Definitions
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- noun A debate in the press or the blogosphere where one side has been repeatedly demonstrated to be clearly wrong but vocally advocates for their position.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Is this nonissue (better yet, Keith's "nontroversy") really THAT difficult to get your heads around?
Obama At MTV/MySpace Forum: "I Am Disturbed" By Some Of McClurkin's Views 2009
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Rich's analysis is flawed, however, because he's fallen into a trap of rationalism, unable to contemplate that those behind the "nontroversy" aren't necessarily interested in "winning the war" in Afghanistan or defeating violent Islamic fundamentalism.
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Scroll through his links to the one on the "nontroversy" of Climategate.
Ace of Spades HQ 2009
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February 2nd, 2010 at 11: 47 am tombaker says: there is a legal procedure for changing venue. if the court of jurisdiction decides such change is prudent, it will be changed, in accordance with the law. provoking some snippy, gossipy argument about it, and trying to fluff that into a “major nontroversy” is childish and pointless.
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* And the fictional right-wing blogospheric nontroversy of the day: Conservative blogs went nuts over the London Daily Telegraph's "scoop" of a "secret deal" in which the U.S. provided info about the United Kingdom's submarine-based nuke stockpile to Russia, but the state department shoots down the story.
The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2011
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MSM manufactured nontroversy is quickly shown to be inaccurate, false, contrived, empty hype, or otherwise mistaken.
Emanuel Suggests White House May Support Public Option Alternatives 2010
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Despite their success in elevating this nontroversy to the national level via Fox News and other right wing media, every single independent investigation of the climate scientists involved has since cleared them of any misconduct and verified the science underpinning the IPCC's consensus position that manmade climate change is real.
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Despite their success in elevating this nontroversy to the national level via Fox News and other right wing media, every single independent investigation of the climate scientists involved has since cleared them of any misconduct and verified the science underpinning the IPCC's consensus position that manmade climate change is real.
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He's laid them out, but they've been lost in the media's circle-jerk over the latest nontroversy.
Obama Advisers See Need To Improve His Efforts With Blue Collar Voters 2009
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(Note how I didn't really address the topic, because I really don't want to dignify this nontroversy with a response except to say that Obama's points = swish.)
qms commented on the word nontroversy
Curiously, the definition given in the Word of the Day posting:
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n. A false or non-existent controversy.
is significantly different from the more limited meaning assigned to the word on its entry page.
Leave language not to the mercy
Of the wicked bewitcher, old Circe,
Whose skill is to change
The normal to strange
By spawning such freaks as "nontroversy"
April 6, 2014