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They're also increasing their verbal attacks on the press, they're discrediting of the press, because in discrediting the press that enables them to avoid scrutiny. – Jodie Ginsberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is somebody who wants a payday, he has taken his private conversations with the president and monetized them. I think that is something that is discrediting and we're going to push back. – Ronna McDaniel	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
He has taken his private conversations with the president and monetized them. I think that is something that is discrediting and we're going to push back. – Ronna McDaniel	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I want to draw the attention of our strategic partners to the blatant and cynical discrediting by Russia of all the joint peace efforts. – Oleksander Turchynov	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Now, Hollywood's bitter left-wingers are trying to rewrite history by discrediting a man greater than any of them can ever hope to be, liberals have never been able to come to grips that Reagan won election and was both incredibly popular and successful. They blame him for all of what they consider the ills of the current world, including making America strong and ending the communist Soviet Union. – Dan Gainor	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We see what's happening in the Middle East, where terrorists from the so-called Islamic State are discrediting the great world religion of Islam, planting hatred, killing people, destroying world cultural monuments in a barbaric way, their ideology is based on a lie, on a distortion of Islam. – Russian President Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
(Comfort women) have gone through tremendous trauma. And in a way, the Japanese government risks a second rape by discrediting their testimonies and treating (their experiences) as if they were lies. – Koichi Nakano	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The federation believe the documentary was a provocation aimed at discrediting Russian sport, after watching the documentary we immediately began to doubt how authentic and believable the material they edited was. We see this film ... as a planned attempt to create an ugly scandal within Russian athletics and Russian sport in general. – Valentin Balakhnichev	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. – Clive Staples Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They're also increasing their verbal attacks on the press, they're discrediting of the press, because in discrediting the press that enables them to avoid scrutiny.

– Jodie Ginsberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is somebody who wants a payday, he has taken his private conversations with the president and monetized them. I think that is something that is discrediting and we're going to push back.

– Ronna McDaniel

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

He has taken his private conversations with the president and monetized them. I think that is something that is discrediting and we're going to push back.

– Ronna McDaniel

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I want to draw the attention of our strategic partners to the blatant and cynical discrediting by Russia of all the joint peace efforts.

– Oleksander Turchynov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Now, Hollywood's bitter left-wingers are trying to rewrite history by discrediting a man greater than any of them can ever hope to be, liberals have never been able to come to grips that Reagan won election and was both incredibly popular and successful. They blame him for all of what they consider the ills of the current world, including making America strong and ending the communist Soviet Union.

– Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We see what's happening in the Middle East, where terrorists from the so-called Islamic State are discrediting the great world religion of Islam, planting hatred, killing people, destroying world cultural monuments in a barbaric way, their ideology is based on a lie, on a distortion of Islam.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

(Comfort women) have gone through tremendous trauma. And in a way, the Japanese government risks a second rape by discrediting their testimonies and treating (their experiences) as if they were lies.

– Koichi Nakano

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The federation believe the documentary was a provocation aimed at discrediting Russian sport, after watching the documentary we immediately began to doubt how authentic and believable the material they edited was. We see this film ... as a planned attempt to create an ugly scandal within Russian athletics and Russian sport in general.

– Valentin Balakhnichev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.

– Clive Staples Lewis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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