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Buzzflash: Hunter S. Thompson, George W. Bush and the Free Republic

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Hunter S. Thompson, George W. Bush and the Free Republic

by Maureen Farrell

Last month, after the Drudge Report linked to a recent Hunter S. Thompson article ("Let's Go to the Olympics," May 18, 2004) an editor at ESPN asked that an inflammatory statement be removed. "Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did," Thompson’s sentence read, before eventually being scrubbed.
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