So Steven King sends out his unwashed masses to flood the e-mail of Noel Sheppard and then immediately shuts down his own message board so that he doesn't get any responses himself.

Reminds me of a three-year-old sticking his fingers in his ears and screaming "Nya NA na nya, I can't hear you!"

How mature and sophisticated of the author.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

""Hi, Noel—Stephen King says to shut up and I agree,"

Censorship! Censorship!  The Democrat-controlled Congress is going to turn the US into a police state where we have no more free speech. Where does King get off censoring people?  He's trying to shut us all up because we are speaking truth to power.  The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

/sarc off

You've lived a life unfettered by consequence, yet you feel comfortable attacking people who have some of the more consequential jobs on the planet?

You make a living scaring people, yet you toss verbal Molotovs at people who desire to make the world a safer, less-frightening place?

Whether or not you can write is a matter of debate, but you've made it transparently clear that reading for comprehension isn't your strong suit, since blog-reading is such a taxing proposition for you.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport.com

Notice how in his message he does it again:

"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." 

I wonder how Steve would do when faced with the complexities of modern equipment fielded in the war on terror.  Would those strange twists in his mind work at the fire control system of an M1 or when field stripping an M16.  

Those 4,000 lives will be wasted when terrorists learn all they have to do is bleed us enough and we'll quit with what is needed half done.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

ns says: "The saga of horror novelist Stephen King ...". Noel, unless you upgrade your spelling, your're going to be sent to Iraq by NB'rs. You should have said: "The saga of horrible novelist Stephen King ..."

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

One of the thngs I love to do more than anything is to expose hypocricy, it does not matter if it is on the left or right.

Mr. King here send his hitmen here to get Noel, now that he is getting heat he can't take the pressure. He probably feels like he is trapped in one of his own novels and will be having nightmares about NB for a while.

Stephen King took a lame cheap shot he thought would tickle the funnybones of Liberals.  He was pandering to his audience at the time.  And his slur was derivative and not original (John Kerry).

King is yet another turd on Hubris Highway going to Stupidville.

RRAM Tough! 

Mr. King, please pull your head out of your own books for a little while and come join us here at the NB... I am sure there are a few people here that would love to enlighten you.  I also would be interested in how you came to the conclusion that our military has “limited options”.   As I wrote earlier in a comment:  Mr. King, you Sir, do not have “nationwide approval” when it comes to your own personal views on our military personal. 

So, Stephen King calls our troops stupid and that's just his opinion, good for him. Noel Sheppard says he disagrees with Stephen King and that's polarizing? I guess the grass is blue and the sky is green, too.

From me to you Noel Sheppard, you keep calling things as you see them. That's also what Mr. Solider fought for.

By the way, I give a pass on solider, personally. That's called a typo. But, I am a stickler for the difference between its and it's.

Right wingers aren't supposed to fight back! They're dumb!

/sarc

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

I support the war, but not the troops I have never supported these phony troops, but the war is a noble cause

I actually, went to King's site and guess what? It was  DOWN, DOWN, DOWN!

I wanted to read what he and his followers had to say and couldn't.

I won't go back again though. I had to take a bath right after going there. I need to stay clean.

Once in this case is enough.

Notice how Alan Combes looks like the monsters in Sleepwalkers? LOL

That's the only thing I've ever taken away from a Stephen King anything. Now, I know he's an idiot.

Stephen King is an aging '60s hippie who has stayed in his own little world because he became rich beyond the dreams of Avarice (which is the hippie pinko equivalent of a mortal sin) and didn't have to face reality. He's got great brain power and creative ability, but zero wisdom. That's a dangerous combination.

By the way, creating wealth from his own abilities is one of the good, respectable things he has done.

Something doesn't make sense here.

There are fan sites out there that are of much smaller scope than a site devoted to one of the most successful fantasy/horror novelists of our time.

Yet even these smaller sites (some even devoted to a single fictional character) usually support more than one moderator to cover for those who need time off. 

Many are such devoted fans, that they're willing to serve for the status alone, and without pay.

So what's the deal here?

-PJ

"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07

"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."

Mr. King:

1. You did not simply say that children should learn to read and that doing so would assure them better jobs. You suggested that if they don't learn to read. the military is one of the few options open to them - sort of on a par with flipping burgers, digging ditches, or picking produce. Wake up, Mr. King. You obviously have not moved beyond the anti-war sentiments of the 1960's.

2. Your use of the term "cannon fodder" is disrespectful. And your suggestion that those currently serving are ignorant and illiterate only serves to point out your own ignorance.

3. Your ire concerning the comments on this "right-wing blog" shows you to be nothing more than a lib cry-baby.

Keep up the good work, Noel.

P.S. Just had to add this from King's own website:

"Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums." (Bolding mine)

For some reason, I find this interesting in light of his opinions re: military recruits.

I am the exotic Queen Mum, and I approved this message.

'Interesting how the "solider" that came to King's defense -- a member of King's website since February 2007 -- misspelled "soldier."'

I think that this is not only decidedly uninteresting, but that it comes off as petty and childish. Why ruin an otherwise legitimate complaint of poor behavior on King's part by dedicating so much "space" to such irrelevant material?

I guess I got tired of the "you transposed two letters while rapidly typing and are therefore a moron" fallacy after seeing it for the first or second time in the mi-1990s.

I tend to be more of a libertarian/ paleo-conservative, which makes me against this war. not all wars just wars that don't serve the national interest. i'm a nationalist - take care of your own country first.

so can somebody on this board explain to me how are our troops defending americas freedoms in iraq? afghanistan, yes they are. But if we didn't invade iraq would my freedoms be some how stomped on by the powerful iraqi army that was threatening to take over our country like the nazi's almost did to the UK in the 40's?

It's a joke to think Iraq could do anything to us, being that we could destroy that entire country with the push of a button.  thousands of us soldiers have died in iraq because terrorists in afghanistan attacked us? does this sound weird to anyone else?