Spinning Gifts

"...Webs are spun. Not woven, or knitted or crocheted. They are SPUN. Say it with me, SSPUUNNN.'

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

"Go on without me – I'll never make it."

'Seven spins! You lose again.'

Spindles

"We're in the wrong spin class."

Cardio-lip-reading

Middle-aged dreidels

"The senator is at the gym doing his favorite aerobics...spinning."

'You must be here for the spinning class.'

'The wool is virgin - it's none of your damn business about the sheep!'

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

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

Twirling Dancer

SoullessCycle

"Global warming, Tibet, Darfur, starving children, AIDS, Iraq ... and on top of all this, I’m late for my spinning class!"

"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."

'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...'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

"Notice how Dad ages faster at relativistic speeds?"

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."

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

He is happy to take almost any kind of fish...

"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.'

And elevator with 'up', 'down', and 'pitches' buttons

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?"

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