This Wednesday, June 25, GamePolitics reported that Connecticut Senator Gayle Slossberg jumped the anti Grand Theft Auto IV bandwagon. 

Initially, the New Haven Advocate quoted Slossberg requesting confirmation for a rumored rape scene in Rockstar's smash hit.  To its credit, the same article also mentions that the scene is likely nonexistent, as "four out of five gamer geeks in the blogosphere" agree.  As one of the comments stated, it's really more like five out of five because -- read this carefully -- there is no rape scene in GTA IV.

PSXExtreme followed up on this big mess, and it turns out Slossberg wants to clarify everything as a big misunderstanding:

"The article in the New Haven Advocate misrepresented my off-the-record-comments during an informal conversation about parenting. I was in no way announcing a legislative proposal, announcing intent to introduce legislation or taking a public position on restricting the content of video games."

So it turns out the Senator isn't planning to join the ranks of other politicians promoting federally enforced video game censorship.  She has yet to retract her statements regarding the fabled GTA IV rape scene, but we'll assume she got the message from the gaming community backlash.  Slossberg's no Jack Thompson, I'll give her that much.