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A false or non-existent controversy.
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Unfortunately a number of gotcha moments only became controversial when the media, like blood-deprived leeches, clung to the nontroversy and spun it through its continuous loop of 24-hours news, which only contains an estimated 30 minutes of new news according to a recent Political Fallout study.
—T.M. Lindsey, " Got Scandal?: Iowa's Bottom Nontroversies of 2008: http://political-fallout.blogspot.com/2009/01/got-scandal-iowas-bottom-nontroversies.html," Political Fallout, January 4, 2009
As ludicrous nontroversies go, then, I suppose I'll take a fashion-related one over one where treating the "other side" as credible involves promoting falsehoods that muddy the public's understanding of serious, complicated issues like healthcare reform.
—Kate Harding, " The first gams make their debut: http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/20/michelle_obama_shorts/print.html," Salon.com, August 20, 2009
Earliest Citation:
It's not a controversy; it's a nontroversy.
The pills Mark McGwire pops to increase the pop in his bat are over-the-counter substances that are not banned by Major League Baseball.
He is not, repeat, not cheating.
—Tom Keegan, "Slugger's little helper falls fair," The New York Post, August 24, 1998
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