Hunter S. Thompson once spread a rumor of a presidential candidate’s drug addiction and it was taken seriously
“Not much has been written about the Ibogaine Effect as a serious factor in the presidential campaign,” Thompson wrote in an article he later claimed was never meant to be taken at face value. In it, he declares, “word leaked out that some of Muskie’s top advisers called in a Brazilian doctor who was said to be treating the candidate with ‘some kind of strange drug.”
For those with an interest in politics, I strongly recommend reading “fear and loathing on the campaign trail” and “better than sex (confessions of a political junkie). Both of course by HST
“Not much has been written about the Ibogaine Effect as a serious factor in the presidential campaign,” Thompson wrote in an article he later claimed was never meant to be taken at face value. In it, he declares, “word leaked out that some of Muskie’s top advisers called in a Brazilian doctor who was said to be treating the candidate with ‘some kind of strange drug.”
https://theplaidzebra.com/hunter-s-thompson-spread-rumor-pre...
For those with an interest in politics, I strongly recommend reading “fear and loathing on the campaign trail” and “better than sex (confessions of a political junkie). Both of course by HST