The propagandist who made this commercial, Larry McCarthy, is being paid millions of dollars by Romney- Oh, I'm sorry, Romney's SUPER PAC, big difference- to make distortionist attack ads. Romney's PAC can pay McCarthy the most because corporations like to give Romney the most money, he's there Go-To Guy.
@steve41557 my old neighbor used to be the sister of the person who willie horton murdered. it's kind of sad and funny at the same time. i'm black but i see nothing wrong with this ad. if someone wants to be president of the USA he needs to be properly vetted and examined!!!!
@xraidedlok all races kill and rape.. oh no a black guy killed and raped someone.. big deal it happens everyday.. white people do it too...stfu with the racist shit everyone is racist i dont care what you say
@xraidedlok true. but how would you feel if willie horton raped your little sister, it would be a different story than. the thing is he shouldn't have been released in the first place.
@xraidedlok Apparently you're not allowed to show a criminal's picture unless he's white. Otherwise it's "racist." Like everything and anything these days...especially facts, statistics, and plain reality.
@PumpingSmashkins yeah we get all the shit.. but we cant say anything... and its funny because african americans still dont understand that black people sold them to us.. sigh. and white people went through way worse shit in the medievil times and shit.. whites and asians but you dont see us cryin about it 24/7
@BOXCHEVYBOY350 bush senior was okay bush jr was an idot. how would you feel if willie horton raped your little sister, it would be a different situation then
@BOXCHEVYBOY350 - At least I wasn't raped by some murdurer Dukaka would have released on a bogus pass. I'm grateful for all the people that were not raped and murdered by these felons on furloughs.
How would ducockis feel if his loved one was raped by some convicted con freed from prisoner by the governor - what an idiot!! I'm soooo glad he lost the election
OR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD" and read the book. Many are ignorant of the facts and have gotten totally brainwashed by the politically correct establishment.
Attention all youtubers, there were 3 items that doomed Dukakis chance for the Presidency, 1st was the Willie Horton ad which DID indeed show his photo when it first aired on TV , the 2nd was when he was taped riding in a army tank wearing that stupid Beetle Baily hemlet ,and 3rd was during the FIRST presidential debate when he was ask by CNN anchor Bernard Shaw ,if his wife were raped and killed how would he react ,& his response was not anger but ahh schucks,it made him look weak & foolish !
"Lock everybody up, guilty or not. Don't give anybody a trial. Even suspicion is good enough for me. Lock all Americans up. America is a fucking joke. We went from, "It is better to let ten guilty men free than to convict one innocent man" to "it is better to convict ten innocent men than to let one man free." Even when we falsely imprison people, the state inadequately compensates the wrongly accused. And there are still people here that aren't allowed access to lawyers. America-The Ugly." +1
I'm black and I don't think that this is technically racist. I do think that Bush knew of the racial impact of having an intimidating looking black murderer in his ad and used this to his advantage. If he's black and he did it, then it's fair game. Is it classy and does it represent how model presidential candidate would conduct a campaign, NO. Is it fair game, Yes. Using less than honorable tactics never prevails. This is why he didn't get a second term.
@DaMasterBigJ It doesn't matter if he did or not. It happened under his leadership and he did not stop it from being used because of the racial aspect, he chose to use it, or allow it to be used for his advantage.
Lock everybody up, guilty or not. Don't give anybody a trial. Even suspicion is good enough for me. Lock all Americans up. America is a fucking joke. We went from, "It is better to let ten guilty men free than to convict one innocent man" to "it is better to convict ten innocent men than to let one man free." Even when we falsely imprison people, the state inadequately compensates the wrongly accused. And there are still people here that aren't allowed access to lawyers. America-The Ugly.
@MRBORGHEAD Lee Atwater. He started work under Reagen and later Bush, and helped mastermind the "Southern Strategy" that drove southern whites away from the democratic party on the basis of race. Look him up, he's basically a proto-neocon.
The two candidates in the 1988 presidential election were even lamer than the two in the one twenty years later! The Libertarian Party has to get its act together and do more to become a viable third party.
yeah, this would make me want to vote FOR Dukakis, negative political ads just make me suspicious of what exactly his opponent's standing for in the first place, like they have something to hide... to the point they don't want to talk about themselves in their own political campaign
Ronald Reagan was the first to introduce the furlough program in california! A teacher and a police were killed under this program....and no one mentioned it!
Yep thats what happens when you are a moderate who is liberal on crime. If Huckabee would have been more conservative, then those four lakewood police officers would still be alive. Liberalism kills.
The Horton ad the first one was done right after the murderer killed his victims by a anti-furlough group that came into existence in the 70's. The issue was brought up bby them and by ONE aL GORE JR. IN THE DEMOCRAP CONVENTION. sMEARING LIEFTIST LIARS FABRICATING SHIOT COVERING UP THEIR CRIMES AND WHINING ABOUT IMAGINARY WACISM WHENEVER YOU REFUTE THEIR BULLSHIT AND THE RACIST PRO BACK MRUDERER AGENDA.
You are comparing Willie Horton, a homicidal maniac who was let out of prison to Barack Obama, our 44th President?
And you think it is wrong that Ailes exposes both the corruption of the Obama administration and the corruption of the former Governor or MA, Micheal Dukakis?
BTW: Ailes had nothing to do with this ad, he worked on the "Revovling Door" ad, you misinformed tool of corporate WHAM.
In reverse order - from Wiki: "Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, predicted that "by the time this election is over, Willie Horton will be a household name."* Media consultant Roger Ailes remarked "the only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it."* ** 2. What corruption of Obama? Name factual corruption (not assertions of it). (cont.)
More Wikipedia nonsense just like the phony Limbaugh quotes. BTW, Atwater got the phony quote treatment too, but Dems were smart in falsely attributing things to him bc he's dead and can't defend himself.
True or false: Michael Dukakis is white and Willie Horton is a murderer.
I think it's sick when ignorant white people say it's racist to show a picture of a murderer who happens to be black. Considering MA politics, maybe Ailes should've shown a pic of Ted Kennedy, a white murderer.
Now let ME get this straight. Are you saying Wikipedia has a liberal bias & engages in phony quotes? Judging from your use of language & clever use of strawmen I'm guessing you are too smart for that. How do you think it helps America or your "team" to defend this obvious use of racism or the use of it today on Fox? Are you also defending Nixon's "southern strategy?" We need two good parties, this tactic is part of why only 19% of Americans will self identify as GOP.
Wikipedia is editable. The "Southern strategy" is a public education myth. Look for the book "The End of Southern Exceptionalism" by Richard Johnston and Byron Shafer.
You can't site anything racist from Fox News, but you are a racist for comparing our President to Willie Horton and then saying he is a "chimp".
You must be from the Robert Byrd wing of the Democratic Party.
3. Is that how your brain works? Thinking folks understand that I am comparing fear mongering techniques of Ailes then & now. He's still using fear of black skin. Fear "the other" aka Xenophobia. Fox's Specialty. The choice of Willie Horton in the 80s was effective for those reasons; the media was full of "urban thuggery" back then. Today Fox says "was reverend Wright unavailable?" or "reparations" or "obama is a racist". Same technique updated. Now, are you being clever or racist aeuiono?
Personally, I was afraid of Willie Horton, not because he's black, but because he had a strange habit of slicing people to bits.
But "progressives" like you can only see race.
You judge people by the color of their skin. That's why someone today saying "hey, maybe we should try to reduce the deficit instead of quadrupling it" is called a "racist", even if said person is black.
aeuiono/HA! AWESOME! Jump off your celebration of black president/black criminal comparisons when I corner you;understood, but the DEFICIT? Really? Now u have to stop parroting Fox& think for yourself. Both the NAT. Budget & Nat.Trade Deficits were sent soaring by Reagan& Bush sr. & all but ELIMINATED by Clinton. Then ur Chimp "W" broke all records. We can cut it in ½ if ur side is ready to end the oil wars. We can *eliminate it* if we properly tax the MEGAwealthy. Still care about the deficit?
Democrats had the House for 50 years and the Senate for the majority of that time too.
Then Republicans swept into power in 1994, cleaned up the mess and forced Clinton to make cuts.
Our current depression started in late 2007, about a year into the Democrats 2006 victory.
BTW, Bush is a liberal: Obama copies Bush's economic plans (bail out corps) and his foreign policy (refuse to send a surge). Only difference is domestics.
It's too bad their is no way to make sure these video's are true. The REAL ad did not have the head shot of Horton. It was added for this video. The leftest media are socialist pigs.
The original had the photo. Don't spin. It's an important part of history that Lee Atwater & Roger Aisles made this choice. I'm glad that your side agrees that it's going too far. I'm disturbed that in admitting it you deny history. We need a strong right wing. Let go of your teabags & embrace a winning strategy of leadership. Also learn what "socialist" means. It means the Military for 1 &the servicemen in my family don't appreciate being called pigs just 'cause they get paid by the GOVERNMENT.
I had to laugh about your comment about the military and my use of socialist pigs. The military does not select the form of government. They follow orders from up the chain. I'm former military and at no time did I have anything close to any say over what the government did. To compare what I said to my in some way deriding our military is a big stretch. To put down the people who are labeled "teabaggers" is just a lame way to comdemn people who care and are letting that be known.
Ah but you are thoughtful, so do you see that we enjoy protection of the finest military in history because of our taxes? It is, by definition, a socialist service, just as are police, fire, libraries & schools. Social responsibility makes a good society. That goes back to ancient Greece where graduated tax rates were invented. But Ben Franklin & Thomas Payne removed the emperor from the mix. We are our own kings. Together we must debate & arrive at policy for the good of all: social democracy.
I don't think any resonable person, left or right, will say we should have no taxes. It's how you tax and how you sepnd those taxes so the people benefit. Not just certain parts of the population either. It's like this ObamaCare. There is no way to do it without taxing. If you listen to Obama and his minions, they will pay a good part by cutting down on the fraud, etc. If it is so easy to cut the fraud and abuse, why aren't they doing it now? Do you see Obama talking to the right? Not!
Lastly, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc. are a few socialist countries that come to mind. The Governments run the show. How well is that working for the people? If the Democrats really wanted to help the "poor" they would be getting them off relying on the government. This country ran quite well under the Constitution until political agendas got in the way. Where do all the countries of the world come to for help? Socialism isn't working elsewhere. Why would it here?
I'll back off saying the photo was not there. I can't back it up with fact anymore than you can that it was there. I'll take your word. I'm quite conservative and will be happy to "embrace a winning strategy" when I see someone I can trust and that also has a strategy that makes sense and is within the realm of reality, not just talk that sounds good. I've not given up on my country yet. Obama has not yet won and the "silent majority needs to keep getting louder.
The majority wants Obama. We are relieved not to have a liar-in-chief who follows a warped frustrated old Cheney. We like Obama 'cause he is smart & a public servant. Yet we educated liberals fear for a nation without a good, strong, intelligent, compassionate right wing. These teabaggers & their transnational business underwriters are not what our founders wanted. A real right wing, that keeps our military strong & our spending down keeps us balanced. I look forward to u taking your party back.
This video has absolutely been altered. I remember this campaign and the drama surrounding it but Willie Horton's picture was NEVER used in the commercial!
THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN ALTERED!!! The original never showed Willie Horton. As a liberal I find this offensive. Tell the truth and we will win, lie like this and we lose. My God MSNBC, haven't you learned your lesson yet about using doctored video? Man I am ashamed to think that this is the kind of crap we accuse the republicans of and here we are doing it. Who is the brain child behind this stunt?
This was not the Bush campaign's national ad. The national ad did not show any photos of Horton, it showed a revolving door at a prison, with convicts walking around it. The "convicts" in the ad were all white.
Not surprisingly, never returned to prison. Horton, while on the loose in Maryland in 1987, raped a woman and was thrown back in jail. The event was used by Bush to portray Dukakis as weak on crime. Black rights leaders felt the ad, which prominently featured Horton's scary face, linked crime, murder, and rape to being black. I think Republicans just wanted to link all of that to being a Democrat.
This political ad which ran during the 1988 Bush-Dukakis presidential race is the most famous commercial on the countdown. Not only did it spark some serious racial controversy, but the subject of the commercial, Willie Horton, is now synonymous with dirty political ads. In 1974, Horton stabbed and killed a man in Massachusetts, was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and was released on some absurd weekend program that allowed inmates to leave.
What do we need to take our country back from? From an administration who wants to re-make it into their own media-created image; from an inexperienced (but slick-as-hell) harvard lawyer who thinks he can steamroll everybody & get away with it. C'mon brother - enough with the nonsense...
Richard Nixon was in political no-man's land from 1960 until he took office in Jan of 1969. His comeback was mainly based on his (R) fundraising efforts, where any mention of civil rights would have doomed him politically. So my question is where or in what position EXACTLY did Nixon support civil rights to the point he recieved praise and a letter from MLK? MLK died April 1968. BTW Cries of "reverse" discrimination is wrong..compared to what "direct" discrimination? Learn diversity & equality.
And who says Fox News isn't racist when you have the brain child for this ad, Roger Ailes, running the show and giving him an unlimited platform to spew his hatred for the entire world to watch and hear.
Obama did not praise Farrakhan. I take it you just read e-mails about Obama book , and did not read it for yourself . Also look at the number of white people that have spoken on behalf of Wright . It is funny that you don;t think this crap is racist but you think Obama is .
That is called a Strawman argument, agruging something that I did not say . .. and how is Obama a racist ... It is funny when people like you say that .
Give you a break . There was a clear change in alignment all you have to do is look at the Strom Thurmond. Next look at all the racist people at the tea parties .. and the are mostly republicans. Look up what Nixon said about black people .. and Look up LBJ who got the ball moving with civil rights.
I'm black and I went to the tax day tea party in Lansing, Michigan. No one shouted any racial slurs at me, no one threatened or disrespected me, and I felt safer there than I would at any of the local night clubs at midnight. So if the tea party goers are so racist why wouldn't they shout down a black man who's walking amongst them? Or shout down several black speakers that spoke at these tea parties?
What racist signs? I never saw any racist signs to the tea party I went to. If they're so racist why would they accept me into their numbers instead of shouting racial slurs at me and trying to get me to leave?
But as far as that "take my country back" thing goes. Why don't you tell me. You people were shouting it years ago when Bush was in office. And if memory serves John Kerry used it as a campaign slogan.
If don't no of the racist signs at these events you are lying or being willfully ignorant. Because you you most likely miss the slurs just like you missed the signs .
As for part two . As normal a non-answer for one of you tea-party nuts .
Why did you not answer my question. I want to know what you are protesting . And more over I am calling your bluff that there were SEVERAL black speakers .
If you want to call my bluff then all you gotta do is search for Lloyd Marcus, Alfonzo Rachel, and various other people that spoke at various tea parties. (trust me they aren't the white only conventions that the MSM portrays it to be.)
But you ask what I was protesting? Being called a right wing extremist by my DHS for being a soldier and a libertarian. I'm protesting government motors and 32 czars. I'm protesting Kenneth Gladney getting beat down in St.Louis. What were you protesting?
Oh so it was not many people speaking at one event their where just token sprinkled here and there. Funny you protest for your rights but hate weed.
Bush had more Czars than Obama , if you look at the video of what happen of Kenneth Gladney. It seems that he was giving just as much as he was getting . Bail out happens before Obama, and people complained that with these bail out came no oversight . Now that over sight comes with Bail outs you are still not happy.
That's the problem. I don't want bailouts for anybody. I don't give a rat's ass what party did what or who was president when what went down. I'm just sick and tired of the shenanigans from both sides of the isle. You're basing your argument because you think I support bailouts under the republicans but not the democrats. That couldn't be farther from the truth.
It is funny to me .. These things were not happening under Bush, but they are happening now . Obama has not added ONE tax to people.. yet people blame him for their taxes. People like Joe Wilson a Neo-confederate,literally, gets support for calling Obama a liar while he signed a bill to given Illegals Health Care.
I was like you once, i was a republican until wake up and saw them for who they really are . You stand side by side with people that carry signs tell Obama to go back to Africa.
Europe is going through this stage right now. The judges are letting complete animals out on the streets (99% muslim immigrants of course) that rape and kill only days after being released. Deja Vu all over again.
I have no idea how liberals continue to bring this up with a straight face. The man was A FUCKING CRIMINAL, for godssakes. Shouldn't you attack the politician that let him out?
As a "liberal" I sort of agree but for different reasons....It was Al Gore who originally made an issue of Willie Horton when he was running against Dukakis....The GOP simply repackaged the idea in this nauseating commercial...
It's hard to show a picture of a murderer or rapist that isn't black. Most are. The DOJ has all of the statistics. If you disagree, complain to your god for making mathematics incorrect.
BOO effing HOO! You puppets make me sick. "Oh no, its racist" you indignantly shout. How bout holding Dukakis vicariously liable for the deaths of the people that this animal murdered when he was on his little vacation from the clink.
Idiots. Is there anything Michael Moore says that you wont believe as gospel truth?
watching frontline on wned right now, a documentary on lee atwater and saw this ad.. this one is bad, but it doesn't seem as offensive as the prison revolving door commercial. well maybe both of them are on equal levels on racism... but this documentary is awesome. do you guys think campaigns were as dirty as they are now?
Out of curiosity, would anyone tell me why this ad is considered racial? The way I see it, asking why they didn't show a white man just supports the idea that this was a rampant problem. ie, They could have picked from any number of people who committed capital crimes while involved in this program.
He disclosed in prior years that the 80s Southern strategy was subtle and abstract with a clear intent in getting racially motivated whites to vote for them.
Yes, I am aware of the "Southern Strategy", but I don't think this is a good example of it. Even if it was his intent, he didn't do a good job of it, in my opinion.
I guess it worked well just as when Clinton ran ads in 1996 saying if Dole won churches would burn, the Klan would ride again and blacks would be lynched by those dastardly republicans.
I agree 100%. I also am labeled a "Liberal" by everyone that knows me. As fas as I'm concerned, they showed a CRIMINAL. He happens to be black. Big deal. I've heard about the "Williw Horton Ad" for years, and only got to see it now (don't know how I missed it at the time). Calling this a racist ad only sets people up for a "Boy who cried wolf" scenario when racism really is obvious.
'cuse me, but wasn't it the REPUBLICANS who fought the Confederates? Wasn't it the DEMOCRATS who put in Jim Crow laws? Wasn't it DEMOCRAT President Woodrow Wilson who segregated the Federal Government? Wasn't it Democrat FDR who paid white southern land owners to not grow crops, while black sharecroppers starved? Wasn't it REPUBLICANS who voted for the Civil Rights act of 1964, and DEMOCRATS who voted against it? Wasn't Martin Luther King Jr. a REPUBLICAN? Gosh, how ignorant.
You expect me to vote for the lesser of two evil its more like the evil of two lesser. thats like saying man chose your oppressor. pick one Charles mansion or Hannibal lector. You want pepsi,coke,sprite,or dr pepper. They all messed up none of them better. Crack is like a democrat, cocaine like a republican, marijuana is the green, independent party same government. You think your vote count? Ask them people in Florida when they throw they shit out
Bush was supposed to be a conservative but he made the government bigger then any liberal ever did. I wonder Why? Because he was irrelevant. He was only in office to give more power to Obama sell out his own mama.
Bush compromised with the Democrats to get the war/national security support he wanted, but to give the Democrats the social programs they wanted. Same compromise made by Ron Reagan.
That's only half the argument. It's worth noting that most people who list the curious histories of the two defacto ruling parties in our country follow up with a statement that goes something like "It's weird and I wonder how it is that the two parties flipped."
If one claims to take pride in the list of accomplishments you list, then the modern Republican party has to infuriate and shame any modern Republican.
Frankly both modern parties are an obvious sham and largely identical today.
Anytime a Republican ad is effective against a liberal it's deemed either racist or dirty. Liberals could care less that Horton murdered and raped they were mad at Bush (even though his campaign had nothing to do wit this ad) becuase he was distracting the the public from the "real issues", after all what could be a more phony issue than murderers who when let out on a weekend pass from the Governor rape and murder again?
This demonstrates how racist some republicans are, or how low they are sometimes willing to go to win elections. The guy's name is William Horton, he was known as William and he always went by William Horton. But they used the Willie name in the ads because of its African American connotations. Shameful.
The propagandist who made this commercial, Larry McCarthy, is being paid millions of dollars by Romney- Oh, I'm sorry, Romney's SUPER PAC, big difference- to make distortionist attack ads. Romney's PAC can pay McCarthy the most because corporations like to give Romney the most money, he's there Go-To Guy.
TallBoyBlue1 4 days ago 4
What was Dukaka thinking? What an idiot!
steve41557 1 month ago
@steve41557 my old neighbor used to be the sister of the person who willie horton murdered. it's kind of sad and funny at the same time. i'm black but i see nothing wrong with this ad. if someone wants to be president of the USA he needs to be properly vetted and examined!!!!
hojoleon 4 weeks ago
Common Sense vs Liberalism… It seems never ending…
YManCyberDude 1 month ago
i dont see how this is racist
xraidedlok 2 months ago
@xraidedlok all races kill and rape.. oh no a black guy killed and raped someone.. big deal it happens everyday.. white people do it too...stfu with the racist shit everyone is racist i dont care what you say
xraidedlok 2 months ago
@xraidedlok true. but how would you feel if willie horton raped your little sister, it would be a different story than. the thing is he shouldn't have been released in the first place.
hojoleon 4 weeks ago
@xraidedlok Apparently you're not allowed to show a criminal's picture unless he's white. Otherwise it's "racist." Like everything and anything these days...especially facts, statistics, and plain reality.
PumpingSmashkins 2 weeks ago
@PumpingSmashkins yeah we get all the shit.. but we cant say anything... and its funny because african americans still dont understand that black people sold them to us.. sigh. and white people went through way worse shit in the medievil times and shit.. whites and asians but you dont see us cryin about it 24/7
xraidedlok 2 weeks ago
This is so racist. (Scary black man meme.) Dukakis ftw.
TheQqkkk 2 months ago
I think Dukakis would have made a great president. Look what we got from Bush senior and H W Bush!!!
BOXCHEVYBOY350 3 months ago
@BOXCHEVYBOY350 bush senior was okay bush jr was an idot. how would you feel if willie horton raped your little sister, it would be a different situation then
hojoleon 2 months ago
@BOXCHEVYBOY350 - At least I wasn't raped by some murdurer Dukaka would have released on a bogus pass. I'm grateful for all the people that were not raped and murdered by these felons on furloughs.
steve41557 1 month ago
bush has "released" something much more dangerous and criminal: the offspring he has produced and who also raise to power
zobielamouche1 4 months ago 2
How would ducockis feel if his loved one was raped by some convicted con freed from prisoner by the governor - what an idiot!! I'm soooo glad he lost the election
steve41557 4 months ago
the good thing about the death penalty is they won't kill again.
msmithstud 4 months ago
All Caucasians should google “THE NEGRO A BEAST”
OR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD" and read the book. Many are ignorant of the facts and have gotten totally brainwashed by the politically correct establishment.
skjoyner 4 months ago
Did they get Horton's permission before using his mug and listing his extracurricular activities?
nsakic 5 months ago
Attention all youtubers, there were 3 items that doomed Dukakis chance for the Presidency, 1st was the Willie Horton ad which DID indeed show his photo when it first aired on TV , the 2nd was when he was taped riding in a army tank wearing that stupid Beetle Baily hemlet ,and 3rd was during the FIRST presidential debate when he was ask by CNN anchor Bernard Shaw ,if his wife were raped and killed how would he react ,& his response was not anger but ahh schucks,it made him look weak & foolish !
7980COOL1 6 months ago
"Free Willie"
Barack Hussein Obama
BebeBebe321 7 months ago
I once read that it was Al Gore that originally bought up the Horton story, is that correct?
capucchan8 7 months ago
@capucchan8 he did invent the internet
gopconservative78 7 months ago
@gopconservative78 yeah I know
capucchan8 7 months ago
@capucchan8 Yes, because Gore supported the death penalty and Dukakis didn't.
Mikey77B 4 months ago
@Mikey77B I see
capucchan8 4 months ago
"Lock everybody up, guilty or not. Don't give anybody a trial. Even suspicion is good enough for me. Lock all Americans up. America is a fucking joke. We went from, "It is better to let ten guilty men free than to convict one innocent man" to "it is better to convict ten innocent men than to let one man free." Even when we falsely imprison people, the state inadequately compensates the wrongly accused. And there are still people here that aren't allowed access to lawyers. America-The Ugly." +1
joepglass 8 months ago
My votes goes to Horton.
AndiNeverSlice 9 months ago
I'm black and I don't think that this is technically racist. I do think that Bush knew of the racial impact of having an intimidating looking black murderer in his ad and used this to his advantage. If he's black and he did it, then it's fair game. Is it classy and does it represent how model presidential candidate would conduct a campaign, NO. Is it fair game, Yes. Using less than honorable tactics never prevails. This is why he didn't get a second term.
ronpolkthedirector 9 months ago
@ronpolkthedirector Bush actually never approved of this ad himself.
DaMasterBigJ 9 months ago
@DaMasterBigJ It doesn't matter if he did or not. It happened under his leadership and he did not stop it from being used because of the racial aspect, he chose to use it, or allow it to be used for his advantage.
ronpolkthedirector 8 months ago
this is racist why? because they showed his face. I don't care what color he was the point was that dukakas was weak on crime
bobbollu 9 months ago
Lock everybody up, guilty or not. Don't give anybody a trial. Even suspicion is good enough for me. Lock all Americans up. America is a fucking joke. We went from, "It is better to let ten guilty men free than to convict one innocent man" to "it is better to convict ten innocent men than to let one man free." Even when we falsely imprison people, the state inadequately compensates the wrongly accused. And there are still people here that aren't allowed access to lawyers. America-The Ugly.
DarkReapersGrim 9 months ago
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DarkReapersGrim 9 months ago
Of course, none of Bush's harsher laws deterred crime. Thanks, statism.
CapitalistOverlord 9 months ago
lmao... ever heard of the fallacy called appeal to force?
mAdMoNkEy012345 9 months ago
Man, talk about aggressive
10forRP 10 months ago
campaign adviser to bush around this time? recent pbs documentary? anyone know what that man`s name is, was, anyone. anyone at all?
MRBORGHEAD 10 months ago
@MRBORGHEAD Lee Atwater. He started work under Reagen and later Bush, and helped mastermind the "Southern Strategy" that drove southern whites away from the democratic party on the basis of race. Look him up, he's basically a proto-neocon.
viator22 10 months ago
there was this pbs documentary a while back about the political adviser to the elder bush. he was a master of this sort of thing
MRBORGHEAD 10 months ago
The two candidates in the 1988 presidential election were even lamer than the two in the one twenty years later! The Libertarian Party has to get its act together and do more to become a viable third party.
hatmap 10 months ago
@hatmap "libertarian" and "Viable" together in one sentence.
viator22 10 months ago
SCARY BLACK MAN BE AFRAID OF BLACK MAN HE'S SCARY VOTE BUSH HE PROTECT YOU FROM BLACK MAN
zegermans750 10 months ago
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AngelaLianeua934 10 months ago
Propaganda.
hotelmario510 1 year ago
LIberals are such pussies.
PunkAttitude8V 1 year ago
@PunkAttitude8V Such the politician you are. What a whimsical statement to make on Youtube.
jesuisnate226 1 year ago
@jesuisnate226 Shut up loser. LIberals are too compassiontate to evil serial killlers.
PunkAttitude8V 1 year ago
@PunkAttitude8V I say again. Propaganda.
hotelmario510 1 year ago
Racial priming to the fullest.
aegirl2012 1 year ago
Is Willie Horton still in prison?
sbtbfanatic 1 year ago
@TheRattyrattyrat
It isn't Dukakis' fault the attack ad is bullshit -_-
HipHopGuardian 1 year ago
@HipHopGuardian
You mean on my channel lol
No that's Wiz Khalifa lmao
HipHopGuardian 1 year ago
@HipHopGuardian Yes, this ad from 12 years ago is bullshit. I hope Dukakis gets a fair run next time around...
mikemccanon 1 year ago
@mikemccanon 12 years? You're still in kindergarten, right?
LocoGroove 1 year ago
@LocoGroove The 2 and the 1 are very close together on the keyboard. I'm well aware of how long ago 1988 was. 32 years.
mikemccanon 1 year ago
@HipHopGuardian Why is it bullshit???
sanjacraven36 10 months ago
yeah, this would make me want to vote FOR Dukakis, negative political ads just make me suspicious of what exactly his opponent's standing for in the first place, like they have something to hide... to the point they don't want to talk about themselves in their own political campaign
afuzzyduck 1 year ago
I bet Willie Horton was laughing like Berserker from Borderlands when he got outta jail.
ViolentWhiteMan 1 year ago
god really punished lee atwater for this.
MillaHead 1 year ago
Vote Sideshow Bob for Mayor.
stephentaaffe 1 year ago 20
@stephentaaffe ............Yes it was. I remember seeing his face. I distinctly remember seeing his face during the commercial.
chrissline77 6 months ago
Ronald Reagan was the first to introduce the furlough program in california! A teacher and a police were killed under this program....and no one mentioned it!
quetou 1 year ago
@quetou unlike Dukakis, Reagan DIDNT allow MURDERERS to be a part of the program
iown813 1 year ago
Huckabee is baptist devil. I don't trust that smooth talking simulacrum.
luscious9lips 2 years ago
How do you like them apples, Huckabee?
loonmaniac 2 years ago
Yep thats what happens when you are a moderate who is liberal on crime. If Huckabee would have been more conservative, then those four lakewood police officers would still be alive. Liberalism kills.
kyler187 2 years ago
huckabee in 2012! oops.
flyingfishsurf 2 years ago
looks like the willie horton ad came true after all.
xpandergt 2 years ago
now Huckabee has the same problem...
rrmoh 2 years ago
The Horton ad the first one was done right after the murderer killed his victims by a anti-furlough group that came into existence in the 70's. The issue was brought up bby them and by ONE aL GORE JR. IN THE DEMOCRAP CONVENTION. sMEARING LIEFTIST LIARS FABRICATING SHIOT COVERING UP THEIR CRIMES AND WHINING ABOUT IMAGINARY WACISM WHENEVER YOU REFUTE THEIR BULLSHIT AND THE RACIST PRO BACK MRUDERER AGENDA.
deltapunk21 2 years ago
This is the work of Roger Ailes. Now... he does it 24/7 on cable.
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
Let me get this straight, Corporation8MyBaby:
You are comparing Willie Horton, a homicidal maniac who was let out of prison to Barack Obama, our 44th President?
And you think it is wrong that Ailes exposes both the corruption of the Obama administration and the corruption of the former Governor or MA, Micheal Dukakis?
BTW: Ailes had nothing to do with this ad, he worked on the "Revovling Door" ad, you misinformed tool of corporate WHAM.
aeuiono 2 years ago
In reverse order - from Wiki: "Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, predicted that "by the time this election is over, Willie Horton will be a household name."* Media consultant Roger Ailes remarked "the only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it."* ** 2. What corruption of Obama? Name factual corruption (not assertions of it). (cont.)
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
More Wikipedia nonsense just like the phony Limbaugh quotes. BTW, Atwater got the phony quote treatment too, but Dems were smart in falsely attributing things to him bc he's dead and can't defend himself.
True or false: Michael Dukakis is white and Willie Horton is a murderer.
I think it's sick when ignorant white people say it's racist to show a picture of a murderer who happens to be black. Considering MA politics, maybe Ailes should've shown a pic of Ted Kennedy, a white murderer.
aeuiono 2 years ago
Now let ME get this straight. Are you saying Wikipedia has a liberal bias & engages in phony quotes? Judging from your use of language & clever use of strawmen I'm guessing you are too smart for that. How do you think it helps America or your "team" to defend this obvious use of racism or the use of it today on Fox? Are you also defending Nixon's "southern strategy?" We need two good parties, this tactic is part of why only 19% of Americans will self identify as GOP.
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
Wikipedia is editable. The "Southern strategy" is a public education myth. Look for the book "The End of Southern Exceptionalism" by Richard Johnston and Byron Shafer.
You can't site anything racist from Fox News, but you are a racist for comparing our President to Willie Horton and then saying he is a "chimp".
You must be from the Robert Byrd wing of the Democratic Party.
aeuiono 2 years ago
3. Is that how your brain works? Thinking folks understand that I am comparing fear mongering techniques of Ailes then & now. He's still using fear of black skin. Fear "the other" aka Xenophobia. Fox's Specialty. The choice of Willie Horton in the 80s was effective for those reasons; the media was full of "urban thuggery" back then. Today Fox says "was reverend Wright unavailable?" or "reparations" or "obama is a racist". Same technique updated. Now, are you being clever or racist aeuiono?
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
Personally, I was afraid of Willie Horton, not because he's black, but because he had a strange habit of slicing people to bits.
But "progressives" like you can only see race.
You judge people by the color of their skin. That's why someone today saying "hey, maybe we should try to reduce the deficit instead of quadrupling it" is called a "racist", even if said person is black.
aeuiono 2 years ago
aeuiono/HA! AWESOME! Jump off your celebration of black president/black criminal comparisons when I corner you;understood, but the DEFICIT? Really? Now u have to stop parroting Fox& think for yourself. Both the NAT. Budget & Nat.Trade Deficits were sent soaring by Reagan& Bush sr. & all but ELIMINATED by Clinton. Then ur Chimp "W" broke all records. We can cut it in ½ if ur side is ready to end the oil wars. We can *eliminate it* if we properly tax the MEGAwealthy. Still care about the deficit?
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
Presidents don't pass budgets, Congress does.
Democrats had the House for 50 years and the Senate for the majority of that time too.
Then Republicans swept into power in 1994, cleaned up the mess and forced Clinton to make cuts.
Our current depression started in late 2007, about a year into the Democrats 2006 victory.
BTW, Bush is a liberal: Obama copies Bush's economic plans (bail out corps) and his foreign policy (refuse to send a surge). Only difference is domestics.
aeuiono 2 years ago
It's too bad their is no way to make sure these video's are true. The REAL ad did not have the head shot of Horton. It was added for this video. The leftest media are socialist pigs.
getaloan 2 years ago
The original had the photo. Don't spin. It's an important part of history that Lee Atwater & Roger Aisles made this choice. I'm glad that your side agrees that it's going too far. I'm disturbed that in admitting it you deny history. We need a strong right wing. Let go of your teabags & embrace a winning strategy of leadership. Also learn what "socialist" means. It means the Military for 1 &the servicemen in my family don't appreciate being called pigs just 'cause they get paid by the GOVERNMENT.
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
I had to laugh about your comment about the military and my use of socialist pigs. The military does not select the form of government. They follow orders from up the chain. I'm former military and at no time did I have anything close to any say over what the government did. To compare what I said to my in some way deriding our military is a big stretch. To put down the people who are labeled "teabaggers" is just a lame way to comdemn people who care and are letting that be known.
getaloan 2 years ago
Ah but you are thoughtful, so do you see that we enjoy protection of the finest military in history because of our taxes? It is, by definition, a socialist service, just as are police, fire, libraries & schools. Social responsibility makes a good society. That goes back to ancient Greece where graduated tax rates were invented. But Ben Franklin & Thomas Payne removed the emperor from the mix. We are our own kings. Together we must debate & arrive at policy for the good of all: social democracy.
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
I don't think any resonable person, left or right, will say we should have no taxes. It's how you tax and how you sepnd those taxes so the people benefit. Not just certain parts of the population either. It's like this ObamaCare. There is no way to do it without taxing. If you listen to Obama and his minions, they will pay a good part by cutting down on the fraud, etc. If it is so easy to cut the fraud and abuse, why aren't they doing it now? Do you see Obama talking to the right? Not!
getaloan 2 years ago
Lastly, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc. are a few socialist countries that come to mind. The Governments run the show. How well is that working for the people? If the Democrats really wanted to help the "poor" they would be getting them off relying on the government. This country ran quite well under the Constitution until political agendas got in the way. Where do all the countries of the world come to for help? Socialism isn't working elsewhere. Why would it here?
getaloan 2 years ago
I'll back off saying the photo was not there. I can't back it up with fact anymore than you can that it was there. I'll take your word. I'm quite conservative and will be happy to "embrace a winning strategy" when I see someone I can trust and that also has a strategy that makes sense and is within the realm of reality, not just talk that sounds good. I've not given up on my country yet. Obama has not yet won and the "silent majority needs to keep getting louder.
getaloan 2 years ago
The majority wants Obama. We are relieved not to have a liar-in-chief who follows a warped frustrated old Cheney. We like Obama 'cause he is smart & a public servant. Yet we educated liberals fear for a nation without a good, strong, intelligent, compassionate right wing. These teabaggers & their transnational business underwriters are not what our founders wanted. A real right wing, that keeps our military strong & our spending down keeps us balanced. I look forward to u taking your party back.
Corporations8MyBaby 2 years ago
Bush kicked DooCockus butt with that ad :-)
Buck0fama 2 years ago
This video has absolutely been altered. I remember this campaign and the drama surrounding it but Willie Horton's picture was NEVER used in the commercial!
Dana8780 2 years ago 2
@Dana8780 The original ad had Willie Horton's picture. After this was pulled, the Bush campaign dropped new versions without the picture.
mosz0rz 8 months ago
THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN ALTERED!!! The original never showed Willie Horton. As a liberal I find this offensive. Tell the truth and we will win, lie like this and we lose. My God MSNBC, haven't you learned your lesson yet about using doctored video? Man I am ashamed to think that this is the kind of crap we accuse the republicans of and here we are doing it. Who is the brain child behind this stunt?
LordAtrocities 2 years ago 2
Read the fine print at the bottom of the ad:
"Political Message Paid by National Security PAC. Not Authorized by Any Candidate or Candidates Committee."
This ad was not made, paid for, or endorsed by the Bush Campaign.
dragknuckle 2 years ago 2
This was not the Bush campaign's national ad. The national ad did not show any photos of Horton, it showed a revolving door at a prison, with convicts walking around it. The "convicts" in the ad were all white.
dragknuckle 2 years ago 2
Not surprisingly, never returned to prison. Horton, while on the loose in Maryland in 1987, raped a woman and was thrown back in jail. The event was used by Bush to portray Dukakis as weak on crime. Black rights leaders felt the ad, which prominently featured Horton's scary face, linked crime, murder, and rape to being black. I think Republicans just wanted to link all of that to being a Democrat.
Those bastards
WishFredWasDead 2 years ago
This political ad which ran during the 1988 Bush-Dukakis presidential race is the most famous commercial on the countdown. Not only did it spark some serious racial controversy, but the subject of the commercial, Willie Horton, is now synonymous with dirty political ads. In 1974, Horton stabbed and killed a man in Massachusetts, was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and was released on some absurd weekend program that allowed inmates to leave.
WishFredWasDead 2 years ago
Joeybsmooth - wake up!
What do we need to take our country back from? From an administration who wants to re-make it into their own media-created image; from an inexperienced (but slick-as-hell) harvard lawyer who thinks he can steamroll everybody & get away with it. C'mon brother - enough with the nonsense...
aurora1962 2 years ago
Those who have nazi flags in their closets used this opportunity to bring them out- to praise their hero indirectly
Nnfefe 2 years ago
Richard Nixon was in political no-man's land from 1960 until he took office in Jan of 1969. His comeback was mainly based on his (R) fundraising efforts, where any mention of civil rights would have doomed him politically. So my question is where or in what position EXACTLY did Nixon support civil rights to the point he recieved praise and a letter from MLK? MLK died April 1968. BTW Cries of "reverse" discrimination is wrong..compared to what "direct" discrimination? Learn diversity & equality.
joflo82 2 years ago
And who says Fox News isn't racist when you have the brain child for this ad, Roger Ailes, running the show and giving him an unlimited platform to spew his hatred for the entire world to watch and hear.
southbeach09 2 years ago
Obama did not praise Farrakhan. I take it you just read e-mails about Obama book , and did not read it for yourself . Also look at the number of white people that have spoken on behalf of Wright . It is funny that you don;t think this crap is racist but you think Obama is .
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
That is called a Strawman argument, agruging something that I did not say . .. and how is Obama a racist ... It is funny when people like you say that .
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
Give you a break . There was a clear change in alignment all you have to do is look at the Strom Thurmond. Next look at all the racist people at the tea parties .. and the are mostly republicans. Look up what Nixon said about black people .. and Look up LBJ who got the ball moving with civil rights.
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
I'm black and I went to the tax day tea party in Lansing, Michigan. No one shouted any racial slurs at me, no one threatened or disrespected me, and I felt safer there than I would at any of the local night clubs at midnight. So if the tea party goers are so racist why wouldn't they shout down a black man who's walking amongst them? Or shout down several black speakers that spoke at these tea parties?
sakonhagakure 2 years ago
If they where not racist why would that have racist signs.
Tell me Tea Party goer why go to a tea party now . What do you want your country back from.
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
What racist signs? I never saw any racist signs to the tea party I went to. If they're so racist why would they accept me into their numbers instead of shouting racial slurs at me and trying to get me to leave?
But as far as that "take my country back" thing goes. Why don't you tell me. You people were shouting it years ago when Bush was in office. And if memory serves John Kerry used it as a campaign slogan.
sakonhagakure 2 years ago
If don't no of the racist signs at these events you are lying or being willfully ignorant. Because you you most likely miss the slurs just like you missed the signs .
As for part two . As normal a non-answer for one of you tea-party nuts .
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
Why did you not answer my question. I want to know what you are protesting . And more over I am calling your bluff that there were SEVERAL black speakers .
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
If you want to call my bluff then all you gotta do is search for Lloyd Marcus, Alfonzo Rachel, and various other people that spoke at various tea parties. (trust me they aren't the white only conventions that the MSM portrays it to be.)
But you ask what I was protesting? Being called a right wing extremist by my DHS for being a soldier and a libertarian. I'm protesting government motors and 32 czars. I'm protesting Kenneth Gladney getting beat down in St.Louis. What were you protesting?
sakonhagakure 2 years ago
Oh so it was not many people speaking at one event their where just token sprinkled here and there. Funny you protest for your rights but hate weed.
Bush had more Czars than Obama , if you look at the video of what happen of Kenneth Gladney. It seems that he was giving just as much as he was getting . Bail out happens before Obama, and people complained that with these bail out came no oversight . Now that over sight comes with Bail outs you are still not happy.
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
That's the problem. I don't want bailouts for anybody. I don't give a rat's ass what party did what or who was president when what went down. I'm just sick and tired of the shenanigans from both sides of the isle. You're basing your argument because you think I support bailouts under the republicans but not the democrats. That couldn't be farther from the truth.
sakonhagakure 2 years ago
It is funny to me .. These things were not happening under Bush, but they are happening now . Obama has not added ONE tax to people.. yet people blame him for their taxes. People like Joe Wilson a Neo-confederate,literally, gets support for calling Obama a liar while he signed a bill to given Illegals Health Care.
I was like you once, i was a republican until wake up and saw them for who they really are . You stand side by side with people that carry signs tell Obama to go back to Africa.
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
Willie Horton hears a ho.
DukeNorwood 2 years ago 7
@DukeNorwood and then he shut her up good >_>;
AetheriusLamia 1 year ago
Europe is going through this stage right now. The judges are letting complete animals out on the streets (99% muslim immigrants of course) that rape and kill only days after being released. Deja Vu all over again.
FrankinHolland 2 years ago
I have no idea how liberals continue to bring this up with a straight face. The man was A FUCKING CRIMINAL, for godssakes. Shouldn't you attack the politician that let him out?
Xbizkitl 2 years ago
As a "liberal" I sort of agree but for different reasons....It was Al Gore who originally made an issue of Willie Horton when he was running against Dukakis....The GOP simply repackaged the idea in this nauseating commercial...
johnlouisville 2 years ago
The nauseating thing is they let the murderer out on parole to he could have a weekend of rape.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
What the hell did I just see, a blipvert?
afrosheenix 2 years ago 2
Horton hears a Who.
sdsunandfun 2 years ago
Crap. 8 seconds long. where's the rest.
RuflessRecords 3 years ago
How is this ad racist 0_0 :O ... !!!???
DifangDuana 3 years ago 2
It's hard to show a picture of a murderer or rapist that isn't black. Most are. The DOJ has all of the statistics. If you disagree, complain to your god for making mathematics incorrect.
M0DEAN 3 years ago
good job, you answered the what
now answer the why
roflwaffle12321 3 years ago
If you can't figure it out for yourself, you should ask politely.
M0DEAN 3 years ago
BOO effing HOO! You puppets make me sick. "Oh no, its racist" you indignantly shout. How bout holding Dukakis vicariously liable for the deaths of the people that this animal murdered when he was on his little vacation from the clink.
Idiots. Is there anything Michael Moore says that you wont believe as gospel truth?
thebig708 3 years ago 2
Politics and crime, they're the same thing...-Don Lucchese, The Godfather Part 3. That was a short advert.
americanpolitic1 3 years ago
watching frontline on wned right now, a documentary on lee atwater and saw this ad.. this one is bad, but it doesn't seem as offensive as the prison revolving door commercial. well maybe both of them are on equal levels on racism... but this documentary is awesome. do you guys think campaigns were as dirty as they are now?
JosmosFactory 3 years ago
Out of curiosity, would anyone tell me why this ad is considered racial? The way I see it, asking why they didn't show a white man just supports the idea that this was a rampant problem. ie, They could have picked from any number of people who committed capital crimes while involved in this program.
(This is coming from a liberal.)
FoxWMulder 3 years ago
@Fox
Altwater basically admitted it.
He disclosed in prior years that the 80s Southern strategy was subtle and abstract with a clear intent in getting racially motivated whites to vote for them.
jpbalkenende 3 years ago 2
Fair enough.
FoxWMulder 3 years ago
Yes, I am aware of the "Southern Strategy", but I don't think this is a good example of it. Even if it was his intent, he didn't do a good job of it, in my opinion.
RamiMtl 3 years ago
I guess it worked well just as when Clinton ran ads in 1996 saying if Dole won churches would burn, the Klan would ride again and blacks would be lynched by those dastardly republicans.
pmerk36 3 years ago
now when did clinton ever insinuate that?
Laydeezmancris 3 years ago
The Dems did the same thing, trying to get racially motivated non-whites to vote for them.
munkeeguy 3 years ago
I agree 100%. I also am labeled a "Liberal" by everyone that knows me. As fas as I'm concerned, they showed a CRIMINAL. He happens to be black. Big deal. I've heard about the "Williw Horton Ad" for years, and only got to see it now (don't know how I missed it at the time). Calling this a racist ad only sets people up for a "Boy who cried wolf" scenario when racism really is obvious.
RamiMtl 3 years ago 3
If they didn't want the ad to have a racial component, they wouldn't have put up photographs.
There's not a word--not a second of these political advertisements that doesn't get vetted and focus-grouped all to hell. Not even in '88.
They knew what they were doing.
UdallIn72 3 years ago
Yeah, pictures are racist!!
munkeeguy 3 years ago
I'm just saying it wasn't an accident.
They knew the ad would raise a race issue for some people, and they proceeded anyway because they saw some benefit in it.
That's politics, I suppose.
UdallIn72 3 years ago
The benefit is pointing out the utter foolishness of Dukakis, he let a murderer out of prison for the weekend, and it cost two people their lives.
The whole "racism" angle was cooked up to distract people from that terrible fact. It worked, twenty years later we are still debating it.
munkeeguy 3 years ago
In fairness to Dukakis, he neither created the furlough program nor administered it.
He didn't PERSONALLY let Horton out of jail; an administrative tribunal did.
That said, I'll grant that it's a dumb idea, at least in the case of murderers.
UdallIn72 3 years ago
Dukakis vetoed a bill that denied furloughs to first degree murderers.
samhain6677 2 years ago
Which was a revelant issue, to say the least. Al Gore made an issue out of it, too, sans Willie Horton ads.
Gerkinstock 2 years ago
Its just another attempt the white man trying to benefit from the suffering of a black man
youngcatlaflare 2 years ago
If Willie Horton has suffered , he deserves it.
munkeeguy 2 years ago
was the canidate racist?
Duvmasta 2 years ago
wouldnt suprise me if they were.wouldnt suprise me if bush was.but in know for certain ronald reagan was a racist to the core.
youngcatlaflare 2 years ago
'cuse me, but wasn't it the REPUBLICANS who fought the Confederates? Wasn't it the DEMOCRATS who put in Jim Crow laws? Wasn't it DEMOCRAT President Woodrow Wilson who segregated the Federal Government? Wasn't it Democrat FDR who paid white southern land owners to not grow crops, while black sharecroppers starved? Wasn't it REPUBLICANS who voted for the Civil Rights act of 1964, and DEMOCRATS who voted against it? Wasn't Martin Luther King Jr. a REPUBLICAN? Gosh, how ignorant.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
You expect me to vote for the lesser of two evil its more like the evil of two lesser. thats like saying man chose your oppressor. pick one Charles mansion or Hannibal lector. You want pepsi,coke,sprite,or dr pepper. They all messed up none of them better. Crack is like a democrat, cocaine like a republican, marijuana is the green, independent party same government. You think your vote count? Ask them people in Florida when they throw they shit out
youngcatlaflare 2 years ago
Bush was supposed to be a conservative but he made the government bigger then any liberal ever did. I wonder Why? Because he was irrelevant. He was only in office to give more power to Obama sell out his own mama.
youngcatlaflare 2 years ago
Bush compromised with the Democrats to get the war/national security support he wanted, but to give the Democrats the social programs they wanted. Same compromise made by Ron Reagan.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
The party values have flipped around in the past few decades, man.
thefartingdonkey 2 years ago
The Democrats are still the party of the Plantation. Their particular ire is launched at anyone of "their" pet groups who strays from the plantation.
More Republicans voted for the 1964 civil rights act than Democrats. Democrats continue to push dependency and welfare. Republicans not so much.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
There was a party alignment change in the 60s. And MLK supported JFK.
Joeybsmooth 2 years ago
That's only half the argument. It's worth noting that most people who list the curious histories of the two defacto ruling parties in our country follow up with a statement that goes something like "It's weird and I wonder how it is that the two parties flipped."
If one claims to take pride in the list of accomplishments you list, then the modern Republican party has to infuriate and shame any modern Republican.
Frankly both modern parties are an obvious sham and largely identical today.
NYCNECH 2 years ago
Jackie Robinson was a Republican, too. And yes, the Democratic Party was the party of slavery.
Gerkinstock 2 years ago
fuck willie horton, and all black men like him (and all men like him, period.)
samhain6677 2 years ago
Anytime a Republican ad is effective against a liberal it's deemed either racist or dirty. Liberals could care less that Horton murdered and raped they were mad at Bush (even though his campaign had nothing to do wit this ad) becuase he was distracting the the public from the "real issues", after all what could be a more phony issue than murderers who when let out on a weekend pass from the Governor rape and murder again?
pmerk36 3 years ago
Willie Whoreton.
randombutler 3 years ago
what has race got to do with it? he committed murder and rape after getting a weekend pass by the democrats.
bush had every right to run this ad if it called into question the democrats stand on law & order.
sathrd 3 years ago
Everyone knows this was a racist add
Intoassalot 3 years ago
Video is messed up.
overlook77 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
obama is a nigger too,hang him
soaringpen85 3 years ago
Considering that I'm black myself, all you who think it has to do with some race that forced him to do this can stop
merviper 3 years ago
Oh I didn't know the color of his skin was important until all of you started pointing the racist finger. Hypocrites.
Slythyr 3 years ago
yeah.... spakdiddy... if you are a first degree murderer be happy your alive his name should have been
"piece of shit"
21McMorris 3 years ago
the video is corrupted. it only goes for 8 seconds
pointybongo 3 years ago
This demonstrates how racist some republicans are, or how low they are sometimes willing to go to win elections. The guy's name is William Horton, he was known as William and he always went by William Horton. But they used the Willie name in the ads because of its African American connotations. Shameful.
spakdiddy 3 years ago
Gee I guess you are personal friends with William. He is a criminal but the Dems forgive him, you need to move to Russia you fool.
surfbig12 3 years ago