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...certain type of listener, delving deep into some homosexual imagery that may be off-putting, not because it’s homosexual, but rather because it’s awfully graphic. The squeamish will be thankful it’s often easy to miss on a casual spin: “Have already touched it / It builds the bone / Although I’ll never need it / It fills in the hole I know” is more in-joke than description, and though “I drank from the wine that came from inside / the heart...
...Sufjan is pleasing them it is not just despite of, but also because of his particular spin on praising the Lord. While his Christian leanings remained largely invisible for last year’s folk-rock revelation, Greetings from Michigan, they aren’t hiding at all on his newest and just-as-lovely record, Seven Swans. But forget the apparent flag-waving of titles like “Abraham,” or “The Transfiguration” or “In the Devil’s Territory;” Sufjan never eats...
...next morning even Bush was angry--with himself and his staff. "You're losing the spin war," he told his aides. Now he wanted the debate preparation streamlined. Too many people had pelted him with too much advice for him to keep it all straight, he said. So Rove told aides to leave the President alone. "Don't take that to him now," Rove was heard to say, "he's got campaigning...
...message team, as McCain was perfectly capable of breaking ranks with the President on issues ranging from Iraq reconstruction to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. On the eve of the first debate, campaign communications director Nicolle Devenish drew the line: McCain was forbidden to go into the postdebate spin sessions and give praise to both sides. That would be a loss for Bush. "People see you as the referee," she said. "We need you to be for us." McCain grumbled about getting instruction. But he knew what he needed to do. By the third debate, Bush asked McCain...
...history of trouble with Republicans. Had the Bush campaign made the same charges, they would probably have fallen flat. But though the bloggers were in some cases even more rabidly pro-Bush than his own staff members, they nevertheless seemed like gumshoes going after the truth. Bartlett eventually stopped spinning and just let the bloggers take over. Questions about the President's service dwindled, and CBS was forced to endure the kind of treatment White House aides received every week. "This is the gift that keeps on giving," said Bartlett at the time. "It's fun being on the other...