BY: M.TOMOSKI After spending a few tedious months on the 1972 campaign trail, Ed Muskie—the Democrat favored to win the party’s nomination—had been putting his entire press corps to sleep with hopelessly repetitive stump speeches. “I didn’t get a quote worth filing out of the whole goddamn trip,” a New York reporter told Hunter S … Continue reading Hunter S. Thompson once spread a rumor of a presidential candidate’s drug addiction and it was taken seriously