Fresh from their groundbreaking analysis of how frequently journalists chuckle during Robert Gibbs' press conferences, Politico scores another coup today, analyzing nearly all of the 250,000,000 words President Obama has uttered since taking office. They find that Obama uses the word "terrorism" far less often than his predecessor, and uses the words "health" and "economy" far more often. He's the Basil Fawlty of American politics! DOESN'T HE KNOW THERE ARE TWO WARS GOING ON? Other stunning findings: "The president has said 'basketball' 33 times, but 'hockey' only once." Pretty damn revealing, don't you think?
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Just when I think they can't be more annoying, Kazam.
He's also said "beer" more than "bin Laden"--unless you count those as two words, at which point it becomes much less statistically significant.
It's the same problem quantifying Balk's missives, for blow job
Did they list all of the things he didn't say? Because that's the standard Politico opening to a piece on Obama. "At today's _____________, President Obama didn't mention ____________..."