Word: discreditation
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...message of Friends, in other words, is that there is no normal anymore and that Americans--at least the plurality needed to make a sitcom No. 1--accept that. (To the show's discredit, it used a cast almost entirely of white-bread heteros to guide us through all that otherness.) In January 1996, when Ross's ex-wife married her lesbian lover, the episode raised scant controversy, and most of that because Candace Gingrich--the lesbian sister of Newt, then Speaker of the House--presided over the ceremony. "This is just another zooey episode of the justifiably popular Friends...
Clarke’s connection to Beers became a sticking point last month for his conservative critics, who have sought to discredit Clarke as a partisan...
...former top counterterrorism official who participated in the same conversations and meetings: Richard Clarke. In several cases, the version of events provided by Clarke this week include details and embellishments that do not appear in his new book, Against All Enemies. While the discrepancies do not, on their own, discredit Clarke's larger arguments, they do raise questions about whether Clarke's eagerness to publicize his story and rip the Bush Administration have clouded his memory of the facts...
...Nowhere do we see the President pointing fingers at or even sounding particularly "vigorous" toward Clarke and his deputies. Despite Clarke's contention that Bush wanted proof of Iraqi involvement at any cost, it's just as possible that Bush wanted Clark to find disculpatory evidence in order to discredit the idea peddled by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that Baghdad had a hand in 9/11. In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush rejected Wolfowitz's attempts to make Iraq the first front in the war on terror. And if the President of the United States...
...comments. Long Wait for Justice ZIMBABWE The year-long treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai came to a close, with the judge not expected to rule for several months. Tsvangirai denies charges of plotting to murder President Robert Mugabe and says the government fabricated the allegations to discredit him. Better Than Nothing NORTH KOREA The second round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program ended in Beijing without a major breakthrough, although Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a statement saying that all parties had committed themselves to "a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula...