Sentences with phrase «spin doctor»

SPIN doctor has always been a big fan of amusingly off - message Pontypridd MP Kim Howells, and was sad to see him lose his job at the Foreign Office in Gordon Brown's reshuffle.

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The Sony fanbots have more excuses than a Washington spin doctor!!

After graduating, he went to work «for the other side» as a City spin doctor in financial public relations, while dabbling in stand - up comedy in his spare time to «relieve the tedium».

Drew's agent hires spin doctor Jessica Barnes to save the shortstop's career.

With the help of Washington's greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (called «transitioning») all the way to the White House, over the objections of the Religious Right, and of course, the Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.

Now the DOE will work overtime to spin doctor the failure to reach an agreement on new teacher evaluations, mandated by New York State's version of Race to the Top, as the fault of Michael Mulgrew and union leadership.

Julius Caesar, for example, was not only a brilliant strategist, but also a crafty spin doctor who controlled the historical narrative by writing volumes about his own military exploits.

And soon, the flamboyant spin doctor descended upon Bolivia with a team of seasoned, media - savvy strategists.

But when Major William Cage (Tom Cruise)-- a hotshot spin doctor for the U.S. Army — is ordered onto the front line in a bid to rally public support, he tries to blackmail the general (Brendan Gleeson) responsible and is arrested, stripped of his rank and deployed anyway.

Sandra Bullock's spin doctor reminds us of another memorably strong and highly strung antiheroine.

Is there a spin doctor in the house?

The premise is similar to Wag the Dog, Barry Sonnenfeld's classic dark comedy about a Hollywood producer and a spin doctor hired to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

When a sex scandal breaks at the end of a president's re-election campaign, his spin doctor (Robert De Niro) hires a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) to cook up a fake war as a distraction.

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.

Throughout this long film, Danny DeVito seeks to manipulate the viewer's sympathies for his hero but he needs to face the truth about his material if he is going to have any success playing spin doctor.

Working from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Pope («Pierrepoint,» «Mrs. Biggs «-RRB-, Steve Coogan stars as Martin Sixsmith, a real - life journalist - turned - spin doctor who was forced to resign after taking the fall for a government scandal.

Steve Coogan plays a former government spin doctor who puts his political fall from grace behind him by returning to his journalist roots.

Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock munching endlessly on potato chips and delighting with physical comedy), the spin doctor in David Gordon Green's Our Brand Is Crisis, is something of a spiritual descendant of Flick in that she too possesses a massive ego and the desire to win by any means necessary.

This British political satire follows the mishaps of the Prime Minister's Machiavellian spin doctor Malcolm Tucker.

«You don't have to be a master spin doctor to create effective disinformation.

The former prime minister's spin doctor Craig Oliver was knighted, while Samantha Cameron's stylist Isabel Spearman took an OBE.

Taking him through notes that had been made by his solicitor during conversations, Timothy Langdale QC questions his true motivation for making allegations against Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World and later spin doctor to David Cameron.

Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.

Krishnan Guru - Murthy is joined on the line from the Canary Isles by the man the McBride email was destined for - the former Labour spin doctor, Derek Draper.

Charlie Whelan, the former Labour spin doctor, has blamed the party's election defeat squarely on Lord Mandelson and urged «annoying» David Miliband to «get a life» after his failed leadership battle.

He was once the prime minister's top spin doctor.

Imagining what could have happened had the Tories not become the senior coalition partners, Mr Pickles warned of a «dour» Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, cursing Tony Blair and listening to the advice of former spin doctor Damian McBride and «policy wonk» Ed Miliband.

Paul Richards, former chair of Labour Students and of the Fabian Society, SpAd (Special Adviser) to Pat Hewitt and then Hazel Blears, «unashamed master of the dark arts ``, author of Be Your Own Spin Doctor, will assist with the speech - writing.

Labour MPs said last night they detected the hand of Charlie Whelan, the Prime Minister's former spin doctor, behind the attack.

A new organisation that has been set up to oppose Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership is receiving funds from Tony Blair's former spin doctor, Electoral Commission documents show.

Jeremy Corbyn could be unseated as early as this October by disgruntled Labour MPs, according to Gordon Brown's former spin doctor Damian McBride.

David Cameron's former top spin doctor Sir Craig Oliver said: «The team that's done this exit poll has got it right... in previous elections.

Tony Blair was sounding out the possibility of becoming president of the European commission three years before he stood down as prime minister, his former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has claimed.

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.

Writing on his blog, Mr Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, who is likely to be called to give evidence at the inquiry, denied being involved in playing a key part in persuading the PM to hold it in private.

Norman Tebbit evolved quickly from backbench hooligan to heavyweight, Peter Mandelson turned out to be an effective minister as well as spin doctor.

There is a growing consensus which includes cabinet ministers and journalists that Brown must act to control his main spin doctor, Damian McBride, who has been held responsible for some of the more personal attacks in recent months.

The Prime Minister doesn't know his Churchill, at least according to the former Labour Party spin doctor Damian McBride.

The full Newsnight debate between Jon Steafel, deputy editor of the Daily Mail, and Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, over the Mail's article about Ralph Miliband.

In outspoken comments during an interview with Sky News, he pointed the finger at Damian McBride, Mr Brown's former spin doctor who resigned last year over allegations about a planned smear campaign.

She was godmother to one of spin doctor Campbell's children, and Peter Mandelson was godfather to one of her brood.

«Gordon Brown has «good days and bad days» but is coming to terms with losing power, ex-Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell said yesterday.

Viewers objected to Adam Boulton's treatment of the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, and his on - screen clash with the former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell, and Kay Burley's interview with an electoral reformist.

«The full extent of the explosive feuds at the heart of New Labour are revealed today in a new book by Alastair Campbell.Tony Blair's former spin doctor discloses furious shouting matches between the ex-PM and Gordon Brown that left both men «with purple faces».»

Eleven months after Johnson's death at the age of 21, a summary of the findings of an official inquiry, published on Wednesday, reveals that senior Conservatives, including David Cameron's spin doctor Lynton Crosby and former co-chairman Lord Feldman, had raised concerns about Clarke's conduct.

Ed Miliband, the former climate change secretary, said the peer is «his own worst spin doctor» and had «offended just about everyone».

As a spin doctor he was combative and loyal and, after being elected as an MP in 2010, one of his jobs in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet involved coordinating party presentation.

PM's former spin doctor is asked about NoW's use of private detectives and his affair with Rebekah Brooks, on first day in witness box