Word: martyrize
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Many, especially in the press, apparently feel sympathy for Hillary. She has been heralded as a tragic martyr, a victim of scandal. It is argued that she may be trapped in her marriage, that she sticks around out of duty to the country. Unfortunately, according to most sources, Bill has been consistently straying since their law school days. A more likely explanation for her current calculus, and her calculus all along, may be that she is simply unwilling to give up the fruits of her association with her husband. After all, the White House is a nice place to live...
...syllable. Of Hellman, Podhoretz finds surprisingly pleasant things to say--she was a wonderful cook, she was great company, "playful, mischievous, bitchy, earthy, and always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented as saint and martyr in the memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961 and, as Podhoretz saw it, her seeming lack of sympathy...
...smiling face on the posters belongs to Mumia Abu Jamal, and while the explanation for his status as a beloved martyr is quite complex, the facts of his case are quite simple. On Dec. 9, 1981, Officer Daniel Faulkner of the Philadelphia Police Department stopped a Volkswagen, driven by Mr. William Cook, for a routine traffic violation. When he approached the car he was attacked by Cook, and a scuffle ensued. While Faulkner tried to subdue his assailant, Jamal, Cook's brother, approached the scene from across the street and shot Faulkner in the back, at point blank range...
...also traded accusations with their political enemies. One former Starovoitova ally, Anatoli Chubais, claimed "communists and bandits" were behind the killing. A prominent Starovoitova colleague alleged that Duma speaker Gennadi Seleznev, a communist, had ordered it. Some communists retorted that Starovoitova's allies had killed her to create a martyr. A leading communist Deputy accused businessman Boris Berezovsky of ordering the hit. Calmer heads suggested that the murder was connected to a dirty election campaign in St. Petersburg...
...this cup pass from me'"). The More reference was actually kind of snarky, what with its parallel suggestion of Clinton as a slovenly, appetite-riven Henry VIII. Still, it would take someone with image-making skills far beyond Starr's to pass off the prosecutor as a martyr. It would take someone, say, with the ability to turn a cheeseball philanderer into a victim. It would take--well, it would take Ken Starr...