Frontline has the Lee Atwater Story on now...

[XOKCowboy]

After ousting those #*^$!#* Repugs I can watch shows like this with another perspective now. Who knew that the internet would be the tool that brought the Old School down.

Anyway it's a good documentary if you want to watch the beginnings of the evil wing of the Republican Party.

[cynatnite]

1. He wound up being a very pathetic figure in the end....

I couldn't help but feel sorry for him despite the horrible things he did.

[Warpy]

He was also conning everybody until the end

because the friend who went through his personal belongings from the hospital found the bible he'd claimed to read and become converted by was still in its cellophane wrapping, never opened.

Atwater lived as scum and he died scum.

[cynatnite]

6. I forgot about that. n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. If ever there was a case of

what my old Italian grandmother called "You spit up in the air, it lands in your face," Atwater's life and death were.

He had it coming, as far as I'm concerned. This world would have been a better place if Atwater had never been born. He was a vile, filthy creature.

[XOKCowboy]

9. No kidding...

He had the heart of a snake and unfortunately his prey was the US Government! I have no pity for him. He lived off of betrayal and lies. A terrible person.

[snake in the grass]

16. Come on now!

Snakes don't deserve that kind of abuse. Nothing in the animal kingdom comes even close to the mendacity found in homo sapiens. We will be our own undoing.

[CatWoman]

3. oh yeah

I ordered the DVD, and just got it in the mail.

I promised Mr. Forbes I'd drop him a line when I received it.

Think I'll watch it after the Daily Show goes off.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Saw 41's inaugural the other night

Of course, after Willie Hortinizing the country during the campaign, they sent a black soldier, Alvy Powell, out there to sing the anthem. Felt like putting my fingers down my throat.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I can only think about him playing the guitar trying to act all bluesy & cool

rolling his eyes up & shit. He looked like an idiot.

[CatWoman]

8. did you know he cut an album?

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Hot-Blue-Atwater-Friends/dp/B...

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. I wonder if Holmes Tuttle or Walter Annenberg fronted the money for that.

As a thank you gift.

[XOKCowboy]

13. One of his buddies said that LA was a black man in a white man's body....

The man that perfected the Southern Strategy and Willie Horton.

Amazing stupidity.

[gratuitous]

7. Now with added footage! Where is Lee Atwater now?

Think hot.

[XOKCowboy]

10. As my dad used to say.. He's the kind of guy...

who had to hire his pallbearers.

[XOKCowboy]

12. Man this is sick.. Rove as his young protoge is enough to make you

It also exposes anyone who voted Republican in the last 30 years as a complete fool.

[laundry_queen]

14. It sure does, doesn't it?

P-L-A-Y-E-D, all of them.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. Once is enough.

I watched it the last time around.