Megyn Kelly Quotes

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

The age of spin should be over.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

The media loves negative spin.

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy