"He's been enduring baseless attacks by political manipulators," he said.

This new round of baseless attacks on Newt is intended to diminish his appeal to ordinary patriotic Americans.

The speaker's spokesman, Brendan Daly, used the opportunity to decry "yet another baseless attack of the Republicans; in this case they have retracted it."

"These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will."

Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for Mr. Bush's re-election campaign, said the speech "was filled with misleading, baseless attacks."

Hard to buy that as some kind of baseless attack.

I think this is a baseless attack to generate some negative comments.

Since his last release, the state-controlled media in Singapore started to discredit him, to destroy his credibility, with baseless personal attacks and character assassination.

Every response to one of Starks's outbursts, every ruling, did not become another baseless attack against the martyred player.

In his famous panegyric for his friend David Hilbert castigated the 'chauvinistic French press' for starting 'the most baseless attacks and suspicions'.