The animal rights people shouldn't pick on rodeos about animal treatment. if they'd come out and see the clowns put smiles on kids' faces and see horses buck off the cowboys and hear the crowd go "ooh" and "ahh" at the bull riding, why, then, they'd change their minds.

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red herring

This red herring that we're talking about may be a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences towards a false conclusion. It is a deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument