Spinning a yarn
Following on from yesterday's post on brainwashing, today's subject is spinning. Not an altogether unrelated subject you'll agree.
Everyone spins. And many spin great yarns. In fact, ah, some people I know have difficulty telling the difference between the lies and the truths that they tell.
However, for others the act of spinning is very much a calculated effort designed to befuddle the listener of spin. So it's no wonder that the Labour party in the UK and FF here in Ireland spend so much on spin.
Alastair Campbell is so busy in New Zealand with the Lions tour that I reckon some day his pants are going to fall to his ankles from the spinning. Oh, wait that's happened already.
The government has been fond of spin of late too. Only the other day it announced that it was to introduce a "green card" system for immigrant workers. When Irish people think of green cards, they think of the Morrison Visa and possibly that annoying French actor Gerard Depardieu. Green cards meant permanent residency for the Irish who went to the US.
So when the Irish government announced this green card system as part of the Employment Permits Bill 2005, what they should have said was that there was no guarantee that holders would be entitled to stay indefinitely.
I wonder will the same trousers-round-the-ankles spin syndrome affect Micheál Martin? Cut the bull, grab the horns and tell us the truth. We can handle it.
Published by Colm.
Everyone spins. And many spin great yarns. In fact, ah, some people I know have difficulty telling the difference between the lies and the truths that they tell.
However, for others the act of spinning is very much a calculated effort designed to befuddle the listener of spin. So it's no wonder that the Labour party in the UK and FF here in Ireland spend so much on spin.
Alastair Campbell is so busy in New Zealand with the Lions tour that I reckon some day his pants are going to fall to his ankles from the spinning. Oh, wait that's happened already.
The government has been fond of spin of late too. Only the other day it announced that it was to introduce a "green card" system for immigrant workers. When Irish people think of green cards, they think of the Morrison Visa and possibly that annoying French actor Gerard Depardieu. Green cards meant permanent residency for the Irish who went to the US.
So when the Irish government announced this green card system as part of the Employment Permits Bill 2005, what they should have said was that there was no guarantee that holders would be entitled to stay indefinitely.
I wonder will the same trousers-round-the-ankles spin syndrome affect Micheál Martin? Cut the bull, grab the horns and tell us the truth. We can handle it.
Published by Colm.
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