Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, who accompanied Mr. Obama to Iraq, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that Mr. McCain was "treading on some very thin ground when he impugns motives, and when we start to get into 'you're less patriotic than me, I'm more patriotic.' ".
I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives and when we start to get into, "You're less patriotic than me.
But Mr. Forrester, 49, went on to say that when Mr. Lautenberg first ran for the Senate in 1982, he impugned the mental state of Representative Millicent H. Fenwick, who was 72 when Mr. Lautenberg defeated her in a heated campaign.
There, he impugned the credibility of the drug tester.
When the star player, whose performances have not been stellar for seven months, made demands that United sign a better quality of player so that he, Rooney, could win more trophies, he impugned Ferguson's own managerial philosophy.
In one missive after another, he impugned foes, friends, collaborators, and label handlers.
And he impugned a version of "The Trees" — which, uncharacteristically, addressed the possibility of renewal — as "bloody awful tripe".
On typically uproarious form, he inveighed against everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Roald Dahl and, perhaps most memorably, Salman Rushdie, whom he impugned with poetic verve: "That flaccid fuckhead.
He stood by him after Lewandowski was charged with assaulting a female reporter, and even piled on when he tried to impugn that woman's character.
But gradually the deference of producer and director turns into contempt, especially when they take personally Gilderoy's criticisms of the studio's penny-pinching equipment, and when he dares to impugn the integrity of their artistic vision.
The ACLU lost the case of Joseph Beahharnais, who was arrested for group libel when he distributed literature impugning the character of African Americans.
