Meanings of bothsidesism in English

Tony, you're comparing apples and oranges and you know it.

To try and liken RTE with the BBC is akin to comparing apples and oranges.

But I don't think the NCVS numbers reflect those kinds of assaults, and so we're sort of comparing apples and oranges here.

And therefore, as you just noted, when investigators attempted to compare elements of this murder to others', they were comparing apples and oranges.

To some extent, comparing the capacity of US nuclear installations to that of renewable installations across the world is comparing apples and oranges.

Australia doesn't need a publicly funded false balance factory.

In other words, Richard Hardie, like thousands before him, was fabricating and maturing a false balance-sheet.

He had for months spent his days poring over the books, fabricating and maturing a false balance-sheet.

Is it not strange that there is such distorted perspective and false balance of values in regard to what is worth while?

And that's what you're seeing in the Trump coverage -a movement away from false balance, toward saying what's true and not true.

Yet the phone and cable companies tried to dress up their plans as a false compromise.

Norway Plus is a false compromise.

Perhaps only within certain boundaries, a middle ground between autonomy and enslavement?

Could a return to middle ground of Keynesian economics be the answer?

Facebook also takes a middle ground on the authenticity of personal accounts.

You know, there's got to be some type of middle ground here.

There was no middle ground, either for the technology or the sleeper.

With its new policy, Uber seems to be splitting the difference.

This isn't an argument for splitting the difference between gun control supporters and opponents, by the way.

After some hesitation, we decided upon " splitting the difference."

Molinari is meticulous at splitting the difference between her pro-choice stand and the demands of her new job.

That's splitting the difference, isn't it?

We overcame an enormous barrage of negativity, of false equivalency, and so much else.

Why you should read it: In a political climate saturated in bad faith, one of the standard moves in is false equivalency.

But desperate false equivalency posed as campaign savvy hardly justifies the risk of what could happen if more well-armed extremists take the allegation seriously.

The wanton application of metaphors undermines their usefulness by creating false equivalencies.

There are no false equivalencies to be made between sexism and pessimism.