But the abrasive Mr Campbell was a Labour insider before he was a spin doctor.
He was the original spin doctor, working for the most controversial client in the world.
The Australian spin doctor told the MPs they had to decide whether they were "commentators or participants".
Robert DeNiro plays a spin doctor who hires Dustin Hoffman (as a Hollywood producer) to oversee the charade.
"You can throw the kitchen sink at him and nothing happens, " says his chief spin doctor, Aurelio German.
"Just what the spin doctor ordered, " was how veteran Sixty Minutes correspondent Charles Wooley jovially introduced his scoop.
Tony does not see why his top spin doctor should be trashed in public by his own party.
Every speech of every leader is described by every spin doctor as personal.
Mr McBride used his Downing Street account when he sent the e-mails in January to former government spin doctor Derek Draper.
Keaton was never shy about incorporating his politics into everyday life, becoming a true spin doctor years before that term entered the lexicon.
The spin doctor Connie Brean (Robert De Niro) partners with the Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to concoct a straight-to-video war with Albania.
Mr Starr was criticised for summoning Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist turned White House spin doctor, to answer questions about press attacks on the inquiry.
The non-appearance of the great Iraqi spin doctor Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf.
Thanks to Mr Byers and Alistair Campbell, the prime minister's chief spin doctor, 6pm on Wednesday evening found the nation's printing presses poised to roll.
Tony Blair's former spin doctor Lance Price says the footage from St Paul's will "not do him any harm" as it was an authentic, humanising moment.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jiang also deftly parried questions in high-profile encounters with senior American journalists and displayed new public-relations savvy (see also Beijing's Spin Doctor: An impressive show, if still slightly flawed).
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.
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.
That was partly because of Mr Scarlett's defence of the government's Iraq weapons dossier during Lord Hutton's inquiry, and was not helped by the fact that Tony Blair's former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, apparently refers to Mr Scarlett as "mate".
Former Downing Street spin doctor Lance Price, who published his diaries of the period between 1997 and 2001 earlier this year, told the committee he had waited five years before publication and - unlike many anonymous Whitehall sources - his name was "on the dust jacket".
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.
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