Deuce Kindred

[Johnny Marr]

I thought exactly the same thing.
Quite a terrifying man; the programme presents him as amoral, but that might
be slightly generous for someone so willing to flirt with the dark side.
Whether he'd still be successful today remains an interesting conterfactual
question: is his brand of politics outdated and discredited or was he the
arch practitioner who would be outmanouevering everybody else? I suspect
there'd be a bit more scepticism and resistance but fear that he'd still be
an effective political weapon. He was meant to be thinking of spreading
allegations about Clinton fathering illegitimate children ...

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I never noticed how much he looked like Michael J Fox, bad guitar playing
> and all.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:07 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> If you missed the Frontline report on Lee Atwater you should seek
>> it out. It was terrific. About half way through I realized that he was
>> at least one of the models for, targets of, the Kindred characterization.
>>
>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/
>>
>> Oddly, Atwater reminded me, physically, of another, more mildly
>> annoying characterization- of the 1980's this time:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_P._Keaton
>>
>>
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