Posted on 02/22/2005 12:06:00 AM PST by JohnHuang2
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Outlaw, druggie, Dunhill-smoking, Chivas Regal-drinking, anti-establishment literary icon Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide after becoming depressed about the United States' shift toward conservatism, said one longtime friend who spent the weekend at the Aspen, Colo., home of the late "gonzo" journalist. "He was depressed about the state of society," said Loren Jenkins, foreign editor for National Public Radio in Washington. A vehement opponent of President Bush, Mr. Thompson, 67, "was feeling maudlin about the current conservatism sweeping the country," Mr. Jenkins said. "He felt he'd had a long run, trying to create a freer society in the '60s and '70s and he felt it had all been closed down." Mr. Thompson's body was discovered Sunday by Juan Thompson, his son by his first wife, Sandra Dawn Thompson. His second wife, Anita, was not home at the time. The family issued a statement asking for privacy.
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Book stores are displaying his latest, "Hey Rube" to cash in on his suicide. It's some hysterical anti-Bush screed. He really became quaite a loathesome fellow. It seems appropriate that he killed himself in that way. Liberal hatemongers are never happy and hate themeselves first, then hate anyone trying to be decent.
Fear and Loathing apperently was nearer and dearer to him than we knew.
It'd been better if he'd simply realized he could stop being like that and turn around rather than killing himself.
Instead of pulling the trigger, if he'd set the gun down and decided to change he could have done his greatest work.
Died as he lived: a sad, fearful coward.
Fear and Loathing, Hey Rube -- all his work was about himself.
Coward.
I blame Bush.
Rather than mock the dead, I'll just keep my comments re Thompson's PEST to myself.
I don't believe this for one moment. Thompson would not shoot himself over this. I do believe he did because his body was aging and having pain and problems.
Mr. Thompson churned out a series of books, including "The Great Shark Hunt" (1975), "Generation of Swine" (1988) and "Better Than Sex" (1994).
Thirteen years between two books and then six years before the next book. I wouldn't call this "churning." Thompson is highly overrated, in my opinion.
Well, I am glad we cannot question the veracity of Loren Jenkins of National Public Radio. Else, I would wonder how Mr. Thomas survived 67 years of drink, drugs and depression, only to succumb to the effects of one lone election. Yup, and I might just think Mr. Jenkins was looking for his own 15 minutes by projecting his feelings into the death of another man.
So NPR says it's Bush's fault. I won't miss him.
His greatest work; he made the world a better place by his last act.
Oops. My apologies to Mr. Thompson, not Mr. Thomas.
That is probably closer to the truth. His fans would want to elevate this into some epic political statement instead of the actions of a sick old man. He lived a hard drink and drug fueled life. There was bound to be physical and psychological consequences, not to mention aging.
He was fed up and decided to end it.
Are his friends blaming it on Christians and the turn right the country is making ? Despicable.
..."He was depressed about the state of society," ...
The freak was the anti-Christ of civilized society.
I shoulda known it... IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!!
OK, how many liberals will take the same action now?
Where The Buffalo Roam
He and Kerry were one and the same, cut from the same clothe. Kerry merely received a short haircut and a shave.
maudlin
adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]
I learn everday at FR.
Don't you just love a leftist, that will put his barrel where his mouth is?
yes, I know I'm bad...
Killing yourself because your guy didn't win an election. How pathetic is that?
You didn't see any of that crap from our side when Bill Clinton was winning elections. None of us threatened to leave the country either.
Driving around Boston, I still see the hateful and spiteful anti-Bush bumper stickers adorning liberal's cars. They just can't let it go. They are just so intolerant of others who disagree with them and are so full of hate. Or is it "fear and loathing?"
Just how free is one if one is addicted to drugs, alcohol and tobacco? As much freedom as one can handle is available if one will dare to free oneself. He wallowed in his self-induced slavery.
Good bye to a man with a little talent and no discipline.
For once you may be wrong. I'll bet it was about physical pain not politics.
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