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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]
29 Nov 2007, 12:27 pm
And thanks to a helpful colleague, I see that Saunders has authored these three strong pieces on federal criminal justice issues recently: "Free Clarence Aaron" (about an overpunished federal defendant meriting clemency) "Willie Horton 2008" (on the politics of crime and punishment in the presidential campaign) "Federal prosecutors on steroids" (on the Barry Bonds indictment) [read post]
25 Feb 2012, 4:50 am
Michael Dukakis fell to the vicious Willie Horton ad. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 4:07 am
In some media outlets -- online and on television -- Clemmons has been dubbed "Huckabee's Willie Horton," raising questions on how the Seattle shootings will affect Huckabee if he decides to run for president in 2012. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 5:58 am
Willie Morris said it this way: “Like the cotton candy at the county fairs of one’s youth, it was all so wonderfully sweet, yet dissolved so swiftly. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 2:54 pm
, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Linda Hirshman, and Scott Horton discuss Scalia’s legacy on civil rights issues. [read post]
4 Sep 2010, 6:00 am
Al Kaline, Mickey Stanley, and Willie Horton combined to get McLain his victory with a come-from-behind rally in the bottom of the ninth inning, but what future superstar hit two home runs off McLain that day to make the rally necessary? [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 3:04 am
Bush, described as a "brutal campaign consultant" and famous for the "Willie Horton" political advertisement that helped elect Richard Nixon in 1968.Applicant pooh-poohed the USPTO's evidence, arguing that the listings possibly included duplicate profiles, individuals who are deceased, and even Canadians and other foreigners. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 1:42 pm
., Willie Horton). [read post]
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]
1 Sep 2017, 10:53 pm
" In 1968, the Detroit Tigers' World Series victory was profoundly moving for a city teeming in social unrest (a year earlier, their great slugger Willie Horton attempted to quell the riots in his Tiger uniform). [read post]
15 Jan 2018, 7:45 am
Bush won in 1988 with notorious ads telling the story of Willie Horton, who was allowed out of prison under a weekend furlough program. [read post]
9 Oct 2016, 6:43 am
See more here on Spicer’s tweet about Willie Horton and Tim Kaine. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 3:39 am
. 'You don't want to have another Willie Horton situation,' Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal says of the murderer who committed crimes while on weekend furlough in Massachusetts. 'You hope for no bad headlines.' "
USA Today [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 5:25 am
"The backlash over furloughed Massachusetts prisoner Willie Horton helped cost Michael Dukakis the 1988 presidential election. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 7:38 am
Covington, they have brought us The Harvard Email Controversy, news that the University of Texas Considers Renaming a Dorm Honoring a Klansman Law Professor, and a Wisconsin judge’s forrays into Willie Horton shenanigans. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 6:21 am
It perhaps goes without saying that this high-profile event, like the infamous Willie Horton ads two decades ago, could further contribute to giving all clemency grants a very bad name and likely will make governors and presidents even more skittish about how they use their clemency power. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 8:52 am
(Willie Horton) Bush, George W. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 7:30 am
What we do know is that they've hired the same consultants who helped make the infamous "Swift Boat" and "Willie Horton" ads. [read post]
25 Dec 2006, 9:19 am
., the party of Richard Nixon's 1968 law-and-order campaign and the Willie Horton commercial, is beginning to embrace the idea that prisoners have not only souls that need saving but also flesh that needs caring for in this world. [read post]
