Only a crafty blue spin doctor could make such a claim.
British Dictionary definitions for spin doctor
spin doctor
noun
1.
(informal) a person who provides a favourable slant to an item of news, potentially unpopular policy, etc, esp on behalf of a political personality or party
Word Origin
C20: from the spin given to a ball in various sports to make it go in the desired direction
Slang definitions & phrases for spin doctor
spin doctor
noun phrase
An adviser or agent, esp of a politician, who imparts a partisan analysis or slant to a story for the news media: Just after the debate, Johnson took his place with the other ''spin doctors''(mid-1980s+)
Idioms and Phrases with spin doctor
spin doctor
An individual charged with getting others to interpret a statement or event from a particular viewpoint, as in Charlie is the governor's spin doctor. This term, born about 1980 along with spin control, uses doctor in the colloquial sense of “one who repairs something.”