Deuce Kindred

[Joe Allonby]

Didn't Stevie Ray Vaughan or B B King give him a monogrammed guitar? Proving
that music and assholery have a linked tradition continuing to this very
day.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although from what I remember of the BBC documentary I saw a few months ago
> - wasn't he given a Bible when he was terminally ill, leading him to
> discover Christianity and claim his life had been changed by reading The
> Book, only for his friends to posthumously discover that he'd never even
> taken the covering off it? Fooling people til the very last ...
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 conterfactual question: is his brand of politics outdated and discredited or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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