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29 May 2024, 4:25 am
” Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand report for CNN; Dan Lamothe, Alex Horton and Kareem Fahim report for the Washington Post. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 2:04 am
Dan Lamothe and Alex Horton report for the Washington Post. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 4:08 pm
by Neil H. [read post]
12 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm
” In racially coded language, reminiscent of the infamous Willie Horton ads, Carlson claimed that Soros-backed prosecutors “refuse to enforce the law against protected groups… That is the heart of their ideology. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 8:35 am
Appeals to white fears and resentments are an old strategy in American elections, etched into the country’s political consciousness, with ads like George Bush’s ad using the Black convict Willie Horton against Michael Dukakis in 1988, and Jesse Helms’s 1990 commercial showing a white man’s hands to denounce his Black opponent’s support for 'quotas.'" From "With Ads, Imagery and Words, Republicans Inject Race Into… [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 4:00 am
Retired General Resigns as Head of Brookings Amid Federal Probe MSN – Reis Thebault, Caroline Kitchener, and Alex Horton (Washington Post) | Published: 6/12/2022 Retired Marine Gen. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 9:50 am
by Neil H. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
During that campaign, Bush ran a series of advertisements, the so-called Willie Horton ads.Those ads blamed Dukakis for supporting a policy that furloughed murders from prison while they were serving their sentences. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 8:26 am
Opponents are engaged in ugly, fear-mongering messaging that would make even the architect of the Willie Horton ad blush. [read post]
22 Aug 2020, 3:37 am
For Trump, a search for his own Willie Horton" (NYT). [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 4:35 am
Will he be Willie Horton’d? [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 3:06 pm
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]
5 Mar 2020, 7:33 am
26 Oct 2019, 7:47 am
Paxton's brief rehashes Houston Chief Art Acevedo's red herring arguments about the Brandon Bell case, engaging in the Willie-Horton-type tactics Judge Rosenthal already rejected from the bail bondsmen and the DA's office. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 2:23 pm
Could there be a more perfect segue than from Reagan's presidency to Bush I's famous Willie Horton campaign ad? [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 2:23 pm
Could there be a more perfect segue than from Reagan's presidency to Bush I's famous Willie Horton campaign ad? [read post]
3 May 2019, 8:15 am
Bush played on fears of Black male crime with the Willie Horton attack ad. [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 9:20 am
For some African Americans and Bush’s political opponents, the Bush legacy also demonstrates the way that pernicious allusions to race can influence elections and all the consequences for power and exclusion that follow.Bush’s tough-on-crime stance in his 1988 presidential campaign, including in his speeches and an ad from an outside group about a black criminal named Willie Horton, has been cited by many historians of racial politics and even some Republicans as… [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 12:54 pm
"Then there's Bush's classic use of dog-whistle racism in his presidential campaign in 1988 -- the famous "Willie Horton ad" used to scare white people into believing that if Bush's purportedly soft-on-crime opponent, Mike Dukakis, won the presidency, black rapists would be let loose on the country. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 12:54 pm
"Then there's Bush's classic use of dog-whistle racism in his presidential campaign in 1988 -- the famous "Willie Horton ad" used to scare white people into believing that if Bush's purportedly soft-on-crime opponent, Mike Dukakis, won the presidency, black rapists would be let loose on the country. [read post]
