Posted on 05/24/2004 7:27:35 PM PDT by 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...
Definitely. Hope you'll do the honors.
Apparently Thompson does not remember those.
His comparison is despicable. And one last thing - going out on a limb here - if we can save one soldier - by putting panties on some a$$hole's head - I'll go with the panties. I'm still considering whether shoving glow sticks up their butts is wrong. That's a tough call ... ;-)
I'll be glad to. Did a troll get the ZOT @ #60?
Good line.
Oh, I guess I hit a dumbf***'s nerve. Boo-hoo...
Don't do that again.
"Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport."
Awwwww....
Then why doesn't he go somewhere else and get a different one?
Without intoxicants he'd be an unknown.
Thank you for those pictures. It really puts things into perspective... for most sane people, at least.
I am getting so tired of the Abu Graib stuff. And I was one of the people that was upset at first.
But really, these people's hatred for GW is so great that there is no perspective. Panties on the head? Making fun of their bodies?
That's child's play compared to gassing people to death, beheading them, etc.
Like I said to a friend of mine today: we always take the high road, and our enemies always take the low road. Yet we are criticized if there is a stumble or two (Abu Ghraib "atrocities!") on the way up.
No Kidding! True story...
John Belushi once spent three days on a binge with HST. He was found wandering the road outside of Thompson's house, nose bloody, drunk, and with his beard caked with white powder, thumbing a ride.
When a couple picked him up, he pointed at Thompson's house and said, "I just can't keep up with that guy!"
I was wondering where he was going with the gay gangsters thing....
I like Lileks. I need to read him more.
LOL!!
I'm sure France would love to have him.
I forget what I did? Thats been a long time ago?
The appeal of Hunter S. Thompson and his writing totally allude me. I plodded through his book "Better Than Sex," waiting for some flash of brilliance or insight. I got neither. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" wasn't worth the ink used to write his drivel.
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