muckrake

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There is a LOT of money to be lost by even minor mitigation of AGW and so, since the facts aren't on the side of "do nothing, it's not a problem", they must polarise opinion, make it all "us" and "them" and demonise, muddy waters and muckrake.

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  1. intransitive verb To search for and expose misconduct in public life.

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  • There is a LOT of money to be lost by even minor mitigation of AGW and so, since the facts aren't on the side of "do nothing, it's not a problem", they must polarise opinion, make it all "us" and "them" and demonise, muddy waters and muckrake. —  RealClimate
  • During a Southeast Tennessee Political Action Committee meeting Friday, Councilman Manny Rico twice warned council hopefuls not to muckrake the sitting local government.
  • "Anyone who promises to 'mock, madden and maybe even muckrake' has my attention - especially when he's fighting for my right to plant my sticks wherever the Constitution says I can." —  legitgov
  • And the media stood by their decision to muckrake by arguing for the public's right to know. —  Bloodthirsty Liberal
  • Sitting around with nothing better to do than muckrake. —  The Jawa Report
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  1. From the man with the muckrake, tool for raking muck, who cannot look up to heaven because he is so obsessed with the muck of worldly profit, in Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.
 

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