Posted on 10/26/2009 6:57:49 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Fourteen years before an antsy convicted killer named Willie Horton torpedoed Gov. Michael S. Dukakis’ presidential hopes, Joseph Fournier was just an earnest kid working after school to save money for his first car.
The media perversely tagged Horton “America’s Most Famous Convict” in 1988, “but nobody knows my brother,” former state Rep. Donna Fournier Cuomo resigned herself to believe.
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Does anyone remember who made the”Willie Horton”ad?It was none other than ALGORE!
I remember hearing about this poor kid-stabbed in a robbery and stuffed in a trash can to die.
And the libtards and MSM castigate any derogatory mention of that murdering scum Willie Horton, who, in a older, wiser, America, would have been given a rope necktie to wear, either by the court system, or by outraged citizens—not because what color he was-but by what he DID to deserve his fate.
Sure was. Often mentioned on a local talk show. AlGore was more than warm, he was steaming hot.
They are hammering Sweet over there for misrepresenting the Horton adds as a Republican attack, when this was brought up Al Gore.
They need to be pointing out that this is a typical example of how good the fact checking has been in Massachusetts papers for the last 40 years.
You left off a word or two.
He was and still is a steaming hot pile of s....
The dems are soft on crime.
The dems are soft on national security.
Dems lie and their cohorts in the media swear to those lies.
Which is why the dems and the msm are determined to destroy FNC
Only a Mass. news outlet would refer to the then Vice President and GOP candidate for the Presidency as Dukakis’ “challenger”. That appellation would have applied if ‘Bobble Head Mike’ had been a President seeking a second term. He wasn’t. He was the governor of the banana republic that is Massachusetts.
The Horton ads were perfectly reasonable ads. They happened to be about the furlough of a black murderer, but they didn’t even hint at his race.
They became a red flag to the Left because they were something into which race could be dragged. End of story.
The criticism over the ads is that Horton’s face was shown. Of course to the hyper sensitive left this meant racism. I don’t think the victims’ pictures were shown. As I recall also, it wasn’t the bush campaign that originally funded and created the ad. It was Floyd Brown’s group. But the critics still label it as “Bush campaign ad.”
I had not read that news that the 17 year old kid was stuffed in a trash can after they stabbed him. Sounds familiar. They did that to that Channon girl in the Knoxville atrocity most of you have read about. How sickening.
So Horton should have gotten death but instead they let him out. Brilliant. That is one case where putting a slime to death would truly have been a deterrent to future crime! I don’t know if MA laws were tightened at all after that but Dukakis got reelected as governor even after Horton assaulted the couple in MD. And the legislature remains firmly in Demo control now so it seems like most voters up there were not really all that upset about soft on crime policies.
“He was the governor of the banana republic that is Massachusetts.”
For the REAL feel of a banana republic, spend some time in Harvard Square ;-)
I remember the ad. How sad that people don’t even think about the young victim so brutally murdered or the other victims. I’m glad you shared this story.
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