In a soon-to-be-released book, you’ll learn how one journalist scored a one-on-one with President Jimmy Carter — by literally lighting a fire under his ass.
Carter says in the forthcoming “Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson” that his staff “tried to schedule certain times for [Hunter] to interview me along with other journalists, but Hunter felt he should be given top priority. He threatened my press secretary, Jody Powell, and one night he even built a fire in front of Jody’s hotel room door in an attempt to smoke him out.”
Wonder if this would work with President Bush? We know just DC journalist who’s ruthless enough to test the hypothesis: Patrick Gavin.
