Hunter S. Thompson Talks About Bush, Booze, and Drugs at His Super Bowl Party.
Hunter S. Thompson is the author of "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas" (1968), which featured his literary alter ego, Raoul Duke, a man who knew his way around drugs and booze. Six years later in "Doonesbury," Garry Trudeau, once called a "character assassin" by Poppy Bush, introduced Uncle Duke, and Thompson thought about a libel suit against Trudeau, but decided against it. "I didn't want to grapple in the gutter with Trudeau," Thompson is quoted as saying in the "Talk of the Town" section of the May 15th "The New Yorker."
This March, Douglas Brinkley reports in "The New Yorker" story, the New York "Observer" (see below) noted that George W. Bush, then 28, attended Thompson's 1974 Super Bowl party in Houston, and, since then, folks have asked Thompson for details. Here's part of what he told Brinkley: "I can't be expected to remember what every drug-addled yuppie hanger-oner who wanted to get close to me during a football game twenty-five years ago digested. There were so many dope fiends milling about, I don't remember what some Yalie named Bush, whose father was a factotum in the Nixon Administration, was doing. But he strikes me as the sort of person I would have thrown out of the room. A rich, beer-drunk yahoo with a big allowance who passes out in your bathtup....I don't want to become the Deep Drug Throat....I won't do it." --Politex, 5/20/00
"W....was my college classmate, though barely known to me....{with} an irreverent spirit, something I thought I glimpsed in a chance encounter with him and Hunter Thompson a quarter-century ago at a Super Bowl in Houston. I can’t recall who was hanging out with whom, but it was January 1974, it was in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency, the Super Bowl headquarters hotel (I was there to write about the spectacle which featured Dolphins versus Vikes that year) and I think it was a mutual friend, a fun-loving preppy guy I knew from college who also somehow knew Hunter and W. who brought us all together in a room in the Hyatt. I don’t remember exactly what went on, but I do remember coming away with a favorable impression of W.
"I remember thinking he was one of the preppy types I’d always kind of liked, the hang-loose, good-ole-boy types, many of whom took the interregnum on careerism, which the war and the draft mandated as a cue to break out of the mold a bit, wander off the reservation, poke into the sides of life their trust funds otherwise might have sheltered them from. I sensed what W. liked about Hunter Thompson was that Hunter too was another button-down good old frat boy (once) who went weird but in a good-old-boy way." --
Ron Rosenbaum, "The New York Observer," 3/27/00
http://www.bushwatch.com/quote.htmGeorge W. Bush: The lost chapters
The Texas governor has spoken sparingly about his life between 1968 and 1974. The anti-Bush Web site gwbush.com is now running a daily cyberserial to help fill in the details. Calling the fictional series "Fear and Loathing in East Texas," the site promises to illuminate the years "from W's Yale graduation up to his re-surfacing at Hunter S. Thompson's Super Bowl party." In today's episode, a young Bush turns down a cross-country Volkswagen voyage with a friend to uphold his family name. "Look man, my Dad's running for Senate right now, and my grandfather was a famous senator, and his father was a powerful admiral, and it goes on like that all the way back to the pilgrims, you know?" the Bush character explains to his hippie friend. "All eyes are on us, and now there's a war on ... Aw, just forget it, it's a ruling class thing -- you wouldn't understand."
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/06/08/trail_mix/Meanwhile, the cocaine story continues to develop. First, it has come out that Bush attended notorious drug fiend Hunter S Thompson's Super Bowl party in 1974. He must have been in an especially celebratory mood with his discharge from the Guard and acceptance into Harvard Business School.
Remember, 1974 is the year where Bush's denial of cocaine use stops. He says he's been clean since that year but won't comment on 1974 or before. Asked about Bush's activities at the party Thompson, who's most famous book is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, said,
"I can't be expected to remember what every drug-addled yuppie hanger-oner who wanted to get close to me during a football game twenty-five years ago digested. There were so many dope fiends milling about, I don't remember what some Yalie named Bush, whose father was a factotum in the Nixon Administration, was doing....I don't want to become the Deep Drug Throat....I won't do it." {New Yorker magazine, May 15 2000} Isn't that just Priceless!
http://www.gwbush.com/archive/index-ep0.htm
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