Leftists spun for former President Bill Clinton . Reflexive conservatives are spinning now for President George W. Bush . Corporate America spins all the time.
Politicians spin for themselves and each other.
And, sadly, many in the Church's hierarchy have become pretty adept at spinning. A reigning cardinal spun for one of his brother bishops, a man who the cardinal knew was guilty of having molested his own priests and of consorting with male prostitutes. The wreckovation of our churches is spun regularly as being consonant with Vatican directives. Indeed, the phenomenon of spinning is so pronounced that there ought to be a convention for spinners featuring the grand masters of this art of lying. Experts from the civil and ecclesiastical order, obviously, both would be featured.