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

2 posted on 05/07/2008 4:39:51 AM PDT by Tribune7 (How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)

in which he suggested poor readers have limited prospects, including service in the Army. "I donâ€™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 donâ€™t, then youâ€™ve got the Army, Iraq, I donâ€™t know, something like that.

Stephen King "suggested" nothing, he didn't "imply". He was upfront and blunt about it.

Meanwhile illiterate dumb Americans who can't read a Stephen King novel can pick up copies of his books on tape. I'll wager that the number of NON-MILITARY persons listening to his books on tape are greater than the number who serve in the military and listen to his books on tape.

What a dumbass antimilitary thing to say.

35 posted on 05/07/2008 5:27:30 AM PDT by weegee ("I didn't kill innocent people." - Bill Ayers, Weatherman. Terrorist. Obama's comrade.)

No one ever said Stephen King was intelligent. He just writes scary books. Hasn’t he always been regarded as a dull-witted dufus?

74 posted on 05/07/2008 11:44:02 AM PDT by Republicus2001

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