicks.. Truth be told I have a lot smarts for being just 26 & I have looked back into our History more times then I count & truth be told our future as been sold to the best paying lobbyist years ago by both parties... If you think one party right or left can save your a$$ then you need to seek help fast.
Did I miss where the event is taking place??? Oh well my mind will run laps our most the peanut brains that would kick me out within 10 min
San_Pato
Ha, well lesson learned. Maybe next time avoid saying "completely objective news organization Fox News," and just say Fox News by itself (Trust me, enough people in the comments will do the bashing for you). I'll take you on your word that you are a Centrist, but beginning an article like this did give it an anti-Republican theme.
As for the article itself, It makes me laugh when either party makes attempts to lure young voters. I remember Clinton on MTV years ago playing his saxophone, thinking that would get the young voters. However, I understand why the parties keep trying. While only a small number of young voters actually turn up, in a close election, that small number can make the difference. It just makes the parties appear even more disconnected from the youth when they make idiotic attempts to get them to join their party.
racco0nwrangler
wow stephen you try to bring your politics into a web site which was designed to deliver gaming news not bash those who have different political beliefs. by insulting one political party you are alienating half of the audience and fans. all you seem capable of doing is insulting fox news just because their the one cable news source that favors a more right wing political view while the left wing have every other cable news outlet why dont you do your job and deliver gaming news instead of trying to split fans of G4 over petty politics. when you write these biased stories you only hurt yourself and G4.
the people over at fox news have the right to there political beliefs just the same as everyone else in America. why dont you try growing up a bit
Adrian_L_B
Ok just my guess is a republican rap would go something like this. Yo yo word do not vote for the prezzy he ain't fly because he not a white guy. Be gangster don't go for universal health hey get them ho's back into the kitchen to cook the chicken if the Dema step up slap em like a pimp and spray their homies with squirt guns full of tea after you drop the tea bag on them yo you word peace out repubzley.
greeknerd
I don't see why every one is upset with you Stephen. I guess you're not supposed to cover videogames in politics? Or the little "Mass Effect 2" detail? As a conservative (with no relation to the republican party)I deem this piece of gaming journalism unbiased!
deleted_8BA8DC53-B2AB-43D4-A321-B793D72C6C4A
man I hate both parties repulicans are just sitting back and letting everyone watch as obama destroys everything... sigh
down311
As the late Adrian Rogers said, "you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A...
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F..
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
IcemanMX
I lol'd at the update, Mr. Johnson.
O.K., but in all seriousness; you know that one day, the president of the United States and most of Congress and even the Supreme Court justices will be made up of people that played Nintendo and Sega when they were kids, right? It is only a matter of time that the people of our generation that enjoyed the hell out of their PS2's will eventually be the leaders of this country. When that happens, I think that video games will be a lot more accepted than they are now.
Just sit back, relax and wait. You'll see that at the political fundraisers in the future will have PS5 and Xbox 1080 consoles no matter what the party affiliation is.
-M
CustosIntusSilentium
First off, Fox News...need I say more. Well I could, but I'd rather not cause G4's obscenity filter to implode.
Second, these attempts to "connect" with the younger crowd only aid in proving how out of touch these people are. Honestly. I'm not going to detail what I think of their game selection, but these games mostly attract a certain version of gamer and those are not people I'd like voting, nay, being taken advantage of in any version of political regime and nefariously used to fill a ballot. This isn't political education, it's mind wash.
Being the son of a Vietnam veteran who willing upheld his duty to his country, I openly profess my apathy and provide no excuses. Two purple hearts and a bronze medal but capitalists don't care.
Thoreauvian
I'm young and I'm a gamer and I'm a Conservative. I love G4 for thier excellent coverage of video game and tech news, but I could do without Stephen Johnson's political musings. Think outside the stereotypes, Stephen. Not all Conservatives hate games, gamers, and/or voted for McCain.
Adampro123
Sean Waltman has a lunge? ;)
I would love to go there and have a good time but it would not change the way i voted. though i can see it pulling in some people.
down311
They are going after our food next, apparently Obamas 40 LB kids are obese, so now the government is going to try and control our food since our parents aren't doing a good enough job. Oh ya, and we get to pay for it....YAAAAAY !
Both parties down talk video games, if I could afford a $5,000 dollar a night hooker while I get paid by my country, then I might say that video games are a waste of time too. Actually I would play games all night while the hooker took care of business and then the next day, I would re-route the 1 trillion stimulus to all gamers so they could also enjoy hookers and video games. That seems like a better waste of money then what they are doing with it now, we are paying the bill either way.
Judge_Holden
Wow. I've never read his article about Mass Effect before. Kevin McCullough, you go to hell. You go to hell and you die.
Seriously. What a dick.
ThePiousPriest
Most of the G4 Staff do have a Liberal Bias about themselves, and given their demographics, it wouldn't be surprising. As a Secondary Education Major, I look at this kind of stuff all the time. The majority of youth simply don't care about politics, because of apathy, ignorance, or their belief that it really doesn't affect them. It is concerning, considering they make up our future. Hopefully with age and introduction into the workforce, they will become more concerned. The only reason why Pres. Obama was popular with the youth is that he tried to create a message that in essence was "It's our generation's time, to correct what the generation before us screwed up". That and all the major outlets that most youth find entertaining were swooning over him. It is essential for the Republican Party to find ways to entice young voters who aren't necessarily politically savvy, but it has to walk a balance. To say that politics is simply about getting together and playing games is misleading to say the least. However, it does show that the Republican Party isn't completely made up of old folks, who find their entertainment in shuffleboard and all this other stuff. As someone of a Conservative Political persuasion (though not on all things), It looks like things are shifting in the country back toward a more Conservative approach. The are more Conservative Gamers than people think, it is just that (in my opinion) they don't express themselves as much as most gamers with a Liberal Point of View in areas in which gamers are known to express their opinions.
river_tron
This is gaming news and definitely worth sharing considering the government's participation of an activity that's usually condemned by the same. One could say it's sad that political factions are resorting to almost literally "luring kids in with candy", but that's just the way it goes. Look at the military with America's Army. If they can't get the kids away from their precious consoles long enough to get their attention, they'll use it to their advantage. It's a dirty trick, but these are different times than the ones our parents grew up in.
Tactics change, but intention will always remain the same. But as long their gaming, EVERYONE WINS! (*cue Shin Chan theme song)
JOIN US! JOIN US! PARTY! PARTY!
ThePsychoGamer
well, Gimmick over practicality worked for Nintendo
Apoc_hunter1216
Until politicians take a step back and look at video games with an open mind, and look at actual problems and stop thinking about what is best for us and just listen...I won't vote. Politicians = bull. As long as I can play my video games and pay my rent and go to school, life is good.
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