Posted on 12/09/2004 10:03:31 AM PST by bagadonutz
Who dinosaured Michael Crichton? Was it a comet or just the responsibility of being America's prophet of doom? In his new book, State of Fear, Crichton once again ascends to the pulpit to warn us of an impending horror. Like the diabolical Japanese businessmen in Rising Sun and the corporate vixen in Disclosure, these new shadowy forces, Crichton says, lurk among us, poised to wreak havoc. They're among America's fiercest enemies. They're … environmentalists. State of Fear is a 600-page tirade about global warming. Crichton thinks environmentalists have become overheated about the threat and have substituted demagoguery for hard science. So he unleashes a cabal of ruthless greens, who build weather machines to punish their SUV-drivin', carbon-dioxide-emittin' neighbors with a plague of hurricanes and tsunamis. For Crichton's fans, this has got to be heartbreaking: The boy-novelist who engineered a tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park and mysterious pathogens from outer space in The Andromeda Strain has become a political pamphleteer, a right-wing noodge.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...
My bad - book was released on Dec 7. Check out the user reviews on Amazon. Al Gore ain't goin' to like this!
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066214130/qid=1102615490/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-8272503-6200907?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
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But Chricton's (sic) books have suffered as his right-leaning politics have come to the fore.
Yes, we know that novelists never write books mired in left-wing politics. We know this because no book reviewer has ever seen fit to mention it.
The Day after Tommorrow was based on a fiction by Art Bell, the esteemed alien and paranormal wiz.
The reviewer's review is entirely based on 'this is a bad book because chrichton is writing from a dangerous right wing point of view'.
If he wrote the same book, in the same manner, with a left wing, woe is the environment point of view, the reviewer would be fawning over it.
Environmentalist are getting a bad rap. Most of the subversive political whacko's are using them and the platform as a cover.
Just like the Clintonites use the race card.
Purge the leftist's from the ranks of true science.
Ops4 God Bless America!
The real irony is that even if man was causing global warming, the environmentalists shrill hysteria drowns out any chance of a rational dialog.
The book is called State of Fear, right? Why does the Slate critic refer to it as State of Terror at least once? Does Slate actually have editors?
Quote: The Day After Tomorrow
I just loved (sarcasm) the end of the movie whereby the 3rd world countries below the equator allowed the evil rich polluton northern 1st wordlers haven...The reporter said it in a snide way. ...and after the billions we have given them through the years. (I think in real life if our fellow countrymen were not let in we would have kicked their asses.)
Also the line from the astronuat about how clear the sky was because there was no more pollution.
BTW I did not rent this piece of crap I saw it with relatives at Thanksgiving.
Quote: The Day After Tomorrow
I just loved (sarcasm) the end of the movie whereby the 3rd world countries below the equator allowed the evil rich polluton northern 1st wordlers haven...The reporter said it in a snide way. ...and after the billions we have given them through the years. (I think in real life if our fellow countrymen were not let in we would have kicked their asses.)
Also the line from the astronuat about how clear the sky was because there was no more pollution.
BTW I did not rent this piece of crap I saw it with relatives at Thanksgiving.
Since when did Crichton become a right-winger?
If they're off the Microsoft dole, no. Not anymore.
Patrick J. Michaels adn Robert C. Balling, Jr., in their book: The Statanic Gases: Clearing the Air About GLobal Warming, debunk the whole global warming myth. Written by two climatologists who use hard science to expose the hoax. It's a must read for those of us on the irreverent, contrarian side of this issue.
Did I mention that I love my Diesel swilling SUV? I think I'll fire it up and drive around the block for the hell of it.
Oh yeah?
Hollyweird will not likely distribute a film critical of The Religion of the Left - Environmentalism
Crighton may or may not be a 'right winger' but he does have some great thinking in his novels. Jurassic Park has a wonderful section where the chaos theory mathematician discusses the vanity of man to think that mankind could eliminate life on earth by his activities.
good stuff
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