Word: slanderous
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...uneven, degrading to Arabs, not harsh enough for Israel's current hawkish leadership and representative of an implicit bias against Islam in the desire to paint the conflict as a religious war. They are certainly entitled to their interpretations. Yet to discern the world media's consistent and deliberate slander against Israel, one need not interpret terminology either way: It is evident simply in what the press chooses to report and to omit in its coverage of the conflict...
...opposition. Although Ashcroft's former colleagues may be loath to vote against him, we feel that he is disqualified by his actions to block the appointment of Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie L. White to the federal bench. Ashcroft repeatedly misrepresented White's record and engaged in a despicable slander campaign to improve his political position before a tight re-election race against the late Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, a race Ashcroft ultimately lost...
...Ashcroft was gearing up a short-lived campaign for the White House last year, he verbally attacked Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White, an African American whom Bill Clinton has appointed to the federal bench, for supposedly being "pro-criminal" and soft on capital punishment. The charge was outright slander. White had voted to uphold the death sentence in 41 of the 59 cases that came before him, roughly the same proportion as Ashcroft's court appointees when he was Governor. No wonder Gordon Baum, leader of white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, in 1999 included Ashcroft along with...
Taking the Pie Higher. Bush supporters not drawn from the ranks of the wealthy or the socially conservative have simply been duped by a spurious devotion to personality over politics, the effectiveness of the Republican slander campaign against Vice President Al Gore '69 and near-total inability of the Democrats to articulate the issues at stake. These three tragic elements combine to give working-class independents, who will swing the election, the mistaken idea that the route to education reform, environmental protection and a fair wage for a fair day's work runs through a vacuous philosophical sham termed "Compassionate...
...make it harder for Sharpton's critics to deflect his message by harping on lingering doubts about his character. When I made these points to Sharpton, he replied, "You may be right." But he insisted that he won't even consider apologizing unless he loses an appeal of the slander verdict...