News: Thompson Cites God For Take-Two Share Slide
Posted 30 Dec 2008 at 14:52 by Aaron Clegg
The disbarred attourney has credited God as being responsible for video game publisher Take-Two's recent fall in share price.
Not content with getting himself permanently disbarred, Jack Thompson has once again gone on the offensive against Take-Two: publishers of the controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise.
In a heated e-mail exchange with GamePolitics, Thompson cited God as the reason for 35 percent drop in T2's share price, not long after chairman Strauss Zelnick assumed the company's immunity from the economic recession. The first e-mail from Thompson is as follows:
GOD STRIKES TAKE-TWO DOWN
Take-Two dropped $2.35 to $9.72 in extended trading after the announcement and fell as low as $9.60. The shares... have declined 35 percent this year. The results contrast with comments Zelnick made in an interview on Nov. 3, when he said sales of the company's video games hadn't been hurt by the recession...
To which, a spokesperson from GamePolitics replied:
So, if T2's business reverse was God's vengeance, does that mean that God struck you down too when you were disbarred?...
With his feathers clealy russled, Thompson came back with this comment:
...If you had any understanding of the Bible and of God you would understand that persecution comes Christians' way, and we are blessed by it. There is no blessing for Zelnick, who is not a Christian, when he gets what he deserves...
The full exchange (which makes for good reading) can be found via the link below...