Spin Artist Gifts

'Fred, I want you to sanitize this, punch it up, dumb it down, leak it to the media and then be fully prepared to deny it!'

"Wait, those weren't lies. That was spin!"

You've got the skeletons....we'll provide the closet!

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"Excellent, excellent. A fine blend of truths, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods."

"...And do you Sean Spicer take Kelly Anne Conway..." "The marriage of alternative facts"

Danae's Career Plans: 'The major product manufactured today is punditry, so I'm honing my argumentative skills to work my way to the top of the blow hard industry..my goal is to become a spin ninja...'

'Which sounds better: 'now with MORE XZ100' or 'now with LESS XZ100'?'

"All this spinning...shouldn't this be charging our phones or something?"

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

Library - Political Science section - 'What to do until the spin doctor comes'

CONGRESS, 'No, no, you don't HAVE to fool all of the people all of the time - you just need to CONFUSE them!'

"What's important is that we learn from what we must never admit happened."

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

"We're looking for the kind of bad taste that will grab - but not appall."

'That's the new guy. He writes our 'shuck-and-jive' press releases.'

'It has been revealed that a senior politician will criticise something in a speech. Later they will criticise the opposite of something, just in case.'

The Truth

Chinese History: Redwash

A boy and his spin patrol.

"There sits the unvarnished truth. Now, how shall we interpret it to our advantage?"

'Your job, Richards, is to make sure that my name never appears in a headline alongside the word 'siphoned.''

"Looks like he's coming around to our way of thinking."

'Sir, what comes first ??" the buzz or the spin?'

"Prospectus in not spelt P...R...O...A...G...A...N...D...A."

Have our P.R. people do a report on the beneficial effects of cyanide on river life.

"I always forget. Is this the day we spin ahead one hour?"

"Your job will be to make these results look Stellar."

"I didn't know you could get a PhD in Spin."

"We specialize in corporate slogans, business brochures and annual reports to shareholders..."

"I work in PR where I provide a dynamic and highly effective bespoke service that can work for you and blah blah blah ..."

"Here are today's political campaign numbers: spin is up 10%, truth is down 5%, flip flops up 20%..."

"And that's the way we want you to think it is."

"Three years running 'fake news' websites? You're just what we're looking for!"

"I just spoon-fed the media a pound of really old salmon."