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This isn't the first time a fashion designer has been so vilified: Liz Claiborne was the subject of a virtually identical story, promoted by Spike Lee in a 1992 interview.
John McCain thinks being vilified in that ad campaign may have helped his White House chances.
The conservative Daily Telegraph ran a two page scandal chronology compiled by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who, as its Washington correspondent, began investigating Clinton in 1993 and, according to the paper, was "vilified by the White House aides" as a result.
An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down "a dead alley" and swimming against the "historical tide" of unification.
Would you permit Democrats to be vilified in similar name-calling?