Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roger Ailes. The taint of Willie Horton lingers, but Bush needs a tough guy almost as much as he needs a clear image...
WEBER: Let me make clear that even though I think divided government is a very serious problem, we desperately need an agenda-setting campaign. The Bush people ought to resist the temptation to have just a symbolic or gimmicky campaign -- Willie Horton or something like that...
...racial dimension flows naturally into the political, where the uglier side of Quayle's mission begins to become apparent. One of Quayle's amazing but unlikable feats last week was metaphorically to transform old Willie Horton into a beautiful blond fortyish wasp has-it-all knockout. (Horton was the black murderer who raped a housewife while on furlough during the time that 1988 Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis was Governor of Massachusetts; the Bush campaign used Horton to ridicule Dukakis.) So in 1992, by Quayle's interesting subliminal design, Murphy carries at least some of Willie's message: mindless liberalism allied...
What we have now is mud wrestling and dirty tricks and Willie Horton, and just stuff that everybody goes into a feeding frenzy over. It encourages virtually everybody who might be a good President...
...says that the bankruptcy of Bush's urban record may mean that as "the spotlight of morality shifts from Clinton's personal failings to racial detente -- where Clinton has a clear advantage -- it is hard to see how it will not get hot for the man who introduced Willie Horton into the lexicon of American politics...