Posted on 11/27/2007 12:35:43 PM PST by Mrs. Frogjerk
STEPHEN KING: So who's going to be TIME Person of the Year? Really? Yeah. You know, I just filmed a segment for Nightline, about The Mist, and one of the things I said to them was, you know, "You guys are just covering — what do they call it — the scream of the peacock, and you're missing the whole fox hunt." Like waterboarding [or] where all the money went that we poured into Iraq. It just seems to disappear. And yet you get this coverage of who's gonna get custody of Britney's kids? Whether or not Lindsay drank at her twenty-first birthday party, and all this other shit. You know, this morning, the two big stories on CNN are Kanye West's mother, who died, apparently, after having some plastic surgery. And meanwhile, you've got Pakistan in the midst of a real crisis, where these people have nuclear weapons that we helped them develop. You've got a guy in charge, who's basically declared himself the military strongman and is being supported by the Bush administration, whose raison d'etre for going into Iraq was to spread democracy in the world. So you've got these things going on, which seem to me to be very substantive, that could affect all of us, and instead, you see a lot of this back-fence gossip. So I said something to the Nightline guy about waterboarding, and if the Bush administration didn't think it was torture, they ought to do some personal investigation. Someone in the Bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George. I said, I didn't think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it was torture.
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I think waterboarding people who seek our destruction is a lot different than a law abiding US Citizen who is the daughter or our President.
Too bad. I really admire his work.
Oh yea?!
Well rockrr thinks that Stephen King should STFU.
BFD, looks like neither of us is gonna get our wish today ;’}
I thought the Soviets helped Pakistan develop the bomb.
“I think waterboarding people who seek our destruction is a lot different than a law abiding US Citizen who is the daughter or our President.”
Exactly. What a nut King is. It’s like saying, “Hey, why don’t you live in jail and see how you like it” when you haven’t done anything illegal. Stupid.
I’ve never read a Stephen King book nor watched one of the movie adaptations.
My oh my how will I live with myself. His genre just doesn’t interest me.
His older books were good, but his newer ones are getting more and more politicized. He really went whacky after getting hit by that car. I refuse to buy his new stuff.
All the problems and issues out there and these clowns wring their hands over waterboarding.
Like they really give a damn.
He’s a nutjob. I don’t understand his popularity. He wrote one book and pretty much writes it over and over and over and over and over...
I happen to agree that there is a distinct difference between a person to whom is trying to kill innocent civilians and our soldiers, and Jenna. This is a typical liberal rant. They don’t agree with you, than they are entitled to go after your family and friends if they feel like it.
not surprised coming from him. Not surprised at all.
I think he needs to shut up and write.
how tolerant, diverse and inclusive.
And I think Steven King should be run over by a van...oh wait...too late.
You know King, maybe you could be focusing on something more relevant to your interests, like retiring.
I think Tabitha has his nuts in a jar somewhere. When did he become so much of a douchebag? The new ending was a total disappointment, by the way, but the movie was otherwise faithful to the novella and quite scary.
lol
For Liberals, torture is only justified when used against those who have opposing viewpoints.
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