It works like this: if you worry that you might be accused of an -ism, get your defence in first by asserting that the accuser is an envoy of an ivory tower elite and you are merely a tribune of the people.
Cutter accused the Republican White House ticket of politicizing the issue.
On Thursday, the Russian president, Vladmir Putin, accused the US of meddling in a bid to undermine the 2018 World Cup.
Obeid was accused of failing to disclose a family interest in the cafes while lobbying to have the leases renewed without a tender process taking place, to the financial benefit of his family.
The motion accused him of incompetence, negligence, and a lack of interest or engagement in his portfolio and of making misleading statements in the lead-up to the bill's introduction.
Iranian media affiliated to the Islamic regime have been accused of using library images from different times and locations in Britain and other parts of the world to portray the UK riots as "the uprising of the oppressed against the British monarchy".
David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
It has been controversial since it was set up under Labour, when it was accused of stigmatising Muslims – including a case in which it funded CCTV cameras in a Muslim area of Birmingham.
After the second world war, he spent a year and a half in prison in Denmark accused of being a collaborator.
In the run up to India's 2014 elections, both the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and the Congress party were were accused of hiring "political trolls" to talk favourably about them on blogs and social media.
Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize-winning author, recently accused Mahatma Gandhi, India's revered independence leader, of discrimination and called for institutions bearing his name to be renamed because of his attitude to caste.
