Rushdie in Chicago, laments no appearance on "The Simpsons"

Condemned-by-the-jihadists author Salman Rushdie is in Chicago this afternoon, talking about his books and his life as a fugitive from the nutjobs in Iran that pronounced a death sentence against him almost twenty years ago--after the publication of his book The Satanic Verses.

From the Chicago "free registration required" Tribune:

Among his sharpest disappointments, Rushdie said, is never yet having appeared as a character in "The Simpsons": "I quite resent it. I find it deeply shocking," he added, with deadpan sincerity.

Rushdie did have a bizarre almost appearance on "Seinfeld." But that Rushdie only existed in the imagination of the Kramer character.

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