Willie Horton With a French Beret
“Tim, the White House lately has been hammering the fact that John Kerry is of French ancestry. In an editorial, the New York Times scolded the campaign. ‘Consider the reaction,’ the Times wrote, ‘if the President’s hit men tried such a tactic on an African-American candidate such as Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Such odious tactics have no place in today’s politics.’ You know Bush’s father got in trouble for using race in his campaign via Willie Horton. Is this the same sleazy politics, Willie Horton with a beret?”
– NBC’s Matt Lauer to Tim Russert on the April 1 Today