Two weeks prior to re-election, the President is accused of cornering a Girl Scout in the Oval Office. To keep the media from learning of this, Presidential adviser Winifred Ames brings in political consultant and spin doctor Conrad Brean, a specialist in such salvage operations. Brean suggests fabricating denials of non-existent emergencies — such as denials about the B-3 bomber. The denial, of course, is true, since no B-3 bomber exists. Brean visits the mansion of Hollywood producer Stanley Motss and gives him the assignment to create a patriotic campaign centered around a war in Albania. Motss assembles a creative team — Liz Butsky , the trend-setter Fad King, and songwriter Johnny Green. Treated like an ad campaign, the songs and symbols are transmitted directly from a Hollywood soundstage to CNN. The star of their campaign is a "rescued" pilot — in reality, a psychotic military prisoner, a psychotic freak. Nonetheles Brean`s mission is successful: the attention of the media is drawn toward a war in an unknown country, and the president is re-elected.