"BoogieMan": The Lee Atwater Story, a documentary on Lee Atwater, will be available at the end of October on DVD. For those unfamiliar with the origins of Republican slime campaigning, even the trailer provides insight.
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Below is Bill Moyers' epitaph, done with grace and kindness as only he could do.
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Karl Rove was Atwater's protege, and George W. Bush, a kindred spirit, rode shotgun with Atwater during the infamous "Willie Horton" campaign of 1988.The '88 campaign, in which Dukakis was 17 points ahead before Atwater "Swift Boated" him is the playbook for the 2000, 2004, and 2008 campaigns. (Atwater died of brain cancer about half way through George Herbert Walker Bush's first term and wasn't around to torpedo Bill Clinton's campaign.)
.For all the nastiness of this year’s presidential campaign, the downward spiral into ever-meaner electioneering really started about 20 years ago. The political Magus who ushered in our new muddier era was Lee Atwater, best known for engineering George H.W. Bush’s win in 1988.
Moyers on Lee Atwater's Epiphany
Moyers on Lee Atwater's Epiphany
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this is my first electin and I dont want to make a misteak with my vote. Im trying to read as much as I can about what maters and my parents have explaned alot but they didnt know about this.
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