The offending satirical joke employed classic Cuban misdirection: A fellow sketch player pulled out a photo of Castro and Potato went to the wall and said, dripping with irony, "Allow me—I want to hang this one myself…".
From Pulp Fiction, there is the "Royale with Cheese" banal pre-violence conversation, and the classic gangster "betrayal" misdirection, which I associate with the buildup to Tommy DeVito's made-guy ceremony from GoodFellas.
Some central banks were prepared to sell in unlimited quantities, and SNB knew that when they penned this classic example of misdirection.
Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Lamentation" five stars out of five, finding its first act to be "a classic piece of misdirection".
A piece of folk wisdom that conceals an entire business strategy and acts as a classic piece of verbal misdirection.
It is the classic conjuring trick of misdirection.
Worse than that, the chancellor has pulled off the classic conjurer's trick of misdirection.
Instead, he continues to employ this classic (and transparent [and weak]) case of misdirection".
