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| Stephen King Makes John Kerry's Mistake |
| 2008-05-05 |
| Remember shortly before Election Day 2006 when Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) suggested that if you don't get a good education, "you get stuck in Iraq". Well, last month, famed horror auther Stephen King was speaking in front of a group of high school students at the Library of Congress, and he virtually made the exact same statement. For those that can bear it, what follows is another in a long line of liberal media members bashing the military: "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, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that." Nice sentiment when the nation is at war, Stephen. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #6 I agree. Used to like King but the final three books of 'The Dark Tower' series were a huge disappointment and even before that they were getting to be pretty much the same story. Anymore, he's just a hack. Someone could probably write a program to write his stories - just have to make every 7th word 'F-k' and its Stephen King..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-05-05 23:19 |
| #5 I stopped reading King a long time ago. Aside from his liberal bent, his books just stopped being interesting or well, scary. In fact, the only one that WAS scary to me was The Shining. Apparently I was being noisy in the car once on a trip from South Carolina to Tennessee and my dad grabbed one of my mom's books and said, "Here, I'll give you a dollar if you finish this." Needless to say as I was in 3rd grade at the time, it was FAR more interesting than the drivel we read in class. I got my dollar and couldn't go into the bathroom for the next ten years without peeking behind the shower curtain. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2008-05-05 22:57 |
| #4 Ahh, the "so dumb you get stuck in Iraq" mistake. Seeing the headline, I naturally assumed it refered to the "wandering around in the jungle looking for Marlon Brando whilst wearing a magic hat" mistake. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-05-05 16:48 |
| #3 Maybe Kerry & King traded notes at the last Red Sox game. You know, so Kerry could watch his favorite player, Manny Ortiz... |
| Posted by: Raj 2008-05-05 12:33 |
| #2 Seeing how incoherent his little statement sounded, maybe they just might also be smart enough to write overrated assembly line horror novels. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-05-05 12:21 |
| #1 Hey! Let's start a rumor that the Marines are coming to "protect" old Steven. That ought to scare the bodily fluids out of him. |
| Posted by: Jack Slineger4174 2008-05-05 11:56 |