Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...named "[Edidiong N.] Ikpe '00 said it is possible [Janice] George was mentally unstable." ("Students Befriend a Fraud," news story, Sept. 24). What does mental instability have to do with deception? It is more likely that a psychologist would deceive someone. Attributing mental illness is an effective way to discredit someone as Ikpe has done...
...editorial, the Crimson staff declared that Agnew's attacks on the media, war resisters and others who disagreed with him "were discredited by their illogic when they were first made" and that his resignation proved them "to be the rankest hypocrisy as well." Examining Agnew's sordid political career should discredit myths regarding the Nixon legacy and should remind hubris-crazed hypocrites that the media and free speech are not so easily trampled underfoot. The end of any human life is always a tragedy. But we must not forget the kind of life Agnew lived and the damage he caused...
...flag are all too well known on this campus, as are his views on anyone who happens to disagree with those opinions--the mark of a truly open mind, I'm sure. However, it was Brown's conviction that the personal insults dispensed by Carville and Franken so thoroughly discredit the Right (or, more correctly, the Republican Party--which, Mr. Brown should be reminded, does not have a monopoly on conservative thought in this nation) that so disgusted me. It is precisely because liberal cum Democrat writers have not been able to put together a more effective response to Gingrich...
Lugar is worried that his government will sell him out. He claims that the Belgrade secret police (who originally recruited him, the lawyer later suggests) variously want to arrest him and hand him over to the Hague or kill him to prevent him from surrendering to the tribunal or discredit him so he cannot testify against his superiors. He is bitter about his treatment. "In Croatia people like me have been rewarded," he complains...
...Jesus Seminar members do not believe Jesus was more than just a man, why do they go to all this trouble to discredit him? Why worry themselves about something they say is of little importance? Could it be that they want to make a name for themselves as being wise or they wish to be free of any responsibility to obey God? The quickest way is to pretend he doesn't exist. What they are saying is nothing new. Many hammers have beaten on the old anvil, but those hammers are gone; the anvil is still around. I am particularly...