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He eventually got dragged before the cameras and said that there was a lot of compassion on the jury for Libby, that they felt he was the "fallguy," and they wanted to know where Karl Rove was in all of this.

Jane Hamsher: Libby Jury: Scooter Fall Guy For Rove and Cheney 2007

He's a figurehead and I suspect history will eventually show ... a "fallguy".

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

"But you signed it," Megan says but then accepts the blame because above any administrative skills, the top job requirement is being the fallguy.

Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Ep 10: "Get Rid of It" Janet Turley 2010

You could watch the film with the sound off and not miss anything; by the end, Howard and leading lady Nancy Morgan are the same cornpone naifs they started out as they're as hairless and sexless as the intergalactic grays who practice their chisenbop with François Truffaut in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and everyone else in the film huffs and puffs like a Mack Sennett fallguy.

Drive like Hell and you're sure to get there Arbogast 2007

Our money is on China as the fallguy. —MEGHANN MARCO

FDA Serves Search Warrants On Two Pet Food Plants - The Consumerist 2007

I think the correct operative adjective pronoun is “fallguy”.

Think Progress » BREAKING: Brown Falsely Smears Blanco Under Oath 2005

And there has been speculation for a long time that he could be, what some people would consider, the fallguy in the challenges that have faced this Bush administration with the war in Iraq.

CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2004 2004

She doesn't even realize that Bush is setting her up to be the fallguy for his failure.

Archive 2004-03-01 2004

As for Clive Goodman, I feel a lot of sympathy for a man who has been the convenient fallguy for an investigative practice that everyone knows was going on at almost every paper in Fleet Street for years.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Of course Malema is conveniently in Zimbabwe but what has that to do with members sending a fallguy to it?

Guardian Online 2010