Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disappointed me. It was just another piece of angry, emotional propaganda, similar to so many produced by HIPAC and other groups in the last few years. Using phrases like "They had perfect position to attack the defenseless prayershawled worshippers below," and "the posters amounted to nothing short of blood libel against the Jewish state," it tried to press more fear buttons than a Republican political candidate...
...posters, most of which bore the approval of the Subterranean Review in their bottom right corners, are riddled with so many circumlocutions and outright fallacies that they amount to nothing less than a blood libel against the Jewish state...
This proved too much for A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times, the paper's former top editor and now a conservative columnist. Rosenthal wrote that Buchanan's words amounted to "blood libel," an implication that Jews have "alien loyalties for which they will sacrifice the lives of Americans." Rosenthal later insisted he had not overstated the case: "Buchanan can dish it out; let him take it a little." Others hastened to join in. The conservative Post, Buchanan's publisher in New York City, editorialized that "when it comes to Jews as a group . . . Buchanan betrays an all-too- familiar...
...million libel award to the resident king of the Las Vegas strip was overturned by a federal appeals court. A lower-court jury had decided that an ( October 1980 NBC broadcast falsely linked the singer's purchase of a casino to underworld assistance...
Brennan's broad interpretation of the right to free speech led him to what is generally considered his most famous decision: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which requires public officials to prove "actual malice" in filing libel suits against publishers and broadcasters. Last year Brennan crafted the majority opinion for a 5-to-4 court decision that upheld the constitutional right to burn the American flag as a form of political protest...