Word: smokescreening
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...opinion, [the hearing] is a smokescreen," said Tufford. He said he thought the terms of the agreement were fair...
Indeed, the rebels lacked so much as a whiff of support from the Roman Catholic Church and the business community, without which no junta could hope to undermine Aquino's immense popularity. But while the charges against the government were an obvious smokescreen for Honasan's ambitions, they served again to remind many Filipinos of Aquino's shortcomings. The rebels, admits Haydee Yorac, a member of Aquino's commission on elections, "are riding on legitimate issues that should be addressed...
What is needed, perhaps, is some mass debunking of the Harvard faculty. We have to show the Wizard of Oz for what he really is--minus the amplification and smokescreen. We have to jump on Gulliver like the Lilliputians (the metaphors are really piling up now) and rip off the false nose and mustache...
Some observers claim that Central Square residents are manipulating Ordinance 868 "to legitimize less noble purposes" and are putting up a smokescreen for the underlying issues...
...serve democracy well, you must first save the language. Save it from the jargon of insiders, who talk of the current budget debate in Washington as 'megapolicy choices between freeze-feasible base lines.' (Sounds more like a baseball game played in the Arctic Circle.) Save it from the smokescreen artists, who speak of 'revenue enhancement' and 'tax-base erosion control' when they really mean a tax increase . . . Save it from the partisan deniers of reality -- who now refer to the physically handicapped as 'differently abled' -- and from the official revisionists of reality, who say that the United States...