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We cannot allow the actions of the three members to distract us from protecting our children. We will get through this together, and it will require talking about all solutions. – Cameron Sexton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Instead of working with Hunter Biden to address issues important to the American people, like lower costs, congressional Republicans ’ top priority is to go after President Biden with politically motivated attacks chock full of long-debunked conspiracy theories, hunter Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract Hunter Biden from focusing on Americans ’ priorities, and we hope congressional Republicans will join us in tackling them instead of wasting time and resources on political revenge. – Ian Sams	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In other words, this is a manufactured culture war issue designed to fire up the Republican base, and distract them from the Republican Party's deeply unpopular agenda — from cutting taxes on billionaires, to banning abortion, to overturning elections that they lose. – Sara Norman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I believe in supporting all children to be their authentic selves. Unfortunately, some politicians are racing to stigmatize vulnerable trans kids in order to divide people and distract us from real issues. – Tina Kotek	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're still interested in purchasing in that community because there's growth there, i'm not going to allow anyone to distract my wife and me from accomplishing the goals that we've set in place. – James Ra-Amari	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Parents and community members play an important role in shaping what students learn in school but this goes far beyond organic expressions of concern or the normal give-and-take between parents and educators in a healthy school environment, these groups have made it their mission to undermine educators, sabotage students' freedom to read and stoke divisive battles that distract from teaching and learning. – Suzanne Nossel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Congresswoman Slotkin pays market rate rent for her home in Lansing, just like millions of tenants in Michigan, and previous attempts to twist the facts have failed with other outlets for that reason, this is nothing more than an attempt by Tom Barrett's weak campaign to distract from his five votes to block thousands of jobs at a new GM plant in his own backyard, his opposition to the bipartisan CHIPS Act and his failed attempt to cover up his dangerous position to ban all abortions in Michigan, even in instances of rape or incest. – Lynsey Mukomel	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is Starbucks yet again attempting to distract attention away from their unprecedented anti-union campaign, ultimately, this is Starbucks' latest attempt to manipulate the legal process for their own means and prevent workers from exercising their fundamental right to organize. – Workers United	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The refusal by the New York State Democratic Party to tackle the issues of crime and the economy is exactly why our state is leading the country in population loss, hochul and her pathetic henchmen are desperate to distract away from all of the ways they are destroying New York. – Katie Vincentz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject. – Steven McCraw	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. – Public Safety Director Steven McCraw	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. – Steve McCraw	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If a job ad is using too-good-to-be-true terms like :' quick money,' or' unlimited earnings potential,' or' laptop for free' and has very few skill requirements... and a lot of caps and images to distract you, it just doesn't come across professionally. – Sara Sutton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've seen the Russians really double down on their propaganda efforts, probably, almost certainly, as a means to distract from their tactical and strategic failures on the battlefield in Ukraine. – Ned Price	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness. – Pastor Packiam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sin is not just ‘out there’ in the world — it’s ‘in here’ in us, when we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness. – Pastor Packiam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Any time you have something that’s not what you’re doing it’s going to distract you, but for me, I don’t think it was too much of a distraction. Maybe it was, I don’t know. I can’t really answer that. – Dustin Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The demands that Russia put on the table were beyond excessive, they were, of course, nonstarters, and what we've seen repeatedly is that Russia goes through the pretense of diplomacy to distract and continue on its aggressive path. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The real problem is California has adopted policies that let criminals continue to commit crimes and get let right out, californians are tired of Los Angeles, and he would love to distract them. – James Gallagher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm not surprised that the CCP's state media is desperately latching on to any false and misleading talking points to distract from their complicity in a genocide against the Uyghur minority, their intimidation of students, and suppression of dissidents around the world. – Patrick Burland	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There’s been a lot of really heated rhetoric that, I think, has been designed to distract from what is really going on in state election reform and to build pressure to get rid of the filibuster, fundamentally change the way the Senate operates, that’s what this speech is going to be about. That’s what this entire week is going to be about, in a lot of respect. – Jason Snead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Just as you heard him say on Jan. 6 of last year, I would expect that President Biden will lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol, and the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw, he will forcibly push back on the lies spread by the former president – in an attempt to mislead the American people, and his own supporters, as well as distract from his role in what happened – so, he will, of course, speak to the moment, to the importance in history of the peaceful transfer of power, and of what we need to do to protect our own democracy and be forward-looking. – Jen Psaki	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fundraising appeals. – Bill Cassidy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Governor DeSantis seeks the best advice and expertise from all over the world; his detractors simply accept the proclamations of the CDC as though they are infallible, however, the CDC’s guidance has flip-flopped many times, and U.S. public health authorities have lost the trust of the American people. In other countries, COVID-19 is not as politicized, so it makes sense that the EU is following a more data-driven, pro-child approach. Biden is leaning into his signature issue – forced-masking kindergarteners – to distract from the catastrophe in Afghanistan. – Christina Pushaw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

We cannot allow the actions of the three members to distract us from protecting our children. We will get through this together, and it will require talking about all solutions.

– Cameron Sexton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead of working with Hunter Biden to address issues important to the American people, like lower costs, congressional Republicans ’ top priority is to go after President Biden with politically motivated attacks chock full of long-debunked conspiracy theories, hunter Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract Hunter Biden from focusing on Americans ’ priorities, and we hope congressional Republicans will join us in tackling them instead of wasting time and resources on political revenge.

– Ian Sams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In other words, this is a manufactured culture war issue designed to fire up the Republican base, and distract them from the Republican Party's deeply unpopular agenda — from cutting taxes on billionaires, to banning abortion, to overturning elections that they lose.

– Sara Norman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I believe in supporting all children to be their authentic selves. Unfortunately, some politicians are racing to stigmatize vulnerable trans kids in order to divide people and distract us from real issues.

– Tina Kotek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're still interested in purchasing in that community because there's growth there, i'm not going to allow anyone to distract my wife and me from accomplishing the goals that we've set in place.

– James Ra-Amari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Parents and community members play an important role in shaping what students learn in school but this goes far beyond organic expressions of concern or the normal give-and-take between parents and educators in a healthy school environment, these groups have made it their mission to undermine educators, sabotage students' freedom to read and stoke divisive battles that distract from teaching and learning.

– Suzanne Nossel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congresswoman Slotkin pays market rate rent for her home in Lansing, just like millions of tenants in Michigan, and previous attempts to twist the facts have failed with other outlets for that reason, this is nothing more than an attempt by Tom Barrett's weak campaign to distract from his five votes to block thousands of jobs at a new GM plant in his own backyard, his opposition to the bipartisan CHIPS Act and his failed attempt to cover up his dangerous position to ban all abortions in Michigan, even in instances of rape or incest.

– Lynsey Mukomel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is Starbucks yet again attempting to distract attention away from their unprecedented anti-union campaign, ultimately, this is Starbucks' latest attempt to manipulate the legal process for their own means and prevent workers from exercising their fundamental right to organize.

– Workers United

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The refusal by the New York State Democratic Party to tackle the issues of crime and the economy is exactly why our state is leading the country in population loss, hochul and her pathetic henchmen are desperate to distract away from all of the ways they are destroying New York.

– Katie Vincentz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject.

– Steven McCraw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.

– Public Safety Director Steven McCraw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject, the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.

– Steve McCraw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If a job ad is using too-good-to-be-true terms like :' quick money,' or' unlimited earnings potential,' or' laptop for free' and has very few skill requirements... and a lot of caps and images to distract you, it just doesn't come across professionally.

– Sara Sutton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've seen the Russians really double down on their propaganda efforts, probably, almost certainly, as a means to distract from their tactical and strategic failures on the battlefield in Ukraine.

– Ned Price

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness.

– Pastor Packiam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sin is not just ‘out there’ in the world — it’s ‘in here’ in us, when we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness.

– Pastor Packiam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any time you have something that’s not what you’re doing it’s going to distract you, but for me, I don’t think it was too much of a distraction. Maybe it was, I don’t know. I can’t really answer that.

– Dustin Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The demands that Russia put on the table were beyond excessive, they were, of course, nonstarters, and what we've seen repeatedly is that Russia goes through the pretense of diplomacy to distract and continue on its aggressive path.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The real problem is California has adopted policies that let criminals continue to commit crimes and get let right out, californians are tired of Los Angeles, and he would love to distract them.

– James Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm not surprised that the CCP's state media is desperately latching on to any false and misleading talking points to distract from their complicity in a genocide against the Uyghur minority, their intimidation of students, and suppression of dissidents around the world.

– Patrick Burland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There’s been a lot of really heated rhetoric that, I think, has been designed to distract from what is really going on in state election reform and to build pressure to get rid of the filibuster, fundamentally change the way the Senate operates, that’s what this speech is going to be about. That’s what this entire week is going to be about, in a lot of respect.

– Jason Snead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Just as you heard him say on Jan. 6 of last year, I would expect that President Biden will lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol, and the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw, he will forcibly push back on the lies spread by the former president – in an attempt to mislead the American people, and his own supporters, as well as distract from his role in what happened – so, he will, of course, speak to the moment, to the importance in history of the peaceful transfer of power, and of what we need to do to protect our own democracy and be forward-looking.

– Jen Psaki

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fundraising appeals.

– Bill Cassidy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Governor DeSantis seeks the best advice and expertise from all over the world; his detractors simply accept the proclamations of the CDC as though they are infallible, however, the CDC’s guidance has flip-flopped many times, and U.S. public health authorities have lost the trust of the American people. In other countries, COVID-19 is not as politicized, so it makes sense that the EU is following a more data-driven, pro-child approach. Biden is leaning into his signature issue – forced-masking kindergarteners – to distract from the catastrophe in Afghanistan.

– Christina Pushaw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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