Word: discredited
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...name-calling and disrespect. When people shout over their opponents, or throw around words like “racist,” “homophobic,” or “anti-Semitic” without strong evidence, they not only insult those they attack, they discredit themselves. They appear irrational and closed to discussion, thereby killing any chance of people engaging in any meaningful or intelligent debate...
...leak was the key issue for most Americans, the crux of an apparent White House campaign to discredit Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, who wrote a 2003 op-ed piece debunking WMD justifications for the Iraq war. But while outing a CIA agent can be illegal, neither Libby nor anyone else was actually charged with doing that to Plame. In fact, pre-trial maneuvering found the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, insisting that this was not a case about a leak and fighting defense requests for documents about whether Plame was ever a covert agent, a status that could have made intentionally...
...case you forgot, a jury convicted Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, in March of lying to federal investigators about leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The leak was the thing for most Americans, the crux of an apparent White House campaign to discredit Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, who wrote a 2003 op-ed piece debunking WMD justifications for the Iraq war. But while outing a CIA agent can be illegal, neither Libby nor anyone else was actually charged with doing that to Plame. In fact, pre-trial maneuvering found the prosecutor, Patrick...
...therefore that any route to stopping them is acceptable." The distrust, of course, is mutual. Erdogan has publicly chafed at what he views as secularist machinations to oust him from power. Earlier this year he hinted that a recent murder of a secularist judge may have been engineered to discredit him and his party...
...caused real damage to his reputation,” Finkelstein said. “I think that Dershowitz is desperate to discredit me to be able to say that this Finkelstein guy couldn’t even get tenure at a third-rate Catholic University, so how can we take him seriously...