This interaction between a dirtbag biker and Hunter S. Thompson, along with the reactions of the audience, speaks volumes. Listen to them laugh and applaud at the biker’s jokes about beating wives, and then beating Thompson for speaking out against the gutter trash who beat their wives and generally act like animals. There’s a strange moral parallel between the biker and mainstream culture that was offended by Thompson’s moral standards, and so he got branded as a beatnik druggy for the rest of his life.
