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Tony Blankley taught me the art of the spin.

He said to me, with his slight British accent, “First, you have a conversation off the record with the reporter, where you establish the facts, and then you give them something on the record which gives them your analysis.”

Blankley was Newt’s press secretary at the time, and I was Tom DeLay’s newly minted communications director, one who had never spoken to a reporter “on the record” before. Tony’s advice was priceless, and I would use it throughout my career on Capitol Hill.

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