Reply #32: Do you really think they are Christians - keeping themselves uncontaminated by the World? [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

Hunter S Thompson was absolutely knocked for six by a speech that the now President Jimmy Carter made, as the guest speaker at some kind of state, judicial convention.

He was kind of half-listening for a while, then gradually he found he could hardly believe his ears, as President Carter launched into an ever-more vitriolic diatribe against his audience; his most striking condemnation being that they had failed to give redress to a poor African American woman who was plainly cheated out of her property.

Imo, there is no-one to touch Hunter S Thompson for excoriating invective (outside of the Gospels...), so it tells you something that he was awestruck by President Carter's speech. I believe he tried to obtain a copy of it, but it was extempore.