Word: mudding
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...right man for the job, have you and your staff lowered yourselves to slinging mud and making slanderous statements about your rival...
...before a crowd of 4,000 at a town meeting in the cavernous new Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville that Student David Mangum asked his question about why the President had been "slinging mud." The audience applauded. Carter sucked in his breath. "Good question," he said. Then he went on to explain his resentment against the press for covering campaign techniques "and who was going to debate whom," and not focusing on Reagan's SALT II stance or questioning the Governor about his saying that an arms race was a card that could be played against the Soviet...
...kept the votes of many conservative businessmen by cutting red tape in Washington for them. He defends his support of the wilderness bill, which would set aside 2.2 million acres in the state, by insisting: "Idaho is not for sale." Some of his supporters are slinging a little mud of their own. They are distributing bumper stickers in heavily Mormon eastern Idaho that read WINE, WOMEN AND SYMMS-a reference to a remark the Congressman is reported to have made after a 1977 trip to Libya: "There was no chance to drink or chase women...
...Reagan witness and campaign advisor, Rep. David Stockman (R-Mich.), provoked hisses from the audience by saying the change had come wholly from new oil sources in Alaska "discovered when Jimmy Carter was still slinging mud in Georgia...
...Mississippi novelist William Faulkner. Somehow, that subject takes an uncanny turn toward Forbert soliloquizing about how people need direction and motivation, how--if they haven't found it yet--they should continue to search. For the first time, eloquence of a sort enters the room. Out of the mud, the lotus flower blooms. I extend a handshake, happy to have what few notes I have, catch an L.A.-bound plane and spend the next three days and nights pondering how to frame this gaunt communication into a story...