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Posted on 05/06/2008 5:31:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Stephen King fires back after blogger attacks remarks
BANGOR, Maine (AP) Stephen King has fired back at conservative critics who attacked him over a remark he made a month ago at a writers symposium for high school students.
A blogger jumped on King's statement at the Library of Congress about the importance of reading in which he suggested poor readers have limited prospects, including service in the Army.
''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 not as bright,'' King said at the April 4 event in which he was accompanied by his wife Tabitha and son Owen.
Blogger Noel Sheppard likened the comment to former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's remarks that if you don't get a good education, ''you get stuck in Iraq.''
''Nice sentiment when the nation is at war, Stephen,'' Sheppard wrote.
King fired back Monday.
''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,'' he said in a statement posted on his Web site.
King said he supports the troops but believes the war in Iraq is ''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.''
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I read one of his books once and I thought it sucked ass.
Thats GREAT, way to go Noel...LOL
''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,'' he said in a statement posted on his Web site.
Sorry King, but our troops have very high level of education on the average. To demean them this way was inexcusable, and it impugned the troops, something you're not fit to do.
He put the nastiest racist joke I’ve ever heard anywhere in one of his books. He put it in the mouth of a racist character.
If he had a brain....he’d have apologized for intimating that our soldiers are not educated......but, NOOOOO.....he’s got liberal brains....
King said he supports the troops but believes the war in Iraq is ‘’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.’’
There are level headed patriotic people that feel the same way, but we wouldn’t use the demeaning language that this moron used a month ago.
“Sorry King, but our troops have very high level of education on the average.”
Very true. The number of soldiers that I knew personally that either had a degree or were working on one is staggering. Probably 7 in 10.
LOL, look at who can't read!!! No, Richardbreath, we question your patriotism because you dissed the Army, not because of asking children to read.
King said something very stupid and he got caught. And now he’s mad. Too bad, Stephen. He may claim to be proud of the Guard in his town, but American soldiers seem to be the villains in an awful lot of his stories.
King, like many left wing loons is lying. I wonder if they go to school for that.
Just Damn. So many of his books (and yes, I’ve read pretty much all of them and don’t care what you think of me for that) have good vs. evil as the theme and he tends toward the good winning. His pissy response to this incident is (admittedly) telling, but..... just damn!
Yeah, it’s all too easy to impugn King’s patriotism ~ and that’s nobody’s fault but his own..
It’s really sad what the lefties have to do to make a point.
You don’t agree with the war, say so. Don’t demean our troops who are putting their ass on the line to deter terrorism worldwide.
It’s like once they get their words in print, or mug on a movie screen, they are immediately confered god status. Well, not in my household.
Is he not kind of WEIRD?????Must be a friend of the rev!!!!!!!!!!
I agree I have only read one of his books - at least part of it. It started out as a Western with a gunfighter killing everything. Well written, then, the gunfighter went into a field with ghosts, gobblins (or something weird like that). I threw the book in the corner and swore to never read another one.
Stephen King needs to get a few more angry messages informing him that this struggle is not a waste of national resources. If the United States does not have the will to fight a war where the enemy uses the tactics of asymmetric warfare, our days are numbered. Once this type of warfare gets started in our cities, we will "waste" more than "national resources" to fight it. We will then have to pay a huge price, if it gets within our borders.
Right now, Iraq has served as a magnet to draw our enemies into the struggle. As we document the sources of these attackers, we learn more about how to defeat them. The other benefits to fighting the struggle in Iraq we can leave to the professionals in our military--not ignorant writers who can't read for themselves the stakes of this game and why we need to fight it.
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Maybe it's time for him to take a jog along a road in Iraq. He might not be so lucky the next time he gets hit by a car.
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