The combination of massive reach and legal invulnerability makes corporate character assassination easy to carry out.
For, at the moment, Michele Bachmann is not facing mere name-calling but outright character assassination.
As the case opened, his lawyers suggested he had been subjected to character assassination by the Indonesian media.
And this is going to be a month, I think, of character assassination.
The character assassination that Anonymous has triggered on this boasting exec is causing not some temporary damages but ruining his career.
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The movement's momentum clearly has the industry on its back foot, so they're trying new tactics like character assassination and slander.
Is Knox simply the victim of character assassination, painted falsely as a "femme fatale" by prosecutors and media the world over?
But he engaged in character assassination that he knew would be repeated to the federal grand jury and throughout the republic.
Cleland called the campaign by the veterans' group "a campaign of character assassination" and accused the Bush campaign of being involved in it.
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It comes after officials say a number of websites have already been blocked because they have engaged in "character assassination" of the president.
Embedded in our culture is a major industry, namely character assassination.
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Character assassination, like everything else online, happens at warp speed, which is why some say there's no way to correct damage to one's reputation--or protect one's privacy.
Every attempt at character assassination on Mr. Gore by Mr. Taylor and his corporate profit mongering cronies and sponsors has exactly the opposite effect on me as they intend.
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It also unleashed a torrent of vicious anti-McCain advertising that fully lived up to the exacting standards of a state that has turned character assassination from an art into a science.
What is rather extraordinary, however, is that the Weiner article comes after the SDI program has been effectively eviscerated by the Congress and the Clinton Administration thanks in no small measure to similar, previous exercises in character assassination and programmatic misrepresentation.
The story begins in 1994, when the Malaysian press revealed that then Malacca chief minister Rahim Tamby Chik apparently had been led astray by a 15-year-old schoolgirl. (The accused's rivals in the dominant national party UMNO leaked the tawdry details.) Rahim was subjected to a vicious character assassination by a wide spectrum of society, including his party colleagues and the government-controlled media.
Earlier this month, much to the delight of big-government loving individuals from the left and right, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) made a failed character-assassination attempt on anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist.
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"This assassination of my character appears to be part of a government effort to show the American people that it is proceeding vigorously and successfully with the anthrax investigation, " he said.
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