Author Crichton (Jurassic Park) Tells the Truth About Clinton and Feminists in Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly Magazine ^ | 11/29/2002 | Benjamin Svetkey (interviewer)

[venturin]

In this weeks Entertainment Weekly magazine there is an interview with Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, the Andromeda Strain, Disclosure, Rising Sun, and other bestsellers. He also does other work in movies and television, including creating the show E.R.

Crichton lives in L.A. and was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly's Benjamin Svetkey.

During the interview the topic turned to attacks Crichton has received for not being politically correct in his books. Crichton explains his feelings on what has become of feminism since Clinton. It's pretty amazing to read something like this is such a mainstream magazine. In fact this magazine is part of the AOL/Time/Warner empire.

Anyway, here's the exchange;

Excerpt
Entertainment Weekly: Last question about your critics: You were attacked for racism because of the depictions of Japanese businessmen in Rising Sun. Disclosure wasn't wildly popular with feminists.

Michael Crichton: There was also a lot of discussion about whether Jurassic Park was antiscience-don't forget that.

EW: Are you surprised by the controversy you sometimes stir up?

Crichton: I was surprised by the reception Rising Sun got. But I knew that making the man the victim of sexual harassment would make Disclosure controversial. That was the idea. To stir things up and make people think.

EW: You stir up the sexual politics in this latest book, too. The stay-at-home dad is its hero, while his working wife is a villain. Not a big fan of feminism?

Crichton: I wouldn't say that. I had one of the first subscriptions to Ms. magazine. I was actually quite sorry to see feminism take the nosedive it did, to watch it commit intellectual suicide with its support for Clinton. If they like the guy, he can do anything. But if they don't-if it's Bob Packwood-they kill him. It revealed the intellectual contradiction. At least that's my reading of it.

[Paul Atreides]

I have a couple of books on the subject of writing, and both have quotes from that feminazi. It makes me sick.

[aristeides]

Japanese economic power was the result of favorable U.S. policies. When the Cold War ended, the U.S. no longer had the same interest in propping up the Japanese economy.

I think Germany is now in the process of learning the same lesson.

[xm177e2]

I always had her pegged as a lesbo

She's married (to a man) right now.

[aristeides]

NOW receives federal funding. I suspect other feminist organizations do as well. I also suspect the Clintons enjoy using their power to force people to do things that are obviously contrary to their principles.

[Cate]

uh, he seems to be doing better than Al Gore at selling books...bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"She wrote that Gloria Steinem confessed she had sex with a rich publisher in order to secure about 1 million in loans and grants to get the magazine to survive. So much for feminism....

A MILLION bucks just for a single (and ugly!) lay of a single woman!!!!!

So much for the stupidity of the NY press!

Hell ... At least the terrorists are promised 72 virgins. (Now, we don't know whether they will actually get them or not.....Nor what the virgins look like. )

[Robert A Cook PE]

Today, NOW's SOLE purpose and function is spreading the gospel of abortions as far as possible.

They have no other agenda any more.

President Clinton (and Bill too!) followed that agenda compeltely in every political move and appointment.

Even Reno put protecting abortion organizations at the top of her priorities: spending millions of FBI man-hours hunting a single (probable!) abortion clinic bomber. Her FBI domestic terrorism chief called conservative Christian churches "armed terrorist group's ... and a danger to us all."

[Republic]

Crichton: I wouldn't say that. I had one of the first subscriptions to Ms. magazine. I was actually quite sorry to see feminism take the nosedive it did, to watch it commit intellectual suicide with its support for Clinton. If they like the guy, he can do anything. But if they don't-if it's Bob Packwood-they kill him. It revealed the intellectual contradiction. At least that's my reading of it.

Wow. Gee Mia-even Crichton 'gets' it!:^)

[aristeides]

I wonder how much money the abortion industry contributes to the RATs.

[Paul Atreides]

That is what surprised me. I had not heard about the other guy until I read Slander.

[venturin]

Too bad NOW has been shown to have no real principles. They thought that using sexual politics against their enemies would last forever. Too bad they shot the wad over Clinton, so to speak, and lost a majority of their credibility.

[NativeNewYorker]

Thanks for posting this. I didn't realize
Crichton was this politically honest.

[Samwise]

Will you disown me if I tell you I once subscribed to Ms too? Hey, it was the seventies.

I met Gloria when she and a black lesbian (sorry, I can't remember her name) stayed in my dorm. Ms. Steinem said that the women's movement would be a success when incompetent women held positions of authority like men do.

Well...look around.

I could phrase this another way and say that the goal of feminism is incompetence.

[Mia T]

 

 

"Who is Juanita Broaddrick? I've never heard of her!" cried Betty Friedan, the founder of modern feminism. Friedan's outburst came at last Friday's conference, entitled "The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton." Held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. D.C., the event offered a chilling microcosm of an angry, divided America.

 

For nearly an hour, a five-woman panel had been debating whether Hillary qualified as a "feminist heroine." I thought Broaddrick's claim of having been raped by Hillary's husband had some bearing on this point, so I broached the subject during the question-and-answer period. Friedan's dyspeptic denial followed.

 

Was Friedan telling the truth? Maybe. And maybe all those millions of Germans who professed ignorance of the death camps were telling the truth too. The problem is, having admitted her ignorance, Friedan showed no interest in exploring the matter further. And that was the problem with the Germans too.

 

Totalitarian impulses flourished at the conference. Taking a page from Soviet psychiatry, some Clintonites suggested that Hillary hating might be a mental illness. . .

 

Richard Poe, The Hillary Conspiracy

 

YOO-HOO Mrs. clinton:

THE CLINTON RAPES ARE "UNBECOMIMG"

_{zipper-hoisted}

PRENUP/POST-RAPE SENATE SEAT

Q ERTY3

_{rodham-clinton} ^{reality-check}

!BUMP!

[Mia T]

sorry, wrong link above. correction:

 

 

"Who is Juanita Broaddrick? I've never heard of her!" cried Betty Friedan, the founder of modern feminism. Friedan's outburst came at last Friday's conference, entitled "The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton." Held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. D.C., the event offered a chilling microcosm of an angry, divided America.

 

For nearly an hour, a five-woman panel had been debating whether Hillary qualified as a "feminist heroine." I thought Broaddrick's claim of having been raped by Hillary's husband had some bearing on this point, so I broached the subject during the question-and-answer period. Friedan's dyspeptic denial followed.

 

Was Friedan telling the truth? Maybe. And maybe all those millions of Germans who professed ignorance of the death camps were telling the truth too. The problem is, having admitted her ignorance, Friedan showed no interest in exploring the matter further. And that was the problem with the Germans too.

 

Totalitarian impulses flourished at the conference. Taking a page from Soviet psychiatry, some Clintonites suggested that Hillary hating might be a mental illness. . .

 

Richard Poe, The Hillary Conspiracy

 

YOO-HOO Mrs. clinton:

THE CLINTON RAPES ARE "UNBECOMIMG"

_{zipper-hoisted}

PRENUP/POST-RAPE SENATE SEAT

Q ERTY3

_{rodham-clinton} ^{reality-check}

!BUMP!

[Paulus Invictus]

Kodak did the very same thing. They invited the Nips to tour the film and camera factories and they copied everything the could (a lot).

Now Fuji, a company subsidized by the Japanese government, is gaining share in the US from an American company. Another big supporter of a photo products not American is Wal-Mart that presented the photofinishing business in every W-M store to Fuji. Go figure! Is there any wonder the trade deficit is so large with Asia? Is it any wonder that American products are becoming endangered species?

[Paul Atreides]

How could I disown Samwise Gamgee? ;-)

[Eva]

Thanks for the link to this article. I am so glad that you have saved some of these old articles. I have a feeling that we are going to need them in our arsenal in a few years.

[Tokhtamish]

How old are you ?

Are you old enough to have owned an American made car back in the 70's ?

Well if you are and you did then you owned a shoddy piece of junk that was worthless after 60,000 miles, that was forever in the shop for one reason or another, and whose hood after a few years bulged uneven with the chassis.

The Japanese success then can be laid to one thing. The Honda Accord and the Nissan Maxima were vastly better than most American cars on the market.