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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
Mark Shields
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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
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Smear
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The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.
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He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.
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90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.
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Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.
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Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.
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If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.
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It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.
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Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line.
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