Knew I loved Stephen King.....see a couple of tweets.....

[a kennedy]

Stephen King ✔ @StephenKing
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Revised Tea Party Gospel: "Suffer the little children come unto me. Unless they're undocumented kids from Central America."


Stephen King ✔ @StephenKing
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Much easier to be a Christian when the little children aren't in your back yard, isn't it?


Best-selling author Stephen King has called out Tea Party types and Christians on Twitter, suggesting they’re hypocrites on immigration. Some of them weren’t too happy.

King doesn’t tweet much (only 323 so far) but he has a lot of followers (477,000), and at the moment he’s in a tweet-fight with his Tea Party foes over the current crisis over thousands of Central American children arriving unaccompanied at the border.

Although King’s contempt for Tea Party politics is not new, his comments on the (latest) border crisis brought out a flurry of angry and/or profane tweets from people who called him hypocritical or clueless or both.

Savannah the Bossy @thesavvy

.@StephenKing on the issue of illegal immigration, you're in the minority. You understand this, right?

Conservative pundits, such as Glenn Beck, also bashed him in regular media.

“This is a guy who said that I was Satan’s mentally challenged younger brother,” Beck said on his radio show today. “Of course he’s not going to recognize our effort. … He can’t get past his hate.”

Beck has nearly 900,000 followers on Twitter and has sent out nearly 7,000 tweets.

http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2014/07/23/stephen-king-mocks-tea-party/

[Richardo]

1. I may open a twitter account just to read the one about "Satan's mentally challenged brother"

[TlalocW]

2. I saw one of his tweets

It was a reply. Someone had Tweeted, "Fuck you, Stephen King."

He tweeted back, "Well, fuck you too, kid!"

TlalocW

[PasadenaTrudy]

21. He gets

a lot of shit on twitter, sadly...

[Squinch]

12. Right?

[Rozlee]

37. He had me at his comment about Sarah Palin.

"Greg Stillson in skirts."

[navarth]

47. LOL that is awesome

I don't do twitting, so I hadn't heard that. Really Fucking Funny. ouch!!!

[Rozlee]

49. It wasn't in a tweet, it was in an interview with Salon.

He definitely has her pegged.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

50. I think that's a reasonable description of Beck

And an even better one of Pat Buchanan.

[RKP5637]

3. Keep the children and send the Tea Partiers back, they seem to love that environment, would

fit in and be right at home!

[Roy Serohz]

4. DUly RECommended

[Spitfire of ATJ]

41. I like the ending of the book better....

The hotel blows up.

[Roy Serohz]

43. Absolutely!

In fact, I liked the entire novel better. Much better.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

44. The topiary animals playing 'red light green light' was cool....

Especially when he looks back from the porch and it was all a phenomenon.

Very Lovecraftian.

I have a pristine first edition I'm thinking of selling. I'm getting old enough now to start cashing in those chips.

[LonePirate]

5. That is pretty rich for Beck to claim someone else can't get paste his own hatred.

Self-awareness is obviously not a talent of Beck's.

[LisaLynne]

7. Yeah, it's amazing!

Nugent is the same way -- calling other people haters? Wow!

[Jackpine Radical]

14. It's a psychological defense mechanism called projection--

imagining your own faults in others.

[maddiemom]

29. And a true right wing Republican specialty!

[Jackpine Radical]

31. Indeed. Paranoia runs high in them

because they think everyone else is as psychopathic and narcissistic as they are.

[Skittles]

6. thanking Mr. King

people like him and Tom Petty go right to the heart of the matter - these so-called "Christians" anything but

[Aerows]

10. Couldn't agree more

my dear Skittles. Pretend "Christianity" is the worst form of it. Hell, pretend "religion" is the worst form of it.

Just love one another.

[Skittles]

13. it's strange but

honestly *I* am more "Christian" than anyone I know, yet I am Agnostic - WTF

[Aerows]

15. I'm Agnostic, as well

and I believe in helping others, being kind and generally being a decent person. I slip back into "christianity" every once in a while, and then remember why I left it.

[Skittles]

18. I was fortunate enough to never be "in it"

I never got that mind warping, and learned that religion is not needed to be kind and decent and compassionate

[maddiemom]

30. Over thirty years ago, I moved to a southern state. Of course, one of the first things I did

was to find a doctor for my family. Within a week of my first visit, the doctor's receptionist showed up at my door with her minister's wife. The first thing they asked was if I was a Christian. I said "uhh...yes, but I don't think in the way you mean it." They invited me to join their church and "find Jesus," and in the process managed to assure me that they had no"Negro" members. I very politely declined (this WAS little more than a decade after some strong civil rights battles), but was hard-pressed not to show how taken aback I was, as they were very "sweet" ladies. In retrospect, I was sorry that I hadn't claimed I was Jewish, just to see their reaction. I'm not, but I have a last name shared by many Jewish people.

[lunasun]

36. If you made that claim The KKK might of made a visit to your home

Sweet ladies' husbands maybe?

[maddiemom]

45. Thinking it over today, I wish I could have been crass enough to mention the irony

of the minister's wife's name: it was that of a famous black "soul sister" singer.

[saidsimplesimon]

52. maddie, "I'm a Jew."

In my case, the genetics are there, not the practice of any religious tradition. Many of US are of mixed race/religion. imho, it is my moral obligation to defend minorities because I am one of the many.

A brief return to the bible belt in Tennessee convinced me, when you live in the evangelical south there are worse things than being called "a Jew". Since most of those from my birth area believe the state of israel will bring the rapture, it was great fun telling a fib at the door to an uninvited guest.

[RebelOne]

19. Agree with you.

When I hear any negative remarks about Stephen King, I want to kick ass. And I hope you will help me out, Skittles. Even though I am an atheist, Stephen King is my god.

[rurallib]

8. It appears King owes Satan an apology

for relating him to Beck.

So odd how RWers claim that the disgust at their hate and bigotry is in itself bad. Maybe they should read a bible or something

[Aerows]

9. He's always had an open, brilliant mind

He's a good person.

[Roland99]

11. Yeah...gotta hate that kind of hate. You know...

the intolerance of the intolerant.

[Enthusiast]

16. Kicked and recommended!

Stephen is on my side, and I am a fan.

[Enthusiast]

17. Glenn Beck is a complete POS.

[SoCalDem]

20. They are tweeting him material for a future book

[calimary]

22. HAH!!! "He can’t get past his hate.” Look who's talking.

HAH! Stephen King has been one of the good guys for a long time.

[mwooldri]

23. I think he should put that Dome to use.

Here's my idea for a reality-tv version of "Under The Dome".

1. Get a large number of Tea Party identifying people together.
2. Put them all in an environment like being under that dome.
3. Introduce some catastrophic event of sorts.
4. Capture it all on video.
5. ???
6. Profit!

As entertaining as Under The Dome is, I'd hazard a guess my reality Tv version might be just as entertaining. And horrifying.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

38. No need to introduce a catastrophic event.

I love the your BaggerDome concept (I loved SK's book too). But baggers are big talkers about self sufficiency, Ayn Rand, free markets, and "I built that". So dome the bastards inside their ideal Galt's Gulch terrarium, and they can all thrive on their own self sufficiency and "Real America" values. This is the juncture at which they would start to introduce catastrophe after catastrophe all on their own.

Then just surround the dome with reality television crews and sociologists and watch 'em go.

[frylock]

24. lol @ Satan’s mentally challenged younger brother

[Cha]

25. RW "Christians" suck at being Christians.. no one is more un-Christ like than "Christians".. and

thank you, Stephen King for calling them out!

mahalo a kennedy~

[shenmue]

26. Bravo, Mr. King!

Bravo, I say!

[Zorra]

27. The stupid fucking fascists shit all over little kids and then call liberals like Stephen King

haters when we call out their horrible fascist ugliness.

All stupid people are conservative, and, alas...we can't fix stupid.

[kickitup]

28. Telling Mr. King he's in the minority is so juvenile . . .

Savannah the Bossy @thesavvy

.@StephenKing on the issue of illegal immigration, you're in the minority. You understand this, right?

I honestly hate that line of reasoning worse than most because it just reeks of middle school behavior. Does Savannah the Bossy honestly think Stephen King gives a damn whether his thinking is with the minority on anything whatsoever. His brain has made Stephen King a fortune. I doubt he worries much about whether his thinking is in line with that of others. Actually, it's beyond my comprehension that anyone over a certain age would would be swayed by whatever is the majority opinion on anything.

[Jackpine Radical]

32. Isn't "Bossy" a pretty common cow name?

Savannah needs to get back to chewing her cud & making cowpies.

[BrotherIvan]

33. Even funnier, she's WRONG

[sheshe2]

34. I love Stephen King!

Tell it!

[jopacaco]

35. Stephen King is a great guy

I too love Mr. King. He and his wife give money to many worthy causes in the local Bangor community and want no recognition. His name isn't on anything. He owns 3 local radio stations (Zone Radio) because he thinks that local radio is important. One is a liberal talk station with a live morning program devoted to politics and local issues. He is an asset to the community.

[eShirl]

39. +1

[stopwastingmymoney]

42. Would you mind telling us the call letters of that station?

I'd like to look it up on Tunein, thanks

[m-lekktor]

48. this might be it.

I grew up in that area of Maine but haven't lived there in years. this might be it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZON_%28AM%29

[eShirl]

55. not on TuneIn, but streams over teh internets

(stream link on page)
WZON 620 http://www.wzonthepulse.com/

as does his two FM stations
WKIT 100.3 ("Stephen King's Rock 'n Roll Station&quot http://www.wkitfm.com/

WZLO 103.1 ("Maine's Adult Alternative&quot http://www.wzlofm.com/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. How many of Becks twitter followers are media people just keeping tabs on what he's tweeting?

[MarianJack]

46. Stephen King IS great.

He's speaking out passionately in support of Shenna Bellows, our candidate to replace "moderate" Susan Collins. Shenna is one of the best candidates I've ever had the honor of supporting and volunteering for. GO SHENNA BELLOWS!!!

PEACE!

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

51. Much easier to be a Christian when the little children aren't in your back yard, isn't it?

G. K. Chesterton put it well: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

[Enthusiast]

54. Nice quote.

G. K. Chesterton got it right.

[saidsimplesimon]

53. Thank you Stephen King

"Bad to the Bone"

"Under the Dome", where is he going with this story? Guess I'll need to finish the book sitting on my shelf (sp)?

[JackInGreen]

56. Glenns right

the man must have an immense hatred of Satan to associate him to that drippy souled former fox sonofabitch by familial relations. If they weren't on such good terms I'd say Steve should apologize.