Word: smearing
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...turned his vigorous intervention in the current congressional campaign, radical liberal seems to be an elastic blanket covering a huge bed, strangely cohabited by "the northeastern Establishment," the more inflamed students and the militant blacks. The term radical liberal is bitterly resented by many as an effort to smear liberalism with the unpopular tar of radicalism. Other Agnew critics ridicule his concoction as a monstrous juncture of utterly incompatible political types. Both the resentment and the ridicule are essentially justified...
...days later, Bass was asked by an FBI friend in Columbia if he could photocopy the book for "Mr. Hoover." Bass agreed, and was soon rewarded by a long, furious letter from FBI Boss J. Edgar Hoover. "The book is so biased in its attempt to smear the FBI," said an angry Hoover, "that it raises serious questions as to the competence and objectivity of the authors." After a rebuttal by Bass, Hoover signed off a second letter with "[Your book] reminds me of the 'scissors-and-paste' method of writing and arguing. As you certainly are familiar...
...There is something aesthetic about perverting a perversion," Matthews said, referring to his "smear the opponent" tactics in relation to general political campaigning...
...August 20 article in Life magazine charged Tydings with conflict of interest in connection with a Maryland company, the Charter Corporation. Though nothing ever came of the charges and many Tydings backers see it as an indirect White House-initiated smear attempt, the odor remains and may have an effect...
...York Times, was that of "Tommy-the-Traveler," another policeman who posed as an "SDS regional traveler," and tried to get two students to buy dynamite. It is plausible that the present case is another example of police actions to instigate illegal acts in order to try to smear politically-oriented student groups...