PLANK AUGUST 31, 2012
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I can’t stop playing with the New York Times’s interactive GOP convention word cloud. (It’s much better—and far more complete—than National Journal’s, which I mentioned in an earlier post.) The fun lies in entering a word or phrase that seems very pas devant les infants—i.e., an animating obsession of today’s GOP that the Romney folks didn’t want paraded in front of the general public in prime time during convention week—and finding out how seldom it came up in convention speeches. Please keep in mind that the Times widget’s search engine is quite literal, and that while several of the topics below were discussed, I can’t be expected to remember and input every last euphemism.
Abortion: 0.
Pro-choice: 0.
Pro-life: 0.
Homosexual: 0.
Gay: 0.
Marriage: 11.
Civil union: 0.
Values: 33.
Traditional values: 0.
Job creator: 2.
Incentive or incentivize: 0.
Legitimate rape, forcible rape, or rape: 0.
United Nations: 0.
Custer: 0.
Platform: 0. (!)
Federal Reserve or Fed: 2.
Bernanke: 0.
Free enterprise: 15.
Socialist or socialism: 0.
Strangle innovation: 0.
Suffocate: 0.
Central planners: 1.
Gun, rifle, weapon, or firearm: 3.
Second amendment: 0.
Rich: 7.
Poor: 12.
Poverty: 14.
Welfare: 13.
Dole: 1.
Dependency: 7.
Pathology: 0.
Class warfare: 1.
Voter ID or identification: 0.
Voter fraud: 0.
Sunday or weekend voting: 0.
Mainstream media: 1.
Media bias: 0.
Lamestream media: 0.
Cultural elite: 0.
Snob: 0.
Effete: 0.
Real America: 0.
Sarah Palin: 0.
There were also some words that have been in the news lately. I wondered about those, too.
Syria: 3.
Afghanistan: 4.
Iraq: 7.
European Union: 0.
Europe: 6.
Euro or Eurozone: 0.
Inequality: 1.
Global warming or climate change: 0.
Private equity: 3.
Wall Street: 2.
Bank or banks: 5.
On to Charlotte.
3 comments
"Marriage and values are pillars of our Free Enterprise society, our Job Creators! Despite interference from the Fed and Central planners and the MSM, with help from guns, we are rich and YOU are poor, living in poverty, on welfare, on the dole, in a Hammock of Dependency. "We are here to help! We are going to find you jobs in Syria or Afghanistan or Iraq, but not in Europe where Class Warfare is common, which is bad! Inequality is good! Vote for private equity, Wall Street and Banks!"
- Sophia
August 31, 2012 at 5:04pm
Scott Walker didn't campaign on ending collective bargaining for public unions. You might want to add 'Right to Work' to your searches.
- jet
August 31, 2012 at 8:36pm
We LOVE women! Women have the right to work! Freedom! Vote for us! We will repeal all these Job Killing Regulations, like equal pay and also, we don't waste time worrying about Tampa being underwater! New Orleans is already underwater! So what! We must cut the deficit and that means less of YOUR tax dollars going for that job killing federal relief assistance especially in poor states like Louisiana! Taking your tax dollars and sending them to Louisiana puts states like that which are underwater in A Hammock Of Dependency On The Job Killing Federal Government! So let them stop eating Dairy Queens and start a scuba diving business with a $20,000 loan from their daddies! Freedom!
- Sophia
September 1, 2012 at 2:05pm