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  • If anyone ever thought it might not be true that the media is cowed by right wingers and their extremely wealthy corporate cheerleaders all they have to do is take a look at this nonincident.

    GOP Congressman Calls For Hearings Into New York Times/MoveOn Ad 2009

  • In the Kafkaesque world of foster care and shelters -- where Lydia landed after the microwave nonincident -- truth can be a slippery commodity.

    On The Side Of The Child 2008

  • But CIA management, under Tenet, ignored the budget-cut order, and the agency eventually returned to business as usual, with no officials being fired over the Belgrade incident (or nonincident, depending on whom you believe).

    Belgrade Burndown 2007

  • "This was pretty much a nonincident in terms of what the outcome was like," said New Jersey Turnpike Authority spokesman Joseph Orlando.

    CourierPostOnline.com - News 2010

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