Fox & Friends Swipes BioShock Infinite Logo in a Move Levine Calls 'Irony'

[Karloff]

Fox & Friends Swipes BioShock Infinite Logo in a Move Levine Calls 'Irony'

Let's Defend the Homeland, cries Fox.

Fox & Friends, in a piece on Governor Rick Perry's response to President Obama's statement on immigration, apparently swiped BioShock Infinite's logo to make its point. Ken Levine tweets [https://twitter.com/IGLevine/status/484397121534435328] that he thinks it's irony, not breach of copyright, which begs the question: does this mean that someone over at Fox has actually played the game through to the end?

The full video can be found over here [http://conservativepost.com/watch-rick-perry-dare-obama-to-meet-him-at-the-border/], if you're feeling keen. Perhaps Governor Perry ought to grow a beard. It might lend him gravitas, but in any case the immigration argument is straight out of Infinite, albeit with Fox's special twist.

"If the President of the United States is really serious about securing the border, we can show him how to do that," Governor Perry moans, "But I haven't even had a phone call from this President."

This isn't the first time a conservative organization has used BioShock's imagery for its own ends. Back in late 2013 a Florida branch of the Tea Party put up BioShock's Guard Against The Foreign Hordes image [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LyAQKfeiss] on its Facebook page, though it's not entirely clear that the group knew what the game was about when it boosted the image.

Ken Levine isn't too worried about it. As he posts on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ken.levine.9/posts/10203391065356282], he's "glad to help," though that might have been intended ironically.

Source: VG24/7 [http://www.vg247.com/2014/07/03/fox-news-bioshock-infinite-logo-did-just-rip-off/]


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[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

To give Fox News credit, at least it wasn't Bengazi they based their title card on.

 

[Lightknight]

Heh, sounds like Fox has competent people behind the scenes. That's far more than I would have given them credit for. If done on purpose, this means that someone behind the scenes is quite brilliant despite anything coming out of other people's mouths.

 

[Roxas1359]

To give Fox News credit, at least it wasn't Bengazi they based their title card on.

Give it time, I'm sure they'll add it in. XD

OT: Reminds me of the time a little after BioShock Infinite came out in which some people in the Tea Party were usings the propoganda Comstick had around Columbia as actually posters for their rallies. The irony in this is just as strong as that one.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

I am sorry, but the OP has lost their mind if they dont think conservatives can also be gamers. Being a gamer does NOT mean you are necessarily a liberal, left winger. Maybe he didnt mean it to come off that way, but jeez...

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

As if we needed more evidence that Fox morons are racists.

 

[The Pink Pansy]

I am sorry, but the OP has lost their mind if they dont think conservatives can also be gamers. Being a gamer does NOT mean you are necessarily a liberal, left winger. Maybe he didnt mean it to come off that way, but jeez...

I think you're reading too much into that. He was speculating whether or not whomever chose the image was aware of the ideas put forward in the game i.e. that they were taking an image from a game that openly satirizes the extreme political right. From where I sit, he was not saying people on the right don't play games.

 

[Micah Weil]

Ya know, Fox...lemme level with ya.
We already know how out of touch with the rest of the world - with reality, if I may - you are.
You do not CONSTANTLY have to go and prove it to us.
We already know.

 

[Rellik San]

I am sorry, but the OP has lost their mind if they dont think conservatives can also be gamers. Being a gamer does NOT mean you are necessarily a liberal, left winger. Maybe he didnt mean it to come off that way, but jeez...

This post is an example of how political bias not only works is but is incredibly stupid.

"The party I support did something stupid and moronic, in this case relating to video games, so a video game website posts a half mocking piece about it: LIBERAL BIAS!"

And it goes for the Liberals too, they do it just as much.

If your party does something as moronic as this, it's your job to hold them to account for it, I mean these people are the public face of your political opinion and if they are being mocked, they are being mocked because they did or said something stupid and deserve it.

 

[Something Amyss]

Considering Fox's body of work, I'm pretty sure they didn't do it ironically. Either that, or they've become the penultimate Poe.

And it goes for the Liberals too, they do it just as much.

[citation needed]

 

[Rellik San]

And it goes for the Liberals too, they do it just as much.

[citation needed]

Claim political bias when one of their politicians does something stupid and is called out on it by the media?

Everyone does it, hell I stand left of centre politically and even I'm guilty of it.

 

[Something Amyss]

Everyone does it.

Then it should be incredibly easy to prove.

 

[Something Amyss]

Considering Fox's body of work, I'm pretty sure they didn't do it ironically. Either that, or they've become the penultimate Poe.

I have heard that some people behind the scenes, as well as two of the hosts, are basically being sell-outs, but still oftentimes sabotage the conversations or programs with minor things here and there.

I gotta admit, that would be kind of awesome.

 

[Rellik San]

Everyone does it.

Then it should be incredibly easy to prove.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bbc-news-stop-this-media-blackout-of-the-green-party

Studies have shown the BBC is a slightly left leaning but mostly partisan organisation:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10235967/BBC-is-biased-toward-the-left-study-finds.html

 

[Monsterfurby]

That reminds me: How is that Libertarian ocean nation project coming along, by the way?

[Stewie Griffin in increasingly high pitched voice]Got some funding already? A group of capable people together? Doing some scouting for equipment? Some luxury ships maybe? Got yourself a mission statement? Some legal groundwork? A plan B? A concrete timeline?[/Stewie Griffin]

 

[Cousin_IT]

I'm no expert, but I think that flag is upside down.

 

[Zhukov]

I'm no expert, but I think that flag is upside down.

Huh. So it is.

Isn't displaying an upside down flag supposed to be like a lynch-worthy mortal sin for yanks?

 

[Dalisclock]

I'm no expert, but I think that flag is upside down.

Huh. So it is.

Isn't displaying an upside down flag supposed to be like a lynch-worthy mortal sin for yanks?

It's supposed to be a sign of distress.