Slog - Comments on Hard to Argue

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:55:44 -0800

We should also waterboard the shit out of Benjamin Nicholas. It's time to get some answers.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:04:39 -0800

Stephen King? The guy who keeps rewriting the same book? Why did they ask him?

Comment by SKING

SKING — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:10:03 -0800

I'm not so uptight about waterboarding if we can waterboard the man who penned that piece of shit "It".

Comment by sniggles

sniggles — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:12:32 -0800

Even if you hate his books, Stephen King is personally awesome. You should read his column at the back of EW... great stuff.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:20:39 -0800

King was awesome until some moron ran his ass over and drove off. Now he believes in God--because he lived. Gross.

Comment by giannissima

giannissima — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:23:02 -0800

@4 EW? explain yourself

danke

Comment by Ziggity

Ziggity — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:24:50 -0800

Is Maine still a state? Huh. Color me surprised...

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:29:44 -0800

Entertainment Weekly. I've seen him pop of a couple of times on the back page. Don't believe he's a regular, but I don't read EW regularly, so I don't know.

Comment by muckfetro

muckfetro — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:31:06 -0800

You all suck!! IT is one of the best books ever written. How many of your crappy books have killer clowns and child gang bangs? Just because something sells a lot does not automatically mean it sucks. Just most of the time, like John Grisham. I have always been puzzled by the fact the King was such a popular author for how twisted he is.

Comment by jewritto

jewritto — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:39:44 -0800

@6. The back page of EW gets traded out on a weekly basis between King and a few other writers. His column is called "The Pop of King" and though he says he writes about pop culture he mostly pontificates about the wonder years when people knew what REAL (movies,bands,books) were. You know, real movies and real books...things King hasn't come out with in decades. The Mist? are you freaking kidding me?

Comment by kid icarus

kid icarus — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:48:46 -0800

@10 - The Mist was awesome! When I was eleven.

Comment by Judah

Judah — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:58:26 -0800

Wow, Stephen King has a political opinion, huh? Well thank god he saw fit to talk about it with Time. And thank god Time had the insight to ask him what he thinks about politics.

You know what else I'd like to know? I'd like to know what Stephen King thinks about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. And intelligent design -- what does Stephen King think about intelligent design?

Fuck it -- what are King's thoughts on the stock market and the housing bubble? Let's go hog wild here.

Comment by Alex

Alex — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:05:55 -0800

While Mr King's point (that Jenna Bush be waterboarded) is perfect, I would suggest that Dick Cheney would be a far better subject, since when he died from heart failure the idiots involved would have to explain why. Plus he has better tits than Jenna.

As for King's books; "IT" has one scene which raises it to true art. A stoned guy sees a factory fall down a hill during an earthquake. He shouts "Far out! Great special effects!" I love it. In my opinion, "Gerald's Game" is far worse but a lot of his stuff is simple genius.

Comment by Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:10:47 -0800

If they want to investigate waterboarding, Bush himself should be waterboarded. I mean, we all know he listens but never takes the advice of anyone with experience in whatever the matter at hand is, only what he may have experienced himself. That's pretty obvious. He might go all nucular, or some other made-up word, if he went through it.

Comment by M

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:11:18 -0800

I'm no Stephen King fan but I will get behind the waterboarding of either or both of the Bush twins 100%. Cheney's not a good choice cause his evil would protect him - he probably has gills too.

Comment by Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:14:11 -0800

@ 13:

Plus he has better tits than Jenna.

Bigger does not always equal better. Man-boobies can be scary.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:45:33 -0800

Let's just waterboard everyone in the Bush White House, from G.W. all the way on down, until we get one of them to admit that it is indeed torture, and that torture is unconstitutional. Hell, keep it up long enough and you can get them to admit anything.

Comment by That's A Start

That's A Start — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:02:59 -0800

If by Waterboard you mean ,impeach, arrest and take before the Hague I'm all for it.

Comment by clarity

clarity — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:53:32 -0800

Have you not read The Stand? Stephen King is awesome. And I'd rather hear his thoughts on politics than reports of Britney's bad driving anyday.

Comment by Julie

Julie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:45:26 -0800

I thought The Mist was a pretty entertaining horror flick. I liked it alot more than I thought I was going to, anyways.

Comment by Caya

Caya — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:12:50 -0800

Yeah, why not waterboard Bush himself if it's all that harmless? I mean, I think Christoph Blocher is a slimeball, but even so I gotta admit it takes balls to have yourself tasered so that you know what you're talking about. Bush on the other hand only has a stuffed flightsuit.

Comment by Willfro

Willfro — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:59:36 -0800

Waterboarding is a waterboarding offense.

Comment by mike

mike — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:48:06 -0800

I'd rather hear what Steven King has to say about things than Ja Rule.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:18:23 -0800

Now that John Ashcroft has volunteered to be waterboarded, I'd like to volunteer to administer it.

Hell, I'll even do Gonzales--gratis!