How can New Yorkers trust a man who has based his entire, cynical campaign on what we now see clearly is a phony issue?

Controversy - even over phony issues - does.

It's not right for them to continue to hide behind this phony issue.

That may be because she agrees with Chatterbox that it's a phony issue.

I hope she continues to bury the phony issue under a heap of scorn.

Piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping to rip off artists.

Attacking judicial activism may be good politics, but it is a phony issue.

I'll run on a platform of meeting the threat, but it's not going to be treated as a phony issue.

Ultimately, campaign abuses and finance reform are phony issues.

Surrogates were dispatched to make the case that the Republicans were selling a phony issue.