11.   I think I was the subject of a smear campaign.

12.   And Beltrones maintains that the allegations are part of a political smear campaign.

13.   And right now, and despite Democratic charges that she is victim of a Republican-inspired smear campaign, the pendulum is slipping towards the latter.

14.   Back in Redmond, Microsoft officials say, with evident frustration, that the company has fallen prey to an orchestrated smear campaign.

15.   Blumenthal has said he did not engage in a smear campaign.

16.   After the bombing, the government then engaged in a smear campaign, trying to blame a young anti-apartheid activist, Shirley Gunn.

17.   All along, Chavez has said he has been the victim of a smear campaign.

18.   Burke says he is the subject of a smear campaign and insists he will not step down.

19.   But he suggested that he was the victim of a smear campaign that had incited hatred toward him.

20.   But opposition politicians and journalists here hold him responsible for television and newspaper smear campaigns against several presidential candidates as well as other irregularities.