For a few hours at least today, the heat will be off George W Bush as America switches focus from Baghdad to the Super Bowl. Maybe the Super Bowl will be the weapon of mass distraction that Bush has been praying for.
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A self-created problem where another subject, object or person has brought your attention off of the activity, subject, object or person you were originally fixated on. This is usually caused by a lack of interest in the initial subject, or just plain weakness.
Guy 1 "You are a distraction."
Guy 2 " No, you just have a horrible attention span. Maybe you should work on ignoring your surroundings more."
Guy 2 " No, you just have a horrible attention span. Maybe you should work on ignoring your surroundings more."
by Glumpher October 20, 2011
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by blitz425 November 13, 2009
Get the distractional focus mug.A Temporary Distraction Measure or TDM for short is the basis of modern politics and business. Anytime a politician forms a committee to 'look into' something it is nothing but a ruse intended to temporarily distract the voting public long enough for them to forget all about it.
Anything (Committee, poll, vote, investigation, senate hearing, etc) that can be used to successfully distract people from issues that they were formally concerned about long enough for them to forget completely about it.
Anything that makes you (the voter) think we (politicians) are doing something about it when we're really not.
Anything (Committee, poll, vote, investigation, senate hearing, etc) that can be used to successfully distract people from issues that they were formally concerned about long enough for them to forget completely about it.
Anything that makes you (the voter) think we (politicians) are doing something about it when we're really not.
E.X. Senate Democrats hold hearings to investigate windfall profits generated by the obscene price of oil.
Two weeks later, the American public will have forgotten all about it and will rest content that the government is doing it's job. Hence, it was a successful Temporary Distraction Measure.
E.X. During the Senate hearing over whether to clarify net neutrality, the Senators rambled on for a few weeks until another celebrity got knocked up and everybody that was wanting it codified, forgot all about it.
Temporary Distraction Measure
Two weeks later, the American public will have forgotten all about it and will rest content that the government is doing it's job. Hence, it was a successful Temporary Distraction Measure.
E.X. During the Senate hearing over whether to clarify net neutrality, the Senators rambled on for a few weeks until another celebrity got knocked up and everybody that was wanting it codified, forgot all about it.
Temporary Distraction Measure
by Crashingtests July 4, 2008
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Bob: DISTRACTION!
Jason: What?
Bob has left and is nowhere to be seen
Bob: DISTRACTION!
Jason: What?
Bob has left and is nowhere to be seen
by radioturtle November 4, 2017
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