Posted on 05/08/2008 12:37:53 PM PDT by LJayne
Conservatives are jumping on author Stephen King for his remarks at a recent Library of Congress event...
(Excerpt) Read more at bangornews.com ...
I’ll bet the vast majority of GI’s can read a great deal better than Stephen King can write.
F King, lib that he is looks like that van ran over his brain as well.
Looks live Stephen will have to seek refuge in the Owners Box when he slums at Red Sox games.
>>I’ll bet the vast majority of GI’s can read a great deal better than Stephen King can write.
That’s not really saying much.
King is worth over $1 billion. Criticism of him has no financial impact. That said, his remarks were stupifyingly awful and wrong and show a distinct lack of intelligence.
BDN’s editorial was completely fair to all sides. I wonder how King will respond to it?
Do we have any members in Maine who could post his mailing address. I’ve got a box of books I’d like to mail back to him (COD)preferably. I intend to politely let him know there will never be another one of his books in my house and that my son and son-in-law will probably not be able to read any more of his books because now they’re in the Army and somehow have lost the ability to read!
King is following the normal progression for writers. Once you’re out of good ideas and are no longer, the cutting edge, brilliant author you once were, you show up on TV and start saying the stupidest stuff imagineable, e.g. Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, and now King. It almost makes me want to break into song: “The Ciiiiiiircel of Liiiiiiiife....”
I burned my King books years ago.
Evidently a billion buys a whole lot of emotional stupidity. Pulpist King is not the only billionaire so afflicted.
I live near him. He’s a complete idiot and his wife is worse. But, he’s rich and the BDN loves him. Oh, well....
"Admittedly, Iraq has changed assumptions about signing up for military service: seemingly endless tours of duty, few opportunities to learn skills while patrolling violence-prone neighborhoods, and, of course, the very real risk of injury or death. And it is the young, poor, rural and inner-city recruits who end up wounded or dead."
The writer forgets or neglects to consider the very real opportunities for continuing education that is always being actively encouraged. Additionally the discipline that the recruits gain is for most a skill unavailable elsewhere. Finally, that last sentence in the quote is simply inexcusable and a mere update of the Vietnam War canard.
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