Archive: november 23, 2008
ECA Boss Says Joe Lieberman is "Misunderstood" [Hal Halpin]
![ECA Boss Says Joe Lieberman is "Misunderstood" [Hal Halpin]](/images/news/42322.jpg)
In a wide-ranging interview with Crispy Gamer, Hal Halpin, the president of the Entertainment Consumers Association, calls Senator and gamers' preferred punching bag Joe Lieberman "largely misunderstood and painted with a very broad brush."
"While I haven't agreed with much of what he has said in the past, he alone among legislators was responsible for effecting non-legislative change in our business and he did it with a lot of class, I might add" Halpin said.
Halpin said that comes from a meeting with Lieberman back when Halpin headed the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association, the one...
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