mud-slinging

• “Others have fallen as a result of their online behaviour, be it through hasty tweets or blog posts of a vitriolic nature equating to a public mud-slinging match, to the technological sex scandals from the likes of Vernon Kay and Jason Manford, to politicians such as Anthony Weiner.”

  The Huffington Post: Ambi Sitham: Keyboard Warriors and Trolls: Post in haste, Repent at Your Leisure

• “Mayor RON LITTLEFIELD (Chattanooga, Tennessee): As I've told folks, Ive been through a number of campaigns in my life, and this was just like the worst mud-slinging, negative campaign that would not end.”

  NPR: Petition Drive Underway To Recall Miami-Dade Mayor

• “But Reid has not done anything to help his cause, especially with the mud-slinging going back and forth quite a bit.”

  NPR: Hot Races Heading Into 2010 Midterms

• “REGAN: I've never seen a campaign like this, and it's really mud-slinging on both sides.”

  NPR: Hot Races Heading Into 2010 Midterms

• “Conservative red meat consists of nasty mud-slinging to the effect that liberals want to eat babies and Democrats love terrorists.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Pep Talk

• “As Gatto said in 2008: "No demonstrations, no mud-slinging, no adversarial politics... just peacefully refuse to take standardized tests.”

  The Washington Post: March Madness: 'My name is Luke and I refuse to take your test'

• “The secretariat of the National Security Assembly and the Office of the President say reporting on the current state of the country's economy is nothing more than mud-slinging and 'undermining national security.”

  The Huffington Post: Masih Alinejad: The Economic Crisis in Iran

• “The tangle in Las Vegas came as the latest polls show the candidates in a statistical dead heat amid mud-slinging by both sides just two days before early voting opens in Nevada.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Senate Debate Raises Ante in Nevada

• “Capriles comes from a wealthy family but pointedly spends more time in a T-shirt in shantytowns than in his office, and he is seeking to project himself as above the mud-slinging.”

  The Guardian: Chávez camp launches smear campaign against presidential rival Capriles

• “The holding company that owns Gold's put $2.3 million into the division of Karl Rove's mud-slinging outfit American Crossroads that requires disclosure of its revenue.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael B. Keegan: The Corporate Money Denial Game

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