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BUSH'S FINEST 30 SECONDS: THE WILLIE HORTON AD
Ann Coulter Dot Com ^ | 5 Dec 2018 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 12/05/2018 4:19:28 PM PST by Rummyfan

The press in America is even worse than we imagine. We sense that they're biased and stunningly incompetent. They are those things, but so much more. Our media's version of the news is mathematically and precisely the opposite of the truth.

The death and burial of George H.W. Bush is only the latest example.

In the puffery and revisionism that accompany funerals, the man who gave us David Souter, an unnecessary war, tax hikes he promised not to impose and the Americans With Disabilities Act (aka The Destruction of Small Libraries Throughout New England Act) has been elevated to saintlike status.

But the one incident the media decided to excoriate Bush for was, in fact, his finest moment: the Willie Horton ad.

If we let the media get away with this, they will have once again redefined what constitutes acceptable discourse in America and cemented the notion that our political process should never be soiled by such a campaign ad -- the one thing Bush got right in his entire public career.

Far from representing the "low road," the Willie Horton ad was the greatest campaign commercial in political history. The ad was the reason we have political campaigns: It clearly and forcefully highlighted the two presidential candidates' diametrically opposed views on an issue of vital national importance.

Bush's opponent, Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, had championed a self-evidently insane criminal justice program that provided prison furloughs to first-degree murderers.

One of the murderers let out under Dukakis' program was a career violent criminal, Willie Horton. In 1974, Horton sliced up a 17-year-old convenience store clerk, Joey Fournier, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, after Fournier had already handed over all the money. He then stuffed the boy's corpse in a garbage can....

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1 posted on 12/05/2018 4:19:28 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
... the man who gave us David Souter....

Okay, but he also gave us Clarence Thomas. Call it even.

2 posted on 12/05/2018 4:20:53 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Rummyfan

At it wasn’t even his campaign that was responsible....It was a separate outside the campaign PAC type org that put it out.


3 posted on 12/05/2018 4:22:15 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Rummyfan

The Ad didn’t come from Bush’s Campaign, it came from a PAC.

The Ad the Bush Campaign put out showed a revolving door of Criminals and never mentioned Willie Horton by name.


4 posted on 12/05/2018 4:24:23 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Rummyfan

Somebody please, buy that girl a cheeseburger!


5 posted on 12/05/2018 4:27:15 PM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y

Found it


6 posted on 12/05/2018 4:30:32 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan
Willie Horton


7 posted on 12/05/2018 4:31:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan
Dukakis was directly responsible for Horton's release -- as well as the release of hundreds of other murderers, many of whom went on to commit similarly heinous crimes. Even Dukakis' own Democratic legislature in liberal Massachusetts had tried to reverse a state Supreme Court decision granting furloughs to first-degree murderers.

But the Greek homunculus vetoed the bill.

8 posted on 12/05/2018 4:35:11 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SaveFerris

Still incarcerated in Maryland.


9 posted on 12/05/2018 4:37:44 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Rummyfan

Saw that. Thank God.

He certainly never should have been out.


10 posted on 12/05/2018 4:46:18 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

Great, Classic Ann.

Throw it in their face.

Make them own it.


11 posted on 12/05/2018 4:46:23 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: traderrob6

I’m pretty sure it was Algor’s 1988 campaign that first used the story during the primaries.


12 posted on 12/05/2018 4:49:16 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Rummyfan

I’ll give you two shoes, one with a big hole in the sole and the other normal. That ain’t even ;)


13 posted on 12/05/2018 5:08:43 PM PST by TheBullWat
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To: Calvin Locke

The Willie Horton ad was factually accurate. Nothing to apologize for. I wish the GOP felt the same way.


14 posted on 12/05/2018 5:12:49 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Rummyfan

But the PAC ad showed Willie’s picture, so that made the ad, GHWB, the Republican party and anyone who voted for GHWB RACIST.


15 posted on 12/05/2018 5:12:50 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Rummyfan

There are good reasons why Bush Sr. was a one-term president. There can be no doubt he was a stellar husband and father but I’ll take the POTUS we have now any day of the week. It would be wonderful if the media would learn to be kinder to the living and not simply the dead. The bile and snobbery has gotten out of control.


16 posted on 12/05/2018 5:16:13 PM PST by BlackAdderess (Grateful for a POTUS who doesn't treat us like cattle.)
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To: Calvin Locke

I’m pretty sure it was Algor’s 1988 campaign that first used the story during the primaries.

Then Bush’s campaign used references to it in an ad about the revolving door of justice.

Then Floyd Brown used it directly in a local ad with Horton’s picture.


17 posted on 12/05/2018 6:23:39 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Calvin Locke

I’m pretty sure it was Algor’s 1988 campaign that first used the story during the primaries.


Then Bush’s campaign used references to it in an ad about the revolving door of justice.

Then Floyd Brown used it directly in a local ad with Horton’s picture.


18 posted on 12/05/2018 6:24:44 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SaveFerris
There's only one Willie Horton for me...


19 posted on 12/05/2018 6:28:19 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan
Okay, but he also gave us Clarence Thomas. Call it even.

Nope cain't do that, wouldn't be prudent.

20 posted on 12/05/2018 9:43:06 PM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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