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Hunter S Thompson

October 25, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Hunter S Thompson

is seen by many as a joke among journalists, the hungover detritus of a more self-indulgent time. But they’re wrong. For almost 40 years he has been one of the only honest commentators willing to speak the truth about power and one of precious few to understand – and not excuse – the brutality of modern Presidential politics. Thompson has pronounced on the current fracas in Rolling Stone: Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004. “…Bush went belly up less than halfway through his first bout with Kerry, who hammered poor George into jelly. It was pitiful… I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him ‘Mister President,’ and then I felt ashamed.”

Tags: US Politics

Comments

  1. Wrywriter says

    October 27, 2004 at 4:32 pm

    That was good reading, thanks for the link.

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    September 10, 2005 at 12:11 pm

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