whisper campaign
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whisper campaign (plural whisper campaigns)
- (idiomatic) A method of persuasion in which damaging rumors or innuendo are deliberately spread concerning a person or other target, while the source of the rumors tries to avoid detection.
- 1920 November 1, “Harding Ignores ‘’Whisper’ Campaign”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Aug. 2009, page 1:
- Senator Harding will not authorize his headquarters to take public notice of the “whispering campaign.” There has been a difference of opinion among his advisers as to whether to ignore the slanders or to produce evidence disproving them.
- 1976 February 12, Donald Horne, “The campaign of the media”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 17 August 2009, page 8:
- Both publicly and in a particularly unscrupulous whisper campaign the Liberals tried to change the aspect from one of folly to one of personal corruption and some of this got through to the voters.
- 2008 January 20, Ana Marie Cox, “S.C. Takes a Chance on McCain”, in Time:
- McCain—who was famously burned in South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow—was openly nervous.