One more Obama hypocrisy - Xbox

The sheer political genius of slamming the must haves of your core constituency is one thing, but hypocrisy is well, par for the course now. 

 Remember this? It dates back to yesterday. President Obama slammed among other things the Xbox. 

"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter.

And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

So all of this is not only putting pressure on you; it's putting new pressure on our country and on our democracy."

Yeah, well , remember this Xbox game?  It's no Photoshop job.

“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told me via email, noting that EA regularly allows ad placements in their online games. “Like most television, radio and print outlets, we accept advertising from credible political candidates,” she continued. “Like political spots on the television networks, these ads do not reflect the political policies of EA or the opinions of its development teams.”

Yeah...