Beny Steinmetz Quotes

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.

…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.

An attack is always a smear when it is directed against you.

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

I will not respond to allegations made by someone who had been hooked up to jumper cables.

Scandal [criticism and slander] against the great, though seldom prosecuted at present, is however, in the eye of the law, a great crime, and subjects the offender to very heavy penalties.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

People are sensible enough to know who's dragging my name in dirt for publicity.

For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the record straight: I'm not a drug addict, I don't smoke or drink and I'm most definitely not a lesbian.