Word: impugnable
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...overtly theatrical, a circus of the grotesque and iniquitous (is Ross Perot's campaign chief really named Orson Swindle?), that's it's hard to believe it really matters. When the candidates hurl statistics at each other, assign the problems of a nation to its deficit, or impugn each others' characters, we are lost in a sea of words and accusations, whose truth and importance lies beyond cognition. As campaign teams battle with Vietnam, or tax rises, they attempt to sway a public opinion which is unanchored in any certainty. Perot's astuteness is to play `honest', to pretend...
...Richardson and James Schlesinger, testified last week before a Senate committee that some American POWs may have been left behind in Indochina, there is no evidence that Kissinger was callous toward their fate. His critics may be justified in attacking his bureaucratic methods, but they have no reason to impugn his motives. As he pointed out in his Senate testimony last week, there were no reliable reports of live Americans being held in violation of the accord. And he was also persuasive in charging that neither the public nor the Congress was willing any longer to support the bargaining levers...
...does not impugn their objectivity because they are Jewish; only a small proportion of Jews are active in Hillel. Admittedly, Counter is uncharitable in accusing Crimson writers of skewing coverage to serve their own "special interest" but it's common sense that students active in an organization will be more likely to cover the organization favorably, and thus cover and organization favorably, and thus cover and organization in conflict with it unfavorably...
...fame of these individuals merely due to their prior status as celebrities. People also become celebrities if they symbolize the blameless AIDS sufferer, as did Kimberly Bergalis when she contracted AIDS from her dentist last year. My intention is not to brush aside these patients' sufferings or to impugn their motives, but to point out the cultural trend of recognizing two separate and unequal classes of AIDS patients...
...lesson seemed to be that the accusation of unintentional discrimination can be used as a weapon to dampen free speech and impugn the motives of innocent people...