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3 Jun 2014, 1:26 pm by Kent Scheidegger
"Taranto also provides a reminder on the reality of the Willie Horton episode: Willie Horton has become a sort of urban legend on the left, which seems to remember him vaguely as a victim of some sort of discrimination. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 5:45 pm
It was put together by Floyd Brown, the genius who brought us the Willie Horton smears against Michael Dukakis back in 1988, so that should give you a sense of what to expect. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 9:02 am
It seems to me that the criticism based on the old Willie Horton ad is intellectually interesting, but not practical in use. [read post]
10 Jan 2010, 7:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Referring to the case of Maurice Clemmons - the mentally ill man who was pardoned in 2000 by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for crimes committed in his youth and who last year killed four Washington state police officers in a coffee shop - former US Pardon Attorney Margaret Colgate Love offers up an item in the National Law Journal titled "Goodbye to Willie Horton" (Jan. 11), suggesting that, "The American public is tired of hearing about Willie… [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 3:03 pm
Says Salon's Luke Brinker about this new ad from the National Republican Campaign Committee:Here's the famous Willie Horton ad for comparison:Here's a New Yorker article from 2 years ago about Larry McCarthy, the man who created the Willie Horton ad. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 10:24 pm
Willie Horton campaign ad maker Floyd Brown and a couple of other conservative activists are creating a YouTube and viral e-mail campaign against Barack Obama. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 5:00 am
  This item at Monsters and Critics.com simply asks "Is Wayne Dumond Huckabee's Willie Horton? [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 6:37 am by Bill Otis
What is going on here is not actually the failure to learn from Willie Horton. [read post]
1 May 2017, 6:37 am by Michael M. O'Hear
The program had a good track record until an inmate named Willie Horton absconded during one of his releases and brutally assaulted a young couple. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 4:00 pm
for negative politics.Ed Morrissey assesses the "Willie Horton" meme re: Romney.And Politico got a bagful of docs about Mike Huckabee.Proposition: The primary voters of 2008 aren't going to decide on the basis of such... [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 5:41 pm
The neo-Willie Horton case isn't the problem, but the answers on illegals who turn 18 are being very poorly received, as is the governor's endorsement of an... [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 3:30 am
"Supreme Court Justice Gableman denies TV ad was misleading": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice facing charges that he lied in a Willie Horton-style television ad said in court filings Wednesday there was nothing untruthful about the spot in question. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 3:06 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Regina Austin (University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted The Saga of Pennsylvania’s 'Willie Horton' and the Commutation of Life Sentences in the Commonwealth on SSRN. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 5:20 pm
Republican operative Floyd Brown and his cohorts have released another misleading new advertisement that treads the well-worn, and thoroughly-debunked territory about Barack Obama's faith. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 3:46 pm by immigrationprof
Greg Sargent on the Washington Post's "The Plum Line" writes that "Sharron Angle's extremism has turned her race against [Senator] Harry Reid [D-NV] from an easy romp for Republicans to a winnable race for Democrats. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 9:07 am by johntfloyd
Tragedy Stirs debate on Stand Your Ground Laws and Racial Stereotypes By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In February, 2012, we posted a piece about Texas’ version of the “stand your ground” law which was passed by the Legislature in 2007. [read post]
13 Sep 2008, 5:38 am
For readers who may not know, Willie Horton was a Massachusetts prison parolee who went on to kill someone after being paroled in 1988. [read post]