John McCain doesn't like D&D?

[claidheamhmor]

I surmise from a blog entry by Michael Goldfarb on The McCain Report that John McCain apparently disapproves of D&D players:

It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others.

Nice.

Comments

[melancthe.livejournal.com]

I read this as "John McClane doesn't like D&D", and I was terribly confused for a moment.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I posted about this on avalonrpg. The guy did apologize, but it was kind of a lame apology.

http://community.livejournal.com/avalonrpg/23287.html

"If my comments caused any harm or hurt to the hard working Americans who play Dungeons & Dragons, I apologize. This campaign is committed to increasing the strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores of every American."

As Will said, it's not cool for right-wingers to call people on the left homosexual anymore, so they just call them nerds now.

[cuddlycthulhu.livejournal.com]

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=08&year=2008&base_name=_protesting_too_much

Heh.

[ubet-cha.livejournal.com]

D&D players don't get no respect I tells ya.

[surelle.livejournal.com]

Obviously this guy isn't familiar with gamers, or with Ziggurat Con (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_Con).