[RDTF]

But of course!!

"But Stephen King thought the number 13 was a bit unlucky, so the couple pitched in $12,999 instead. Eugley chipped in $1 to make for an even $13,000."

[dumpthelibs]

There are a few good guys in the entertainment field. King looks like one, Gary Sinese and any of the country-western singers are as well.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Very nice and very generous for someone who is otherwise a quasi-socialist liberal.

[mylife]

King Ping

[goodnesswins]

He’s trying to repair his image...y’all do remember what he said....about the individuals who couldn’t get into college HAVING to join the military???? Or something like that.

[waterhill]

I am sober tonight.....please forgive me, I will no longer mix allergy and pain meds with vodka...

I kind of remember that King was quoted telling kids something or other that you should study hard or join the military? He was basically slamming our troops. This was during the Bush Admin., so King gets a pass /sarc.

[cripplecreek]

King is a lefty but I give him props for this.

[OldPossum]

$13,000 does not strike me as much money from a guy who probably has made hundreds of millions of dollars from novels over the years.

[724th]

Stephen King spoke out of his posterior. Apparently he had a change of heart, and is doing penance. THAT, or his new book sales are in the basement, and it’s a PR move.

Check, what the most intelligent King had to say about our military.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/05/writer-stephen-king-if-you-cant-read-youll-end-army-or-iraq

[724th]

BTW. Military members are considerable book consumers.

[bigbob]

Nice.

[who knows what evil?]

King always worked like a dog for Democrat candidates in Maine. He despised Rush Limbaugh so much that he actually purchased the radio station that carried Limbaugh and immediately changed the format to sports talk. Natch, another station picked up Limbaugh within a few weeks.

[Enosh]

Sorry, Stephen.

You took part in "Not One Damn Dime Day" on January 20, 2005 and that's what you'll get from me henceforth - Not One Damn Dime.

[uncbob]

He is a typical left wing wacko I agree his book sales must have been hurt after that comment about the military

I read 3 of his books and that was enough gore etc etc
I couldn’t take anymore

[suthener]

I posted this a couple of years ago:

I have read just about everything Stephen King has written. He can write a very good story. However, in his books, Christians and gun owners are (as far as I remember) always nuts. There is never a simply normal Christian person. There are also never any normal gun owners. If the person owns a gun, they usually own an “arsenal” and are nutcase skinhead survivalists. He has always been a big Dem supporter.

But you do have to give him credit for this.

[Dogbert41]

My favorite King book/novella, whatever, brought to cinema was “The Mist”. Of course it had the obligitory crazy Christian lady. I don’t think he can write a story without slamming Christianity somehow, and let’s not forget, the Mist was brought on by the military.

A few other of his, the military is the bad guy as well.

Now that I think of it, forget him.

[Grizzled Bear]

Awe, what a kind gesture from a liberal elite scum bag who not only denigrated America's soldiers, but also routinely characterizes pro-life conservatives in his books as slack-jawed, homicidal sociopaths.

[Shellback Chuck]

Maybe he seen this article.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/men_with_guns.html

[DemforBush]

It's a good thing for the guys who are going to get to spend Christmas at home this year, whatever King's feelings towards the military may be. So kudos to King on this one.

One a somewhat related note...have any of you seen King lately? He's morphing into Keith Olbermann before our very eyes!