Word use analysis proves Dems care more about 9/11 than Repubs

[Bill]

pretty much speaks for itself...

Twice as much, actually - isn't that interesting.

The word distribution is kinda funny.

Republicans apparently care the most about - God (imposing their god on others), taxes ( deferring them into the future, living on borrowed money and passing the costs and the interest onto the children), and business (sucking the dick of).

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/us/politics/20080905_WORDS_GRAPHIC.html

from metafilter

[disrupter]

To have committed 911 you WOULD have to be pretty callous about it.

Those who weren't insiders, who didn't know it was coming would have been much more shocked by it.

[Smurf-Herder]

pretty much speaks for itself...

Twice as much, actually - isn't that interesting.

The word distribution is kinda funny.

Republicans apparently care the most about - God (imposing their god on others), taxes ( deferring them into the future, living on borrowed money and passing the costs and the interest onto the children), and business (sucking the dick of).

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/us/politics/20080905_WORDS_GRAPHIC.html

from metafilter

And you get all that just out of how many times a given word was spoken?

That's reading a hell of lot into a little, isn't it?

[PhoneMistress]

No this is interesting. Anyone know what sort of chart this is?

I heard someone did something similar regarding McCain's use of the word 'I'. I think 200 times versus Hillary Clinton's use, was it 50 times? There was some sort of hoopla about that.

[Smurf-Herder]

No this is interesting. Anyone know what sort of chart this is?

I heard someone did something similar regarding McCain's use of the word 'I'. I think 200 times versus Hillary Clinton's use, was it 50 times? There was some sort of hoopla about that.

The question is, when were they counting and when weren't they counting.

Are they talking every single speech since they announced they were running? Did they give an equal number of speeches to be compared to each other? How many times were the speeches repeated; and when did they write new speeches? Was it just speeches, or did it include Q&A, or interviews?

And I wonder how Obama matches up.

[Bill]

Got it from metafilter - the poster seemed to be suggesting NYT did it in response to Guiliani's charge that the dems didn't talk about 9/11.

But I don't really know. Nor can I know if it's actually accurate.

But it does seem like it might be - one would think it easily refuted if it wasn't.

[Smurf-Herder]

Got it from metafilter - the poster seemed to be suggesting NYT did it in response to Guiliani's charge that the dems didn't talk about 9/11.

But I don't really know. Nor can I know if it's actually accurate.

But it does seem like it might be - one would think it easily refuted if it wasn't.

I noticed it also said this on your linked page:

"Republican speakers have talked about reform and character far more frequently than the Democrats."

So by the exact same reasoning this thread is based on - Word use analysis proves Republicans care more about Reform and Character than Democrats.