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Willie Horton Redux

By Posted Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000, at 12:30 AM ET

Willie Horton has surfaced once again in presidential politics. The paroled murderer from Massachusetts first became a hot-button racial symbol during the 1988 Bush-Dukakis campaign; this week, Bill Bradley charged that it was Al Gore who first "introduced [Horton] to the lexicon." In this November 1999 "Chatterbox," Slate's Timothy Noah examined this charge.

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