Top 10 smear campaigns- Times Online »
Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 5 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsAs details emerge of the smear campaign against Derek Walcott for which Ruth Padel was forced to resign as Oxford University Professor of Poetry, a look at the ten biggest, most salacious and most outrageous smear campaigns.
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hyperbola5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Probably we never hear about most of them because the targets accept the blackmail of threatened smear campaigns. Dick Cheney using the NSA to spy on Republican Congressmen and threatening them if they resisted voting for "war powers" for the Iraq war comes to mind as a recent example.
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Spadecaller5 months, 2 weeks ago
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The good news is that polls continue to show that Americans are less and less inclined to be influenced by smear campaigns. In fact, votes tallied in opposition to smear campaigns have gone up in the last two elections.
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