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  • To what, that precise wording on issues he basically agrees with Clinton on, or the hatchet-job of a campaign she's been running?

    Clinton hits Obama directly in new ad 2008

  • This week's Vanity Fair article had even liberals defending Sarah Palin, saying Michael Joseph Gross wrote a sexist hatchet-job.

    Sarah Palin calls reporters 'impotent' and 'limp' 2010

  •  “It is better to go to Figes’s The Whisperers, Historian told Amazon readers in his hatchet-job on Service’s Stalin.

    Colby Cosh 2010

  • The Willamette Week has intensified its reporting on the hiring of illegal immigrants by the family business of Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), which Smith has called a "hatchet-job."

    A Day At The Congressional Races 2009

  • This whole idea sounds to me rather a lot more like a hatchet-job meant to tarnish her image among democratic voters than like an actual journalistic glimpse into her inner Lady MacBeth.

    Report: Clinton Campaign May Try To Peel Away Obama's Pledged Delegates 2009

  • Smith appeared this week on the Lars Larson radio show, telling the state's premier right-wing talker that it's all a media hatchet-job, but Larson wasn't impressed and later told The Oregonian, "They've nailed him pretty well."

    NH-SEN 2009

  • The Willamette Week has intensified its reporting on the hiring of illegal immigrants by the family business of Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), which Smith has called a "hatchet-job."

    NH-SEN 2009

  • The Willamette Week has intensified its reporting on the hiring of illegal immigrants by the family business of Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), which Smith has called a "hatchet-job."

    PA-11 2009

  • That is, until the Court hands down its decision in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, involving a ruling by the FEC that barred a rightwing hit group, partially financed by a corporation, from running a hatchet-job film about Hillary Clinton in the days prior to an election in violation of the McCain-Feingold law.

    Paul Abrams: Supreme Court to Hand Government to Republicans, Again: This Time, Forever. 2009

  • Greg D writes This whole idea sounds to me rather a lot more like a hatchet-job meant to tarnish her image among democratic voters than like an actual journalistic glimpse into her inner Lady MacBeth.

    Report: Clinton Campaign May Try To Peel Away Obama's Pledged Delegates 2009

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