In today’s Washington Times, reporter Stephanie Mansfield finds Hunter S. Thompson, “vehement” in his opposition to President Bush, committed suicide over the “state of society,” according to a dear friend who is also…the foreign editor of NPR. The NPR editor, Loren Jenkins, exclaims that Thompson was like Mark Twain, if Twain had discovered acid.

The countercultural affinities of the liberal media are there for all to see, as they celebrate Thompson and seemingly don’t find any politics in him. The Washington Post’s Henry Allen concludes his appreciation that perhaps through the “forbidding scowl of post-9/11 America,” we can find that Thompson was a great American. I’d love to see some vintage NR reviews to counter the laudatory trend.