{"quotes":[{"text":"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","gay-rights","hate","hatred","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","oppression","oppression","political-correct","political-correctness","political-spins","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","power","privilege","privileges","propaganda","propaganda","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","racist","silence","silence","silencing","silencing-dissent","silencing-others","spin","spinning","unearned-blessings"],"id":12055,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.","author":"Thomas Hobbes","tags":["fact","fortune","luck","manipulation","spin"],"id":49102,"author_id":"Thomas+Hobbes"},{"text":"To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.","author":"Tana French","tags":["death","spin"],"id":70885,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.","author":"Tim Weiner","tags":["bureaucracy","marketing","messaging","salesmanship","spin"],"id":113497,"author_id":"Tim+Weiner"},{"text":"Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.","author":"Max Brooks","tags":["journalism","media","news","spin"],"id":227996,"author_id":"Max+Brooks"},{"text":"How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ascents","boast","boasting","deceit","deception","deserts","distort","fake","fear","flee","frightened","hide","hiding","journey","lie","lies","life","run","running","scared","spin"],"id":304708,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.","author":"Benjamin Netanyahu","tags":["cynicism","hasbara","israel","justice","machiavellianism","media","media-manipulation","public-relations","right-wing","spin","zionists"],"id":311663,"author_id":"Benjamin+Netanyahu"},{"text":"Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity.","author":"Josh Stern","tags":["anyone","creativity","humor","loss","spin","total","victory"],"id":317224,"author_id":"Josh+Stern"},{"text":"But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.","author":"Roy Peter Clark","tags":["batman","batmobile","but","but-turn","grammar","language","spin","turn"],"id":337698,"author_id":"Roy+Peter+Clark"},{"text":"As the campaign progressed, Armistead remembered what his parents had taught him: If you never tell a lie, you won't have to remember what you said.He subsequently developed a perverse respect for politicians who had mastered the art of spin. It was a skill to produce an answer having nothing to do with the question.He didn't think he was crafty enough to do it.","author":"Rodney Page","tags":["honesty","politics","public-relations","spin"],"id":344139,"author_id":"Rodney+Page"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}