But the abrasive Mr Campbell was a Labour insider before he was a spin doctor.
Robert DeNiro plays a spin doctor who hires Dustin Hoffman (as a Hollywood producer) to oversee the charade.
He was a hammer of the left, a spin doctor before his time and the successful impresario of the Festival of Britain, the 1950s' equivalent of the Dome.
I'm grateful to Matt Withers of Media Wales for alterting the twittersphere to its use by C J Cregg, a spin doctor in the US political drama West Wing.
Keaton was never shy about incorporating his politics into everyday life, becoming a true spin doctor years before that term entered the lexicon.
His spokesman, a loyal but rough spin-doctor, was replaced earlier this year by a smooth-talking Catalan who is not even a member of Mr Aznar's party.
Some people did need a trip to the doctor before going for a spin.
Others, such as Gleb Pavlovsky, a weathered Kremlin spin-doctor, have been trumpeting Mr Medvedev's emergence as an independent and powerful leader.
The film, starring Bafta nominee Peter Capaldi as the venomous political spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker, is a spin-off from the BBC TV series The Thick of It.
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Mr Starr was criticised for summoning Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist turned White House spin doctor, to answer questions about press attacks on the inquiry.
Last week Carl Niehaus, the ANC's spin doctor and a former ambassador to the Netherlands, resigned after admitting to a web of lies, fraud and debt that financed a lavish lifestyle and must have been obvious to his bosses.
Mr Campbell, a former Daily Mirror journalist and spin doctor to Tony Blair, said he was "genuinely shocked" to see his evidence in the public domain.
Even into the 20th Century, slate company medical officers, with a nerve of which any spin-doctor today would be proud, were still describing the effects of silica dust on the lungs as "beneficial".
Omnishambles was first heard at the end of an episode in the third series of The Thick of It, during a characteristically foul-mouthed rant by spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, played by Peter Capaldi.
Mr Cameron said people often argued that "politicians shouldn't 'do God'" - a reference to a comment famously made by former No 10 spin doctor Alistair Campbell when Tony Blair was asked about his religion.
Or will he be in a sulk because of the resignation of Charlie Whelan, his own spin doctor, who is accused of engineering Mr Mandelson's fall?
He wrongly suggests that Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, worked for The Sun newspaper, and devotes a lot of space to a criticism of Labour's pitch for aspirational votes, confusing "Mr Galaxy" with the driver of the Ford Sierra Tony Blair famously recalled meeting during the 1992 general election.
From the moment he set up his political consultancy in a spare bedroom in 1985, Peter Mandelson (later Tony Blair's spin doctor) encouraged him, but few others did.
The e-mails were originally sent in January to former government spin doctor Derek Draper, who runs the LabourList blog and was proposing to set up a new gossip-led site.
Moreover, the Liberal Democrats have long advocated a review of drugs law, and several prominent Tories have shown a desire for fresh thinking most notably Alan Duncan, the party's new chief spin-doctor, who has argued with vigour for drug legalisation.
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