I missed this one last night: DDHQ projects Steve Hilton wins the second of two spots in the CA Governor Primary

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. British political adviser turned radio/podcast idiot in the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hilton

I said a couple of weeks ago that government press chief Malcolm Tucker got all the best lines in The Thick of It. But this week, with the welcome return of the opposition, Stewart Pearson (Vincent Franklin) – the herbal-tea drinking, bearded, shaven-headed, cringingly Cameroonian spin doctor – rather puts him to shame.

Stewart is perhaps partly based on David Cameron's marketing guru Steve Hilton, who has supposedly voted Green at past elections and for a sustained period supervised the Tory leader's progress from an eyrie in California, where his wife worked for Google.

Stewart's primary job seems to be to remodel unreconstructed old Tory Peter Mannion (Roger Allam) in the leader's image, and this he does by assaulting him with a relentless barrage of horribly believable modernising buzzwords: "I like the plasmic nature of your data modelling" … "Let's imagineer the narrative" … "What's the weather like over at the Guardian? How do we counter-massage?" … "fractal retaliation" … "badissimo" ... "Knowledge is porridge."

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2009/nov/14/the-thick-of-it-series-3-episode-4