Sentences with phrase «political spin on»
Starting around mid-2002, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) began to move more aggressively to impose an administration political spin on global warming communication, including communication about the state of scientific understanding.
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/ Not exact matches
But there's an excess of spin on their political pitches
After I fell in love with the Lorax and was disappointed at the political spin taken on a movie focused on environmental topic, so I wondered whether the subject of evolution would raise a storm.
As the play itself is a political satire — a character satire — it's taking what people think they know about three world famous characters and putting a spin on what might have happened.
Carvin's press release puts the most positive spin possible on this news, noting Westchester County is «considered a must - win» statewide political races, and is home to a number of prominent Democrats, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Seeking to spin a personal attack on her into political gold, Cynthia Nixon asked her supporters for contributions to repudiate a slam against her by former NYC Council Speaker Chris Quinn, a top ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as an «unqualified lesbian.»
This year, it began wading into political and policy fights on its own — spinning off a super PAC that spent at least $ 24 million boosting Republican Senate candidates.
Political disagreement still remains in Kenya on whether suspected perpetrators of the post-election violence should have been tried under a local tribunal or the ICC, and Kenyatta and Ruto have spun this ongoing discussion into a debate over whether others believe them to be guilty or not.
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.
Meanwhile, spin - doctors and political manipulators, in their different shades, have joined the debate, mostly on cyberspace.
Seeking to spin a personal attack on her into political gold, Cynthia Nixon asked her supporters Wednesday for contributions to repudiate a slam against her by a top ally of Gov. Cuomo as an «unqualified lesbian.»
When he announced in 2001 he was «leaving Parliament to spend more time on politics» it was widely held to be judgement not only on the impoverishment of the British political system, but also a lament for the decline of his beloved Labour Party and the rise of the spin - obsessed forces of New Labour.
[Spin Cycle] Capitalizing Callaghan Shifts Into Overdrive [Newsday] Hevesi's Security Detail Twice As Large As Spitzer's [AP] Alan Overdrive [NYP] Aide's «Squad» Car Ride [NYDN] Hevesi Smooches Up Pol Pal [NYP] Thanks to Hevesi, Democrats Face Political Tightrope [NYS] Pataki Picks Ex-Prosecutor to Weigh In on Hevesi Case [NYT] Hevesi: I'd Quit Over Ax [NYP]
The first volume by McCullun and Readman was on the 1945 election and an attempt to place on record what had happened before party political spin prevailed.
Spin One thing you've always got to be careful of as a political journalist is how much are you prepared to go along with the spinning that's going on behind the scenes?
Newsday's snarky editorial on Espada and other political «spin» efforts of the recent past.
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 (#).
Yet, on Monday, with his political compass apparently spinning in his never - ending feud with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took the extraordinary step of including the New York Police Department in his regularly scheduled fulmination against the mayor, specifically for failing to assist a sleeping homeless man in the city's subways.
Adam Fleming reports from the spin room at the BBC debate getting reaction to five political leaders on the stage.
Maybe it was Ed, for instance, who described how he, Brown and Charlie Whelan were listening to Blair's party conference speech on a car radio when Brown suddenly started heckling («He didn't want that... He opposed that...») And surely it could only have been Whelan, still spinning even in his political grave, who described the Chancellor's fury after being «ambushed» about the Ecclestone donation on the Today programme, for who else but our Charlie would say «Gordon went mental»?
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.
The prime minister has committed «seven mortal sins» that have degraded politics, Sir Alistair continued, including; the cash for honours scandal, his alleged disregard for cabinet government, the «shocking political interferenace» in the fraud investigation of BAE's arms deal in Saudi Arabia, his dismissal of concerns over postal voting, the handling of investigations in ministerial disconduct, an «undue reliance on spin», and «politicising» the civil service.
The Tories would say that our much - repeated line that the NHS is «not safe in their hands» became an accepted truth after the Labour spin - machine kept on repeating it (there is a «grid» where party political machines try to control the daily news agenda, which naturally can have the effect of making broadcasters want to talk about anything but the parties» news agenda).
The comments sections on most political blogs is either one sided, or dominated by petty political point scoring and tired rehearsals of party political spin.
Green America first offered up the new spin on the Victory Bond idea in 2009 as something people on both sides of the political spectrum could get behind.
It will, however, have to perform political cartwheels to stay within its brief of spending money «only on the defence of the realm» while encouraging wealth - creating spin - offs.
Critics Consensus: As taut as it is timely, Eye in the Sky offers a powerfully acted — and unusually cerebral — spin on the modern wartime political thriller.
Critic Consensus: As taut as it is timely, Eye in the Sky offers a powerfully acted — and unusually cerebral — spin on the modern wartime political thriller.
While this will mark the end of House of Cards, Netflix has been mulling over options for potential spin - offs, one of which would focus on Michael Kelly's Chief of Staff and political fixer Doug Stamper.
Argo's pleasures are almost entirely on the surface: Director Ben Affleck spins one hell of a yarn, but he's made a political thriller devoid of politics, and his characters have little depth beyond their considerable bravery and resourcefulness.
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.
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.
Go check out Oklahoma right now, because that's where you have spinning wheels, because the legislature decided out of political pressure to pull back on these standards.
Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.
It takes its name from the Canadian capital's constant political activity and the «spin» that politicians often take on policy announcements.
Because the NRDC is a political advocacy group there is some spin but it does list a variety of studies from peer - reviewed journals like Science and Nature and from groups like the National Academy of Science from 2000 to 2004 and its easier to have a lot of papers on one site.
No, since — unlike with AGW — there is no obvious political spin to be put on them.
For instance, whether the 2004 global mean temperature anomaly places it in the top 4 or bottom 4 years is a fact regardless of any political spin people might care to place on it.
Much of the coverage and political reaction seemed to spin the Swart and Weaver work into some sort of vindication of oil sands development when they are clearly on record opposing expanded development.
Does the Hatch Act (1) still exist and (2) have anything to say about spinning a political line on taxpayer time?
Suzuki's much - lauded career is about spin, selective use of information, exploitation of fear especially with children, personal attacks on those who dare to disagree, and an underlying political agenda.
Lomborg appeared in the documentary film Cool It which focused on his views regarding climate policy where he suggests «that there's a well - financed effort underfoot to spin the failure of climate action into a new political strategy for high - tech mega-investments.»
Unfortunately putting a PR spin on explaining a cheap - energy / debt - based economy to the citizenry is not the right approach for the political class, and they won't go near it with a 10 - ft pole.
Whenever anyone tells you on a highly spun political issue that «we are readjusting history for correctness,» eye open wide.
In the perception - is - reality world of political combat, partisans naturally try to spin their agendas into self - fulfilling prophecies, claiming history is on their side.
Instead of simply reporting on new developments in climate, they must instead be spun in order to bolster the case for political action.
In addition, the article pointed to a number of tweets that were political in nature: a complaining reference to a Conservative MP who was a prominent critic of Whitehall waste; a re-tweet of a Labour MP's attack on government «spin»...
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.
And the political hamster wheel in the US — not just on gun control — will continue spinning pointlessly.
«We haven't had much to laugh about during these attacks on Planned Parenthood, so I welcome the chance to have Lizz put her humorous - yet personal - spin on the current political climate,» said Tricia Wajda, PPLM's Public Affairs Directors.