Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/21/pay2play/
iPhone app simulates political corruption
Be like Blagojevich
Posted in Odds and Sods, 21st February 2009 00:46 GMT
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You now can practice the skills of a corrupt Chicago politician, thanks to a new game that appeared Thursday on Apple's iTunes App Store.
Inspired by the saga of the ex-Grifter Governor of Illinois, Milorad "Rod" R. Blagojevich, Yanki.jp (http://www.yanki.jp/)'s iPhone and iPod Touch game, Pay2Play (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=303515426&mt=8) (App Store link), gives you 30 days to "pay back the unions, make tons of cash, and get out of town before getting impeached."
As Blagojevich said, a Senate seat is "bleeping golden"
And Yanki.jp is charging only $1.99 for the game - as if poor Milorad hasn't been humiliated enough.
First the LA Trends Examiner publishes a "Top 10 List (http://www.examiner.com/x-924-LA-Trends-Examiner~y2008m12d13-Top-10-prison-nicknamesmispronunciations-of-Gov-Rod-Blagojevich)" of Blago's future prison nicknames. Then The New York Times reports (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/us/politics/15blagojevich.html) his self-aggrandizing nickname for his precious Paul Mitchell hairbrush. Then he embarrasses himself (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/03/blagojevich-does-letterma_n_163736.html) on the Late Show with David Letterman. And finally The Daily Show's John Stewart dubs him "Scumdog Million-Hairs (http://www.ripetv.com/blog/view/381/)."
And now there's Play2Pay, described by its creator as "a time honored tradition as old as voting early and voting often."
It's been a tough last few months for the former pizza-delivery boy. ®