In so doing, he is not only impugning the credibility of one of the nation's most trusted organizations, he is encouraging the type of cynicism about politics that helped semi-authoritarian regimes maintain power in Mexico for most of the 20th century.
With that said, to argue as she does that police witnesses might deserve less trust than others is not only to impugn the integrity of the vast majority of officers, but also to be blind to the uncomfortable reality that most people arrested for conspicuous street crimes are so manifestly guilty that their actions need hardly be embellished by police lies.
"The smear tactics used very effectively by this group, in, you know, conjunction with people very high up in the Bush campaign, have been an effort not only to impugn Senator Kerry but, more importantly, to divert and deflect attention from what's really at stake internationally and domestically," she said.
Such gender-deviant styles make some gay men nervous, not only because they impugn their virility, but also because they recall those hoary Victorian definitions of homosexuality as a congenital abnormality involving a pathological reversal of sex roles — a mental illness.
Mr Wieseltier insists that Mr Silver "wishes to impugn not only the quality of opinion journalism, he wishes to impugn also its legitimacy...He does not recognize the calling of, or grasp the need for, public reason; or rather, he cannot conceive of public reason except as an exercise in statistical analysis and data visualization".
"This is not only a direct impugning of the integrity of Director Comey, but a challenge to the general agent population to find and reports all the facts related to the interference of Russia in the general election," former FBI counterterror executive (and VICE contributor) David Gomez wrote me Tuesday evening.
Pakistanis from all walks of life expressed anger that the cheats had not only damaged their shared passion – they had impugned the national reputation.
When I hear, on both sides of this argument, impugning motives and patriotism to our country, not only is it offensive and disgusting but it debases the whole system of our country and who we are".
When hazing goes unpunished, not only are subordinates at risk and the integrity of our military impugned, but unity among troops is destroyed.
But to impugn Senator Obama in way that also abuses our troops is not only wrong but political slime.
Not only did the PAN protest about these kind of shenanigans when the PRI was in power until 2000, they also risk giving the opposition grounds to impugn the result if it loses on July 1st.
