Spin Doctoring Enthusiast Gifts

"It wasn't a lie, Senator, it was a larger truth."

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

Campaign Office. Vote. Elect. Our candidate is being criticized for driving recklessly and crashing through walls and fences. Let's say he's breaking barriers!

Sen. Krupt. I don't tell constituents that we're fueling inflation. I say we're protecting consumers and thanks to us they won't have to worry about buying any cheap stuff.

"...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!'

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

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...'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

"We've won control of the congress. Our next objective is to win control of the media."

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.'

"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.'

Chinese History: Redwash

A boy and his spin patrol.

Un-Truth

The Truth

"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.'

'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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

Spinochio

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

"Don't forget - I was manipulating the will of the people before manipulating the will of the people was cool."