Stephen King Channels John Kerry

RedState.com ^ | May 6, 2008 | Josh Painter

[Josh Painter]

Like in a scene from one of his horror novels, writer Stephen King channeled the spirit of John Kerry while addressing a group of high school students at the Library of Congress recently:

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.

What mysterious and evil force compels liberals to morph into complete morons when they deliver speeches to students? John Kerry was clearly possessed by some sinister entity in 2006 when he was speaking to students at Pasadena City College. The Senator and former Democrat Party Presidential Candidate advised them:

You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

Sean Hackbarth is on top of these strange occurrences, quoting the Pentagon's Bill Carr via a link to Gateway Pundit:

In fact, military recruits are far better educated than the general youth population, Carr said. More than 90 percent of recruits have a high school diploma, compared to about 75 percent of the U.S. youth population.

That's an important issue to the military, Carr said, because a traditional high school diploma is the single best indicator of a recruit's stick-to-it-ness and likelihood of successfully adjusting to military service. Recruits with a high school diploma have a 70 percent probability of completing a three-year enlistment versus a 50 percent chance for nongraduates.

The military has exceeded the 90-percent benchmark for recruits with high school diplomas every year since 1983, Carr noted.

Silly me, I thought that everyone knew that the Army requires a high school diploma or equivalent (such as a GED) of its enlistees.

Class discussion: If a high scool graduate lacks reading skills, is it because his or her NEA teachers did too much social engineering and not enough teaching?

Literature Students: Find the irony in the left's hostility to our military due to a sense of elitism born of ignorance.

Extra credit: Diagram the sentences in the King and Kerry quotes.

- JP

[Dick Vomer]

King is free to flippantly insult the military that would gladly lay down their lives for his right to be an ungrateful assh#le.

He doesn't know anybody in the armed forces and is mainly confined to his neighborhood with all the other inbred liberal pud-pullers in Blowcock Maine, or wherever.

He must be trying to get a movie deal or his publisher isn't happy with sales of his recent books.

I guess the next thing we'll hear from Mr. King is that he's gay and been living the life of a typical liberal..... going from truck stops to rest areas servicing lonely men in order to satisfy the little girl trapped in his body.

yeah, I have about 5-6 of his books..... He p#ssed me off. They're in the garbage now. I bought them and i know he's already profited from my purchase, but it will just get my blood pressure up if I see a book with his name on it in my library.

What an a##hole.

I hope he gets the chance to meet a wounded warrior someday in a private setting and realizes what kind of man he is....please Mr. King, meet some of these men and tell them that they are stupid and have NO OTHER OPTION in life.

Mr. King, these men can read. They have families that sacrifice and are willing themselves to serve with selfless devotion to our country. You wouldn't have clue one about honor, fidelity,self sacrifice and giving to a cause greater than yourself, you liberal puke.

[Wade827]

Well, at least King is honest about what he thinks of our troops. Unlike the “ I support the troops, BUT...” crowd.

I wish all Democrats would be honest like this, and tell America what they really think of the troops. They’d lose more elections that way.