Word: smear
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Taking the stand in his own defense, Publisher Lei-who never denied befriending Liu as a refugee-denied knowing that Liu was a Communist agent. The real issue, said Lei, was whether the government could get away with such a "smear" of honest critics. "All we wished to do is urge the government to implement peaceful reform in order to avoid bloodshed. If the charges against me can be substantiated, I need not mourn my personal fate. But I must mourn the future of my country...
...verifiable facts; and my way, I hope, will be the way of reasoned analysis." This is the historian's gambit, but the professor is so deeply committed to the Kennedy cause that he overlooks logical inconsistencies, relies on the unsupported generalization, and allows himself to stoop to political smear tactics...
...much in their personalities as in their policies and their parties, and yet Mr. Schlesinger devotes only a little more than a quarter of his polemic to this aspect of the campaign. For it is here that Schlesinger can score his strongest points without resort to the genteel smear and doubtful psychoanalytic generalizations. Those who argue that Kennedy and Nixon stand for the same things simply have not been following the campaign...
Maggie's most righteous indignation (and her finest hour in public life) was reserved for the late Joe McCarthy, in her famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech. It was the first major address of Freshman Smith, and the first outcry in the Senate against McCarthy's campaign of smear and innuendo. While scowling Joe McCarthy listened from a nearby desk, Maggie denounced him for debasing the Senate "to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination, sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity ... I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory...
...commend your organization for the fine examples of the "sophisticated smear" technique, which you are so ably employing against the Democratic candidate, his family, friends, and hair...