Did Anyone Watch Frontline - Boogie Man The Lee Atwater Story?

[otohara]

It was a walk down memory lane of the same smarmy, evil cast of characters we've seen during the past eight years of Bush Jr. Man did he look awful towards the end of his life - hardly recognizable.

As usual Frontline did a fabulous job and it's worth a look if you didn't see it. Although I don't think the entire program is up for viewing yet, but several excerpts at Fronline site.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Nope. I can't watch any more Repuke psychopaths...

I hate to say this, but I even think his apologies were fictitious. I think maybe he was spooked by his rapidly approaching death and decided maybe there was a chance a God existed, and he wasn't going to take any chances.

He was trash.

[grasswire]

5. Ed Rollins said that ...

...the Bible that he requested so earnestly was found still in its original wrapper after he died. It was never opened. Rollins said "He was spinning to the very end."

So it appears that you were right.

[Touchdown]

6. He played us until the end. There was no conversion.

"After his death, we went to his hospital room to pick up his effects. The Bible he asked for was still wrapped in it's cellophane, and never opened. He campaigned 'till the end."

EDIT: Grasswire has the quote more accurately than me.

[lunatica]

15. Recall that someone said he talked to reps of every religion

He was hedging his bets. Wanted to make sure he got God's preferred religion.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. He was hedging his bets

When all was said and done, he was just a psychopath, and the GOP is just flled to the brim with those. We have a President and VP that are exactly that, and the recent VP candidate is another.

[earth mom]

26. I'm sick of the rethugs too, so I didn't watch it either.

:puke:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

31. I can't blame you.

It *is* puke-provoking!

[eleny]

2. Mary Matalin was true to form

She took the opportunity to bash Dems instead of just talking about Atwater. As if we never understood what he was.

[misanthrope]

3. Oh, man, so much I had forgotten...

...So much of the visceral reaction he spawned in me, the primal hatred for that sniveling jerk. He was so contemptible, so nasty.

I don't miss him.

[Warpy]

4. He was a psychopath

and the punchline to the film confirmed what I'd always felt about his deathbed conversion and regrets: SPOILER ALERT!!!!!





The bible he talked to his friends about reading for the first time was found with his belongings after he died---still wrapped in cellophane and never opened. He was a fraud, a cheat and a liar to the very end.

May he rot in the hell he created for so many of the rest of us.

[kansasblue]

7. The sad part is that this Alwater/Rove stuff works.

Too many people allow themselves to be lead down that sleazy path.

That shit will end when it no longer moves votes and wins elections.

[Berry Cool]

9. But I think we are finally seeing that day.

Thank goodness.

[Tallison]

24. I think there's been a generational shift

and younger folks are more inured to and skeptical of sleaze attacks.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. It's striking to me how one squirmy little man,

operating in the background, could so disastrously impact the course of history.

[a kennedy]

10. saw it, and was drawn to how the 43rd * looked like he was stoned

every time he talked.....creepy looking. Michael Dukakis didn't have a chance.

[peekaloo]

12. same reaction. crazed coke eyes.

His unibrow was still an infant.

[Warpy]

18. My reaction, "SHIT! He's BLASTED!"

Yeah, he was coked up to the rafters.

However, I was also impressed by the difference in his glibness then and his stumbling now.

[peekaloo]

11. Not all of it but enough to make my stomach turn.

Made me wish Rollins had beaten the "fuckin' shit out of him".

Crazy eyed W whorin' for his "Texan" dad (the bowling clip made me howl).

Watching all those vile creatures gave me nightmares. (seriously)

[Blue_In_AK]

22. Hey, me, too...

The nightmares, I mean. I tossed and turned all night after watching that, and I know I was dreaming about it when I woke up. What a sick fuck, and how disgusting that he could have wielded that much influence.

[sixmile]

13. I watched the whole thing

And came to the realization that winning elections is easy. Simply appeal to the lowest common denominator with planted stories and lie your ass off.

[Burma Jones]

14. At least it had a happy ending........

And let us earnestly pray that we have seen the end of their filthy enablers, the Bush Clan......

I mean, Atwater and Rove slimed the hell out of Republicans to the point where an honest Republican couldn't survive. If the GOP were to identify Atwater and Rove as the authors of their downfall, and then move on, the story could indeed have a happy ending.

[Gin]

17. did you notice how coherently W could speak? I guess he was

drunk at the time, and under the influence he can string a sentence together.
He could do a P.S.A. on what drugs do to your brain!

[AlCzervik]

19. did you hear Bush "that was a mis adjective". I thought it was well done and i thought

at the very end when Ed Rollins talked about he bible still be wrapped in cellophane was a quite a good moments, death bed conversion----not so much.

Anyhow well done Frontline as usual.

[Pryderi]

20. I'm watching it now.

Amazing he was a blues performer.

[Tallison]

25. Also surprising is that he wasn't particularly ideological

so much as inherently competitive. He rallied behind the GOP because early on he saw more opportunity there for the role he envisioned playing.

[Pryderi]

28. This is fascinating! "Misadjective" statement by "W". Everyone should watch this!!!

[mitchum]

29. He wasn't a very good blues performer

[Blue_In_AK]

21. He gave me nightmares,

for several reasons, not the least of which is how eerily similar to him Sarah Palin is. Yikes!

[Bozita]

23. Every time I see a GOPer lie on my teevee, I know that somewhere, Lee Atwater is smiling.

[mitchum]

27. I just hope that the worms weren't sickened by his corpse

[MrScorpio]

30. He's the reason I've named him as the center of my annual evil republican award

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4339443

[KoKo]

32. I saw it in a theater....it was incredibly sad and depressing...

seeing it all out there. Especially the depiction of how the "whore media" reports that was shown in that movie.

You gotta have stomach to watch it...but then I knew about him...so maybe it just was depressing because of that for me. Otherwise, it's a great Docu...for those who want to know all about who he was who didn't live through his reign...

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