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Spin - v.t. 1. n. the filament that holds the polity in place for the political spider.
2. n. the textile from which the cloak of deception is woven.
3. v.t. It is to fabricate and broadcast a yarn, story, or metaphor whose purpose is to argue eloquently that a disastrous policy decision or event actually represents the best of all possible worlds. It is frequently a framing context whose purpose is to reinterpret a fact inconvenient or embarrasing to some authority.

• Administration
• Cloak
• Cynic
• Eloquence
• Ironic Framing
• Realist
• Story

Author: S.R. Brubaker
Copyright: Stephen R. Brubaker, 2006. All Rights Reserved

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