Posted on 05/05/2008 6:27:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Remember shortly before Election Day 2006 when Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) suggested that if you don't get a good education, "you get stuck in Iraq" (video available here)?
Well, last month, famed horror author Stephen King was speaking in front of a group of high school students at the Library of Congress, and he virtually made the exact same statement.
For those that can bear it, what follows is another in a long line of liberal media members bashing the military (embedded right, h/t Terry Ann):
I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.
Nice sentiment when the nation is at war, Stephen.
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Well, yes, King is liberal. That’s old news. I still like his writing and will continue purchasing his books.
Pssst...hey, wanna go to a Dixie Chicks concert with me? LOL!
Good for you!
That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt. Noel Sheppard says, “Nice sentiment when the nation is at war, Stephen.” I guess he feels ignorance and illiteracy are OK when the country needs cannon-fodder. I guess he also feels that the war in Iraq has nationwide approval. Well, it doesn’t have mine. It is a waste of national resources. . . and that includes the youth and blood of the 4,000 American troops who have lost their lives there and for the tens of thousands who have been wounded. I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don’t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career—military or otherwise. If you agree, find Sheppard on the internet, and send him an email:
To Mr King (and Kerry)....I read just fine thank you.I read so well that I’ve read a number of passages from the “holy” koran (in English,of course).You two might try doing the same.You might find it an eyeopening experience.
Another Liberal idiot heard from ... although the only book/movie I liked from SK was Christine ......
Except that's not what you said Steve-o
You can try and twist and spin your words anyway you want Mr. King but what you in effect said was that if you are illiterate you can join the U.S. Armed forces, a completely unsupportable contention BTW, thereby conveying the message that the courageous young men and women in our military are only there because they are to stupid to get a "real" job.
Yet another Liberal Elitist with "delusions of relevance".
I have never read one of his books but they have been the basis for some really bad movies.
I question King’s patriotism - in fact, I’d have to say I see NO evidence for his self proclaimed patriotism at all. Like most lefties, they’re always huffing and puffing when challenged about their obvious lack of national pride and support for traditional ideals. Somehow, socialist agendas just don’t seem to be good material for old-fashioned flag waving. Wanting good things for kids has nothing to do with national pride and simply desiring to foist utopian idiocy on a nation at war is no kind of patriotism unless you actually favor the enemies of your nation and owe your civic allegiance to killers and psychopaths.
If there’s going to be another muzzie attack on US soil, here’s hoping it’s epicenter is King’s oh-so-patriotic homestead.
He never should have stopped drinking.
Stevie “novel a day” King is a fiction writer. Make-believe is his expertise. Why should anybody be shocked he is a Democrat.
Hey stevie-boy, quit writing for money. You capitalist pig!
Exactly, King sounds like he's spewing the Democrat line.
I like his books but jeez, get a brain.
I’ve yet to see a movie made from a book that was anywhere near as good as the book. And it doesn’t seem to matter who the author is. I’m always disappointed when I see book-to-movie. The only one that came anywhere close was The Color Purple.
Sounds like the little sh!t’s been hanging out with Jon Cary.
And In Cold Blood.
Actually, if you can’t read, you might have a tough time getting into the army.
The “Harry Potter” movies have always been quite close to the books.
This idiot obviously hit his head real hard when he was run over by that Republican back in 1999.
“I guess he feels ignorance and illiteracy are OK when the country needs cannon-fodder.”
I’d like to see him explain to someone in the service of our country that they’re “cannon fodder” and too dumb to realize it.
And that was probably because the BOOKS were so bad! LOL.
Just let a Gila Monster and some Brown recluse spiders go in your house. You'll have twice the suspense with no tawdry tripe.
I refuse to waste my money supporting this or any other half-wit libtard hack.
I think that it should be said that Mr. King does an awful lot of good for the local community. Among the tings that come immediately to mind are building+financing a Little League ballpark (it was fully lit for night games...quite a place). He financed the UMaine swim team (for a time, he may still...) when money for it was cut as a part of Title IX bs. The Bangor Public Library received an "Anonymous Donation" (yup, really anonymous in a small town) of 3 million dollars as a part of their remodeling project.
This was just while I lived in Maine, I'm sure that he's done more since. Whatever his political views are, he pours his money back into the community with both hands, and I can appreciate that.
I think that it should be said that Mr. King does an awful lot of good for the local community. Among the tings that come immediately to mind are building+financing a Little League ballpark (it was fully lit for night games...quite a place). He financed the UMaine swim team (for a time, he may still...) when money for it was cut as a part of Title IX bs. The Bangor Public Library received an "Anonymous Donation" (yup, really anonymous in a small town) of 3 million dollars as a part of their remodeling project.
This was just while I lived in Maine, I'm sure that he's done more since. Whatever his political views are, he pours his money back into the community with both hands, and I can appreciate that.
Clearly this arrogant lib neither knows nor works with anyone in the Army or he never would have made such a statement. Libs cannot exist without a smug sense of superiority. This way they can refuse to debate their ideas as they can chalk up disagreement with an inability to comprehend them. They can’t accept the fact that other people might be just as intelligent as they yet choose to believe differently.
King is yet another pompous lib elitist. Every person I’ve ever dealt with in the military (including the Army) has been quite intelligent, even unusually so in many cases. King knows nothing about what the modern military is about and they have little use for unintelligent “cannon fodder”.
Nothing to do with fools like him accept laugh at him. Mr. King has never served one day in the armed services of this country. If he had, he would know there really isn’t a market for dumb soldiers.
Perhaps Alexander the Great, Hannibal, or Ceaser needed a collection of idiots to win a battle, however I doubt that very much.
As for King, I haven’t read him in a while. After the Wizard and Glass, I thought his talent was in severe decline. I’ve seen nothing that convinces me otherwise.
Funny thing is, I know that Stephen King is personal friends with at least one soldier. I wonder how he squares that guy with his statement.
That was a serious injury maybe brain damage accounts for this .
The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me were two movies superior to the King books they were based on. Actually, I liked Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption quite a bit, but the movie transcended it.
Oh, so he's a lying snake to boot!
Imagine if he had said, he supports the Police but he doesn't support Police methods and procedures or the policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career—police or otherwise, or he supports Doctors but he doesn't support Medical Science or the policies that limit their career options.
He shows his ass, not his patriotism!
King often makes crude comments. The man seems to be filled with a lot of hate.
Back in the day, he was my favorite author (during high school).. But then his writing included more politics within the horror for every book he wrote. The more books he wrote, the more I started avoiding buying and reading them. It got to the point that “it’s Bush’s fault”, literally, in most, if not all, of his latest books. Since I lost my interest in his writing, I ended up being a big fan of Tom Clancy, and I believe his fiction is actually more educational all around. His books might also be fiction, but they have many geographical and technical references that are really interesting.
Anyway, I think that after his accident, a few, if not all, marbles fell out and he couldn’t find ‘em.
Most of the soldiers in my unit can read in multiple languages.
Oh, and Stephen....I can read well enough to recognize the fact that your books are a lot of formulaic crap.
I have never liked his works.
It’s one thing to be able to read, and another to be able to comprehend.
I’ll put our troops up against your abilities any day King.
So much for The Stand?
Don't buy his books. Just wait until the book you want shows up at the library.
I always thought Last of the Mohicans and To Kill a Mockingbird transfered well to the big screen.
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