Hunter S. Thompson (7/18/1937 – 2/20/2005) did not mince words. Can you imagine what he would have had to say about G.W. Bush in 2007? No wonder he wanted to be shot out of a cannon for his last good-bye.
MEMO FROM THE NATIONAL AFFAIRS DESK
DATE: MAY 1, 1994
FROM: DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
SUBJECT: THE DEATH OF RICHARD NIXON:
If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin. . . . .
I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.
Let there be no mistake in the history books about that. Richard Nixon was an evil man-- evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. Nobody trusted him -- except maybe the Stalinist Chinese -- and honest historians will remember him mainly as a rat who kept scrambling to get back on the ship. . . . .
3 comments:
Hunter didn't mince his words, eh!
Hi Erik,
I'm bloghopping today and came here via JR. Hunter Thompson was a great writer, make no mistake about it. I too would like to have read his thoughts on Dubya. I suspect they would make your ears bleed.
Ian
I read Thompson's book on the Hell's Angels and thoroughly enjoyed it, although according to some of the Angels it's not completely accurate. But is anything? Imagine a convo between Hunter and Dick in Hell. My word, it's hot.
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