{"id":1052,"date":"2005-03-04T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/03\/funk_and_loathing\/"},"modified":"2005-03-04T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T18:46:50","slug":"funk_and_loathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/03\/funk_and_loathing.html","title":{"rendered":"FUNK AND LOATHING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Rich weighs in on Hunter S. Thompson in a column to run Sunday in the print edition of
\nThe New York Times. It’s already on the Times website here<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. A sample:
\n

<\/P>
\n


\n

Read “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72” — the chronicle of his
\nRolling Stone election coverage — and you find that his diagnosis of journalistic dysfunction hasn’t
\naged a day: “The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in
\nAmerica has its roots in the clubby\/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between
\npoliticians and journalists.” …
\n

<\/P>
\n

Thompson was out to break the mainstream media’s rules. His unruly mix of fact, opinion and
\nmasturbatory self-regard may have made him a blogger before there was an Internet, but he was a
\nblogger who had the zeal to leave home and report firsthand and who could write great sentences
\nthat made you want to savor what he found out rather than just scroll quickly through screen after
\nscreen of minutiae and rant.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>
\n

And since it’s funky Friday, here’s a fear-and-loathing poem by Leon Freilich<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> about “the nuclear option,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> a
\nRepublican proposal being considered in the U.S. Senate. It’s “a legislative bomb that threatens
\nthe rights to dissent, to unlimited debate and to freedom of speech,” writes Sen. Robert Byrd, a
\nDemocrat from West Virginia who’s been around since the days of Cain and Abel.<\/P>
\n

THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS<\/B><\/P>
\n

The law’s the law, the Bible states,
Even when it’s nuculer;
The Dems are
\nanti-legality
While the GOP is scrupuler.
<\/P>
\n

Vox pop, from ancient times till now
Reflecting the Deity,
Proclaims that all the
\nDems are damned
To be the minority.
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