4 Famous People Who Have No Clue How to Handle Criticism

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Star Trek Into Darkness Writer Freaks Out at Fans

So, Star Trek fans can sometimes get upset about Star Trek movies, apparently. This was news to Star Trek Into Darkness screenwriter Roberto Orci, who stumbled across a fan article about how the franchise is "broken" and introduced himself in the most passive-aggressive way possible.

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"Respect all opinions. Except 9/11 being an inside job. That's fact."

Dropping a little snark isn't exactly classy, but it's understandable -- as long as you don't keep going, which Orci did:

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"If you didn't understand the movie I wrote, that means I win the argument."

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TV Host Kills Elephant, Calls Critics Hitler

Say you're getting some criticism because of that one time you shot an elephant in the face, which apparently you didn't see coming. What do you do? If you answered "call everyone Hitler," then you're either Under Wild Skies host Tony Makris or anyone under 16 who's allowed to use the Internet.

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He shot 15 elephants before he got the Groucho joke right.

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McDonald's Clarifies That "Lizard Tail" Is Actually "Chicken Blood Vein"

If you saw someone on Facebook post a gross photo of what they claim is a lizard tail in their sausage McMuffin, you'd probably think "ewww" and then forget about it two seconds later as you scroll down and become distracted by someone's even grosser baby.

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Paying attention to what you're eating at McDonald's is asking for trouble anyway.

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Kenneth Cole Is a Shitty Person and Doesn't Care

After sparking controversy for blatantly exploiting the riots in Egypt and, later, the conflict in Syria in order to promote his products, fashion designer Kenneth Cole offered the following defense: "Uh ... yup?"

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"Human rights violations? More like human rights viola-SHOES! Yeah, I don't care."

He later apologized, but we're starting to suspect that maybe he didn't mean it, considering that a) he kept doing the same goddamn thing ...

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"Wow! A famous person said a thing!" -562 people

... and b) he literally said "I wasn't sorry" and admitted it was all a grab for attention: "If you look at the lists of the biggest Twitter gaffes ever, we're always one through five. But our stock went up that day ... so on what criteria is this a gaffe?"

Sure, the guy offended millions and made light of a people's ongoing struggle for freedom, but money things happened, so what's the problem? Of course, he had probably planned the outrage over his outrage explanation, so forget we ever said anything.

J.F. Sargent is writing a sci-fi adventure novel you can read for free! He also exploits tragedy for personal gain on Twitter and Facebook.