But it's a basic rule of politics: If you can't disprove the message, you try to discredit the messenger.

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You'd think so, but liberals can't seem to handle this truth so they are now trying to discredit the jobs that accompany it.

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For oppositionists, UMNO's constant efforts to discredit Anwar mean one thing: "It shows he just won't go away, " says Lim Kit Siang, secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party (DAP).

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Already, Anwar's detractors have been engaged in a mudslinging campaign to discredit the deputy PM, their tactics including the distribution of a book entitled 50 Reasons Why Anwar Can't Be Prime Minister.

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