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13 Dec 2013, 3:31 pm
Willie Reed, No. 105,307 (Wyandotte)Direct appeal; Agg indecent libertiesRonald L. [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 3:25 pm
., Nixon/Pat Buchanan's Southern Strategy; Reagan's Philadelphia, Mississippi/Welfare Queen Strategy; Bush I/Lee Atwater's Willie Horton Strategy; Sarah Palin's Tea Party Strategy) They have been shredding the Constitution since Watergate. [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]
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]
14 Dec 2013, 12:22 pm
Willie Reed, No. 105,307 (Wyandotte)Direct appeal; Agg indecent libertiesRonald L. [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]
1 Oct 2012, 5:48 am
Thanks, Jerry “Do-Tricks” Horton. [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]
5 Jan 2008, 4:43 am
Moreover, I cannot help but suggest that there is a sniff of racism in the Clinton camp's now repeated efforts to adopt a classic "Willie Horton" tactic in the hope of scaring (mostly white) voters away from a (non-white) candidate because of fear of (mostly minority) offenders subject to extreme prison terms under the old crack guidelines and federal mandatory minimums. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 8:38 am
However, jail populations are much easier to reduce in the short term than prison populations, for reasons both administrative (prison sentences are much longer than jail sentences, so changes in front-end policies and practices take much longer to manifest themselves in a significant way in prison numbers) and political (prison inmates tend to have more serious criminal records than jail inmates, and no one wants another Willie Horton). [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 8:14 pm
However, jail populations are much easier to reduce in the short term than prison populations, for reasons both administrative (prison sentences are much longer than jail sentences, so changes in front-end policies and practices take much longer to manifest themselves in a significant way in prison numbers) and political (prison inmates tend to have more serious criminal records than jail inmates, and no one wants another Willie Horton). [read post]
5 Jan 2007, 8:04 am
In his view, the doctors and corporations he sued "deserved" to be punished no more and no less than Willie Horton -- the famous parolee used by the Republicans to paint the Democrats as "soft on crime" -- did [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 5:32 pm
Willie Horton Ad Maker Goes Web 2.0 With Attacks Against Obama ... [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 2:15 pm
Now, let me add that the term "going negative" has become so broad as to be meaningless, used by the media to mean everything from personal character attacks (think Swift Boat) to baiting or demagogic mischaracterizations that unfairly tag the candidate with something (think Willie Horton) to ads that, legitimately, point out and criticize the failures of an incumbent's policies or the unwisdom of a candidate's votes and proposals. [read post]
1 Aug 2009, 8:18 am
Dating back at least to the Willie Horton ads during the 1988 presidential election, politicians have feared the "soft on crime" label. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 8:16 am
Some recent related posts: A retroactive litmus test on leading Democratic candidates More questions about Clinton's opposition to crack guideline retroactivity Apparently now's the time to talk about Huckabee's "Willie Horton" Politics and the war on drugs Should criminal justice reform be the new civil rights movement? [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 2:58 pm
An unnamed Republican Senate aide is quoted as follows in responding to the Wendell Callahan sentencing reform scandal, in which two little African American girls and their mother were knifed to death by a federal inmate given early release under a 2010 sentencing reform law:You're never going to eliminate the Willie Horton type of situation, the political ads aside, of somebody coming out [of prison] and committing a crime. [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 6:12 pm
(Some of us can remember the "what if your wife were raped" question that Bernard Shaw directed at Michael Dukakis, the answer to which--Dukakis would not try to strangle the rapist with his bare hands and, more to the point, seek the death penalty--along with the tank ad and the Willie Horton ad, doomed his campaign.) [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 9:03 am
There is reason to think those Willie Horton-style gotchas have lost some of their potency, but the prospect tends to make members of Congress more risk-averse in even-numbered years. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 5:59 am
Once people realize that this was all hype from the outset, it could take decades before turning it around with another Willie Horton commercial. [read post]
