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

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Wed Jun-16-04 06:22 AM
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Buzzflash: Hunter S. Thompson, George W. Bush and the Free Republic

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/06/far04020.html

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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MajorFlaw

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Wed Jun-16-04 07:16 AM
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1. Good article. I hadn't realized that Thompson was still as clear

and focused as the snippets in the article show him to be. He seems to have really known it all from the beginning. I also knew on 9-11 that we were at war with somebody; I just had no idea that shrub would fuck things up as badly as he has. While I have seen shrub's level of arrogance before, it has never been combined with such out and out incompetence.

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Champion Jack

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Wed Jun-16-04 08:20 AM
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2. Great Stuff!!

�The Nation's Capital,� July 29, 2003

* "The utter collapse of this Profoundly criminal Bush conspiracy will come none too soon for people like me. . . The massive plundering of the U.S. Treasury and all its resources has been almost on a scale that is criminally insane, and has literally destroyed the lives of millions of American people and American families. Exactly. You and me, sport -- we are the ones who are going to suffer, and suffer massively. This is going to be just like the Book of Revelation said it was going to be -- the end of the world as we knew it."

�The Big Finale Was a Big Disappointment,� April 6, 2004

* "The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November."

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DavidMS

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Wed Jun-16-04 09:07 PM
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3. Thats why we love HST!

He speaks his mind and is quite willing to shock conservatives and others with weak morals.

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teryang

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Thu Jun-17-04 04:44 AM
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4. Awesome!

<If we believed all the brutal, frat-boy threats coming out of the White House, we would be dead before Sunday. It is pure and savage terrorism reminiscent of Nazi Germany.>

I don't think it's possible to overestimate the dangers presented by this regime. Stripping suspects of citizenship and advocating torture and pre-emptive war. Tell tale signs of fascism.

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Thu Jun-17-04 06:43 PM
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5. Earlier tidbits from his Page 2 column and elsewhere

Edited on Thu Jun-17-04 06:51 PM by indigobusiness

Big Darkness Soon Come...
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The Bush family reeks of fraud and bad karma. But even worse than our wretched, gibbling president are the cowardly whores in Hollywood who are currently smearing film stars and music people like Johnny Depp by calling them unpatriotic Americans who righteously question the wisdom of invading a whole nation of Islam -- 1.8 billion worshipers -- which is a dangerously stupid idea. Disagreeing with Donald Rumsfeld about bombing anybody who gets in our way is not a crime in this country. It is a wise and honorable idea that George Washington and Benjamin Franklin risked their lives for. These thieves in the White House are so crazy with greed and power, and they are causing so much drastic damage to the world we live in, that they are the ones who should be put on trial for treason.
---Hunter S. Thompson---
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America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson

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NIXON OBIT by Hunter Thompson
(lest we forget)...
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/graffiti/crook.htm

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indigobusiness

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Fri Jun-18-04 12:09 PM
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6. HST Page 2 link

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/archive?columnist=hunter_s._thompson&root=page2

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