Neil Conan, host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation gave Jack Thompson the bum’s rush during a three-minute appearance that additionally featured G4TV’s Adam Sessler and a guy named Jim from BushLeague.TV.

Highlights of Thompson’s brief appearance include:

Conan: I understand that you think one of the characters in Grand Theft Auto IV is based on you

Thompson: Well, they go into a lawyer’s office and they kill him. I had my house vandalized, by the way, today by gamers. I get calls, death threats all the day by gamers… The real issue here is, though, that there is so much sex and so much graphic sex… I’m working with various law enforcement agencies,hopefully with the aftereffect that Take Two corporately and the chairman Strauss Zelnick will be indicted for that considering that is way, way over the line…

Sessler: I hope you don’t mind whether I step in there, Neil. Having played the game I have yet to discover the graphic sex Mr. Thompson is identifying…

Conan: John Thompson… Have you played the game?

Thompson: It

just came out and I have a life… 

Conan: And which law enforcement agencies are you working with?

Thompson: I’m not gonna tell you.

(GP: that reply seemed to convince Conan to terminate the interview… it’s plus a question that I have asked Thompson without receiving a satisfactory answer…)

Conan: Alright, well, thanks very much for speaking with us.

Thompson: (chuckle) I’m done?

Conan: You’re done.

Thompson: Oh, great. I’ll go play the game now.

Conan: Good luck… (click)

UPDATE: To listen to an mp3 of Thompson’s 3-minute segment, click here… Or, get the full 16 minutes from NPR’s website.

UPDATE 2: Thompson found a more sympathetic ear on Glenn Beck’s CNNHL program, which I just caught. Can someone YouTube that? Of course, that nonsense about the military desentizing recruits with video games has been debunked before, but now Beck is parroting it.

Thompson additionally (again) linked the Red Lake school shooting to GTA and Virginia Tech to Counter-strike.

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