misdirections

• “Beyond the well-known implications of such a war and its scope, a declaration of war would only bolster an Iran that is economically and domestically weak and run by a cleric established looking for an outsider on which to further project conspiratorial misdirections through its state-run media.”

  The Huffington Post: Adam Chandler: Show, Don't Tell: WikiLeaks and Our War with Iran

• “The heart of the problem is what those powers-that-be are up against, the pressure exerted by the prejudiced and privileged to maintain this unjust segregation by shrouding it in misdirections and misrepresentations.”

  A Sodomite's Sermon

• “I felt more than a tad guilty, in fact, spinning fabrications and misdirections in St. Urhos, on the Thursday evening immediately after my arrival, as I caught up with my friends in Finnish fandom.”

  Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Hail, Helsinki!

• “So HBO's polygamy drama Big Love has come out in a complete series boxed set and now we can start to get a handle on what we've got here, the highs and the lows, the misdirections, the confused plotlines that sometimes petered out and sometimes paid off.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: Apes Rule in "Rise," "Tokyo Drifter" And A Smurfing Lot Of Other Titles On Tap

• “Good story structure, after all, can be anything: it can be loopy and deconstructed; it can turn chronology inside out, shatter the fourth wall, break reality, and be as full of surprises, misdirections, and dead ends as a moonlit neighborhood in Venice, the kind you chase a murderous dwarf through because you're convinced it's a kid in a red raincoat.”

  The Huffington Post: Susan Kim: The Fiction of Nonfiction TV

• “From the beginning, we see Frank Abagnale, Jr. arrested at a Miami airport for an array of misdeeds and misdirections.”

  The Huffington Post: Regina Weinreich: Con Me If You Can: The Broadway Musical

• “Well lets see how this plays out now that the new way is to push back on the wrong side party ` s filibuster crap. both Schultz and Gibbs need to spend time on debunking lies and misdirections and less time padding there ego ` s.”

  Think Progress » Gibbs responds: I told Ed Schultz he was intentionally lying to ‘get people to watch his show.’

• “Willis is exceptionally fast and he's not easily fooled, Gilbride said, which means misdirections won't catch him.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Another Week, Another Acid Test

• “Gruesome, horrible crime, diversions and misdirections, personal issues, and a tense interrogation through a sheet of plexiglass.”

  I Reckon : Bev Vincent

• “Orin, this mini-me version of an auto-de-fe you are conducting (I have no need to prove my conservative and classical liberal bona fides to you), with you as the prosecutor, judge and jury (together with a claque of three or four) is telling of your own misdirections, not mine.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy

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