Though popular horror author Stephen King is undoubtedly witty in his fiction, he should leave the political commentary to someone who’s better suited for it.
After Cruz, Paul and Rubio announced their presidential bids recently, King tweeted out this weak “slam” against the GOP:
Cruz, Paul and Rubio, all running for President. Hey, I thought I was supposed to write the horror stories.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 16, 2015
The lame joke caught the attentions of the fawning left-wingers at Salon who called it “brilliant,” “savvy,” and said King let them “have it.”
This isn’t the first venture into the political realm for King. On March 30 he tweeted out about Indiana’s religious freedom law, calling it “simply gay discrimination” and likening it to...a dog turd?(Eww.)
Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration act is gay discrimination, pure and simple. You can frost a dog turd, but it's still a dog turd.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 31, 2015
The Huffington Post’s Cavan Sieczkowski dubbed this tweet the Post’s “favorite” response to the Indiana law.
After Newsbusters called out King in 2008 for derogatory comments about the military he made during a speech to high schoolers, he received so much backlash that he told The Huffington Post last September, he would “take it back” if he could.
