Originally posted by grease lightnin
Here is what Hunter S Thompson had to say about Nixon:
"Nixon will be remembered as a classic case of a smart man shitting in his own nest. But he also shit in our nests, and that was the crime that history will burn on his memory like a brand. By disgracing and degrading the Presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream."
"It is*Nixon*himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Our Barbie-doll president, with his Barbie-doll wife and his boxful of Barbie-doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us; the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close…"
There is much more than that, in fact, he wrote an entire book on the election between Nixon and McGovern and he wrote an obituary for Nixon in Rolling Stone when he died titled "He was a crook". Have you ever written anything your idol wrote, CLOWN?
"Nixon will be remembered as a classic case of a smart man shitting in his own nest. But he also shit in our nests, and that was the crime that history will burn on his memory like a brand. By disgracing and degrading the Presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream."
"It is*Nixon*himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Our Barbie-doll president, with his Barbie-doll wife and his boxful of Barbie-doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us; the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close…"
There is much more than that, in fact, he wrote an entire book on the election between Nixon and McGovern and he wrote an obituary for Nixon in Rolling Stone when he died titled "He was a crook". Have you ever written anything your idol wrote, CLOWN?
Hunter S. Thompson was a man for his time, he fitted in there, I don't believe you can't use his experience to critique the current state of affairs.
Of course I've read it but that doesn't create an inherent dislike of Nixon, in fact it's rather the opposite.
