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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Krusher on November 05, 2004, 01:45:45 PM
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A quote from Hunter S Thompson.
"Yeah, we rocked the vote all right. Those little bastards betrayed us again."
This reminds me of the guys at work who are under the age of 25. All of them talked smack about voting but only one of them did.
:rofl
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Fear and Loathing should be required reading to understand Liberal roots of the 60's movement...Hunter is thier prophet and Mentor!
IKON
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Originally posted by Krusher
A quote from Hunter S Thompson.
"Yeah, we rocked the vote all right. Those little bastards betrayed us again."
This reminds me of the guys at work who are under the age of 25. All of them talked smack about voting but only one of them did.
:rofl
Noticed the same thing.
Looks like a new saying is in order.
"Never trust anyone UNDER 30"
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Originally posted by 1K0N
Fear and Loathing should be required reading to understand Liberal roots of the 60's movement...Hunter is thier prophet and Mentor!
IKON
He sure is to me.
Hey Krusher, where'd ya get that? I'd like to read the rest.
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The good doctor, besotted and suffering from a severe bout of electoral dysfunction, gives us his exalted but muddled opinion while eating his evening breakfast still wearing jammies, comfy in his recliner. The sycophants gather, and suck his toes, while his day nurse prepares his {legal} daily regimen of pills.
His Gonzo has devolved into Geritol.
http://www.aspendailynews.com/Search_Articles/view_search_article.cfm?OrderNumber=9156
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He's seen it before....
"I don't mean to pop the bad news on you Bubba but John Kerry is getting beat just like George McGovern did in 1972 — or worse," Thompson proclaimed to his nephew well before the news networks gave any hint that Bush Nation was marching toward a second term. "The tide turned so quickly it was difficult to breathe."
I don't think Geritol is his style. He may be in his pyjamas, but it's 3 AM and he's outside shooting anything that moves.
Thanks for the link Liz! :aok
He's one of the few writers that I have to read his stuff within the confines of my own home. I've tried reading it elsewhere, and what innevitably results is a whole host of people looking at you funny while yer crouched in the fetal position, laughing your bellybutton off somewhere where it just aint cool to be in the fetal position laughing your bellybutton off.
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I allways got a kick out of his books. other than his talent tho... there is nothing about him that is in the least worth aspiring to or even saving.
a line from a Randy Neuman song pegged hunter (although not about him specificly) "takes a whole lot of medicine baby for me to pretend that I'm somebody else"
song is called "guilty" I think. When I was an addict I could wallow in the song and in hunters work... now I can use it to understand myself better. maybe.
lazs
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Hunter's pre-election piece in Rolling Stone is here (http://www.gonzoville.com/page.php?id=54).
He's not quite as edgy as he used to was, but I'll still take him over just about any other national affairs editor any damn day.
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wow.. do you even believe half of that ramble of hunters? The picture of Bush as the winner by dirty tricks and media manipultion and the democrats as victims is especially amusing... hunter has lost it even more than I suspected.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
wow.. do you even believe half of that ramble of hunters? The picture of Bush as the winner by dirty tricks and media manipultion and the democrats as victims is especially amusing... hunter has lost it even more than I suspected.
Actually a lot of it does ring true to me.
But, hey, I'm used to reception any dissenting view gets in this BBS.
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ahhh... poor gonzo! for someone who idolizes the personal attack style of hunter you are sure sensitive eh?
hey.. the guy is a besotted attack dog who sees things in a delusional manner. His post is the absolute best example of someone who can't see any disenting view... he is totally incapable and anyone who looks at anything he says as more than background color is as delusional as he is.
lazs
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Who is he and why should I care?
Claw:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by lazs2
ahhh... poor gonzo! for someone who idolizes the personal attack style of hunter you are sure sensitive eh?
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And you sure only read what you want to read to support your prejudicial, narrow-minded view of the world.
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I have always been a fan of the Doctor, a big fan, in fact. However, toto has grasped the curtain firmly in his little mouth, and the man pulling the levers is not the man on the throne, by any stretch of the imagination.
He is a worn out husk of an intellect, too comfortable in his cliched idiosyncrasies to have an intelligent thought on the rigors of the news day. Some people really should die before they grow old, at least from a literary standpoint.
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I agree he isn't what he once was ... but its clear his love of Politics and understanding of the gut-level vitriol that feets the Engine is still there.
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Hate and vitrol are easy, look around you on this board. What the Doctor has lost is the ability to recognise the source of the hate. If he were to explore the Democratic party as he did the Republicans in the Nixon years, then he would be Gonzo once more. Currently, he is a shill, with too much invested in his liberal persona to make the switch and shine the light of hate at it's source.
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Yeah ... he still seems to be rooted in the Nixon era which no longer applies.
I'd love to see the "old Hunter" take a serious look at both parties, and the media itself. There is so much to hate in the whole system.
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gonzo... nice assumtion about my not reading anything that doesn't agree with me. I have read allmost every book hunter wrote and a lot of his articles...
fact is.. the man is burned out and dated. for you to praise this attack dog piece that simply reeks of desperation and lack of understanding... for you to call this brilliant would mean to me that your own views are dated and desperate.
contrast that drivel by hunter with the humor of Orourke or the incite of say horowitz who lived the life hunter was too stoned too.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
"... with the humor of Orourke..."
I've tried a few times with that guy. Once or twice even sincerely. Just didn't happen for me.
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Well, one thing for sure is Hunter S. Thompson has guts, standing up for a biker woman who was receiving a beating from her Hell's Angles boyfriend. He almost got killed by that guy.
Les
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nash... the man really does have a good sense of humor. I find it odd that you don't see it.
On the right we have learned over the years to just appreciate comedians and satyrists as most are extreme lefties... It takes a while but you learn to laugh.. I don't think the left has that capacity because...
they never had to. I think you can dismiss him because there are so many witty people on the left that you can read or listen to.
On the right... he is like a breath of fresh air... on the left.... a fart in the elevator at the peace and love convention.
lazs
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Leslie, that was Hunters story, but not the story of the rest of the Bikers that were there. Hunter was acting like his normal obnoxious self and got his bellybutton kicked and sent packing for presuming too much.
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Interesting theory....
I didn't get down with PJ because I didn't have to. Hmm.... maybe. :)
Thing about Hunter is.... it may look like he's lost his edge. And he may indeed have, to a certain extent. But put it back into context. The stuff he was saying, and the way he was saying it, was absolutely alien for its time.
These days, he looks much more tame only because that vitriol is delivered daily by any number of people on Meet the Press and Crossfire. It's become mind numbingly common.
I dunno if he's changed, so much as we've caught up.
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He hasn't changed, Nash, that is the problem. His schtick worked then, it doesn't now.
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Like Mel Brookes.
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... or Woody Allen.
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... or Men at Work.