Sentence examples for bogus controversy from inspiring English sources

It's understandable that a man who loved his job, and had sat for 17 years on the frontbench waiting to get it, is angry and disappointed – a "deep personal disappointment", he said – at losing it over what he clearly thinks is a bogus controversy.

The even scarier thing about the bogus controversy is that in each of the states that are trying to get a Birther law passed, the bill's sponsors have gotten dozens of legislators to sign onto to their bills.

This is textbook Eric Cantor - try to manufacture some bogus controversy by expressing phony outrage to distract from his indefensible position of standing with powerful special interests that are trying to purchase our democracy.

We'll soon find him, like Nixon during Watergate or Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, spending most of his time on foreign junkets, where naïve audiences play into his hands by pressing him on the bogus controversies that make him a hero to the Arab street.

It worked with the takedown of ACORN, with the smearing of Shirley Sherrod, and with all the other bogus controversies we're told to swallow as news.

Mr. Obama tried to set the record straight, describing the firing of Ms. Sherrod on bogus accusations of racism as a "phony controversy," and admitting that some in his administration were among the many who "overreacted".

It is an utterly bogus argument.

This is a bogus argument.

As for the e-mail controversy, well, it was largely bogus.

This is a canny strategy, one that gives critics something to argue about and ensures a measure of publicity-generating controversy, even as it provides a ready-made, thoroughly bogus retort to potential detractors.

The younger Flynn, who had served as a top aide to his father, had sparked controversy at the time by helping to fuel the bogus "pizzagate" conspiracy theory.