| Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official. |
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| And they lost all compunction about tarring the opposition with outright lies and character assassination. |
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| However, the attempted character assassination of Margo plumbs new depths and raises wider questions. |
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| Despite a deceptively calm and authoritative tone, she engages in nothing less than character assassination. |
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| Jackson has spent his last three albums in a spitting rage about perceived harassment, character assassination and general obloquy. |
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| They have indulged in character assassination, slander and libel, and the sloppiest, least scientific thinking imaginable. |
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| In his usual manner, he refused to be drawn into politics of insults and character assassination as being perpetuated by some opposition leaders. |
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| Having said that, we in the media must abide by the principles of telling the truth, and not engage in character assassination. |
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| If that is true it is a truly damning confession of character assassination by the man who is the president's most trusted advisor. |
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| A parallel campaign of vilification and character assassination is also being launched against me. |
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| The unwarranted accusations could only be seen as character assassination and should have no place in a tribunal, he said. |
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| Now he is suffering character assassination through leaks and attacks under parliamentary privilege. |
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| Now, amidst all the stonewalling and foot-dragging and character assassination I guess this matter won't get top-billing. |
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| He was sick of the personal vitriol and unfounded character assassination that was arriving via Letters to the Editor. |
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| A satisfying character assassination may be achieved without opening the mouth, or taking the top off a fountain pen. |
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| Towards the end, the campaign took on a markedly personal form with character assassination and mudslinging becoming the order of the day. |
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| In all fairness, these issues do not require character assassination, lying and name-calling. |
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| Seriously, this is really more character assassination and it's disturbing to see wise and intelligent people discussing this in these terms. |
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| Meanwhile, the right-wing demonstrates its abhorrence of defamatory character assassination and smear jobs here. |
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| Vendettas and character assassination have wrecked the last three Conservative leaderships. |
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| I think in an open democracy people ought to have a right to express themselves without fear of character assassination. |
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| The context is that a pill popping fascist gasbag who popularized hatespin and character assassination is getting a taste of his own medicine. |
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| But they do not have the freedom to entertain some people at the expense of some others, and to indulge in character assassination. |
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| The use of abusive language and mudslinging or character assassination should be avoided at any cost. |
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| And to suggest that character assassination is a recent import into politics is to forget that rivalry and its associated black arts are as old as politics itself. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the once great Liberal Party now only has what is basically character assassination and meanspirited personal mudslinging. |
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| What is unusual this time is that the contest of personalities has been unmarked by the usual character assassination, innuendo and glibness. |
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| It is the blood sport of politics as we watch the histrionics taking place, the character assassination and the misconstruing of facts. |
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| Then we add the third element of the campaign, which is character assassination. |
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| It is an official opposition whose members have resorted to an ongoing program of character assassination. |
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| You've heard Bruce Rogerson say that we're not into character assassination or certainly career annihilation. |
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| As Assistant Commissioner Rogerson stated, this was not about character assassination. |
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| The reason why so many Canadians these days shake their heads with shame is because this sort of display and character assassination takes place. |
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| However, fighting him, describing him as a terrorist and carrying out a campaign of character assassination against him do not help. |
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| The Journal's modus operandi included slander and character assassination. |
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| This sort of fraud and calculated character assassination needs to be forthrightly condemned by everyone, irrespective of their political orientation. |
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| Bill's connections are more direct but his statements struck me as an interest in full consideration rather than in character assassination or iconoclasm. |
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| After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions. |
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| The panel's report amounts to a shameless cave-in to a well orchestrated and politically motivated campaign of harassment and character assassination. |
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| However, I would also make a comment on one of the inferences that my hon. colleague made in his submission dealing with what he called a character assassination of Mr. Richard Colvin. |
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| But it could also be a golden opportunity for character assassination, a rhetorical assault on federalism, and publicity for hitherto marginal republican groups. |
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| Therefore, I would ask my hon. colleague, in his submission, to perhaps stand once again and retract that portion of his testimony where he called it a character assassination of Mr. Colvin. |
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| Action should be taken against those who are behind my character assassination. |
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| I might add that it has also taken place in the public domain, by the government of course, with the character assassination of Mr. Colvin in recent weeks. |
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| Since his last release, the state-controlled media in Singapore started to discredit him, to destroy his credibility, with baseless personal attacks and character assassination. |
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| She doesn't deserve to be subjected to the character assassination launched by Gavin. |
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| I AM utterly disgusted at the character assassination of Dafydd Iwan following the disabled parking occurrence on Gwynedd Council premises. |
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| Another file dealt with character assassination. |
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| Every time they are presented with facts, whether by us, by the Conservatives, or by the NDP, there are accusations of rumour mongering and character assassination. |
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| Italy's recent election was reported as a more-than-robust round of scurrilous character assassination rather than a sober tour of the pressing issues. |
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| It is quite pathetic to have all the rhetoric, all the overblown stuff, all the language, the gimmicks, the class warfare and the character assassination. |
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| The government has blocked the websites since Saturday, accusing them of committing character assassination and insulting people, including key political leaders. |
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| Many of the insults go well beyond the accustomed malignment of political opponents and are better labelled as character assassination and demonization. |
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