Word: smears
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...left with a large group of voters. "This is a Democratic area, but people watched the debates and saw who could handle themselves under pressure, and Cellucci seemed much smoother. I don't think anybody paid much attention to the ads, both candidates were pretty much running a smear campaign, and they cancelled each other...
...House aides charged that Starr had gone way too far in including so much embarrassing detail, all designed to do nothing less than force the President from office one way or another. Including all those blue footnotes, the Clinton team argues, was simply "part of a hit-and-run smear campaign." The President, they argued in their rebuttal on Saturday, had already admitted that he had had an improper relationship and apologized repeatedly for it. That may have been a sin, but it was no crime. "The referral is so loaded with irrelevant and unnecessary graphic and salacious allegations that...
...justification at all... They plainly do not relate, even arguably, to activities which may be within the definition of "sexual relations" in the President's [Paula] Jones deposition, which is the excuse advanced [by the Office of the Independent Counsel]. They are simply part of a hit-and-run smear campaign, and their inclusion says volumes about the OIC's tactics and objectives...
...Clinton nemesis Dan Burton is furious over a planned Vanity Fair story that details alleged affairs in the Indiana Republican's own tumultuous 38-year marriage. Burton blames the President's men for orchestrating the piece. But TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty says that a White House-directed smear campaign is "hard to imagine" -- indeed, the accusation is hardly out of character for a man who is convinced the White House taps his phone and who's called the President a "scumbag...
...ceremony for the Americans killed in the embassy bombings in Africa, wondered if some of the agony on her face wasn't for the ordeal ahead. Ever since Chelsea was six, Hillary has protected her daughter by convincing her that some of her father's political opponents would smear him to beat him. This week one of those opponents would be sitting in the Map Room, two floors below Chelsea's bedroom, learning from Clinton himself that some of the smearing might in fact be true...