Thompson has recently been making the
talk-show rounds--an incredible rarity for him--in order to plug his newest entry into the literary
lexicon:
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century. The Doctor has been his usual self: mumbling coherently enough in order to get some sort of point across while randomly cursing; making the guy with the beep button nervous. Aside from one moment on a news show (I can't remember which one) where he paused mid-sentence and let out a shriek before continuing with his thought, the most interesting thing coming out of Thompson's mouth has been
pontification regarding the current state of our nation and its leader. In both interviews I have seen, Thompson went as far as to say that
Bush made
Nixon look like a
Liberal. This from a man who is not known for his love for
Tricky Dick.
In print, Thompson had this to say about the President:
Let's face it--the yo-yo president of the U.S.A. knows nothing. He is a dunce. He does what he is told to do--says what he is told to say--poses the way he is told to pose. He is a Fool.
This is never an easy thing for the voters of this country to accept.
No. Nonsense. The president cannot be a Fool. Not at this moment in time--when the last living vestiges of the American Dream are on the line. This is not the time to have a bogus rich kid in charge of the White House.
Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters--it is where the heart of America lives. So if the president lies and act giddy about other people's lives--if he wantonly and stupidly endorses mass murder as a logical plan to make sure that we are still Number One--he is a Jackass by definition--a loud and meaningless animal with no fundamental intelligence and no balls.
To say that this goofy child president is looking more and more like Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974 would be a flagrant insult to Nixon.
Whoops! Did I say that? Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a liberal?
- From
Kingdom of Fear, Simon & Schuster, 2003