Long and the short of it: a reporter named Michael Crowley writes and article pointing out that Bush’s favorite science confidant, Michael Crichton, is a little less than honest or accurate in his anti-global-warming tirade “State of Fear.”
Crichton, of course, is too classy to respond to such criticism. What’s his next classy move? This:
Hmmmmm…
Oh, whoops, lost the link:
Quote originates from where?
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Quote originates from where?
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Never mind.
Lord God, what an asshole, what a galactic rectum! Lampooning one’s rhetorical enemies is fair game, and an entertaining one as well, but a baby raper?
Oh, sorry: yes the passage in question is from Crichton’s newest airport-reading-must-buy book “Next.” As the article explains, this character is a complete passing reference, with no impact at all on the plot: just a lot of nasty things to say about the mysterious “Mick Crowley,” of the incredibly tiny penis that still manages to tear a child’s rectum like a mofo.
:sniff::sniff:
I smell a South Park episode coming from this.
This year’s “Biggest Douche in the Universe.” Bet they’ll call the author “Mick Cretin.”
I hope they do a bit about how he looks for his own penis with a magnifying glass and tweezers, while he attempts to sodomize a corpse, only to have the corpse re-animate and laugh at him.
Am I the only one who is more horrified that Michael Crichton is Bush’s favorite science confidant?
Wow. Pen is mightier than the sword eh?
Originally Quoted by: Chaucer
Crichton is an incredible asshole, that quote was over the top for almost any slight.
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Lord God, what an asshole, what a galactic rectum! Lampooning one’s rhetorical enemies is fair game, and an entertaining one as well, but a baby raper?
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Not only that, but a needeldick babyraper.
This is the kind of thing I’d expect from a high school kid writing Mary Sues. From an immensely successful veteran writer, it’s pretty pathetic.
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Am I the only one who is more horrified that Michael Crichton is Bush’s favorite science confidant?
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I’m horrified about it…but not terribly surprised.
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Lord God, what an asshole, what a galactic rectum! Lampooning one’s rhetorical enemies is fair game, and an entertaining one as well, but a baby raper?
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Not sticking up for Crichton, but a person who responds saying
isn’t working with a full deck either.
Does anyone else keep seeing this thread title as Michael Crichton is a pretty bitch?
Someone ought to mention it on his Amazon review page
If the OP had presented this story to me without the time frame or the names of the principals, I would have assumed the author was L. Ron Hubbard. It just sounds like his kind of tantrum.
And that’s the worst thing I can think to say about Crichton. :mad:
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Does anyone else keep seeing this thread title as Michael Crichton is a pretty bitch?
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“Mick Crowley” might.
May they soon meet. 
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Not sticking up for Crichton, but a person who responds saying
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In lieu of a letter to the editor, Crichton had fictionalized me as a child rapist. And, perhaps worse, falsely branded me a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer.
isn’t working with a full deck either.
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I read that as droll sarcasm.
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Not sticking up for Crichton, but a person who responds saying
isn’t working with a full deck either.
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I suppose you could make the argument that he’s clearly not a baby raper, but that he could be a pharmaceutical industry profiteer, so the second insult is the one more likely to hurt his image; but you’re right, that’s a pretty odd set of priorities. 
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I read that as droll sarcasm.
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I did, too. The ironic tone is pretty obvious.