Word: smeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which brings up the whole subject of sex. Well now, you have to do something to make newspapers sell!) Gore Vidal writes in a recent New York Review that the sexual smear is a tactic of the right wing rather than the left. Until I saw Nixon! I was inclined to believe him. However, Nixon! brings into the open a theme that winds subterraneanly through a good deal of Nixon criticism. The Nixons, you see, are thought to be frigid, asexual, virgin or impotent. So no wonder the left never attacks sexual misadventure on the right--the left...
...Press Conference of 1962. De Antonio weaves back and forth through the checkered career of the unsinkable Richard M. in an indefatigable attempt to discover what makes this public man run. There is the 1964 congressional campaign in which the Bank of America quietly assists young Richard in his smear attacks on Congressman Jerry Voorhis: Nixon's prosecution of Alger Hiss, along with his clever use of closed congressional hearings ("I am holding in my hand a microfilm of very highly classified secret documents."); the 1950 Senatorial campaign with its "pink sheet" attacks on Helen Gahagan Douglas; the side-splitting...
...liberal press expresses pious concern about divisiveness in the U.S. whenever conservatives fight for what they feel is right. Never a word is said about divisiveness when a few power-hungry "liberals" in the Senate pull out all the stops to smear a man like Poff in order to enhance their political aims...
...government conservationist. In 1968, he found oil clotting the underfeathers of 1 in every 100 longtails, a graceful sea bird that breeds in Bermuda. This year the ratio rose to 1 in 4. Wingate believes that floating particles of tar-perhaps caused by tankers pumping, out their tanks, smear the birds as they sit on the water. Since longtails die if oil sticks to their wings or is eaten in preening, their numbers are declining...
...mistakes and failings of some PL members and supporters and present them in a distorted, incomplete format that plays heavily on an anti-Communist stereo type that is as much a part of us all as racism or male chauvinism, and what you've got is a red baiting smear of an organization that has consistently fought militantly in support of just struggles, even those of groups with which it deeply disagreed (e.g. Chavez Lettuce Boycott, NAC's campaign of last spring against the CFIA...