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...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere Bush made Willie Horton an issue in 1988, and the racial scars are still fresh....
...The Gillespie campaign has taken a very large leaf out of the Willie Horton playbook from George HW Bush’s victorious presidential campaign in 1988 (Horton was the convicted murderer pardoned by governor...
...Much like Nixon’s 1968 campaign, and Mr Trump’s “Make America safe again” theme, the Willie Horton ads played on white fears of black crime....
...confusing for a party ostensibly trying to reach out to black voters, given that “Willie Horton-style” is traditionally understood to mean “not-so-subtly racist”....
...One should recall the catastrophic consequences of Michael Dukakis’s failure to respond to the Willie Horton ad of the George HW Bush campaign, and of John Kerry’s silence in the face of the “Swift boat”...
...This article has been amended since original publication to reflect the fact that Willie Horton did not murder again on release from prison for the weekend....
...Philip Bump notes that it’s an odd strategy for a party ostensibly trying to reach out to black voters, given that “Willie Horton-style attack” is generally understood to mean “not-so-subtly racist”....
...During the 1992 race between Bill Clinton and George Bush, the Clintons understood the risk of not responding to attacks because of the famous Willie Horton advert — which suggested a black man on a weekend...
...One of those convicts, Willie Horton, ended up raping a woman when he was out on a furlough from prison....
...All I can say is it was too bad that Willie Horton wasn’t around to provide Mr Bush with a shoulder to cry on (that’s a 1980s joke, kids)....
...Willie Walsh, IAG’s chief executive, said in August that the group would consider investing in American if it helped cement the US carrier’s place in the Oneworld global airline alliance that British Airways...
...The results come after Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, parent of British Airways and Iberia, American’s partners on a series of transatlantic routes, told reporters that his company would be willing...
...Politicians from Massachusetts have been particularly vulnerable to such attacks – the Willie Horton advertisements against Michael Dukakis in 1988 and the Swift Boat assault on John Kerry’s war record in...
...Tom Horton, president of American, speaking in New York said he would not rule out a merger, but added that “what we are doing with Oneworld is in effect building a global airline”....
...This week, Floyd Brown, the California-based conservative best known for the notorious advertisement featuring released killer Willie Horton – it helped to sink the hopes of Michael Dukakis, the Democratic...
...And he furloughed Willie Horton, the rapist-murderer....
...“Willie Horton was sprung on voters late in the campaign,” she recalls. “With Jeremiah Wright, people absorbed the facts months ago.”...
...It is unlikely (although it has been alleged) that Mr Bush was a guiding spirit behind the “Willie Horton” advertisements, with which his father’s 1988 campaign used pictures of a violent black criminal...
...It did four years ago with the Swift boat onslaught against John Kerry, in 1988 with the Willie Horton ads against Michael Dukakis and in both Richard Nixon’s successful campaigns appealing to the “silent...
...“I would not advise the McCain campaign to attack Michelle Obama directly – I would leave that to O’Reilly and others,” says Floyd Brown, who made the Willie Horton ad....
...Bush that attacked Democrat Michael Dukakis by using the image of Willie Horton, an African-American who had been convicted of murder, was condemned for having racist overtones....
...Horton ads?...
...Prof Wallin describes this political commercial as “Willie Horton II”, referring to the 1988 television advert Republicans ran against Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis that featured Mr Horton...
...Bush in 1988, best remembered for the ad featuring Willie Horton – who stabbed a man and raped the man’s fiancee while on prison leave – and the charge that Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis was a “card-carrying...
...After a sluggish response, his team finally swung into action this week to try to blunt an attack that called to mind the infamous Willie Horton adverts that sank Michael Dukakis, the last Massachusetts...
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