The New Yorker's Willie Horton Incident and more . . .

The New Yorker's Willie Horton Incident
In the Fall of 1988's presidential election the GOP's attack machine, led by Karl Rove's dirty-politics mentor Lee Atwater, ran ads against Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis for allowing convicted murderer Willie Horton to be freed on ...

The Ostroy Report: The New Yorker's Willie Horton Incident
Cut to 2008. In its July 21 issue, in an unconscionable display of poor taste, racial insensitivity, fear-mongering and bad timing, the venerable highbrow literary journal New Yorker put a cartoon on its cover depicting Democratic ...

Willie Horton Ad Creator Back In Action
On a website he calls ExposeObama.com , Floyd G. Brown, the producer of the “Willie Horton” ad that helped defeat Michael Dukakis in 1988, is preparing an encore. Brown is raising money for a series of ads that he says will show Barack ...