Word: scapegoatism
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...Hersh and other reporters that some witnesses had lied to the Senate committee about his role, only one newsman, Joe Trento of the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, investigated the case in detail. In 1976 Trento wrote that Korry had been victimized by other Government officials looking for a scapegoat, but the story was largely ignored by the Times and other major news organizations...
...affair took another bizarre twist last week, when Smith telephoned newspaper and radio reporters in New York City and Los Angeles to give his version of the story. In a defiant but desperate voice he maintained that he was the "scapegoat" in a pervasive plot that involved 35 Wells Fargo officers in 20 branches of the bank. The amount stolen, he said, was actually between $200 million and $300 million. Smith claimed that when suspicions began to surface at Wells Fargo three weeks ago, a group of bank employees raided his Pacific Palisades home and kidnaped his four-year...
Kaku, a leading member of the anti-nuclear movement, said Reagan's election represents a return to scapegoat politics, which could lead to an unleasning of McCarthyite witchhunting...
Gray, who left the FBI after reports of his involvement in the destruction of Watergate evidence (specifically, the burning of files removed from Howard Hunt's office safe), was the scapegoat for Felt and Miller in their trial. They insisted that he had authorized the break-ins. To try to prove that Gray had that power, defense lawyers put five former Attorneys General and Richard Nixon on the stand. Though Judge Bryant did not explain his sentences, he may have decided that what Felt called the "serious blemish" of conviction was nearly ample punishment. Bryant, says Deputy Attorney General...
...Right must use Reagan as a scapegoat, says Weyrich, it will. Similarly, if Charles Grassley, Stephen Symms, Jeremiah Denton, or James Abdnor, the stars of the conservative Senate class of 1980, give in to the temptress Moderation during their first two years on the Hill, "we and they are in deep trouble," says Weyrich. At that point, Weyrich would "just look for new people for 1982, who are not connected to the others." He emphasizes the strength of the movement's ideological base: "The public apparently buys our position. Above all else we have to stick to that...