Author Stephen King offers left-leaning talk show

Sacramento Bee ^ | Aug. 23, 2011 | AP

[ZGuy]

Stephen King is offering an antidote to what he sees as the biases of right-wing radio talk shows by hiring a former Green Party vice presidential candidate to co-host a morning talk show on two stations he owns.

In a rare public appearance, the horror writer held a news conference Tuesday in Bangor, Maine, at the headquarters of his three-station Zone Radio network.

"The Pulse Morning Show" will be co-hosted by 50-year-old Pat LaMarche and 43-year-old Don Cookson, a former television reporter. LaMarche ran for vice president as a member of the Green Party in 2004.

During the news conference King said, "We're a little to the left, but we're right."

[ican'tbelieveit]

I hope that he sees the errors of his way before it is too late. He has made a fortune off of capitalism; yet he rails against it. So very sad.

[Kartographer]

The more I learn about King the more I wonder how he could have possible written ‘The Stand’.

[KC_Lion]

Ah Yes Good Ole' Stephen King, His Plots are Great but his stories are Crap, he has great build up but disappointing pay-offs, He creates great characters and you Get to see them Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over again.

Here is clue for Mr King,

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T WANT THAT LEFT WING CRAP NO MORE!!!!

Now Mr. King, If you take my advice I will have spared you and us alot of time, money, and aggravation. So go play the Stephen King Drinking Game!!

[SJSAMPLE]

King’s gone loony, and it shows in his book.
Duma Key had a few anti-Bush slaps, but “Under the Dome” was insane. Pastors cooking and dealing meth, while the insanely right-wing town boss controls the town and the northeast drug trade. He even has a signed picture of Sarah Palin on his desk.

Of course, the heroes are a disaffected Iraq vet (of course), and a liberal-leaning “republican” newspaper owner/editor and a female pastor of a unitarian-style church.

I’d love to see King try to logically defend his viewpoints and get his ass handed to him.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Are they any good?"

I stopped reading King in the late 80's/early 90's. Moved on to other things. However, my opinion is that he has great ideas, most stories start off slow getting the scene set and all the characters introduced but overall worth the read. One other problem is that he doesn't follow sentence structure well. I like to say he doesn't write run on sentences, he writes run on paragraphs.

[PALIN SMITH]

Steve King....Larry King......horrors!!

[day10]

He’s a lib loon but I have thoroughly enjoyed his books through the years. It must be his style or something. “The Stand” is the best piece of fiction I have ever picked up and read. If you would like to read a shorter book that is nonetheless very, very good try “Pet Sematary”.

[JaguarXKE]

Rush is no doubt shaking in his boots!

[day10]

I thought the exact same thing! Great minds......

[sox_the_cat]

He used to have a nice sports station in Bangor, the only local sports channel in the Bangor area with lots of local broadcast of high school sports and stuff. Now it’s all lib talk but he has still hijacked the Sox, keeping them on his crappy station.

[Tanniker Smith]

Now if King hosted a show himself, he’d have a shot at getting some ratings. Hiring a Green Party VP candidate? Yeah, whatever you say, Steve.

[Fantasywriter]

Thanks for the ping, Psalm.

Kart, here is my analysis of The Stand. It’s a story about what it would be like to be a Christian in a world where there is no God. Can you point to one incident in the novel [haven’t read it; saw the movie] where God supernaturally intervenes in response to prayer/faith? To me, the story is what Christianity looks like to an atheist.

Am I wrong?

[Cicero]

I read a number of his early fantasies, but I feel absolutely no urge to re-read them, as I often do with writers that I like.

He has a natural imaginative talent, but I think he has misused it, so it has abandoned him.

[erod]

“The Pulse” like the horrible novel that he wrote a couple of years ago?

[Justice]

King said he respected his Mom for her refusal to "go on the Government" even though she suffered poverty.

Now here he is pushing others to do that very thing.

Stephen, listen to your Mother!!

[Grut]

Liberal Stephen King is using his own money to promote liberal talk shows?
Damn! This really may cause the big one Elizabeth.

Actually, King has always used his own money in support of his causes. It's a considerable saving grace.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***He has made a fortune off of capitalism; yet he rails against it. So very sad.***

How was he before he got half his brains knocked out by being hit by a van while walking?

[papertyger]

The more I learn about King the more I wonder how he could have possible written ‘The Stand’.

What? You didn't think it vain of him to put all the bad old "technicians" in Vegas, and the good little mush-heads in Boulder?

That little piece of rationalization, that "techs" are soft headed and easily lead because they'll embrace any worldview as long as it's "firm," has got to be the most asinine piece of conceit in all of American literature.

Besides, read some of his work about the "craft" of writing. His personal work habits come a little too close to "automatic writing" for my tastes.

[Steve Van Doorn]

That is a funny video

[Slings and Arrows]

Mr King has a perfect right to throw his money away in whatever manner pleases him. We have a perfect right to laugh at him for it.