Posted on 12/15/2009 8:31:12 AM PST by wbill
He and his wife do an awful lot of good for the folks in Maine.
I’m good with it.
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I think it’s funny that he’s apparently superstitious. You’d figure horror writers would be immune to that.
He and his wife do an awful lot of good for the folks in Maine.
From what I've heard of him he's a flaming lefty, but I certainly have to give King and his wife mega-kudos for this one.
Worst. Movie. Ever.
He and his wife do an awful lot of good for the folks in Maine.
Good on him.
Never having met the man personally, I can only say “Bravo!”
He gets my vote. It’s good to see that bazillionaires are still human.
A very good friend of the family used to own King's current house. She said that she had to jump through about a million hoops to get anything done to it, ever, because it's a part of the local historic register, or somesuch nonsense.
Anyhoo, Mr. King buys the house from her. First thing that he does is to tear out one of the walls to let out all of the evil spirits. :-) Money talks.
King is an odd duck, that's for sure. However, the number of stories like the one in this article are too many to count. My fav is the "Anonymous" 3 million dollar donation to the Bangor Public Library, when it was undergoing renovations. Anonymous. Yeah, right.
even bad for a TV movie
So what do you say this stephen king person who did something good for our troops and why is he unpopular on FR for doing it?
His political views are rather to the liberal side, but he deserves and gets credit for this.
Ok, but why are this guys political views any more important than any other smuck’s views. What else has he done besides give 13K for a good cause? And how do you know he’s a liberal? does he post here on FR and that is why?
Whatever I think of his politics and his writing of the past couple of decades, he and his wife are more generous to those in need than anyone I know of any political backround, for which they deserve sincere thanks. I couldn’t care less if people know about his generosity or if it’s anonymous, and neither do those who benefit from it.
King was unpopular on this web site for.....
(1) Saying that if our young people didn’t study hard, they would end up in the Army, implying that soldiers are stupid and uneducated
(2) Refusing to apologize for his offensive comments
(3) Calling Glen Beck “Satan’s mentally challenged younger brother”
(4) Supporting Obama in 2008, Kerry in 2004, Gore in 2000, etc.
King redeemed himself a bit by doing something nice for the troops at Christmas.
He is a lefty, but he has always put his money where his mouth is. He has a long history of giving very generously to the local community.
He did some ads or something for MoveOn.org, and donated money to them. I’ve ignored his existence ever since.
http://www.adrants.com/2006/10/stephen-king-uses-creepiness-to-promote.php
Probably too much to list here, of the giving that is publicly known. For years, every year I've heard of some large donation King has given to fund some public good in Maine, some millions to build a public swimming pool, millions to the university, millions to a library, building a little league stadium, fixing up YMCAs, giving scholarships, etc. And he doesn't want the facilities he funded to be named after him either.
I don't agree with his politics, which are well-known if you'd heard his public statements, and I don't like that he also gives to liberal causes. But nobody can doubt his generosity towards his fellow Maine residents.
So this King guy is a millionaire that has not done anything other than spend his money for some good things without wanting his name attached. I guess he must be one of those “silver spoon” folks who inherited daddies money and haven’t had to work in life, thus doesn’t know what it is to work, thus is a liberal. gotcha, another non-working liberal layabout who doesn’t do anything productive in life.
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