Posted on 02/20/2005 8:14:19 PM PST by HAL9000
AP News Alert
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- The son of Hunter S. Thompson says the author shot himself to death at his Aspen-area home.
The death of Arthur Miller must of been too much for him...
The guy was rum and communism at its worst. I read "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail-1972" right after Nixon was driven from office by these people. The other book I remember from the period was Lanny Davis' "The Emerging Democratic Majority." They showed us that their majority in Congress was to be used to overturn elections, smarmily telling us that they would treat one of their own the same way if caught behaving similarly. Yeah, right. We saw both of these human lizards' takes on Clinton. To them, principle was for us. Politics was war and the ends justifies the means, as their sainted Marxism taught them.
As for Thompson, he represented the three H cesspool of modern contemporary liberalism and was one of its earliest practitioners: hedonism, hypocrisy, and hatred. He didn't just dislike Richard Nixon. He hated him. Any McGovernite who never grew up and went to AA suffers similarly.
I tried to like Hunter Thompson and as a Christian I pray for his troubled soul. But I am very glad the America he sought, one of socialism, speedballs, and "the sauce" was rejected by the rest of us as soon as we matured enough to do so. He was Baby Boom politics at its worst. RIP.
gee I am so glad somebody agrees with me here :^)
Actually, you're not really kidding most FReepers, in case you're wondering. Troll on...
Thompson's books had an acidic tone to them. He was more comfortable getting high, raping, and looting with the Hell's Angels or getting stoned in public than in having a political dialogue of any kind. He was right. Liberalism was right. Nixon was wrong and the millions who voted for Nixon were dolts and idiots.
He's have been a great local commissar in Stalin's Russia. He was just born at the wrong time and in the wrong country. He and Beria would have been great drunken pals.
By the way, I went to AA.
I thought that book's author was Leon Panetta Jr.?
Nope. In those days, he went by "Lanny J. Davis." There may be a new one out, but the one I'm talking about was written in 1974 and was gloating about the Democrat's coup in removing Nixon and putting the original RINO putz, Gerald Ford into office.
I seriously doubt, if I check back in a few months, that either you will still be posting in these fair environs...
"Leon Panetta Jr"? My dog used to do one of those occasionally as a puppy, now he only does a "Leon Panetta Jr's" outside where it belongs.
I suppose I mistook him for the other, more notorious Lanny Davis, who-I believe-was just a few years out of college at the time.
Aside from Panetta, I think that Roger Morris, Daniel Ellsberg and a host of other liberal parasites who managed to insinuate themselves into the inner circle of the Nixon administration wrote scathing denunciations of their former employer, after leaving public service.
Of course, I wish that Panetta had stayed away.
I've probably forgotten more Shakespeare and Chaucer than you've ever read, and your comparison between the two of them and HST is almost obscene, in a literary sense.
I had a couple of food poisonings two years back which eventually led to me doing a big "Lanny Davis" in my bathroom.
Even after the flush, the smell can of course linger.
I would have lit a match, but that would have looked too much like a Wellstone political wake.
I've always thought of suicide as self-inflicted Karma
There's alot of hagiography for Hunter, "the artist". The fact is, he was a man of the Left and fought for the worst of their ridiculous and damaging beliefs. He'll be eulogized by Hollywood and the New York Times. His side is wrong.
" Sayonara and good riddance..." an appropriate epitaph.
Swiing to the East River former Porno lad turned "actor" Spalding.
Spaulding Gray did porno?
"I thought he threw himself off a bridge in NY a few months ago."
That was Spaulding Gray, and it is presumed to have been a State Island Ferry boat, not a bridge. They found his body a few months ago, but he'd been missing for a few months before that.
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