Stephen King Liberal Twerp

Best selling author Stephen King is desperately trying to spin comments he made at an event at the Library of Congress back in April that has drawn fire from not only bloggers, but also the U. S. military.

At the event King rolled out a classic slice of liberal stupidity when he told a group of kids he was reading to, "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 not as bright."

King, like many others blinded by their liberalism believes that only a dim wit with limited choices could possibly end up voluntarily joining the military.

The U.S. Army didn’t take kindly to King’s stupidity, spokesman Paul Boyce replied,
"America's soldiers are proudly serving and fighting for us all. We can be proud of our soldiers' selfless service, their skill and their ingenuity. They certainly are role models for every high-school student in America considering a noble career ... and many book authors." Military recruits test above the national average in reading and vocabulary skills, he added.

Again in the grand liberal tradition, King is trying to spin this as a conservative blogger attacking his patriotism. King placed the following comment on his Web site: “That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt. Noel Sheppard says, “Nice sentiment when the nation is at war, Stephen.” I guess he feels ignorance and illiteracy are OK when the country needs cannon-fodder. I guess he also feels that the war in Iraq has nationwide approval. Well, it doesn’t have mine. It is a waste of national resources. . . and that includes the youth and blood of the 4,000 American troops who have lost their lives there and for the tens of thousands who have been wounded. I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don’t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career—military or otherwise.”

What the hell is King talking about? We have an educational policy in this country to keep kids ignorant? I certainly hope that he can point this policy out…cause I must have missed that one. Not sure how commenting again on how ignorance and illiteracy equates to cannon fodder is a way of supporting the troops as he claims he does.

Of course this all comes from a guy who proved he is the standard barer for twerps everywhere when he was interviewed at a World Series game last year, while reading a book. What kind of a social misfit reads a book at a World Series game?