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FLOYD BROWN IS BACK. He's the conservative who created the original Willie Horton ad in 1988 and made a video rehashing the Gennifer Flowers mess in 1992, and he is now covertly feeding information and hard-to-find documents to reporters and congressional Republicans looking into the Whitewater affair. Brown's associate David Bossie has been to Little Rock several times digging for dirt. Evidently some Whitewater tale tellers prefer to deal with Brown & Co., figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources...
...even than what the black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois called the "psychological wage" -- the bonus of whiteness. Racist strategies unify. Savvy politicians always include in the opening salvos of their campaigns a quick clarification of their position on race. It is a mistake to think that Bush's Willie Horton or Clinton's Sister Souljah was anything but a candidate's obligatory response to the demands of a contentious electorate unable to understand itself in any terms other than race. Warring interests, nationalities and classes can be merged with the greatest economy under that racial banner...
...objection to suggestions that private firms be allowed to collect and sell satellite-observation photos that can distinguish objects 1 m in size from about 300 km up. Reason: 1-m resolution, which used to be the supreme achievement of sky spies, is passe. Air Force General Frank Horton, also testifying at the hearings, quietly dismissed that as only "medium" capability. In fact, the American intelligence community within the past two years has achieved what President Dwight Eisenhower once prematurely claimed: the capacity to spot a golf ball on the links. This means the agencies really do have...
Hard times for guy dieties, even those who are elected. George Bush, in another sketch, is fishing from the presidential yacht with Willie Horton -- got him out of prison for the afternoon, figured he owed Willie a lot -- when news breaks of an invasion of Chicago: wave after wave of squat, flat- nosed horsemen in leather skirts, waving their fists and rolling their little red eyes. Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name...
...have Republicans been plagued with the perception of negativity so much more than their Democratic counterparts? The late Lee Atwater, whose brainchild was George Bush's successful 1988 campaign, would understand that it's matter of execution. Ads like Atwater's infamous Willie Horton spots and Sen. Alphonse D'Amato's (R-N.Y.) vicious attacks in '92 weren't like the cheerful Wellstone spots. They were vitriolic and penetrating; they burned their way into the memories of television viewers. To the standard newspaper reader or radio listener, a negative ad might look a little too much like the Republicans...