The secret liberal agenda of SimCity Societies and Flower revealed

by Griffin McElroy on Sep 7th 2011 6:55PM

You guys have got to see this video from those jokesters at The Onion: In it, a radio host named "T.J. McCormack" -- we didn't recognize the actor playing him, but oh man, what a talented comedian -- accused certain video games of harboring a liberal, environmental agenda. What games? Oh, you know, SimCity Societies, which allows its players to power their towns using alternative energy sources. Or Flower, which contains flowers.

It's just the kind of absurd, biting wit we've come to expect from The Onion. You guys are familiar with The Onion, right? It's that fake news outlet that runs hilarious news reports that are so irresponsible, so heavy-handed and so devoid of facts that they couldn't possibly be broadcast by an actual news organization. Can you imagine if something like this had been aired on a major news channel instead of a jokey-joke goof show?

CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW TERRIBLE THAT WOULD BE?

Via: Gamertag Radio
Source: Fox News

Reader Comments (126)

A Fox News article, can't wait to see the comments.
http://operatorchan.org/t/arch/src/n118153_oh%20boy%20here%20we%20go%20now.jpg

I love how political loyalists (or should I say total tools) will look at anything and say "OH THERE GOES THAT (OPPOSING PARTY) AGENDA AGAIN"

@darkinchworm
That's not being a loyalist. Both parties are horribly predictable one trick ponies.

@darkinchworm Sometimes it's not intentional! It's the result of perceptual screening, which... nevermind.

@making11s
The point I was trying to illustrate (as I'm sure you're aware really) is that pawns of both major parties are quick to draw something out of nothing and assault it for its so-called political slant. Perhaps that's not one's loyalism coming into play, but rather, their unsettling disdain toward anything that could possibly disagree with their stubborn, narrow-minded ideologies.

Forgive me if I sound like Noobie McBoobie.

@darkinchworm
This is almost like the console war.

I wonder if Fox News realizes everyone just inevitably rips their city apart with tornadoes and earthquakes.

@Special Agent Steve Haha, yeah, exactly. Or has an alien mothership come down and leave the entire map in ruin. Weather and aliens are totally liberal conspiracies.

@Special Agent Steve but that's not the user per say that's the virtual GAWD destroying America because of Ghey Marriage! GASP

I watched for a few minutes and then suddenly realized that this isn't the Onion at all.

I'm so disappointed in myself.

How did I know that when I looked at the bottom-left corner of the image I was going to see a "FOX" logo sitting there, smiling at me like an idiot?

Now imagine all of this effort and energy put towards something productive.

We might have already cured HIV and Cancer by now....

@Shockwave

"People are of no value. We could make more sometime... if we need them."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3z2Pm7Iwg

@Shockwave

There will never be a "cure" for HIV and Cancer.

Why? Because that would destroy a multi-million dollar continuous market.

BTW: Cures for both are already showing up in China.

@xiLeShadow

Do you actually believe this?

@Shockwave

The money is in the treatment of symptoms not curing disease. If those diseases could easily be cured big pharma would be losing out on lifetime clients. I wouldn't be shocked to know that there is already a cure for most every disease that never sees the light of day.

@xiLeShadow
Nope. Cancer can't be cured because it's not a disease, and HIV works in such a way that a potential vaccine would still be lethal.

@Richard C Mongler PhD Yeah, and no computer will ever need more than 640kb of memory. Short sighted people shouldn't be allowed to pro-create. The worst thing you can think as a human is "not possible", time has proven over and over again that there is little that is not possible.

Might want to tell these guys Cancer is not curable.

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/hiv-virus-used-to-turn-white-blood-cells-into-cancer-serial-killers-20110811/

Fox News is right. A city simulator should just pretend green energy doesn't exist. Reality be damned!

@making11s

"Because if we use nuclear power we will all glow green at night. Nuclear power is the safest source out there, you know."

I bet the people in Japan would beg to differ, you nutjob.

Down with evil, renewable resources that rob the energy and oil company of billions upon billions of profits. That is what your government wants. We must stand with Exxon and not let their billions of dollars be threatened for the good of America, mankind and every other living thing on this planet.

What is mankind anyway? I think we need to break it into its roots...'mank' and 'ind'. But what are those two things? And that, my friends, is the problem with this video game. It never explains what 'mank' and 'ind' are.

Irony: the clip calls out gamemakers for fear mongering when the segment itself preys upon the fear of adults thinking that videogames are brainwashing/corrupting their children.

@Truant

It's hardly ironic. It's precisely what I've come to expect at this point.

@Truant

That's not ironic. Please learn what the word means. It is a form of sarcasm, not humorous coincidence. This is another case of shrill journalism that we are all used to. And to the douchewaffle who thinks SimWhatever is played by a 5 year old - he needs a red hot poker up the a**.

@Digiboi
Actually, I'm pretty sure that is ironic. Sarcasm has to be intentional; the hypocrisy on display here clearly isn't. (And even if it were, that's not what sarcasm is at all.)

And Bulletstorm made you into a rapist, right?

So like, get this: I played Bulletstorm and I didn't feel like raping anyone.

FOX NEWS IS WRONG!? WTF

@aray48
I looked at my watch and said, "Yep, it's five o clock. It's raping time."

Let me get this straight, since attacking video games for turning kids violent didn't work out, so now they're going to go after them for turning our kids into hippies? WTF?

@FinalFantasyXIIIsucks well, to be fair, hippies do suck

@BLipp18

THOSE DAMN LIBERAL HIPPIES ARE AT IT AGAIN!

I don't know what to say.

Wow... that just happened.

There is precisely one thing about this video that pisses me off, and it's that these guys are perpetuating the myth that only kids play video games.

Actually, make that two things. "PARENTS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR KIDS ARE PLAYING LOL." Well, I think we've found the problem here.

The cost of the green power plants in Sim City games is also more expensive per watt than nuclear or coal. So players have to trade-off and it's an accurate representation. Just build coal in the industrial section where no one gives a shit about pollution.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

@Zertoss

It's true, these robots DID evolve... but only after being created by an intelligent designer!

@Zertoss

Lol...comixed.com.

Great avatar and comment!

The Onion still presents more facts than MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, or the BBC. Sure, Fox has plenty of idealogues and has its share of dumb news pieces (like this one), but I still prefer it over the same, one-sided cr@p the other networks come up with.

@hbhall
Fox is just as onesided as the others.

@hbhall
Fox is the definition of one sided agenda based news. I mean hell, they described Obama's fistbump with his wife as a 'Terrorist fist jab'.

@mrantimatter

lol, my brothers and I still joke about that.

@hbhall You included the BBC in there? Do you have any idea what the hell you're even talking about son?

@hbhall

Fox also described Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world and maybe the most successful investor of all time, as a "socialist" after he said he was fine with higher taxes on the ultrarich.

@hbhall That's why I watch the news on PBS. As everyone should. They don't tell you what to think.

@Hank Hill

He doesn't, hence the defense of Fox news. It is like talking to a wrestling fan who "knows" that it is fake but has a list of reasons why it isn't.

@hbhall

NPR and the BBC are the best news outlets in the west... by a wide margin.

@Hank Hill
The BBC certainly can be one-sided. Although they are alot more reserved in doing it. Which perhaps makes it even more dangerous.

For example BBC headlines over the last few weeks paint Gaddafi as if hes been a burden his entire reign but forget to mention that hes insured Education for his people and prevented them from being exploited by the west for their Oil. (Why else do you think the politicians are so hostile against them).

Now dont get me wrong, Hes bad and personally should be shot, but a side still remains untold.

Then theres the NI story. Theyre reported as NI Riots but the England Riots are UK Riots (They did eventually change this, but why was it reported like that in the first place)

And also dont forget during the troubles the BBC was an incredibly hostile and sectarian place to work, and thats coming from several English reporters who said they were shocked at the discrimination.

Several soldiers have also given talks about how ill-informed they were about NI Troubles and our the story's weren't correctly reported.

The BBC is good at reporting Local news relatively fairly but i wouldnt trust them with foreign affairs.

Basically dont ever rely on the professional media to tell the truth.

I love how he complains about a game teaching kids that pigs are slaughtered to create your hamburger. We all know hamburgers come from the magic stork, duuuh.

@343 Guilty Fart hey hey hey, COWS are slaughtered for burgers! not pigs!

@aray48
Whoever doesn't put bacon on a burger doesn't know what a burger really is.

Since those people simply cannot exist, I cannot for the life of me understand why I am reading such a silly comment. Am I dreaming? If so, when will it turn erotic?

Damn well better soon...

@343 Guilty Fart

I laughed at that part. :)
He was so blown away that children should be exposed to the word "Slaughter"!
Don't they still have places called slaughterhouses? Or are they "livestock processing facilities" now?
I'm pretty sure this guy would take his kids out of school for a month rather than have them read and discuss Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five".
How funny would it be if he used to be into late 80's hair-metal rock, but he just couldn't bring himself to admit he ever liked the band "Slaughter", even if all his friends did?
Next he'll be going on some lame "talk-show" all hot and bothered that children can google the word "slaughter", and even look it up in a dictionary!

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