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Phrase(s): 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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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."
American Heritage Idioms