ESPN SCRUBS HUNTER S. THOMPSON BUSH BASH

Drudge Report ^ | 5/24/04 | Matt Drudge

[wagglebee]

Hunter S. Thompson's ESPN column was scrubbed of controversy late Monday afternoon when online editors worried the famed gonzo journalist had gone too far.

In a column entitled, "Let's Go to the Olympics," Thompson went off on the Abu Ghraib prison picture scandal, exclaiming: "Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did."

But after being linked to the DRUDGE REPORT, a top editor demanded the sentence be immediately edited --without Thompson's okay, according to an ESPN.com staffer.

"Hunter can go too far sometimes," the Bristol-based ESPN employee told the DRUDGE REPORT.

The cleansed paragraph now reads:

"These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected. I have been in this business a long time and I have seen many staggering things, but this one is over the line.

As with the original, Thompson still concludes with the thought: "Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport."

Developing...

[wagglebee]

As with the original, Thompson still concludes with the thought: "Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport."

THEN LEAVE AND STAY OUT!

[InvisibleChurch]

"Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did."

well, he's obviously on drugs ... what a dope

[Klaus D. Deore]

They can second guess their outrageous comments all they like... we still catalog and record them.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I used to think Thompson was funny.

Then I woke up one day and realized he's just an a$$hole on drugs.

[sheik yerbouty]

He has been frying his brain(what's left of it) by doing all that Adrenochrome..

[Klaus D. Deore]

Totally off subject, but can you tell me how to add a 'sig' to my posts?

[weegee]

Didn't ESPN fire Rush Limbaugh over a less inflamatory statement?

[muawiyah]

This business of equating merely abusive American practices with blood thirsty genocidal murder commited by the Nazis does nothing but obscure the reality of what the Nazis did.

People who do that on a regular basis can be fairly said to be holocaust deniers.

Hunter probably has some anti-semitic friends in Europe he's laying down cover for. Or, maybe Hunter is an anti-semite. I've noticed a lot of his biggest fans are.

[Howlin]

well, he's obviously on drugs

You think?

Hunter Thompson has done more drugs than any person on the face of the earth, living OR dead.

[Howlin]

Where you post a reply, look for TAGLINE and type it there.

[weegee]

Original thread:

Let's Go To The Olympics. (Such the Barf Alert!!)

[Klaus D. Deore]

Adrenochrome is a new one on me... so of course I had to google.

[Texas Eagle]

"Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did."

Block 10 Medical experimentation block, Auschwitz

Gas chamber, Auschwitz

Crematorium, Auschwitz

Photos courtesy http://www.photo-exhibits.com/europe/poland/auschwitz_I_main_camp_photos/auschwitz_I__black_white_photographs.html

[ChinaThreat]

LOL. I think its funny all these freepers are taking him so seriously or anybody would publish Hunter's comments within the context of being newsworthy or sincere. At least the guy is an avid 2nd amendment supporter. Even if it does include a suitcase full of drugs and good honest hard working man's whiskey :-)

[lp boonie]

"Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport."`

Good, were even because I'm ashamed you claim to be an American.

[Klaus D. Deore]

Stupid me was searching in 'My Profile'

[Oztrich Boy]

So WWTD? (What Will Trudeau?)

[JRandomFreeper]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

/john

[weegee]

Disney-ESPN saw fit to give him a column to spew his hate.

[Rocko]

Thompson once predicted that Kobe Bryant case would be bigger than O.J. Simpson's. His judgement becomes more questionable by the day.