ESPN: Kerry Will Come Through (By Hunter S. Thompson)

ESPN ^ | Nov 2, 2004 | By Hunter S. Thompson

[hattend]

Well hell, If HST says it, it must be true.

I was watching CNN at lunch and I couldn't believe the Kerry advertisement disguised as news when they went to Paris France and had their "corespondent" tell us how the French love Kerry, 70%+ of the French don't want Bush re-elected, blah blah blah.

If I was watching that and was undecided, I would go out and vote Bush just to spite the frogs.

[Alberta's Child]

ESPN has become to sports what MTV is to music.

[weegee]

If I was watching that and was undecided, I would go out and vote Bush just to spite the frogs.

The RNC realized this and UPI thought that was a DIRTY TRICK!

The Web: E-mail's last-minute vote-getting

As the battle for the White House wound down this weekend, one campaign sent out a message by e-mail, in French, to its constituents. The message contained the text of an editorial from the Paris daily, Le Monde, endorsing Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., for president as its "Le choix americain" or American choice.The letter was not the braggadocio of the Kerry camp, however. It was sent by the Republican National Committee with an exhortation at the end of the e-mail to "forward this to a friend.""

[weegee]

I'm referring to his LATER confession of being "sorry" if you misunderstood his previous statement.

[Vigilantcitizen]

The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse.

Ole' Hunter must of been doing that good LSD during Carter's term.

[The Wizard]

too much dope, Hunter

[Gucho]

"I'm referring to his LATER confession of being "sorry"

Yes, it was later.

[LibertarianInExile]

I still don't understand why Hunter S. Thompson is working for ESPN. ESPN has nothing to do with drugs or politically-oriented b.s., unless you consider sports the new opiate of the masses. Michael Eisner must have decided he needed to pay him off for some reason.

[MountainPete]

“ESPN has become to sports what MTV is to music.”

An excellent observation! (Who owns MTV?) MTV is a wonderful example of “the medium is the message.” It stopped being about the music and became about the video directors and producers, who, being good broadcasting people, list to port. Well said.

[Starter]

I might as well post one of my favorite P.J. O'Rourke stories here:

In 1992, O'Rourke, Thompson, and some other fols at Rolling Stone met with then Governor Clinton for dinner, where he proceeded to wow the assembled foursome.

Clinton talked about issues, policies, programs. And talk he did. Brilliantly. He had all the details. He knew the facts and figures. He explained. He gave examples. And he knew what he was talking about - until Clinton brought up a program used in Bangladesh to help fight poverty and that Clinton wanted to use in the inner cities. O'Rourke had just returned from Bangladesh and didn't see how it would work here in the US, so he began to ask Clinton a question on the program. As soon as he began, Clinton quickly tried to divert the subject to something else. So, he turned to Hunter Thompson and said with wholehearted fervor, "We're going to put one hundred thousand new police officers on the street."

O'Rourke was up all night persuading Hunter that this was not a personal threat.

A better-told version of the story can be found at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a770d2c4b90.htm

[trentk]

I don't know. In Sonny's "autobiography",Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club (Sonny Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman), Barger says that when the fighting broke out in earnest, Hunter Thompson jumped in the trunk of his car, closed it, and whimpered like a bitch.

Needless to say, Hunter is not on Sonny Barger's Christmas card list.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Well, he sure got that part right anyway.....

[finnigan2]

Please don't forget to write down Mr. Hunter's name and address so you won't forget to send him a congratulatory note tomorrow on his extraordinary powers of prediction. (giggle)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

... and you're treating this man's beery pronouncements seriously because...? :)

[sheik yerbouty]

Actually Raoul Duke's son's infirmity was even more disturbing..

[blackdog]

Thompson is adrift in Bat Country, suffering from an either binge while using amphetamines mixed with Viagra to force some sort of thought. As long as it's intelligible to a brainless editor he collects his check.

[sheik yerbouty]

You really don't want to know.

[sheik yerbouty]

You really don't want to know.

[sheik yerbouty]

He's moved on to Prolixin...

[sheik yerbouty]

"I did not have sex with that woman...Hillary Clinton!"