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Maybe the worst thing about campaign-season outing--whether it brings out the truth or spreads a usable lie--is that it depends upon a climate in which simply labeling someone a homosexual is an insult. The tactic won't work on the day when calling someone gay might be an error but not an accusation. "The sad thing in all this," says Tafel, "is that everybody involved believes that being 'charged' with being gay is bad." Republicans may have fostered that climate. Will Democrats be any better if they turn it to their advantage...
...main tasks were to gather information, distribute propaganda and recruit dissidents. Two years ago, it published a fake issue of Babil, the daily newspaper owned by Saddam's eldest son Uday. The expertly counterfeited copy, distributed for one day in Baghdad, exposed many of Saddam's atrocities. The tactic backfired, however, because readers were more frightened than infuriated by the revelations...
...Clinton's focus on such small-change matters as school uniforms, curfews and V-chips was a tactic of genius. He could be appealing as the nation's ward healer, while lamenting the existence of deep, vast ills that no one believed a national leader could fix anyway. He carefully looked to determine which side his bread was buttered on, and saw that it was the crust...
Both campaigns plan to mobilize supporters tomorrow--a crucial tactic in a primary with no national election to increase turnout...
...after losing her business to the persecution of the Federal Drug Administration, and thus argued for the agency's abolition? Or take a real instance: when the Bush campaign in 1988 speared Dukakis with the story of a horrible crime committed by a murderer let out on furlough, the tactic was condemned as demagoguery. Why? Because the validity of an argument is not proved by the emotional intensity of the proponent...