Posted on 09/12/2025 8:13:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An adaptation of a 1979 Stephen King novel, The Long Walk, opens in theaters today, but Republican senators are suggesting that the extremely online left-wing novelist take his own long walk... off a short pier. In a classless post about the murder of Charlie Kirk, King claimed Kirk “advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.”
Senator Mike Lee of Utah, the state where Kirk was assassinated, didn’t take a shining to this statement. Lee immediately hopped on X, saying that Kirk’s estate should sue King for “this heinously false accusation.” Ted Cruz also stood by Kirk. In a tweet for the ages, Cruz said, to King,
You are a horrible, evil, twisted liar. No, he did not. Your party – which you shamelessly shilled for – sent $100 billion to the Ayatollah… who does routinely murder homosexuals. Why are you so dishonest & filled with hate?
This morning, after a long, twisted night of the soul during which he received visitations from spirits, vampires and a demented clown monster who lives in the sewers, King tweeted out, “I apologize for saying Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gays. What he actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages.” The author subsequently issued several more apology tweets, even referring to himself as a “horrible, evil, twisted liar.” He’s deleted the offending post.
Maybe, at long last, Stephen King has learned to operate with some grace online when it comes to his supposed ideological enemies. Or maybe he’s just learned, as Cockburn did long ago, that social media is a Dead Zone that can bring you nothing but Misery.
King is far from the only person showing a distinct lack of grace in the light of Kirk’s assassination. One of Cockburn’s spies was at New York’s Yankee Stadium last night where President Trump came to pay tribute to 9/11 victims on the 24th anniversary of the attacks:
The mood in the stadium was fine and dandy until the first time they showed Trump on the Jumbotron. His face seems to have a flipped a switch in the brains of everyone around us – they immediately starting screaming, like, “Die f**ng Fascist” and giving him the finger. They were all filming themselves doing it. Then Trump’s face would disappear, and they’d immediately become docile again. Then he’d reappear, and it would start back up again. It was like being in the middle of Orwell’s Two Minutes Hate.Truly, the best of the country on display…My friends and I clapped for him as we would for any president. Then the guy behind us, a Detroit fan, started screaming, “Clap if you support pedophiles! These guys right here support pedophiles!”
At one point, when Trump wasn’t even on the screen, I shouted “God bless America.” That earned the first “Fuck you, fascist,” thrown in our direction, which seemed ironic because the song we were singing was “God Bless America.” After the song ended, the same guy says to us, “Do you guys actually support Trump or are you just trolling?” I said, “Why would anyone not support the President, he’s our President!”
We went back and forth for a little while longer while people around us called us Nazis and such, until I said, “Dude you’re making us miss the game, I paid to watch the Yankees, not debate with you.” Things chilled out after that, except the guy sitting next to us definitely muttered something in our direction about us getting “Charlie Kirk’d.”
Stevie boy is grovelling for ‘forgiveness” now beczuse he realizwd that he could be sued for slander or whatever.
This is why I hate all leftists everywhere with a burning passion!
Then he groveled like the jackass he is because he was afraid his stupid ass would get sued so he deleted it
Stephen King is confusing Kirk with that guy running for mayor of New York.
Sad.
I’m not siding with him but he later apologized (which we don’t have to accept):
Headline:
Stephen King Repeatedly Apologizes for “Horrible” Charlie Kirk Tweet.
The author posted several messages addressing a disparaging tweet he wrote about Kirk after his murder.
Stephen King is so ill-informed he’s confusing Old Testament Mohamadians with New Testament Christianity. One still practices stoning and the other dares anyone to pick up the first stone.
People on the left have retreated from reality.
No one gets reality perfect, except God.
Conservatives are much closer to understanding reality than leftists are.
When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.” And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.When they heard this,they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there. Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”
“No one, Lord,” she answered.
— John 8:7-11
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”
Exactly.
I didn’t go looking for any proof about Kirk and stoning gays. Steven King is an idiot with a warped sense of literature.
The American deranged leftists are so brainwashed that every one of these slanders stimulates a psycho to take rhetoric to the next level.
King is a horrible, evil, twisted liar and one of the stupidest people to ever make so much money writing.
He doesn’t seem particularly adept at reading or research. Amazing!
Stephen King has always been a sick man with a twisted mind. I suspect he would fail a psychological exam. I believe he is a psychopath - because only a psychopath could think up the warped perverse plots he writes in his books.
Everyone knows that Yankee fans are A-holes. What did you expect?
King’s still an asshole
Talk about stoned…drop the pipe, Steve.
Actually Jesus did not oppose the stoning of this lady, but knew it was not his time and if he allowed the stoning then he would have to deal with the Romans which did not allow Jews to kill without going through them.
So Jesus outsmarted them (Jews that wanted him dead) and then forgave her (HE can forgive)... and said "Go and Sin No More".
But Jesus did not alter the Jewish penalty for her crime, it was a stoning offense.
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