hit job

Example Sentences

• "Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan."
• "I chased a series of documents alleging that Catto was murdered by an operative of the Democratic Party. I ultimately discarded this angle for three reasons. First, the discussion comparing lynching and assassination was conceptually abstract, and I worried about the background knowledge required for all students to successfully access it. Second, I was not convinced of the reliability of the documents describing the Democratic hit job. While there is value in having students debunk conspiracy theories, I was wary of centering that specific argument without additional textual documentation."
• "One of the first critics to latch onto Where's the Rest of Me? was the journalist Jessica Mitford. In February of 1965, Esquire’s Harold Hayes assigned Mitford a profile of Reagan as a politician—a potentially valuable piece of national exposure. But Reagan stopped cooperating when he sensed, correctly, that Mitford wanted to write a hit job, calling her "the vengeful Miss Mitford" in a letter to William F. Buckley."
• "While the “content issue” in her campaign is a glaring one, this piece is not meant to be a hit job on Hillary. Instead, I will examine past approaches to the visual “branding” of American presidential candidates and how they reflected the political realities and power dynamics of their time, and use these perspectives as a means of glimpsing the horizon of the possible."
• "[…] conservative talk-radio hosts amplified Insight’s claim to a much broader audience, despite a Clinton spokesperson’s denial of her campaign’s role, calling the charge “an obvious right-wing hit job.”"