The Willie Horton Ad and the Revolving Door Attack Ads

[bobbyj446]

I knew the kid Willie Horton killed.The kid was a teenager.He gave Willie all the money he had at the gas station and Willie Killed him anyway.He's and animal and should have never been let out.The kid was robbed of his life,and Willie has no remorse.murderers should be well screened for and rights in prison.Some people kill in a barroom brawl or trying to protect themselves,or other non pre meditated ways.Those should be treated differently

[sapperzulu]

Is that why we invaded Panama?

[ClickyStudios]

The only one who looked up at the camera therefor racism is the only plausable answer? Try unprofessionalism on the actors part. What's ironic is that Ishmael Reed is an "Angry Black" talk about fitting the stereotype.

[BakedTroll]

the casual racism of American officials both now and then is still disturbing

[sna1976]

But Lee Atwater got his just deserts. He died of brain cancer. You know, karma is a bitch.

[mlc2005]

Why was Ishmael Reed, "social critic," angry??? Does anybody with even half a brain truly believe first-degree murderers serving life without parole should be allowed to leave jail on the weekend?? What the hell was Dukakis thinking????? Plus, let's be honest here, did that group of men really represent the men in jail in Mass for violent crime: One 99% white?? If anything, the ad was desperately trying to be PC, but a "social critic" finds a way to hate it still? Amazing.

[miggetymike1]

Yeah, it was all about race. It had nothing to do with the fact that someone running for president supported an idiotic furlough program that let someone serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole out to rape. That's not important.

[CrossoverManiac]

This is what happens when Republicans run against DemocRATS on the issue. They get butthurt and cry 'RACISM'! They can't defend their douchebaggery and have to resort to attacking the messenger rather than standing on their record. Dukakis did a terrible job running the Massachusetts legal system and they didn't want to face up to it.

[Fujiarmu]

I'm too young to have remembered this, but I've heard about it. Something is wrong with the people who are claimed these ads to be racist.

Racist because a black guy looks at the camera? Absurd. Willie Horton used as an example BECAUSE he was black? How about BECAUSE he was a known murderer who was released from jail only to attack another person?

Any time a person who isn't white is involved in a crime, there'll be someone somewhere screaming, "Racism!"

[iamlost2]

@Fujiarmu Shutup! It is racist, because racism is a fact and it's not getting better but worse. See the Norway terrorist attacks. Keep fooling yourself there is no hidden racism in that ad, where the only one looks at the camera is BLACK. They were actors, and he was TOLD to look at the camera. Why him, and not the many white guys?

[Fujiarmu]

@iamlost2 "Shut up!" huh? What an effective way to begin an argument. Did you learn that in a debating club?

Was he told to look at the camera? How do you know it wasn't ad-libbed? Also the Asian guy has his head lower than the rest, the mustached guy looks at the Black guy, and the shaggy guy with the moustache and beard is looking at the camera too! What could this mean!?

[Fujiarmu]

@iamlost2 As for Norway, you might be right. Racial relations might be getting worse in Norway. But what does this have to do with the ad we're talking about or the USA? It's a different subject all together.

[hojoleon]

im a democrat but fact is fact

[Cakerolled]

Somebody make a remix of these ads and I will thumbs up and mabye subscribe.

[clemtoe]

there were a lot of flaws in this film. but this part - with the people on there slowing down and picking through frames like they're looking for the lone gunman in the grassy knoll - was unintentionally hilarious.

[peacelord]

@hyperseauton Yeah he kept America safe by buiding military bases in Saudi Arabia and making America vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Great job, dipshit. Horton was evil but we trained Bin Laden

[BreakerByte]

@peacelord

If you understand the political, and strategic decisions with the choices made at the time then please enlighten us. Yes, hindsight is 20-20, but talking about something you heard on TV, without knowing about specifics is hilarious. You sir, are an imbecile.

[peacelord]

@BreakerByte 1) I think I summarized the consequences in a manner that apparently at least 3 people like, and 2) How do you know I'm a, "sir?"

[BreakerByte]

@peacelord

Using your name as lord, which is a male identifier, I assumed you were a man. If you are a woman, then I supposed you should use the proper form of the aforementioned word. As for the fact that, '3' people on youtube like you comment......this is yourtube. If you do not understand that the majority of the people on here are in gradeschool, and/or uneducated then you are a fool. Read my comment. Do you understand what happened in the Middle East around the 70's and 80's?

[peacelord]

@BreakerByte Yes I do, and yes it made the Persian Gulf War necessary, but it was a problem our government created. We armed the man that we later considered a monster in his war against a country whose democratically elected leader our CIA staged a coup against in 1953, making way for the Shah to take over, inspiring the populous right wing movement that created today's vast network of Islamic fundamentalists. Bush Sr was a congressman and CIA head and his son got him elected w this racist ad

[peacelord]

@BreakerByte BTW I remember this ad and the Persian Gulf War because I was about your age at the time.

[kamaljotsdhaliwal]

@hyperseauton Very well said, Bush did a great job.

[zenmachinefilms]

Wow!