'Like Willie Horton, Except Obama Knew Rev. Wright'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

This week's Fox News Watch was a mix of the candid, the intriguing and the downright funny. Let's start with the humor. Good-hearted liberal panel member Jane Hall, wringing her hands over the fact that the Wright matter has injected race into the campaign, got off this bit of unintentional comedy.

JANE HALL: Unfortunately, this is going to be what's going to be associated [with Obama]. I mean, it's like Willie Horton, except that Obama knew Reverend Wright.

So it's unfair to pin this Wright stuff on Obama, except for the fact that it's . . . fair.

View video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Jane sees the Willie Hortonizing of Rev. Wright ping to Today show list.

[don-o]

So we can keep on the cutting edge....

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[sphinx]

And why does Jane Hall think linking Willie Horton to Mike Dukakis is unfair? Willie's little crime spree was not the issue. The issue was that, after the furlough festivities, the Massachusetts legislature voted to prohibit furloughs for life-without-parole inmates ... and Dukakis vetoed the measure. So even after Willie's rampage, the Gov. favored the furlough program.

[geo40xyz]

Here's the REAL Obama that Jane doesn't want you to SEE:
Before election....

After election....

[llandres]

“And why does Jane Hall think linking Willie Horton to Mike Dukakis is unfair?” Because she IS Jane Hall, that’s why.

[Westlander]

Willie Horton

[Redbob]

The irony of the Willie Horton story is that it was Algore who first used the Horton story against Dukakis, in the Dim primaries that election.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Exactly, and as I note in the NB item, coincidentally it was then Bush campaign staffer Jim Pinkerton who had noted Gore’s use of Horton and brought it to the attention of others on the campaign.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

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