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Just as old lefties could never concede that Alger Hiss was guilty and Kennedy hands must keep downplaying evidence of JFK's recklessness, they'll keep on spouting the spin.
We could present ourselves as the good guys--midwives to a historic settlement of health claims--while downplaying the role we played in minimizing (on our client's behalf) whatever sacrifice Big Tobacco had to make.
While the other papers all call this the centerpiece of Clinton's China trip, the WP claims that Clinton's team thought the televised press conference with Jiang Zemin had usurped this role, and so were downplaying the Beijing speech.
Is The Post downplaying the Times scoop or did the NYT overplay its hand?
Microsoft execs in general are well-known for downplaying the company's future prospects.