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The propaganda presidency of George W. Bush. By Jacob Weisberg Posted Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, at 7:13 PM ET A frequent complaint about the Clinton administration was that it tried too hard to "spin" everything in its own favor. Clinton's spin doctors had a variety of individual styles but shared a grating habit of relentlessly coloring the news to support their side in any argument. George Stephanopoulos, with whom the technique was closely identified, once defined spin as "a hope dressed up as... Sign in to see full entry.