DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

Spin Doctors : Spin doctors are wordsmiths — often posing as media consultants, and sometimes as lawyers — who promise to take your sow’s ear and pass it off as a silk purse. They either tell direct lies (”Pig? What pig? This is a silk purse!”) or make true statements that leave false impressions (”This purse, reinforced with a component of porcine audio accessory, has the durability of finest quality silk.”). To be fair, up until the 21st Earth Century, few spin doctors push outright lies, but many a whopper has been told by using only selected truths. This is no longer true. In fact, these days Spin Doctors = Outright Liars.

Avoid at all costs.