[metesky]

King tries to fire back, but his gun jams. (Well, it would have if he believed in the 2nd Amendment and really had a gun.)

[Tribune7]

He said the army recruits illiterates. It’s not just his patriotism that is being questioned but his intelligence.

[EarthBound]

I was using my alma-mater's gym last night, and they had Glenn Beck on one of the TV's (much to my surprise), and he went off on King.

Said that it's not so much King as it is ALL the "elites" in the country who feel this way, and of course know better than us. Then he said that the only book he ever read by King had a stupid ending, because of the Giant Spider. (IT)

I quite enjoyed it, though I'll admit I also enjoyed IT. I wish entertainers would just sthu and perform their craft, rather than show how woefully foolish they are.

[maggief]

[A.A. Cunningham]

Stephen King - 4F draft deferment.

[mbynack]

King has never been very competent at research. If he would have taken a few minutes to look up the facts before he shot his mouth off he would have found that the military enlisted are better educated than the US population as a whole. I earned three undergraduate degrees and a Master’s degree while in the AF and most of the people that I competed against for promotion to Senior Master Sergeant had at an undergrad degree.

[Drawsing]

Here is what he said, minus the strange keyboard characters:

"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,"

[netmilsmom]

>>”I live in a National Guard town, and I support our troops, but I don’t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career” military or otherwise,” King said. <<

It was stated on another thread that he supports the troops by sending them books.

And Joebuck asked, “Why would he give books to people he thinks can’t read?”

Stephen King is a tool.

[mbynack]

From the Defense Department Statistics on Education:

Table 2.7 Levels of Education of FY 2002 Active Component NPS Accessions, by Service, and Civilians 18-24 Years Old (Percent)
Education Level1	Army	Navy	Marine Corps	Air Force	DoD	18- to 24-Year-Old Civilians*
Tier 1: Regular High School Graduate or Higher	86.4 (91.4**)	91.9	97.4	98.6	91.9 (94.0**)	79.4
Tier 2: GED, Alternative Credentials Alternative Credentials	13.6	4.6	2.8	1.4	7.2
Tier 3: No Credentials	0.0	3.4	0.2	0.0	0.8	20.6
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
College Experience (Part of Tier 1)2	10.6	6.4	1.9	12.7	8.5	46.7
Columns may not add to total due to rounding. * Civilian numbers and percentages combine Tiers 1 and 2 as civilian data include GED certificates with high school graduate rates. ** Tier 1 data calculated excluding GED+ participants from total accessions. GED+ is an experimental program enlisting up to 4,000 active duty Army applicants with a GED or no credential who have met special screening criteria for enlistment. 1 Service data from OUSD(P&R)(MPP)/Accession Policy have been reviewed and updated by the Services for official submission. Data presented in this table may differ slightly from the data shown in appendix tables that are taken from DMDC's USMEPCOM Edit File. 2 College experience data from the Services are defined as those individuals with the following credentials: associate degree, professional nursing diploma, baccalaureate, master's, post master's, doctorate, first-professional, or completed one semester of college. Also see Appendix Tables B-7 (Education by Service and Gender) and B-8 (Education by Service and Race/Ethnicity). Source: Service data are from OUSD(MPP)/Accession Policy—submitted in accordance with DoD Instruction 7730.56. USMC college experience data are from DMDC’s USMEPCOM Edit File. Civilian data are from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey File, October 2001 – September 2002.

SOURCE:

http://www.defenselink.mil/prhome/poprep2002/chapter2/c2_education.htm

[N. Theknow]

Another liberal defending his lack of patriotism.

Support the troops but not the mission?

Like supporting literacy but against book publishing.

[DJ Taylor]

Stephen King, being a snide little elitist, is incapable of understanding that since the beginning of time there have always been warriors among us who have taken up arms to defend our women, our children, and the snide little elitists among us when enemies threatened their safety. These warriors have not chosen the warrior’s life due to lack of education in the liberal arts or because of promised rewards; warriors are warriors because that’s what warriors do. A warrior’s chosen life is not considered a job; it is a calling.

[johnny7]

[BilLies]

King says: “If you don't (read), 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.”

How do you think this would play?
“If you don't read, then you got Obama, drugs, have to stay in the inner city schools or something like that, its not as bright”

[rightwingintelligentsia]

At least he’s not claiming it was a “botched joke.”

[Da Coyote]

Is this the S King who was a school teacher before he struck it big? Yup, lots of great “education” there. We see the results each day. Again, whenever he wants to match wits with any of my Academy class, just let me know.

[Old Grumpy]

I always thought King was strange; he just confirmed it for me.

[Tao Yin]

"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.

That would be beneath contempt, but that's not why King is being criticized. Maybe King has a problem reading... Let's ship him to Iraq!

[silent_jonny]

King: I support our troops, but I don't support either the war

Then you don't support the troops, ass.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“King said he supports the troops but believes the war in Iraq is a “waste of national resources “

An analogy for Stephen would be: Some would say they support publishing books; but they are against trees being made into paper.

[Vaquero]

His novels suck.....

....the best of his movies was “The Shining” and he hated it because it did not follow his book......thank God.

[ripley]

i will now shun mr. king’s books just as i shun jane fonda’s films.