For, at the moment, Michele Bachmann is not facing mere name-calling but outright character assassination.

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As the case opened, his lawyers suggested he had been subjected to character assassination by the Indonesian media.

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Is Knox simply the victim of character assassination, painted falsely as a "femme fatale" by prosecutors and media the world over?

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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.

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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.

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