Sunday, February 20, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson, RIP

"With the possible exception of Nixon, Hubert Humphrey is the purest and most disgusting example of a Political Animal in American politics today. He has been going at it hammer and tong twenty-five hours a day since the end of World War II - just like Richard Nixon, who launched his own career as a Red-baiting California congressman about the same time Hubert began making headlines as the Red-baiting Mayor of Minneapolis. They are both career anti-Communists: Nixon's gig was financed from the start by Big Business, and Humphrey's by Big Labor ... and what both of them stand for today is the de facto triumph of a One Party System in American politics."
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72