spokesweasel
n.— «Day to day, spokespeople also never know when they’re going to be besmirched. Jim Suydam, who speaks for Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, had a newspaper dub him “spokesweasel.”» —“Flacks talk talk, but they have to walk walk, too” by W. Gardner Selby Austin American-Statesman (Texas) Oct. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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