It was a majority of the artsy types, the likes of this turd, that couldn't pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) when I was a military recruiter.

What a human piece of shit!

That must be why I went in the Army.I cant read..well the junk he wrote.I read David Eddings and Terry Brooks.Different genre but still NYTimes best selling authors.We use to get college kids in occasionally.Always remember when handing them a tool to teach them the basics ...righty tighty..lefty ..loosey.Some would still try to put a 100lbs of torque on a 7/16 bolt.Can you say easy out.Elitist say the funniest things.

I have thirty years experience in the US Army, ARNG and USAR.  In all three the majority of NCO's and Warrants had Associates Degrees, Batchelor Degrees and these days most have post graduate degrees.  You don't have the schooling you don't get promoted.  Rotorhead, you have got that so right.

Next he'll be talking about Waco and the little Gonzalez boy as he slowly morphs into Janet Reno.

Currently the US Army has a higher literacy rate than the population at large. 

It would be MORE fair of Mr King to say that if one wanted to avoid military service, one should avoid learning to read.

By the way Mr King, everyone I work with WANTS to be here, and not because it is the only place they can go.

If I were to make a list of my favorite books, Hearts in Atlantis and The Green Mile would be at the top.  I've read and re-read them each dozens of times and I like them more each time.  I've known for a long time that King's political viewpoints suck, but there is no denying his literary genius.

I guess I've just decided to put it aside.  With the exception of a few people, I'm generally still able to enjoy a movie or book, and ignore the personal politics of whoever made it. 

I think that his comments regarding ignorant people joining the military stem from his (and other's) inability to move beyond the 60's and the draft.  That and a general air of elitism that causes them to think that the military only attracts violent brutes who don't fit anywhere else in society.  Some people just don't understand doing things because they are right or honorable-- the urge to cover their own a$$es by sticking their heads in the sand (physically possible for most of them) is greater.

Every officer in the United States Army (all branches) has a degree!  I was a sergeant in the Army and I have a master's degree.

Let me put this jerk in my line unit!!!!!! 

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”  Abraham Lincoln 

and buy books by Patricia Cornwell until her last book had an Iraq war veteran as the killer. I was barely into the book when I realized that and I immediately tossed the book in the garbage can where it belonged and have since dumped her other books.

These comments sound similar to that guy...the comic who acts on one of the Law and Order shows who made similar comments "They're 19 and 20-year-old kids who couldn't get a job", oh yeah, belzer...these people are so condescending. They make me sick.

I have read and enjoyed some of his books, but I would honestly have a hard time picking one up again after this. He really needs to apologize for this. I am often annoyed by his politics so I try not to read any interviews or articles. But anyone who cuts on those in the military, I am done with them as far as sending any money their way.

NBers,

King has quite a following. You should see some of the hateful e-mail messages I'm receiving. ns

"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."

......and if your blind as a bat and wear coke bottles for glasses you end up marrying someone that look's like Tabitha or Stephen King. I love his book's though, even if he is a first class a-hole.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

Is Mr. King guilty of plagiarism....stealing material from John Kerry. Well that's just pathetic.

Having read Stephen King once upon a time, and still counting The Stand as one of my favorite novels, this is appalling to say the least.  

I guess my getting accepted to grad school contradicts his argument.   

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.