Stephen King's comments about army and education

In other news, Stephen King is under verbal attack for his recent comments about education.

These are his original comments:

"I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, 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. It’s not as bright," King said at the April 4 event in which he was accompanied by his wife Tabitha and son Owen.

There was a great uproar following his comment. You can even see it through the user comments to that article itself.

And now he's defending himself against his critics.

"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,"

Seems to be a touchy topic eh?

On a completely separate topic, since King brought up education ... wonder how he feels about Rowling's copyright case and it's impact on literary 3rd party books?