WHEN SPIN GIVES YOU TROUBLE

JANUARY 12 2007 09:22h

Imagine Macek Went To Confession

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What penance would the church give him for this kind of behaviour, when he sinned by thought and words and deeds and oversight?

Up until now, it was said that the Prime Minister’s spokesman is what every party and every politician would want. Many praised his resourcefulness and agility in placing information to the media.

Ministers would shake after reading information about themselves in the newspaper. They would ask the spokesman right away who was framing them, and he would calmly, as a baby-faced assassin answer he did not know and that he would look into it.

He lied on behalf of the Prime Minister

He attacked on behalf of the Prime Minister, framed on behalf of the Prime Minister, lied on behalf of the Prime Minister. To put it simply, he was the perfect spin doctor of the Prime Minister.

Imagine this spokesman going to confession. What penance would the Church give him for this kind of behaviour, when he sinned by thought and words and deeds and oversight?

Until now, his work functioned well, when his boss would find himself in trouble he would skilfully turn the topic to something different and pull out a new affair by which he would draw attention from his boss. But according to the latest statements of our spokesman, he began to do his boss harm. In a tremendous desire to protect his boss, he paved way to issues which his boss would like nothing better than to burry them in the ground with an excavator.

Pursy Macek

Unreported watches are a painful issue for each prime minister, and especially painful for this one. In a burning desire to defend him, the spokesman said the Prime Minister likes luxury watches and that no-one who is not rich should not be in politics.

He said this in a country where 800,000 people are bordering on the line of poverty. A few facts are clear from these kinds of statements: that the Prime Minister has passed on his nervousness to the spokesman, that the spokesman is not socially sensitive as neither is his boss, and that he gave himself airs during his time in office.

But, after all the harm he did, trying to work damage control of the watches affair, it appears to be that fatigue of material came to pass with the spokesman or could he be a victim of mobbing? Who knows. Prime Minister, it is time for a change. Of a spokesman, of course.

Vesna Skare-Ozbolt,

Democratic Centre party (DC)