Halo 2/ Political wank!
Right before the release of Halo 2, EW does an interview of one of the grunts on the project. (Subscription required. Woe.)

Key quote: "You could look at it," Staten says of his Halo 2 storyline "as a damning condemnation of the Bush Administration’s adventure in the Middle East."

Conservative site takes it and runs with it, and there is much wank in the ensuing comments. Much speculation over whether Microsoft is conservative or liberal, which parts of it are conservative or liberal whether the left hand washes the right, and general agreement that Bill Gates is Satan either way.

But wait! Somewhere between the 101st and 150th comment, Joseph Staten, the poor grunt assigned to pacify the EW journalists, steps in to explain he was screwed over.

People wank anyway.

The lesson? Never feed live meat to reporters. And Our Dark Lord makes fucking awesome videogames.