What dirt did Hunter Thompson have on the Bush family? I just heard he

[BrklynLiberal]

shot himself.

[goodboy]

1. what? HST is dead?

[Wapsie B]

2. Oh no.

What was the source?

[goodboy]

4. nothing on google about it.

[jdj]

3. please no.

Is it really true? I beleive he suicided like I believe Abbie Hoffman suicided. The two of them would stay around just to piss people off.

[bush_is_wacko]

31. Yes, this is true I live in Colorado. Thompson lived in Aspen.

heard this on the evening news. I am shocked and horrified! Thompson was one of the best investigative journalists out there and he was not afraid to take on bush.

Want to know why the media isn't talking? This would be the reason. I just can't believe this.

[goodboy]

link please?

[CC]

5. Just heard that here.

Shot himself according to his son. No further information yet.

(Heard on WBAL. Said just in and no further info)

[wicket]

6. I heard that too

WTF???

[whistle]

7. Where did you hear that piece of news?

[senseandsensibility]

8. LINK

please. I am praying this is not true.

[Sparkly]

11. link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_us/obit_thompson

[senseandsensibility]

16. Thanks

Oh my God. This is tragic.:cry: RIP, Hunter.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Just heard it on CBS880 NEWS in NYC

Could not find it on the net anywhere yet.

[zulchzulu]

10. Yep... Hunter is dead. RIP!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050221/ap_en_ot/obit_thompson_4

That sucks.

[goodboy]

12. link here...it's true

http://wcbs880.com/national/Obit-Thompson-aa/resources_news_html

[goodboy]

13. OH GOD, DID YOU EAT ALL THIS ACID????????????

[zulchzulu]

14. Listen to this Hunter interview...he wants us to laugh

http://archive.salon.com/audio/the_paris_review/2000/12/05/hsthompson/

http://media.salon.com/mp3s/hst1120400.mp3

http://media.salon.com/mp3s/hst4120400.mp3

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/30years/audio/hunter_s_thompson_1976.mp3

[ConsAreLiars]

15. No link? No source of any kind?

Playing a game, or simply unaware of the fact that "I heard" without details is useless noise?

(on edit: thanks to goodboy for the link.)

[Lars39]

18. Link here

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_us/obit_thompson

[sleipnir]

26. Fuck.

The good ones keep dying.

We're not going to have any liberal voices left pretty coon.

[RBHam]

17. FUCK!!!! Another one of my heroes dies tragically....

Why? What the fuck is going on!!!

We NEEDED him NOW more than EVER!!!

CHRIST ALMIGHTY! DAMN YOU!!!

[Modem Butterfly]

19. What a shitty way to find out the good Doctor has died

Fuck.

[Shopaholic]

20. It's true

and very sad.

[kazoo35]

24. This is so very uncool

I am very upset at the death of this man. He had balls.

[Cats Against Frist]

21. Wow

I guess that's all I have to say. I really enjoyed his articles over the last year. Damn. Seems appropriate, though.

Now, I wish I would have bid on that copy of "The Rum Diaries" that he shot through with a pistol, himself, at the Paris Review auction.

[Texifornia]

22. R.I.P., H.S.T.

as our culture gets ever more sterile.

...when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

bye, Hunter

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

23. I have no idea if he had anything specific on the Bush family...

... but I did read a recent piece where he ruminated that Nixon was preferable to Bush**. Perhaps that was too painful a realization for him.

To quote my post on a LBN thread that also announced this: "Shit".

[zulchzulu]

25. It's like hearing that Kerouac died...

Let's look at his work and kick some ass in his honor...with a good poem about him...RIP Brother Hunter.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

29. "Letter to William S. Borroughs & Ode to Jack" -Hunter S. Thompson

It's on the CD, "Kicks, Joys, Darkness."

[WI_DEM]

27. I wonder why they didn't kill Kitty Kelley?

her book has loads of dirt on the entire Bush family.

[FreepFryer]

28. His last project was indeed Bush-related:

'Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness.'

Add another name (the last was Gary Webb) to the list of dozen-plus investigative writer/journalists who have suicided after investigating the Bush family.

[Dookus]

30. While I'm saddened

by HST's death, I'm not exactly surprised.

I think if you'd asked me how he'd die, I would've bet suicide. I don't think he was killed.

[Old and In the Way]

33. I never figured Hunter to be a nursing home type.....

he did it on his own terms, I guess....truely a sad day for Gonzo fans everywhere. No one could twist a phrase like the Doctor....

[Dookus]

35. I agree

it's a sad day, but the Doc went out on his own terms - just like he lived. There's something to be admired in that.

[NVMojo]

32. had no idea there was an old story about * & Thompson and coke...

in the 70s floating around ....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1612362

[RBHam]

34. Thompson suspected LIHOP, was writing an anti-Bush book...

"Kingdom of Fear"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3151160