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 Smear campaign -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Common targets are public officials, (A person active in party politics) politicians, and political candidates, but to a much lesser degree, the term can apply to the attempts to damage the reputation of private individuals, for example witnesses in the context of a trial.
In the extreme, smear campaigns can take on the character of a widespread (The act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)) persecution, as in the case of the (Click link for more info and facts about dolchstoslegende) dolchstoslegende before (Click link for more info and facts about WW II) WW II.
The US political website specializes in highlighting smear tactics amongst other low forms of political discourse.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sm/smear_campaign.htm   (460 words)

  
 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - SourceWatch
Ginsberg had been an attorney for the Bush campaign during the Florida recount and was counsel for the Bush 2004 re-election campaign.
In his resignation letter to Bush he wrote “I have decided to resign as national counsel to your campaign to ensure that the giving of legal advice to decorated military veterans, which was entirely within the boundaries of the law, doesn't distract from the real issues upon which you and the country should be focusing”.
Defenders of SBVT's campaign have argued that their activities are similar to those of a number of 527 committees, like MoveOn.org, which are campaigning against Bush.
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth   (3663 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Smear campaign
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 The History of Jim Crow
Sheet music cover illustration with caricatures of ragged African-American musicians and dancers.
1866: One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against PA Repubican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer.
Indicative of Clymer's white-supremacy platform, the posters attack postwar Republican efforts to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising fls.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /scripts/jimcrow/gallery.cgi?collection=crow   (223 words)

  
 DailyLinks - Random - b r a y d e n . o r g   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It indicates that the existing mechanisms do not appear adequate to prevent abuses or to ensure the public that abuses that are identified are treated seriously and remedied."
CIA Leak Scandal: Times Bombshell Explodes Near Cheney The New York Times is reporting that notes taken by Scooter Libby show that he learned of Valerie Wilson's employment at the CIA from his boss, Dick Cheney.
Bush Aides Scrubbed Guard Records Newsweek reported on July 9, 2000 that the Bush campaign "launched a secretive research operation designed to scour all records relating to his Vietnam-era service" during preparation for Bush's 1998 re-election campaign.
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