[A Jovial Cad]

By-the-by...here's a quote all of you trolls handing out the hankies over the demise of Gonzo Hunter will never be able to explain away:

"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads?" he writes, referring to the people currently occupying the White House. "They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis."

--Hunter Thompson, from a 2003 www.Salon.com interview.

The "who" he refers to is US, my genuine fellow FReepers--WE are the ones who voted for those folks he so disdained. And we are the ones he was addressing in those comments...Still proud of your hero Thompson?

If so, open wide, and drink up...

[A Jovial Cad]

Link, if anyone's interested in perusing what "Gonzo" thought about conservatives:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/03/thompson

[huac]

Mr. J. Cad, you are on the right side of this argument, literally and figuratively.

[Petronius]

I could care less what he thought about Bush (or Nixon). He wasn't a brilliant political analyst. I admired his prose and he was funny (and that is a subjective value, you must admit). He's not my "hero."

I'm straining to think of American writers from the last 50 years who _I_ laughed as hard at. John Kennedy Toole, perhaps...

Clearly, you don't care for HST. Duly noted. I'll even put that in my diary. There's something deliciously stupid about a man trying to convince others that they shouldn't enjoy what they do, in fact, enjoy--whether it pertains to writers or ice-cream flavors ;>)

[rcocean]

I think you're misunderstanding a lot of people.

Hunter Thompson wrote some very entertaining stuff. He wasn't a great artist and he didn't say anything profound.

His politics were terrible and for the last 25 years he didn't write anything worth reading. Hard to get upset at someone whose political views were so stupid.

See The Bleat (Lileiks) for his take on HST. Its very good.