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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Those who can't read literature, read Stephen King crap.
I've trained with a lot of military folks. All of them were highly intelligent.
Their mission, fighting Islamofascism and preventing Islamofascists from gaining total control of the world's petroleum supply, is far more honorable than half the crap that Bill Clinton sent them around the world for. They never protested Clinton, though.
Like many Leftists this day, they've changed their tact from the 1960’s burning of the American flag to wrapping it around them while they give the finger to the US.
Just notice how many flags fly around anti-American lawn signs and bumper stickers.
Where did King fight again?
I like how he snipes as if he didn’t mention the Army...
‘I just said kids should read’.
It’s easy to be a fat-ass armchair general... ‘I think it’s a waste of resources’, so were the trees used to print your books... did that ever stop you?
You’re dead-on right.
The true “waste of national resources” was 9-11. (Thank you, Mr. Clinton) We didn’t start this fight, but if we don’t end it, we’re screwed.
What an intelligent, insightful literary review! You must be proud.
Second ugliest. Garrison Keillor and he look like they were spawned from the same roe.
If he gets the candidate he wants, soon he’ll be the first one on the chopping block; I thought the ‘elite’ had self-preservation in mind... guess they don’t think that far ahead.
All a bunch of morons. My good buddy who served a tour in both Afghanistan and Iraq is receiving a bachelor’s degree in physics this weekend. I don’t know how he will ever go on now that hes out of the Marines.
paging Jon Cary, paging Jon Cary..... please pick up the Courtesy Phone for Liberal Idiots.....
Why do libs persist in believing (I won’t say “thinking” because they display such a total lack of thought) that our troops are losers and that it’s a waste of education to serve our country and protect our freedoms???!!?? Or that if only you could get an education INSTEAD of serving in the military, that would be best? People like King and Jon Cary ooze their disdain for our servicemen and women.
So that's your story and you're sticking to it, eh, King? American troops are so stupid they can't even read.
You can take your patriotism and shove it up your literate ass.
A friend took me to the movie ‘Cujo’, insisting that it was such a great book that it must be a phenomenal movie.
IT SUCKED!!
I prefer sci fi/fantasy books anyhow. It's a chance for me to get away from every day thinking.
The most I've read of King is the reports on him getting run down by a car while out walking,
Why I should care what he thinks is beyond me.
Especially since surveys show the average education and intelligence of a member of the US military is superior to that of an average American civilian.
But then since King is just a civilian, it only makes sense that he'd be educated below the average soldier!
Stephanie King is a dumb son of a b!tch.
The United States ARMY has some of the best and brightest folks this nation has to offer. Ditto for all the other military services.
The fact that these folks VOLUNTEER says volumes about them. THEY are the hope for the future.
I think it’s time another minivan knocks King’s stupid ass into a ditch.
I challenge Mr. King to debate the issue!
You and me on Fox & Friends, sir!
And I promise to take it easy on you.
I’ve never read one of the weirdo’s books and I never will now.
Instead we get the customary lecture about Iraq which is, after all, entirely irrelevant to the people serving there. And the defiant posturing which itself only serves to make the insult worse. As I say, it's a sad case.
He's an Obama man, by the way. What a surprise.
That’s actually all the review one needs. Generally critics who write “insightful”, “intelligent” reviews tend to be people who concentrate on the critique of others work becuause they don’t have a talented bone in their body. I like the short, raw reviews like the one posted above ;)
“His books stink! His movies stink! He is the ugliest M-F’er I’ve ever seen, and his wife looks like she was fed hard candy with a slingshot! May he rot in hell!”
LOL! Tell us how you really feel.
“If children learned to read”... I like this guys’ books made into movies more than this guys’ books. Take Anytown, USA, plot an unknown evil force, find one “misunderstood” otherwise “gifted” individual, often times a child and alas, what survives is the rebirth of humanity. He must have had better acid than me back in the day.
“He and all the other leftist commie rat bastards are lying when they say they support the troops but not the mission.”
Actually, they may very well support the troops. AS VICTIMS. That’s the difference.
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