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To: Political Junkie Too

ESPN had hired Hunter S. Thompson years before that and he wrote how the abuses at Abu Ghraib sickened him WORSE than the worst NAZI attrocities. That was 2004.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141560/posts
ESPN SCRUBS HUNTER S. THOMPSON BUSH BASH
Drudge Report ^ | 5/24/04 | Matt Drudge

In a column entitled, “Let’s Go to the Olympics,” Thompson went off on the Abu Ghraib prison picture scandal, exclaiming: “Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did.”

...The cleansed paragraph now reads:

“These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected. I have been in this business a long time and I have seen many staggering things, but this one is over the line.

As with the original, Thompson still concludes with the thought: “Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport.”


http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=thompson/040518


18 posted on 04/28/2017 5:08:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: a fool in paradise
"...Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did..."

Never heard that quote, but it doesn't surprise me. Liberals have no idea how stupid they continually sound when they make statements like that to normal people.

Even the most pedestrian American has likely seen skeletal holocaust victims being thrown, wheel-barrowed, and bulldozed into mass graves.

And somehow, seeing a man with a hood on his head and dummy wires on his fingers, or prisoners doing a human pyramid is worse.

Yes. It illustrates the inanity of liberals.

20 posted on 04/28/2017 5:15:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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