Deuce Kindred

[Joe Allonby]

Rove considered him a guru. He made Willie Horton a household name.
Supposedly, he had a deathbed repentance.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 conterfactual question: is his brand of politics outdated and discredited or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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