I confess that, while I generally dig the guy, I sometimes can't tell when Hunter S. Thompson is serious or just full of it (which, I believe, is the point). Anyway, he has a new post up at Page 2 over at ESPN with this little chestnut:

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did... I have been in this business a long time and I have seen many staggering things, but this one is over the line. Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport.

As for the ashamed part, well to each their own. I'm none too proud of what those ass-clowns did over in Abu Ghraib either. But to say "Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did" is a warped sense of moral equivalence that borders on the pathological.

Let's review, shall we:

Holocaust Shocking...


Abu Ghraib even more shocking.


Mr. Thompson, welcome to the idiotarian club.

UPDATE: Well, according to Drudge ESPN has edited Hunter's copy to remove the line about the Nazis. Now the question is will Hunter cry foul over censorship or lay low? (I bet the former).