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by Maureen Farrell
Last month, after the Drudge Report linked to a recent Hunter S. Thompson article ("Let's Go to the Olympics," May 18, 2004) an editor at ESPN asked that an inflammatory statement be removed. "Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did," Thompson’s sentence read, before eventually being scrubbed.
Though Thompson was merely stating opinion, ESPN recognized the controversy behind the quip and changed it. "Hunter can go too far sometimes," the editor reportedly said.
Drudge’s observations were nevertheless posted on the Free Republic Web site, and, as usual, the hall monitors from hell took aim. "They can second guess their outrageous comments all they like...we still catalog and record them," one poster wrote of ESPN’s intervention. "Hunter can join his friend Garry ‘Mr. Jane Pauley’ Trudeau on the sh*t list," another warned. And of course, there was the ever-original: "THEN LEAVE AND STAY OUT!"
Thompson’s observation was, admittedly, over the top. After all, George Bush is not exactly advocating any "final solutions" just yet. Even so, in light of all the rhetoric about freedom, liberation and democracy, memos leaked to the Wall Street Journal confirm that this administration -- in its search to legitimize torture and unseat our representative republic in favor of empire and an imperial presidency -- continues to lead the country down a Death Star-lit path.
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