Ah, an Actual Clear Headed Journalist!

Not so long ago, Hunter S. Thompson, too soon gone, a person who was considered drug and alcohol impaired was clear headed enough to know what was up with this proposed Mess-O-Potamia.

Here is Tim Russert, not so clear headed, interviewing Thompson about Bush and the impending invasion of the sovereign country of Iraq. Russert comes off as an idiot in this interview, sort of like he had imbibed too much Kool-Aid. Though Dr. Thompson, Journalist, stumbles around looking for words, he makes a hell of a lot more sense than his intrepid interviewer.

Thompson, delicately, calls what was going on in the country as a “National Nervous Breakdown.” I have called it Social Psychosis. The national debate on Iraq, if you could call it that, reminds me of the nation’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement and how those for Civil Rights were called Traitors, Communists, and worse. Yes, calling it a “Nervous Breakdown” is a delicate way of putting it. But then Thompson was a true Patriot and loved this country so he would be delicate.

Sure makes you wonder about how this man who admitted to his own inebriation compares as to those supposedly un-inebriated, say dry drunk, men running the country.

Clear headedness is all in the eye of the beholder it seems.

Thanks to Susie at Suburban Guerilla for finding this. The fact that she posted it a week ago shows you just how much there is to keep up with on the net, and just how far behind I am.

Update: Ralph put this up also!