Perhaps he counts on the likelihood that his global audiences are too young to know differently, too old and senile to remember, or just too indifferent to have been paying attention.

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The coup was medical: on November 6th 1987, the prime minister, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, gathered a council of seven doctors who pronounced Mr Bourguiba senile and incompetent.

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In his first political campaign for a seat as a circuit county judge, McCarthy published campaign literature falsely claiming that his opponent was 73, senile and guilty of financial corruption despite knowing that the gentleman was 66, in full control of his mental faculties and had never done anything that had so much as a whiff of corruption.

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Their home together is suffused by memories of her abusive father, her apparently senile mother and decades of accumulated hurt, guilt and denial.

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This raises problems for pensions (Japan has a pay-as-you-go system) and health care (the number of people with senile dementia is set to reach 2.6m in 2015, up from 1m in 1990).

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Last July, social gaming startup Kixeye made what has to be the weirdest recruitment video in history, where thinly veiled stand ins depicted EA as a senile coot, Kabam as a soulless formulaic machine, and Zynga as a psychopathic child.

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