Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Zionist sympathies and media control. That's just the cover story. Inside, how (in not so many words) the re-accredited former seed salesman from Plains creamed his way into New York Times headlines, and Memphis-blues-cooed his wormy fishhook into the tangled pickle that is Hunter Thompson's heart...
Other magazines have known how to deal with people of Agnew's ilk. Rolling Stone, for instance, accompanying Hunter Thompson's 1974 Watergate opus, "The Scum Also Rises," ran a Ralph Steadman cartoon depicting former Attorney-General John "this country is moving so far to the right you won't recognize it" Mitchell as a used condom in mid air, about to splash down. It could just as well have been Spiro; after all, he has as much credence as a year-old Samoa, you know, the kind that comes in five tropical colors. Agnew's been spouting...
Scum, scum, ah, yes, we were talking about Hunter Thompson. The Mad Dog of modern journalism stunned the reading public when he made The Great Leap of Faith in print and endorsed Jimmy Carter two months ago in Rolling Stone. [MORE]'s piece on the Thompson conversion not only exposes Carter's conscious seduction process, but also happens to be the finest parody ever of the bent Thompson style...
History will note that it was Hunter Thompson's viciousness that kept Hubert Humphrey out of the 1976 race--too many liberals out there had been rolling in the aisles for years over Thompson's description of Hubie as "writhing like three iguanas in a feeding frenzy" over the prospect of nomination. But Thompson was a sucker for Bob Dylan. Carter courted and Carter quoted--remember the acceptance speech: "I believe in the words of Bob Dylan, that our country can be busy being born, not busy dying." And Thompson joined the ranks of the born-again...
...Thompson is only the half of it. The complete Carter conspiracy, the Mein Kampf of 1976, comes clear in [MORE]'s interview with R.W. Apple Jr., The New York Times' national political correspondent. Apple filed the first "Carter is a serious candidate" story from Iowa in October 1975. Apple explains that he went to Iowa to see who was moving, who was organizing, and all his contacts from past campaigns kept saying "Carter, Carter, Carter...it was enough of a man-bites-dog story that (the Times) played it on page one." Pass the Windex, you say? Sure. All Carter...