Word: smokescreening
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...some historians and scholars see the order as a smokescreen for the Bush administration’s desire to conceal potentially embarrassing records from past administrations...
...been prevented from receiving government funding solely by virtue of their religious affiliation”—even though only “pervasively sectarian” organizations are denied aid, not all “religiously affiliated” charities. Didion suggests that these terms are a smokescreen designed to hide from the American people a truth they “do not deserve” to handle...
...think he’s still very unclear. In a sense, the way he talks has become a smokescreen for any serious discussion of what he does. I mean, we’re talking about how he talks. We’re not talking about what he does...
...Bush Administration's critics insist that objections to the form of the international agreement are just a smokescreen; the true problem is the content. "The real issue in the end isn't the Kyoto Protocol," says Bill Hare, Climate Policy Director for Greenpeace. "It's the reduction of greenhouse emissions, and that is what the Bush Administration appears allergic...
...misjudging American tolerances and setting himself up for more trouble than his ideology knows how to handle. I hate to bring this up, but the congressional elections of 2002 are not that far away. An excess of ideology gives Americans the creeps, especially when they suspect it is a smokescreen for mere venality - fat cats paying big money to get at the birds. Bush may have to do more powerful missionary work than he yet understands. He may discover, the hard way, the limits of his charm...