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Ideologues Without Borders: A global attack on assimilation.
Melbourne, Australia
The ghost of Willie Horton hangs eerily over the political debate in Australia -- though, to the best of my knowledge, Mr. Horton is not yet dead but is instead on government work and still gives us the benefit of his occasional political insights. ("Naturally, I'm supporting Clinton," he told an avid world in 1992.) But Willie Horton long ago graduated from actual person to political symbol and in that capacity switched parties. Having assisted the GOP in 1988 as the poster boy for George Bush's anti-crime campaign, he then spent the next five years as a Shameful Example of Republican racism. This second identity was such a media success ...
- Willie Horton wannabees: No out-of-jail-free cards.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Carr, Howie November 20, 2005 700+ words
...Department of Correction? Somewhere, Willie Horton is smiling. And, in the ultimate...innocent people are going to get shanked. Willie Horton wasn't an isolated case, you know...Fluffy, then took off, much like Willie Horton would a few years later, for Maryland...
- How can President Bush ever thank Willie Horton?
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Art Buchwald November 1, 1988 700+ words
...person who'll get all the credit is Willie Horton, the murderer-rapist who was given...traveled out on the stump with the Willie Horton issue the crowds went wild - and just...George mentioned rape and murder and Willie Horton, he got nothing but standing ovations...
- GOP DIGS UP ANOTHER 'WILLIE HORTON'.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 22, 1991 700+ words
...Associated Press A creator of the "Willie Horton" television advertisements from the...Somebody told me Cuomo has his own Willie Horton," said Craig Shirley. "It turns...sharply. "The people who made the Willie Horton ad - that disgusting, divisive, racist...
- New independent ad hits airwaves, focuses on Willie Horton furlough.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 20, 1988 700+ words
...INDEPENDENT AD HITS AIRWAVES, FOCUSES ON WILLIE HORTON FURLOUGH WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire...controversial furlough of convicted murderer Willie Horton has hit the national airwaves, announced...independent group which produced the ad. "Willie Horton murdered a young boy and ...
- Ex-Tiger Willie Horton named PAL's PR director. (Police Athletic League)
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 25, 1989 700+ words
EX-TIGER WILLIE HORTON NAMED PAL'S PR DIRECTOR DETROIT...Former major league baseball star Willie Horton has been appointed deputy director...Copy Showroom and as president of Willie Horton's City Technologies, Inc. in...
- Foes say prison escapee is `Weld's Willie Horton'
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Scot Lehigh, Globe Staff April 7, 1994 700+ words
...Robert E. Stewart "is William Weld's Willie Horton and no one is going to let him forget...the way the same way the GOP wrapped Willie Horton, less fairly, around Mike Dukakis...then-Vice President George Bush make Willie Horton an electoral albatross for Democratic...
- Jeb Bush ad is called an echo of Willie Horton. (Originated from Knight-Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Nickens, Tim Silva, Mark October 26, 1994 700+ words
...politicians and consultants that brought you Willie Horton wants you to meet little Elisa Nelson...is reminiscent of the infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad, considered a watershed in modern...called the Bush ad ``a repeat of Willie Horton.'' He said Larry Eugene Mann's...
- `WILLIE HORTON' WON'T FIND EMPLOYMENT IN THE '96 CAMPAIGN.(Editorial)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) September 20, 1996 700+ words
...surefire GOP winner - and never laid a glove on his rival. Willie Horton, the 1988 symbol of liberal Democratic leniency toward criminals...Criminal-coddling charges won't stick to him. There is no Willie Horton in his political past. As the president noted, crime is...
Source: HighBeam Research, Ideologues Without Borders: A global attack on assimilation.