Jesse Ventura ‘assuming the role’ of Hunter S. Thompson

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura had a perfectly good explanation Wednesday for sitting though a CNN interview while wearing sunglasses.

“What’s with the shades,” CNN host Brooke Baldwin asked at the end of the interview.

“Hunter Thompson’s gone,” Ventura said, “and I’ve been reading a lot of Hunter S. Thompson’s work. And now that he’s not here to warn us anymore about what’s going to happen, I would like to assume the role of Hunter S. Thompson now.”

Watch this video from CNN’s Newsroom, broadcast June 8, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/jesse-ventura-assuming-the-role-of-hunter-s-thompson/

[LoZoccolo]

1. I think of Charlie Sheen as the Generation X version of Hunter S. Thompson. n/t

[leeroysphitz]

18. HST spoke for people. whether he meant to or not. Who feels that Sheen is speaking for them?

[LoZoccolo]

21. He speaks for those of us who have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. n/t

[ixion]

2. Jesse should be himself

because he'll never, and I mean NEVER be Hunter S. Thompson.

[dhill926]

3. well.......

HST was a brilliant, acerbic critic of American culture. Jesse......not so much.

[JVS]

4. If Hunter Thompson were alive today, he'd shoot himself.

[FLPanhandle]

5. Ventura, you will NEVER be the next Hunter S. Thompson

No matter how many pairs of sunglasses you wear.

[Donnachaidh]

6. ewwwwww...

Jesse isn't qualified to lick dog stuff off Hunter's shoes...

[cali]

7. Governor, I knew Hunter Thompson, and you sir, are no Hunter Thompson.

[maddezmom]

8. what an ego

:eyes:

[NightWatcher]

9. he's no Hunter, he's a retired wrestler. he wouldnt know Gonzo if it sat on his face and wiggled

[Codeine]

10. Wow.

Just. . . wow.

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. Jesse The Body is a fucking tool. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

12. Maybe Venture means he's going to be an aging reclusive crank

same as Thompson was towards the end.

He has most of that down pat, then, except the reclusive part.

Work on that, Jesse, hmmm?

[NightWatcher]

13. maybe it means he's gonna shoot himself

[Canuckistanian]

14. Er, no.

Not now, not ever.

Just...... no.

[Capitalocracy]

15. Assuming is right.

Don't get me wrong, it's cool that someone thinks differently and stuff, but Jesse Ventura swallows whatever conspiracy theory comes down the pipe. Into the sewer. Most of them are floaters.

[fivepennies]

16. Looks like

hard nosed investigating isn't quite as titillating as a Anthony's twittered weiner.

Jesse's trying to cover your back by telling you things you need to know about the corrupt world you inhabit while Anthony just wants you to admire his inflated "ego" by putting up what he considers his best front.

Flame away and entertain yourselves some more with the vapid crap your handlers feed you.

:puke:

[Poll_Blind]

17. Well, that's an automatic FAIL but his heart is probably in the right place.

He needs to crank up the drugs and the paranoia to reach the level of truth Thompson could glean out of a situation. If I ever hear him refer to the GOP as "glue-sniffing pedophiles", there may be hope yet.

PB

[Fleshdancer]

19. Botched botox?

Black eye? Bad eye job? I believe any one of my theories over the crap he just spewed.

[Brickbat]

20. Oh dear God.

[fugitive]

22. The funniest comic novel since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

If you need a Gonzo fix, check this out:
Gonzo, Gonzo, All Fall Down
Review:
". . . reads like Thompson if he was writing his main body of work today and not 35 years ago. . . . it’s mostly laugh out loud funny."
Kindle edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Gonzo-All-Fall-Down/dp/B0010CP1TM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1196464317&sr=1-2

There is a paperback edition of the same book with a different title. (Why? I don’t know.): A Million Little Pieces of Feces
http://www.amazon.com/Million-Little-Pieces-Feces/dp/1411677315/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262832166&sr=1-1