Question You Would Ask Stephen King

[frik51]

And there was some controversy not too long ago about King making comments about the Iraqi war I think it was, and it had something to do with him bashing veterans and people were calling him a traitor on his forum and I remembered thinking "Damn, he really is a traitor".

And my God, if you dare disagree with them, you're called every name in the book. And I thought liberals were so tolerant??? Only tolerant of people who have the same nonsensical views as theirselves.

sk

[theenormityofitall]

The Netherlands a socialist state?
I guess Rush Limbaugh would agree - I don't.
Regardless, not reading King any longer because he named his son after some Swedish socialist (which he didn't) ....come on.
This reminds me of another American icon, Barbra Streisand.
I love her voice, her music, but I'm always amazed at the strong negative (American) reactions she receives - many people refusing to buy her CDs, or watch her movies, just because of her political point(s) of view.

I just don't get that.

sk

It's not a socialist state? Every country in Europe is (and Canada over here). Sorta one of those weird states that is socialist but also has a form of capitalism at the same time. Like the USA is becoming actually. I don't listen to Limbaugh much since he's basically a spokesmouth for the Republican Party...I'm an independent nowadays. A conservative, but still an independent one. There are no parties in this country that represent me and millions of other Americans anymore.
You honestly don't understand why people don't want to buy CDs or whatever from Streisand? It's because they want to listen to music and not preaching crap. They also don't like hearing their own country constantly being bashed knowing these people wouldn't have all their millions if they weren't living in this country they hate so much. Absurd hypocrisy and they're too dull in the mind to even realize how stupid they sound. Obama is starting wars all over the place and you don't hear a peep out of these people, the same people who were constantly bashing Bush over the Iraqi war and on "peace marches" virtually every day (and I was never a big fan of Bush by the way).

[theenormityofitall]

I know what you mean.

I love movies. Good, bad, old, new, foreign, domestic. I can walk a way from a movie theater thinking "that movie sucked", but I love going to see it. But I think of movie stars as children: they should be seen and not heard. I don't care what they think. Just keep making movies.

I look at writers the same way. Just keep writing. Don't bore me with your thoughts on green toilet paper or union busting. If you must, write a non-fiction book about those subjects and maybe I'll read it.

I couldn't agree more!!

[theenormityofitall]

sk

You honestly don't know what I was referring too? The King expert? LOL.

[frik51]

You honestly don't know what I was referring too? The King expert? LOL.

No, I was actually referring to you.

And there was some controversy not too long ago about King making comments about the Iraqi war I think it was, and it had something to do with him bashing veterans and people were calling him a traitor on his forum and I remembered thinking "Damn, he really is a traitor".

And my God, if you dare disagree with them, you're called every name in the book.

sk

[frik51]

It's not a socialist state? Every country in Europe is (and Canada over here).

I'd love to hear your definition of a socialist state.

sk

[RJK1981]

And I thought liberals were so tolerant??? Only tolerant of people who have the same nonsensical views as theirselves.

That goes for both sides actually

[C.W. LaSart]

This got ugly pretty quick, now didn't it. I believe that in the forum rules we are cautioned against political discussions. There is a difference between discussing the fact that King named his son after a certain socialist (I found it informative and I'm not bothered by it), and actually arguing about politics. Though I am annoyed when what I view as someone shoving something down my throat, occurs in their body of work, I am not against them having their opinions. When it has no basis in the story and does nothing to enhance the narrative, I begin to see it as propaganda rather than style. That said-I hope that this doesn't get any more heated. I would hate to see us all on double-super-secret probation!

[frik51]

I hope that this doesn't get any more heated.

Mum's the word....

sk

[C.W. LaSart]

Mum's the word....

sk

[fmancino]

I am going to Bangor this summer for an SK tour and I'm trying to meet Stephen, so if I get super lucky and I do meet him, I will try my BEST to remember and print out this page and ask him some questions. If anyone has any cool things to do in the Bangor area PM me!

[theenormityofitall]

I'd love to hear your definition of a socialist state.

sk

My definition is a sate where free enterprise is either totally done away with, or allowed to exist in slight way, sorta like China has combined communism with capitalism. It's a state where someone who works his ass off and is considered in America to either be "rich" or "upper middle class", has most of his money stolen by the government to give to the so-called "poor" who do nothing but take and never give anything. It's also a state where private property is not permitted to exist (most of the time) and free speech, free press, etc are banned as in Canada, France, etc. Oh sure, they will allow some "free" speech, just as long as it supports the party line. No country is free when they can ban guns from private ownership, ban books, ban certain newspapers and ban movies. All countries in Europe do this as well as Canada. There's really not much difference in socialism/communism except socialists ususally don't murder millions of their own people.

[theenormityofitall]

That goes for both sides actually

No, not really. I've never seen a conservative student at some university, try to attack a liberal speaker. You see the opposite on a regular basis. You don't see conservatives marching in the streets like you do the other side (conservatives have to work for a living so you don't see many of them marching anywhere) and shouting "fascists" at every opportunity even when they have no clue what the word really means. You also don't see conservatives shouting down the other side when they start spewing their hate. I've also never seen conservatives throwing rocks and bottles at the police and overturning cars, etc when something occurs they don't agree with like the "peaceful" liberals do. I could go on and on.

[srboone]

I would hate to see us all on double-super-secret probation!

Hopefully the Dean Wormers of the CD forums will let us off with a warning and give us all a second chance.