We're noticing a pattern of red herrings, however, and as you know, red herrings get fishier over time.
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Some of the charges are red herrings, American officials say.
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"I want sprinklings of clues and red herrings," he said.
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It's a transitional, fragmented episode built around narrative red herrings.
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No amount of Trump tweets or red herrings change those facts.
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What are the red herrings that, for men, may actually signal anxiety?
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"Classic" point and click, then, albeit mercifully with no actual red herrings.
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This is only one of many red herrings in the Memphis story.
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The movie doesn't plant lots of red herrings or anything like that.
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Later clues are often used as red herrings to throw the judges off.
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Anton Chekhov, the 19th century Russian author, did not believe in red herrings.
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The show is full of red herrings, cryptic half-truths, and ripe for speculation.
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Instead of being served lemon sole, the audience had a plate of red herrings.
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It looks like at least one of those previous red herrings is fleeing the state.
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That extended to SXSWestworld, where I watched guests chase red herrings all over the park.
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The plot offers false resolutions rather than red herrings, right up until the very end.
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As a businessman, there are a couple of red herrings I cannot let go unchallenged.
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Now, TMZ says the originally-reported names of the couple's twins were actually red herrings.
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There are no more red herrings, and no more villains, at least for the Liars.
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Faithful to the thriller genre, Jewell makes liberal use of red herrings and plot twists.
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Are they just less important, or are the poster and old episode title both red herrings?
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The show just enjoys throwing red herrings at us, and, in that, I smell something fishy.
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They've said that our concerns about freedom of speech and freedom of religion are red herrings.
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All of Christie's trademarks are here: red herrings on top of red herrings, astonishing leaps of logic by Poirot and enough low-hanging clues to leave you feeling as if you're getting a handle on the thing…until you realize you have no idea at all.
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The majority of them are red herrings, luring you away from the content you should be watching.
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It's a tribute to The Fosters's relentless red herrings that this conversation is just about a job.
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"The problem with some of the software was the number of false positives - red herrings," said Wright.
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"All of the other reasons for denying it are red herrings," Mr. Talerman said in an interview.
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Just don't hold your breath, gang: We've had one too many red herrings from Don Jonas lately.
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There is plenty of narrative misdirection, he added, but the red herrings take too long to introduce.
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Rowling loves to misdirect, to hide her villains in plain sight and distract you with innocent red herrings.
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Some research suggests that the two work together, while other studies suggest that amyloids could be red herrings.
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This isn't the first major drama to use red herrings as a means of protecting its secrets, either.
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On Television Without Pity, fans debated furiously over which characters were real whodunnits and which were red herrings.
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How is it possible that we've already repeated two of our previous red herrings — Toby and Mr. Montgomery?
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Westway's supporters said the striped bass had been "red herrings" that anti-development forces had fed the judge.
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"It's a transitional, fragmented episode built around narrative red herrings," Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.
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That conjurer's panache of a reveal is achieved through cleverly withheld information, alluring blind alleys and pungent red herrings.
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Players can leave hints behind for others, or confuse them with red herrings that lead them down dead ends.
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Mr. Hawley has artfully filled "Before the Fall" with enough red herrings to satisfy a flock of sea gulls.
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Previously, Keith and Veronica eliminated some red herrings and made a strong case for Penn being the second bomber.
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The focus is still on multiple strands of elaborately, sometimes confusingly plotted detection (with more red herrings than necessary).
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It not only produces enough red herrings to stock a deli counter, it also threatens to minimize the characters.
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But just as often, the things that seem significant turn out to be red herrings or swiftly abandoned trial balloons.
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I'm much more weirded out by something else: Waymo keeps throwing out red herrings about their trade secrets during trial.
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Now that he's done with Marvel, he'll soon be free of those pesky nondisclosure agreements, red herrings, and spoiler protection.
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But then there's a second mystery, concealed by a few red herrings in the first two sections of the film.
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But I vividly remember just being confused by where all these weird, disparate plot threads (and red herrings) were going.
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Chan has designed an elaborate plot, but as the reversals and red herrings proliferate, the deepest mystery remains N himself.
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"These contentions are, at worst, red herrings and, at best, incorrect," ruled Howell, an appointee of former President Barack Obama.
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He'll definitely be important for Season 8 Martin likes to purposefully phrase his prophecies as red herrings with multiple possible interpretations.
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If the series is anything like the books, expect a fast-paced, thrilling mystery filled with red herrings and suspicious characters.
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There remains the strong possibility that these "leaked" designs are dead wrong, red herrings cast about by Apple to confuse us.
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We're always looking for red herrings, allusions, symbolism, double meanings, and clues in order to come up with the best theories.
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It's also a thrilling, absorbing mystery, sprinkled liberally with red herrings and culminating in a profoundly satisfying, if totally unforeseeable, ending.
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In fact, cut these red herrings altogether, and it's possible you'd be left with a more robustly complex piece of work.
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But perhaps in a first for red herrings (which clever sleuths know to disregard), the accumulation of yours outweighs your question.
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Attribution is extremely tricky in the world of cybersecurity, where hackers routinely use misdirection and red herrings to fool their adversaries.
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Their substance is powerful enough to overcome the perennial red herrings of EU-dictated cucumber size and the shape of bananas.
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It had nine columns, red text for red herrings, blue text for clues, and various colors for different suspects and themes.
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Think about this: The Night Of introduced a lot of red herrings in the name of making a compelling murder mystery.
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Figuring out which dates and events are genuinely important, and which are likely to be red herrings, can be a struggle.
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They're useful precisely because they can make sense of a messy reality, sorting kittens from puppies against a backdrop of red herrings.
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At the same time, the police (led by Allison Janney) conduct their own investigation, with Rachel among the red-herrings, er, suspects.
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Messenger Mercury faces off with deceptive Neptune on Saturday and again, there are lots of red herrings and fantasies in the air.
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But the premise of the Good Place (the place) and the premise of The Good Place (the show) are both, ultimately, red herrings.
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Because Batman v Superman is an atomized mess of a story, with loopy shortcuts, confounding red herrings and overblown dialogue at every turn.
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The document was riddled with sarcasm, apparent red herrings and allusions to online meme culture, suggesting an internet-driven evolution of nationalist hatred.
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The ending hastily disposes of unexplained and unnecessary red herrings, and the revelation is at once too tidy and too convenient to be satisfying.
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McMahon packs his narrative with layers of plot, subplots and red herrings to distract from a rather obvious case of environmental raping and pillaging.
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ANONYMOUS You have really loaded your letter with red herrings: your daughter being transgender, her Svengali partner, even the misdirection with polyamory and miniskirts.
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Gruber begins the film totally in control, a criminal mastermind with a flawless plan full of diversions and red herrings for anyone on his tail.
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Secrecy was so high on Avengers: Infinity War that even the cast – you know, the literal Avengers – were given red herrings just to be safe.
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We thought we knew exactly what to expect from that end of the story: some procedural details, some red herrings, some drama, and eventually a solution.
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Silva also respects the promise she made to never share its contents, other than those few base ingredients—which could even be red herrings, who knows?
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But while red herrings come with the territory, 121 hours' worth of loose ends can never be tied up; a few will always drag things down.
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Because one does not simply cut to the chase and tell viewers whether or not Jon Snow is still alive, the teaser features some red herrings.
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Lest we get too focused on all the funny business involved in railroad mania, there are red herrings to sniff out and misdirections to blindly follow.
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And when they're caught red-handed, they try to throw in numerous red herrings in the hopes that people won't actually ask how these events are related.
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And not even one of the minor characters we were suspicious of, like Meggy and Simon, who were apparently nothing more than red herrings the whole time.
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In some ways it's an uncharacteristically surreal effort peppered with red herrings, blink and they'll pass you by missives, and a rather surprising Bollywood-inspired closing scene.
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We have A LOT of unanswered questions, and those involve some fan-favorite red herrings from PLL past, especially the still-living members of the N.A.T. club.
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John and Benjamin are red herrings, little more than clutter that serves mainly to distract the reader from the glimpse of pitch darkness at the story's heart.
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The idea of a swap is an attempt to "feed red meat to their base but also red herrings to distract us from the central issue," Sen.
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Developments in the case are so slow-moving and diffuse that it's hard to keep track of them, and most of them are probably red herrings anyway.
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We revisited the Cloverfield ARG sites that started it all—the genuine articles and red herrings alike—to see how they've fared over the past eight-plus years.
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From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
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Helima Croft, the global head of commodities strategy at RBC Capital Markets, identified supply talk surrounding Libya and Nigeria as two "bearish red herrings" for the oil market.
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Astrid and Sonja are under oath, because they are witnesses, but Wim, as a defendant, is not, and he freely makes misleading statements and throws out red herrings.
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Particularly interesting are the mea culpas from Serreze and fellow scientists who chased scientific red herrings or, deafened by the din of natural climate variability, misread the data.
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The other red herrings in Olympic Destroyer had been so vexing in part because there was no way to tell which clues were real and which were deceptions.
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But this document is distinctive in being riddled with sarcastic language, deliberate red herrings and allusions to online meme culture, suggesting an internet-driven evolution of nationalist hatred.
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Again, these promises may be red herrings, so to speak, but if enough decision-makers subscribe to them, their effect is the same as if they came true.
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For instance, she uses color-coding systems with blue ink for clues and red ink for red herrings or things that come across as misleading or distracting to readers.
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It even switches gears from comedy to drama midway, and then proceeds to throw so many red herrings in the audience's way that the story stops making any sense.
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"So many of Apple's arguments are red herrings because this is not about privacy more than any other search in a criminal investigation is about privacy," Mr. Larson said.
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In the film, Setsu is subjected to a gang rape, but onstage, this is only hinted at, and red herrings keep distracting the audience from this subplot and others.
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The fringe U.K. vocalist and producer has typically left bewildered fans on their own to make sense of the scattershot allusions, subversions, and red herrings that litter his work.
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Both the teens and the local man in the go-cart feel like red herrings here, even before we get to the big reveal at the end of the episode.
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But as President Trump is working to build broad-based coalition devoid of identity politics, LGBT foes are using red herrings, such as this bathroom battle, to thwart his efforts.
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Full of twists, turns, and red herrings, each case plays out like a game a Clue, a real whodunit that has viewers playing along and guessing until the very end.
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Full of twists, turns, and red herrings, each case plays out like a game a Clue, a real whodunit that has viewers playing along and guessing until the very end.
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Kendal misses a prime opportunity to take advantage of her setting, the English countryside near Bath; there are too many red herrings; and the ending is a bit too tidy.
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These are red herrings, diversions from the realities (and evils) of the frequent wars, increasing economic inequality and political corruption that have marked America's trajectory, beginning in the early 1960s.
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The show expands into a shaggy-dog philosophical mystery, tracing every nook of Alphabet City, sweeping up other colorful characters, exploring red herrings that are as delicious as the main course.
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Both of these arguments are red herrings, cynically setting up alternative futures, designed to create a culture of fear and intimidate people into defending the status quo power of Big Tech.
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And here at the end of the season, Veronica is even considering Duncan a possible killer, in the setup of the last and best red herrings in the Lilly Kane mystery.
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Though it is hard to be invested in a large cast of characters, and there are no cliffhangers or red herrings to urge the story on, "Serial" still makes for compelling listening.
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But Search Party very quickly twists and turns; it's a comedy and a mystery, with all the red herrings and narrow escapes from horrible fates that you might expect from the genre.
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As in those stories, the pleasure comes not from a nuanced character or a clever bit of dialogue but from the attempt to discover the villains amid red herrings and double bluffs.
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There are enough red herrings involved in the setup to build up a queasy tension, which makes it even more shocking when the actual mayhem comes from an unexpected direction. Suspense-horror.
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There are no details on anyone's roles just yet — and knowing Murphy, there will be plenty of red herrings, teaser trailers (real and fake), and clues when the season premiere gets closer.
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Attribution of cyberattacks is difficult at best, a fact that security researchers and governments alike recognize, given malware authors and threat groups share code and leave red herrings to hide their identities.
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"The Paris Diversion" does have a tight, extremely clever bit of exposition, in which all its diverse pieces suddenly fall into place and its many red herrings are exposed as empty trickery.
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While some thrillers tick off a checklist of red herrings on a predictable march to the finish, Moggach's creations, with their layered personalities and shifting motivations, throw more guesswork into the mix.
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In the dozen novels that followed, Mr. Dexter, a fan of cryptic crosswords, planted false clues and red herrings with abandon, presenting Morse, and his readers, with fiendishly difficult puzzles to solve.
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North Korea: Red herrings get fishier over time There is a lot of momentum going into your June 12 summit with Kim Jong Un, including the release of three US prisoners last week.
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The author has no time to waste on establishing a gloomy, gothic murder house when she can simply say the house is perfectly normal and get to work planting clues and red herrings.
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With all the political red herrings, government firings and scandals, this White House would wager that most Americans are either not paying attention or are apathetic altogether from the deliberate feed of misinformation.
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And he seems game to play along, taking advantage of that history to deploy red herrings and misdirections, hinting at a twist-eriffic payoff when he's really interested in keeping things honest for once.
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Flat notes and stilted phrasing create a "performance of alienation" that positions the reader as a spectator viewing a world produced by exposition, flashbacks and jump cuts between memories, illusory subplots and red herrings.
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Longtime fans know Swift's lead singles tend to be red herrings, and "ME!" might be the best example of a leading track expertly masking the overall feel of the album it's meant to promote.
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The murder mystery component of the story has all the essential ingredients: clues, red herrings, twists and an answer, in the end, that leaves no room for doubt about who did what and why.
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Often neo-noir is full of red herrings and plots that lead nowhere, a device that Under the Silver Lake embraces so gleefully that it eventually becomes clear it's exaggerating the genre for effect.
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Although Sandford doesn't slavishly follow genre protocols (except for an abundance of red herrings), he seems familiar with the petty ways of academics who bury their noses in books and don't get enough sun.
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Some critics have mistaken the book as continuing the tradition of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud — whose names Namdar strategically drops, as red herrings — with Andrew just another Kepesh, Silk, Levin or Herzog.
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Instead, it's a mix of timeworn genre elements (the master detective, complete with tweed suit; Hitchcockian red herrings), wry costume details (Evans' sweaters, Curtis's pantsuits), political commentary (particularly as concerns WASPy liberalism), and star power.
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A bit of the spell it casts can be attributed to the genre's usual devices—the tempting conundrum, the red herrings, the slices of low and high life—but French is also hunting bigger game.
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The riddle element of crime fiction talks directly to that part of the brain, therefore establishing the structure of the puzzle, filling narratives with unforeseen twists, red-herrings and reveals, is crucial to a compelling series.
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Set over two days, "Raid" is shot like a thriller with anonymous tips, clues that appear at opportune times, and several red herrings that director Gupta and writer Ritesh Shah set up nicely to fool audiences.
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"Longtime fans know Swift's lead singles tend to be red herrings, and 'Me!' might be the best example of a leading track expertly masking the overall feel of the album it's meant to promote," she wrote.
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But if you look at these stories as red herrings — as pseudo-scandals meant to provoke news outlets in such a way that reinforced Republicans' animosity towards the FBI — news networks fell for a cynical trap.
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"Rather than following the president's tweets or the red herrings he's been throwing out, we should be focusing on our ability to ... be clear-eyed about the very real threat that Putin's Russia represents," the senator added.
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Needless to say, Gosse left diverse impressions on the scientific, artistic, and religious communities of his time, especially in light of his scripture-based theories that fossils were theological red herrings that did not represent once-living creatures.
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The strange-science angle that briefly suggests a new spin on The Ring, with Gabriel supposedly investigating the afterlife in the most haphazard, disorganized, irresponsible way possible, winds up being one of an entire shoal of red herrings.
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We spend most of the season, however, with a string of new characters, those who can provide clues and red herrings and answers about the spring break bombings and also manage to be compelling in their own right.
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We end up trying to piece together what's happening, while Taylor tosses red herrings in every direction (including a dull sideplot with Megan's husband Scott, who is suspected of the crime) rather than digging into his characters' heads.
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Still, the O.J. echoes gradually fade as "The Fix" layers on the melodrama and loads up the fridge with red herrings, garnished with office politics and Sevvy's extended circle, including his grown (and in some instances, estranged) children.
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Instead of a murderer we have a serial rapist, but aside from the crime itself there some clear, recurring themes: the constant red herrings, the large ensemble cast of shady characters, and the wide, wide net of potential suspects.
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In shifting to the early days of the trial, "Samson and Delilah" foregrounds the whodunit aspects of the show, which means revealing new information on Naz and offering some more suspects who may or may not be red herrings.
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I can't wait until we get a scene of Sara, Jason (Drew Van Acker), Melissa (Torrey DeVitto), Wren (Julian Morris), Noel, Maya (Bianca Lawson), Lucas (Brendan Robinson), Jenna, and all the other great red herrings sitting around swapping personal grievances. 28.
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Fast-forward 25-plus years and Twin Peaks: The Return has its own murder mystery and plenty of other loose threads and red herrings to pick apart — all the strange atmosphere of its antecedent seasons are there, and then some.
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Despite all the twists, developments, reveals, and red herrings of the uniquely sharp and wacky sitcom, one constant has remained: that only one mortal has figured out the system, and he did it while on a mushroom trip back in 1972.
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After nine episodes of buildup and red herrings and intrigue, the Runaways — an unofficial moniker, since they themselves reject that label as too "bleak" when Alex suggests it — reveal they know about their parents' disturbing double lives, before making a break for it.
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They conclude the series in unanimous agreement that Burke killed JonBenét by accident, and their parents went to all lengths to cover it up with red herrings—a fake garrotting, a fake ransom note, and talk of a killer on the loose.
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I could rattle off scores of other names of brutalized people and the corresponding red herrings rolled out to scapegoat the police violence they suffered, since these smear campaigns happen like clockwork any time everyday people actually start to critique our justice system.
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But while Lee strings her plot together competently enough — all the red herrings misdirect where they should, and all of the final reveals are foreshadowed appropriately — it's never as compelling as all of the other things her characters are getting up to.
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It also allows for a few well-placed red herrings — a man walks to a mailbox as the driver is distracted, the driver reaches towards his vibrating phone only to adjust the radio volume — that make you brace for an impact that doesn't come.
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Anyone else, however, is likely to be bewildered by a haphazard structure, a surfeit of dill-pickled red herrings and the blank impenetrability of Michael Fassbender's Harry Hole, a supposedly rule-averse detective who does markedly little detecting over the course of two hours.
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Consumer groups say that the examples O'Rielly uses in his blog entry to prove the FCC acted ethically are red herrings and straw men designed to distract from the broader problem: the merger itself and the FCC's blind fealty to the nation's largest corporations.
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There are some red herrings to keep us going (the red-haired man on the train), but Rachel, Megan, and Anna all narrate the story, and their function is mainly to fill in information about themselves that's accurate where another character has merely guessed.
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"While Foxconn invests millions of dollars into the State of Wisconsin and hires job seekers, these efforts are being impeded by the current administration's red herrings over the material terms of the Contract, which are overall capital investment and long-term job growth," Yeung wrote.
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If you would like to improve your own lie detection, a good first step is to learn the common logical fallacies -- red herrings, appeals to ignorance, straw men and "ad populum" appeals to the bandwagon -- that purveyors of misinformation may use to create the illusion of truth.
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Personally, I'm hoping in the finale we find out that all the previous red herrings were evil all along — Mona (Janel Parrish), Noel, Toby (Keegan Allen), Ezra (Ian Harding), Charlotte (Vanessa Ray), Ian (Ryan Merriman), Garrett (Yani Gellman), Melissa (Torrey DeVitto), Wren (Julian Morris), Jason (Drew Van Acker).
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Following two high-concept episodes — the first one fished for red herrings in Los Angeles and included an animated story-within-a-story, the second paid homage to "Peter and the Wolf" and featured narration by Billy Bob Thornton — this week's episode is a return to relative normalcy.
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WHAT IF we got so many apparent red herrings about her being a sleeper agent that we've looped all the way back around to thinking she's harmless, only for her to indeed be a sleeper agent meant to make sure that Stan doesn't do exactly what Stan is now doing?
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Despite the numerous retirement red herrings thrown our way in the past, it looks like we could well be bidding a fond farewell this time around—though, he will consider a grand farewell fight should he successfully rehabilitate his knee despite promising his family to quit fighting altogether; this is Cro Cop, after all.
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Why it could work: Rasu Shrestha, chief innovation officer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, called it said he's a skeptic of "embracing AI for the sake of AI." But he said the Human Diagnosis Project system could be helpful by helping doctors avoid "red herrings" and see the full range of possible diagnoses.
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Despite the fantasy backdrop and the themes of adventure and coming-of-age that run through the series, every individual story is packed with the elements you might normally find in a crime tale: there are red herrings, countless clues, detective work, and normally at least one major twist or revelation at the conclusion.
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Deputy press secretary Raj Shah and press secretary Sarah Sanders have thrown a lot of red herrings out there to distract away from the fact that we had a systemic breakdown in the clearance system: interim clearances, like the one Porter used to work in the White House for over a year, are not supposed to be open-ended.
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Rep. Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarGet past Red Herrings to focus Cambridge Analytica evidence of hiding campaign money GOP lawmaker shares fake image of Obama meeting with Iran's Rouhani Chelsea Clinton thanks GOP congressman for tweet depicting her father's 'quick reflexes' MORE (R-Ariz.) on Monday tweeted a fake image of former President Obama meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
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The folks at Game Detectives, an online group that's largely responsible for jointly working to deconstruct what's happening with the Sigil ARG, isn't sure whether a crossover with Frog Fractions 2 is merely a convenient bump in the road, a red herring amongst dozens of red herrings, or if we're close to seeing what Crawford has been working on the past two years.
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Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarGet past Red Herrings to focus Cambridge Analytica evidence of hiding campaign money GOP lawmaker shares fake image of Obama meeting with Iran's Rouhani Chelsea Clinton thanks GOP congressman for tweet depicting her father's 'quick reflexes' MORE (R-Ariz.) introduced house bill HR 1422 which seeks to stop foreign illegal donations from flooding into our elections undetected.
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As he often does, UFC president Dana White threw multiple red herrings to the MMA media in attendance of his press scrum ahead of UFC 207 at the end of 2016—saying he tried putting together a fight between Nurmagomedov and Ferguson for the interim lightweight title in the absence of the division's champion Conor McGregor, who is taking time off as his girlfriend expects their first child together.
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