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Race, the elephant in the smoke-filled room - The Great Coverup
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 Race, the elephant in the smoke-filled room
 
 By Barry Sussman
 
 Posted in - Watergate at 50 on April 11th, 2022 0 Comments
 
 
 The 1988 Willie Horton ad is to this day regarded as one of the most vicious ads in American presidential politics, a trend-setter for ugly campaigns ever since. When people ask, “Who let the dogs out that time?” the answer could be George H.W. Bush and Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes, two of Bush’s strategists who loved the Horton ad. The ad was thirty seconds long. It showed a Black man, Horton, a convicted murderer who was allowed out of prison in Massachusetts on weekend furloughs. Horton didn’t go back after one of them and committed a vicious attack, raping a white woman and knifing and tying up her fiance. The ad linked Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, then governor of Massachusetts, to Horton because of his approval of the furlough prog...
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