red herring

Koenig makes a big deal out of this call and frames it as a massive red herring.

Nevertheless, Brian Rogers, a McCain aide pushed back against UANI, calling the Rio Tinto-Iran connection “a red herring.”

The brutality of Dothraki culture is actually a red herring.

The fact that some BDS activists are for one state solution is irrelevant here and no more than a red herring.

He opposes settlements but calls them “a giant red herring.”

But we have to discuss the red-herring, not of the artful politician, anxious to dodge his hearers, but of the breakfast-table.

The red herring of annexation was drawn across the trail, and many a farmer followed it to the polling booth.

I know not what object her pale blue orbs encountered; but mine fell on the half-picked head of a red herring!

If I can tell which is the way to my master's house, I am a red herring, and no honest gentleman.

As Grandfather Bryant used to say, they are neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.