Sentences with phrase «political spin doctor»
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This is a classic political spin doctor's attempt to compare apples and oranges.
Former footballer Stan Collymore and political spin doctor Alistair Campbell have expressed disgust at supermarket giant Asda advertising a fancy dress outfit featuring someone covered in blood and brandishing a machete as a «mental patient fancy dress costume».
Scathingly satirical director David Gordon Green riffs on the similarly titled 2005 documentary about ugly gringo political spin doctors gaming the election in Bolivia, a country best known for its powdered exports.
Not exact matches
Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.
OCTOBER 18, 2013: Longtime Tyee writer Steve Burgess enters a new line of work: Spin doctor adviser to political set.
Politicians, political parties, spin doctors, pundits and commentators are all using Twitter, in particular.
While political parties have become increasingly sophisticated organisations with a cadre of professional policy wonks, media managers and spin doctors, when it comes to fighting elections they remain heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers to knock on doors, deliver leaflets and make phone calls.
And yet, also present were many of his old enemies, including Charlie Whelan, Brown's old spin doctor who is now political director for Unite, the UK's largest union.
Wag The Dog (1997) Robert De Niro plays political spin - doctor Conrad Brean.
Although McBride is a contemporary political spinner and extreme example, as Andrew Blick and George Jones showed in At Power's Elbow, as aides to the prime minister, from Robert Walpole to David Cameron, the spin doctors» profession is probably the second oldest in history.
Meanwhile, spin - doctors and political manipulators, in their different shades, have joined the debate, mostly on cyberspace.
Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s, Whelan became political director of Unite in 2007, charged with steering the union through the election.
Fellow Brexit campaigner Michael Gove struck an even more sombre tone than Johnson as he spoke about the political demise of his close friend — prompting Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and other sceptical Twitter users to declare that the pair looked as though they were at a funeral.
It soon becomes apparent that the two crimes might not be as unconnected as McAffrey first thought, leading him, his editor Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren), and junior journalist Della Frye (Rachel McAdams) into a political - corporate cover - up that concerns politicians at the highest party level, powerful corporate interests, and an array of ex-soldiers, politicians» spouses and spin doctors, including Jason Bateman's public relations executive.
The Kennedy leadership campaign team, led by the formidable former Ashdown spin doctor Jane Bonham Carter, went to great lengths to recast their candidate as a serious political figure.
«Adrian Owens: What's needed are effective welfare to work policies Main Quentin Davies MP: No taxpayers» money for spin doctors, campaigning and political advertising»
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has been forced to distance himself from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Damian McBride, his spin doctor, after he confessed to a series of political assassinations on behalf of Mr Brown, according to an interview with The Times (#).
His portrayal of Leonard as a delusional politician hell - bent on political stardom is spot - on, as is Andy Murray's power - hungry spin doctor.
Gordon Brown's former spin - doctor, Charlie Whelan, is in and out of the Commons looking after the interests of his former boss while working as political director of Unite.
As the nation pauses from the royal festivities to take in the full implications of changes at the top of the league, royal spin doctors will be regretting that Murphy didn't have a drop of the same political bromide as Hillier in his tea.
1.29 pm: Charlie Whelan, Brown's former spin doctor and now the political director at the Unite union, has just tweeted this:
He worked with spin doctor Charlie Whelan during this period and it is believed Unite's political director has returned to Brown's side for election 2010.
When political managers and spin doctors are fighting one of the tightest elections in living memory they will often go to the point of absurdity to ensure television pictures tell the message they want.
With Kenya's presidential election drawing near, campaigns here are for the first time making widespread use of opinion polls, text messaging, teleprompters, spin doctors, $ 15,000 - a-plate fundraisers and even high - powered foreign political consultants such as Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, who swooped in for a few days to counsel opposition candidate Raila Odinga.
This British political satire follows the mishaps of the Prime Minister's Machiavellian spin doctor Malcolm Tucker.
Steve Coogan plays a former government spin doctor who puts his political fall from grace behind him by returning to his journalist roots.
This subtext has a way of sneaking up on reader and viewer alike because Buckley is so generous with his mockery, skewering every political position, and because the primary subject of Thank You for Smoking is the professional spin doctor.
Of course, I realized the query was political and egocentric, but there was a simplicity about it that was miles away from spin doctors and TV talking heads.
The leaked emails triggered a shock wave that required a top political spin - doctor.
The professionalisation of politics has seen a sharp decline in membership of the mainstream parties and the rise of a «political class» of career politicians, staffers, spin doctors and apparatchiks.
The emails exposed politicized climate science so political spin - doctors were required.
On the political front, we've seen over the past year or so how the real - time nature of the social web can play havoc with political campaigns and spin doctors.