Word: smearing
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...documented falsehoods, including the claim that he regularly patronizes Katie's Restaurant, in Wilmington, Delaware, which has been closed for years. Klein's idea of the "unwritten rules" of campaign rhetoric seems to be that the media have the right to selectively use facts to form public opinion and smear the candidate they oppose. Kent Doss, Tubac, Arizona
There is a certain post-structuralist vibration to this modern political climate of spin wars and smear campaigns; operatives on both sides of the aisle seem to share—have been forced to share—the belief that ‘truth’ is an abstraction, and that discourse, true or false, governs all. Yet, for all the Foucauldian interventions of the candidates’ various éminences grises, there remains a definite dimension of political campaigns that remains out of any advisor’s control—not because it is lofty and glacial...
...clock so that no report can be issued before Nov. 4. According to a Bloomberg News story, Alaska senior assistant attorney general Michael Barnhill has threatened to try to quash any such subpoenas, citing "a clause in the state's constitution that protects individual reputations from McCarthy-like smear tactics...
...Recent post: A link to a recent US Weekly cover story on Palin, "Babies Lies & Scandal," - noting that despite the magazine's "smear reporting," more than 80% of of US Weekly readers say Palin would make a good vice president...
...world was waiting for, at the climax of a media frenzy that Team McCain gleefully fed. Seldom has a candidate arrived for a showdown with curiosity so high and expectations so low. Earlier in the day a phalanx of powerhouse Republican women had gathered to denounce the "outrageous smear campaign" against Palin. They were "enraged," "insulted," "offended" by the questions raised about her qualifications or decision to take on the race while having five kids. Palin rolled right on down the tracks they laid. In a few short days, she said, she had learned that...