[the invisib1e hand]

elitist blather

really gets old

like stale bread

it ceases to matter

in the pantry of

our collective consciousness...

[Old Sarge]

DTG: 120300Z MAY 08
FM: OLD SARGE
TO: STEVIE KING
SU: YOUR OPINION OF TROOPS
1. SCREW YOU.
2. NOTHING FOLLOWS.

[RedRover]

Ping!

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Especially with all of the complex technology used in the military these days, along with the protocol and procedures that must be learned, I can’t fathom how anyone can logically conclude that the military is the place for illiterate idiots.

Anyone, that is, but a liberal idiot with an agenda.

[smoothsailing]

This fool King is a bit late to the party.

"Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well," said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

[jazusamo]

LOL!!

Stephen King, John Kerry and the rest of the libtard dems who make these statements only show us how detatched from reality they are. They have no idea how the majority of people in this country live or the sacrifice our military people make to enable them to continue to live in a free country so they can make ridiculous remarks such as this.

They really should keep their mouth shut to enable people to contemplate their ignorance instead of removing any doubt.

[OldMissileer]

Yeah, right Mr. King, we are all illiterates in the service. Is that why back in the 1970’s when I enlisted the first ten weeks of my tech school were EE301 and EE302?

[AlaskaErik]

The military requires the ability to read texts at and around the 1200 Lexile mark. For those not in the education field, the Lexile measure is a text difficulty score. The measure is based on semantic difficulty and syntactic complexity. 1200, for instance, is the measure of a novel such as War and Peace.

That might be so for officers, but not for enlisted. The Army writes tech and field manuals at the fourth grade level. The great majority of Army enlistees are not going to be able to read War and Peace. I say that as someone with almost 32 years of military service. But going back to King's statement, it was condescending, elitist and typical of the American hating left. Most people who can't read will either spend most of their lives in prison or they'll be flipping burgers at McDonalds.