Hunter S. Thompson on the Real Stuff

[WilliamPitt]

"There are a hundred or more people wandering around Washington today who have heard the 'real stuff,' as they put it - and despite their professional caution when the obvious question arises, there is one reaction they all feel free to agree on: that nobody who felt shocked, depressed or angry after reading the edited White House transcripts should ever be allowed to hear the actual tapes, except under heavy sedation or locked in the trunk of a car. Only a terminal cynic, they say, can listen for any length of time to the real stuff without feeling a compulsion to do something like drive down to the White House and throw a bag of live rats over the fence."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102005I.shtml

[wildhorses]

1. too many rats in there now to suit me

i'd like to throw a big cat in there though:P

[PDJane]

2. Political satire is dead.

It died there during the Reagan administration. It died here when Trudeau took a walk in a snowstorm and decided to quit politics.

It's all been downhill from there. Love the Thompson quote, by the way.

[marlakay]

3. We have poster of hunter in our garage

my husband use to read him while in japan during nam war....

[Philosoraptor]

4. If Americans ever found out about the real stuff...

Hell I don't know what would happen, I guess that's why it's private.

[tularetom]

5. It's 3000 miles to the White House, I have a bag of rats, a full tank of gas

it's dark, and I'm wearing sunglasses.

[Snarkoleptic]

6. When to going gets weird, the weird turn pro.