Spin Doctors: What Good Luck!
October 31st 2006 23:35
Spin Doctors: What Good Luck
Does anyone else get the feeling that there must be a huge company completely dedicated to Spin Doctors? Is there a factory that stamps them out like identical toys? They were once kept in storage only to be brought out at election times and moments of electoral crisis now they are being taken out of the cupboard so often that the door has been ripped off. The Spin Doctor need only be fed negative energy in the form of information to start up and magically reverse the polarity of its input to produce a positive output. They work a like the old children’s book ‘Bad Luck, Good Luck.’ In the picture book we are shown a series of crisis that a person must face and their instant solution. “What bad luck, I fell out of an aircraft. What good luck, I have a parachute. What bad luck, it won’t open. What good luck, I heading for a bail of hay…” You get the idea? Only with the spin doctors it is: “What bad luck, we can’t find Bin Laden. What good luck, we can attack Saddam. What bad luck, people don’t like war. What good luck, we can say he has WMDs….” and so on.
In the current environment the spin doctor machines are running in overdrive. The US elections are on and there are so many things that require a reverse polarity that propaganda machine are being used for backup. The anti-Freedom of speech machine was getting a little tired and requires high maintenance. There is a sense of panic that due to the overload of work that may be all these machines may fail convert enough negative input to positive output.
Donald Rumsfeld is so concerned about negative media reports that he stated that it keeps him up at night. George Bush has stated that losing the elections would be a win for the terrorists. Closer to home the failure to find and WMDs in Iraq was changed from bad luck to good because Saddam was removed. The pit of recourses to create spin is as endless as it can rhetorically be.
Critics of the Spin Doctor machines claim that spin flies in the face of facts and won’t save anyone from a disaster. They show examples of how the greatest uses of spin: Hitler and Stalin could not hide their own failures. Even Mao, the darling of 1970’s communism, is taking a battering after his death. Spin can be seen as mindless propaganda so that even the most loyal follower does not lose faith in the leader. There could also be a fatal flaw in the basic design of a Spin Doctor machine, the flaw being the reality of overwhelming evidence. No amount of spin can hide the results of war forever. No amount of spin can hide a drought. No amount of spin can hide a famine. In the end it looks as stupid as the old book ‘Bad Luck, good Luck’.
‘What good luck, we can continue with the war. What bad luck, our economy is being ruined. What good luck, we have Spin Doctors. What bad luck, we can’t afford to pay them. What good luck….? Game over?” Well it was a stupid book anyway.
Does anyone else get the feeling that there must be a huge company completely dedicated to Spin Doctors? Is there a factory that stamps them out like identical toys? They were once kept in storage only to be brought out at election times and moments of electoral crisis now they are being taken out of the cupboard so often that the door has been ripped off. The Spin Doctor need only be fed negative energy in the form of information to start up and magically reverse the polarity of its input to produce a positive output. They work a like the old children’s book ‘Bad Luck, Good Luck.’ In the picture book we are shown a series of crisis that a person must face and their instant solution. “What bad luck, I fell out of an aircraft. What good luck, I have a parachute. What bad luck, it won’t open. What good luck, I heading for a bail of hay…” You get the idea? Only with the spin doctors it is: “What bad luck, we can’t find Bin Laden. What good luck, we can attack Saddam. What bad luck, people don’t like war. What good luck, we can say he has WMDs….” and so on.
In the current environment the spin doctor machines are running in overdrive. The US elections are on and there are so many things that require a reverse polarity that propaganda machine are being used for backup. The anti-Freedom of speech machine was getting a little tired and requires high maintenance. There is a sense of panic that due to the overload of work that may be all these machines may fail convert enough negative input to positive output.
Donald Rumsfeld is so concerned about negative media reports that he stated that it keeps him up at night. George Bush has stated that losing the elections would be a win for the terrorists. Closer to home the failure to find and WMDs in Iraq was changed from bad luck to good because Saddam was removed. The pit of recourses to create spin is as endless as it can rhetorically be.
Critics of the Spin Doctor machines claim that spin flies in the face of facts and won’t save anyone from a disaster. They show examples of how the greatest uses of spin: Hitler and Stalin could not hide their own failures. Even Mao, the darling of 1970’s communism, is taking a battering after his death. Spin can be seen as mindless propaganda so that even the most loyal follower does not lose faith in the leader. There could also be a fatal flaw in the basic design of a Spin Doctor machine, the flaw being the reality of overwhelming evidence. No amount of spin can hide the results of war forever. No amount of spin can hide a drought. No amount of spin can hide a famine. In the end it looks as stupid as the old book ‘Bad Luck, good Luck’.
‘What good luck, we can continue with the war. What bad luck, our economy is being ruined. What good luck, we have Spin Doctors. What bad luck, we can’t afford to pay them. What good luck….? Game over?” Well it was a stupid book anyway.
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