The Best of Notable Quotables; December 21, 1992
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 21, 1992
- Rodney King Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Festival of Hate
- Clinton Camelot
- I am Woman
- Henry Luce Award
- Willie Horton Award
- Silliest Analysis
- Ross Perot Award
- Real Reagan Legacy
- James Carville Award
- Iron Curtain Award
- Happy Talk Award
- Media Hero Award
- Which Way Is It?
- Quote of the Year
- 1992 Award Judges
Willie Horton Award (for Sophisticated Political Analysis)
“The
racial dimension flows naturally into the political, where the uglier
side of Quayle’s mission begins to become apparent. One of Quayle’s
amazing but unlikable feats last week was metaphorically to transform
old Willie Horton into a beautiful blond fortyish WASP has-it-all
knockout.”
– Time Senior Writer Lance Morrow on the Murphy Brown controversy, June 1.
Runners-up:
“The Republicans, for 25
years, have seldom avoided the temptation to play the race card
politically in this country. It goes back to the ‘60s, when Richard
Nixon ran as a law-and-order President. In the ‘70s, Ronald Reagan, and
the late ‘70s, he ran for President in 1980 talking about welfare
queens, associating the Great Society programs with minorities, and with
waste, and with crime in the streets. There has been a consistent
impulse, Willie Horton was just a continuation of that, to use this
issue to divide people.”
– U.S. News & World Report Senior Writer
Steven Roberts on Washington Week in Review, May 8.
“Senator, you
told Tim that you thought the White House suggestion that the Great
Society programs were to blame for what happened in Los Angeles was
ludicrous. Was it also a racial code word – a code word to appeal to
racial fears? Is it the Willie Horton of the 1992 campaign?”
– NBC
reporter Andrea Mitchell interviewing Sen. Bill Bradley on Meet the
Press, May 10.
“It would help, too, if the man who sanctioned the
infamous Willie Horton ad during his 1988 run for the White House would
admit his complicity in developing the images and code words that
encourage whites to demonize blacks.”
– Time special correspondent
Michael Kramer, May 11 issue.
“Many are afraid the L.A. riots are
going to be the Willie Horton of this campaign. Are you afraid they’re
going to have a very divisive effect? Does that concern you or are you
playing that up?”
– Today co-host Katie Couric interviewing Pat
Buchanan, May 6.
