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This line of argument is particularly sinister, because it seems legitimate--it's not a blatant smear, or an all-out attempt at character assassination. Rather, it's a criticism of the most substantive realm of the politician, how he or she votes...
None of Said's political foes have been able to cite a single utterance by him that could be construed as anti-Semitic or as condoning either tyranny or terrorism. Hence they fall back on innuendo, smear tactics or -- in the case of Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi whose recent book Cruelty and Silence, directed against Arab acquiescence in the horrors of Saddam's regime, also fiercely attacks Said -- on distortions of his views. The feud between Makiya and Said has been seized on, to the pleasure of neither, by American anti-Arabists. Said, declaimed A.M. Rosenthal in the New York...
...students, the rhetoric has also toned down. In 1990, the student activists' spokesperson said to officials, "If you do not meet the demands, we will get rowdy again. We will have no choice but to smear your name in the disgusting truth which you have created...
...anonymous smear campaign accused Brunner of having had an illegal abortion, a matter on which she refused comment, and of having been photographed in the nude, which she denied. Those issues aside, Brunner raised a fatal quotient of parliamentary eyebrows by a perceived antimilitary attitude, informal taste in dress and having been twice wed. Several hundred women supporters, some spattering dollops of paint, gathered outside parliament to protest the rejection of Brunner, who declared that "we have lost the first battle, but only the first...
...want this to reflect badly on the club, Karen Boyle, or Tom Woods. This incident is a smear by a few individuals in the club, but not the club itself," Fine said...