Liberal Elitist Stephen King Disses The Troops

No, you couldn't possibly volunteer for military service because you love your country so much that you're willing to risk your life for it, you're just dumb and illiterate. That's the gospel according to Stephen King:

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" (video available here)?

Well, last month, famed horror author 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 (embedded right, h/t Terry Ann):

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.

Never believe a liberal when one says that they support the troops. They don't.

Stephen King Is A Total Prick

Proof that even brilliant writers can suffer from moments of Bush Derangement Syndrome:

New York, NY (AHN) - In an interview with TIME magazine, horror fiction author Stephen King dropped a political bomb, suggesting that President George Bush's daughter Jenna be subjected to waterboarding, so she could give feedback to her father afterwards on whether or not the process actually is "a form of torture."

"Someone in the bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George," King said, recalling his conversation with a person from the news program Nightline. "I said, I didn't think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it was torture."

Used as an interrogation technique, waterboarding has been under harsh criticism, with people identifying it to be a form of torture. Government officials, however, have refused to acknowledge whether or not the method is considered torture under American law.

What a prick! I have no idea what King's political leanings are, but judging from this stupid statement, it's easy to guess that he's probably another limousine liberal. Because liberals just can't argue political points without making personal insults. Yet why be offended? After all free speech is part of what makes America so great. But can you imagine any public figure in Venezuela, what with El-Presidente-for-Life Hugo Chavez in charge, putting down a member of Chavez's family? Of course not. And why do liberals never suggest that FDR or Harry Truman should've sent their kids to war? Could it be because they were both Democrat Presidents? Of course. And hey, despite the fact that Jenna Bush's humanitarian service would beat the pants off of probably every single idiot liberal who's ever insulted her, what as long as she's the President's daughter, if you're a liberal she's fair game . . . because that's the sick playbook they go by.