{"id":182437,"date":"2015-09-21T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/21\/hunter-s-thompson-was-a-prophet\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:24:00","slug":"hunter-s-thompson-was-a-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/21\/hunter-s-thompson-was-a-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter S. Thompson was a Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"

In The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time<\/i><\/a>, Hunter S. Thompson relates the following tale:<\/p>\n

This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson\u2019s early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent\u2019s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cChrist, we can\u2019t get a way calling him a pig-f%$#er,\u201d the campaign manager protested. \u201cNobody\u2019s going to believe a thing like that.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cI know,\u201d Johnson replied. \u201cBut let\u2019s make the sonofabitch deny it.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, right now, the UK is transfixed by the tale of PM David Cameron and Piggate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Late last night, the Daily Mail<\/i> published<\/a> an astounding excerpt of an unauthorized biography of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, alleging that he placed a \u201cprivate part\u201d of his body into the mouth of a dead pig\u2019s head while at Oxford University.<\/span>
He put his nob in a pig\u2019s mouth. Popped his todger into the poor swine\u2019s gob.
It\u2019s crucial when dealing with such an important and weighty story to have all the facts, so please let this Brit guide you through the revolting tale of prime ministerial pig porkery.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is claimed that there are pictures, but this could be a, “Make the sonofabitch deny it,” moment.<\/p>\n

In either case, this is a profoundly weird moment in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, Hunter S. Thompson relates the following tale: This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,984,978,1177,1075,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-europe","category-politics","category-scandal","category-sex","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}