Instead of revealing a scandal, the videos themselves-and Chevron's role in presenting them to the media-became the scandal.
Surely, Trump and his team were relieved that the media would focus on this nothing-burger story instead of a real scandal — the fact that, for six years, Trump ran a business that, in the words of the lawsuit that Schneiderman filed in 2013, "wasn't a university at all".
It felt like an imitation of another kind of television — "Scandal" or "Homeland" — and, instead of a meaningful risk, a betrayal.
I used to work in advertising, and based on the histrionics that went on in meetings, I initially thought HISSY FIT instead of SCANDAL for 21 Down.
-- with the twist that instead of hunting for scandal in courtrooms and law firms, Lingua Franca writers were going to track it down in graduate seminars and faculty lounges.
The White House wants everyone focused on "leaks" instead of the Flynn scandal.
It's a scandal coming out of a scandal".
Instead of a step up on the social ladder, the subsequent divorce proceedings in 1834 brought gossip and scandal, accusations and counter-accusations.
In a familiar "Friday trash dump" — a move many expected the Obama administration to shun — John Kerry's State Department chose to "carefully stage-manage the report's release" on Super Bowl Friday when most Americans are switching focus to football instead of political scandals.
Instead of scandals, let's call these, "Items that need fixing".
