Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Day

The line lands with a journalist's practiced shrug: not a moral stance, just a fact-check. "I'm not against vodka" is a preemptive deflection, the kind that anticipates a tabloid-minded listener itching to turn a denial into prudishness or hypocrisy. Day positions himself as reasonable, even convivial, before he tightens the screws: "they just asked us". The passive construction is doing heavy work here. He and his colleagues aren't scheming hosts to the glamorous; they're functionaries responding to a request, swept into someone else's narrative.

Then comes the real target: the machinery of reputational mythmaking. "They put out some story" reduces an insinuation to a manufactured product, something packaged and distributed. The phrase "international celebrities" is bait: it invokes the Cold War-era cocktail of glamour, influence, and suspicion, the whiff of soft power and elite access. Pair it with vodka and you get a ready-made insinuation about indulgence, compromised judgment, even foreign entanglement. Day's correction isn't just about a drink; it's about refusing the coded meaning attached to the drink.

The clipped closure - "which of course wasn't true" - is classic broadcast-era authority: the tone of a man used to adjudicating public reality on air. "Of course" signals that the lie is obvious to anyone playing fair, and that the real scandal is the bad-faith storyteller. Underneath the denial is a defense of professional integrity: if journalism is supposed to puncture fiction, it can't survive when it becomes fodder for it.