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Bottlerman, Bottlerman, Does Whatever A Bottler Can

At his latest press conference, Gordon Brown uttered the seemingly banal phrase, “With power comes responsibility,” which several people have noticed to be a close rip-off from one of the lines of Spiderman.  That ‘s perhaps not the best association to conjure up for a government now desperately trying to rid itself of a reputation for “spin.”  (Drumroll, please.)

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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