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30 Dec 2010, 10:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See related Grits posts:Institutional prosecutorial bias limits federal pardon recommendations from DOJPerry mostly ignores advice of parole board appointees on clemencyChristmastime clemency is a joke, but pardons could be meaningful remedy for 'government overreach' How the Grinch stole clemency: Christmastime pardons trivialize processCasting light on Texas clemency decisionsPublic tired of Willie Horton? [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 11:14 pm
  Cops are a perpetual player, with Willie Horton raping your mother unless they receive fully paid health benefits.Whenever scarce resources are allocated, someone has to come up short. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 6:22 am by Michael O'Hear
Indeed, leaders of the same political party led the charge on both fronts, and, as illustrated by the infamous Willie Horton ad, were hardly above playing on racial fears in advancing their “tough-on-crime” positions. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 11:20 am
The same thing happens with judges (see the Mass. judge story), parole, probation, Willie Horton. [read post]
10 Jul 2016, 8:38 am by John Floyd
  The Willie Horton ad was a reflection from the past. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 2:04 am by Seán Binder
Dan Lamothe and Alex Horton report for the Washington Post. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 3:56 am
Complicating things still more is the spectre of Willie Horton. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 4:09 pm
 I say, hey, at least the headless jumpsuited felon in the ad is clearly a white guy; that's progress from the days of (the pre-repentant) Lee Atwater and Willie Horton. [read post]
27 Jan 2018, 2:36 am by SHG
And, of course, the classic, Willie Horton, that ended a run for the presidency. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
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]
13 Jun 2014, 4:15 am by SHG
  The Department of Justice supports limited retroactivity, so it only applies to those people who wouldn’t embarrass anybody if they show up in a Willie Horton ad. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 1:18 pm by Michael M. O'Hear
For many readers, references to arrest after release will conjure up images of Willie Horton, the furloughed Massachusetts prisoner who committed a brutal assault and rape in 1987 and who was then featured in a notorious attack ad in the 1988 presidential campaign. [read post]
26 Nov 2017, 4:34 am by SHG
 The downside is well-known (Willie Horton). [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 6:03 am
(A side note: the Healey campaign has got to go down in history as one of the nastiest, race-baiting, Willie Horton-invoking campaigns in our state’s modern history. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 9:54 am by John Floyd
Bush used the infamous “Willie Horton” ad to make a black male the “face of crime. [read post]
21 May 2010, 5:17 am
Bush claiming that the "Willie Horton ad" was not really playing on racist fears, or Bill Clinton saying that he did not have "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 9:49 am
He's caught in a Willie Horton trap, and it's a web of his own making. [read post]