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....
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Okay, but he also gave us Clarence Thomas. Call it even.
At it wasn’t even his campaign that was responsible....It was a separate outside the campaign PAC type org that put it out.
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.
Somebody please, buy that girl a cheeseburger!
But the Greek homunculus vetoed the bill.
Still incarcerated in Maryland.
Saw that. Thank God.
He certainly never should have been out.
Great, Classic Ann.
Throw it in their face.
Make them own it.
I’m pretty sure it was Algor’s 1988 campaign that first used the story during the primaries.
I’ll give you two shoes, one with a big hole in the sole and the other normal. That ain’t even ;)
The Willie Horton ad was factually accurate. Nothing to apologize for. I wish the GOP felt the same way.
But the PAC ad showed Willie’s picture, so that made the ad, GHWB, the Republican party and anyone who voted for GHWB RACIST.
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.
Im pretty sure it was Algors 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.
Im pretty sure it was Algors 1988 campaign that first used the story during the primaries.
Then Floyd Brown used it directly in a local ad with Horton’s picture.
Nope cain't do that, wouldn't be prudent.
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