Spin Detective Mugs

Tony Blair and Blairwash.

Office of the PR of the United States

"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!'

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'?'

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."

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

The lunar landing of Appollo 11 is shown as a hoax filmed in a studio.

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

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

'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.'

Un-Truth

Chinese History: Redwash

The Truth

'It's getting harder to tell when the news stops and the spin begins.'

A boy and his spin patrol.

"Are these 'raw' facts or 'spun' facts?"

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

"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.''

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

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

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

"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 ..."

"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."

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