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Biden Ousts White House ‘Spin Doctor’ Who Treated Trump For COVID-19 Dr. Sean Conley issued conflicting statements about Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis last fall. He’s been replaced by Biden’s longtime physician, Dr. A spin doctor monitors newspaper articles that mention the organization he or she is working for. If someone controls the spin, or direction, of an object, he is showing the sides of it that he wants to show while not shedding light on the rest. A spin doctor uses spin control to emphasize or exaggerate the most positive aspect of something.
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One who manipulates information, often by attempting to present negative news as being somehow positive. The campaign's spin doctors somehow made the candidate's poor performance in the debate look like a sign that he was the more relatable candidate.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
spin doctor
someone who gives a twisted or deviously deceptive version of an event. (Usually in the context of manipulating the news for political reasons.) Things were going bad for the candidate, so he got himself a new spin doctor. A good spin doctor could have made the incident appear far less damaging.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
spin doctor
An individual charged with getting others to interpret a statement or event from a particular viewpoint, as in Charlie is the governor's spin doctor. This term, born about 1980 along with spin control, uses doctor in the colloquial sense of 'one who repairs something.'
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
spin doctor
n. someone who provides an interpretation of news or an event in a way that makes the news or event work to the advantage of the entity employing the spin doctor. (Usually in political contexts in reference to manipulating the news.) Things were going bad for the president, so he got himself a new spin doctor.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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