Spin Class Gifts

"Curds and whey before spin class – are you nuts?!"

"This is a merit-based organization! Can't you see I’ve hired the very best and most qualified yes-men money can buy?"

"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"

'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!'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

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...'

'This one is for keeping 'On Message' in the spin wars.'

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."

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

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

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

“Pottery Classes – Give it a Whirl!”

'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.'

"I think I'm in the wrong kind of spin class!"

A boy and his spin patrol.

The Truth

Chinese History: Redwash

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

'I don't know whether these are good grades or not. The teacher calls them unique.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Office of the PR of the United States

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

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