Pile of words? All we get is a pile of shit from both candidates.

lol McCain's got nothing left but negative campaigning.

I wonder if the biggest celebration in world history will occur if everyone wakes up and Obama won the election.

(Spare me the L.A. is a Ruskie traitor!!!!! Terrorist Muslim sympathiser bullshit wing nuts thanks I appreciate it. You know, free speech and all ya'll.)

And no I'm not moving to France either.

I found this interesting and telling.

JasonS @ 2:

So, from this, I gather that Obama opposes visit drilling and supporters donate future change.

LOL

Not bad.

L.A. Confidential @ 5:

I wonder if the biggest celebration in world history will occur if everyone wakes up and Obama won the election.

(Spare me the L.A. is a Ruskie traitor!!!!! Terrorist Muslim sympathiser bullshit wing nuts thanks I appreciate it. You know, free speech and all ya'll.)

And no I'm not moving to France either.

I diiiidn't quite follow that, but I know this:
win or eSPECially lose, we need to stay here to do everything we can to keep the GOP from destroying what's left of our country. And they WILL try to drag us down with them, if it's the last thing they do, like the Balrog and his whip.

Glad to know you are staying so we can keep frapping those idiots in the yamsack every time they need it (which is a lot).

Steaming Piles of Words

(I fixed it for ya.)

obama is just a corporate shill who fell into the georgian/russian trap set by cheney et al... i hope mccain wins... anything that brings down this nightmare quickly... revolution baby... suck it up...

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What the hell does that make me?

Get a clue, you haven't heard anything from McCain yet. What you will hear is "Why would any American vote for a Indonesian Muslim (I'm against neither Indonesians nor Muslims) named Barry Soetoro?" And what you will hear is "A corrupt individual associated with people like recently convicted Rezko." Assuming of course that Fitz doesn't indict him before the convention.

jimbo @ 19:

Get a clue, you haven't heard anything from McCain yet. What you will hear is "Why would any American vote for a Indonesian Muslim (I'm against neither Indonesians nor Muslims) named Barry Soetoro?" And what you will hear is "A corrupt individual associated with people like recently convicted Rezko." Assuming of course that Fitz doesn't indict him before the convention.

*snicker*
You so funny.

Ridiculous, but funny.

Pile of words = Tag Cloud

How did McCain's name not show up in his own Tag Cloud?

At any rate I just made two clouds comparing C&L and NRO Corner:

C&L

NRO Corner

Although http://wordle.net/ let's you enter the web address of any site that has read feed and that's how I made these. I'm not sure how it decides which words to auto edit (a, the, I, etc.). Because as I said, McCain's name appears on his site, but it missing from the Boston Globe's cloud (or at east I missed it). Looking at the tags I made, you'd think that d-bag Tinsley was big, big news according to C&L. Just sayin...

That's beautiful, because it uses actual data to cut through spin and framing, and show you exactly what the message is.

Can somebody please ask the Boston Globe to repeat this exercise with Bush's post 9/11 speeches? It will be clear what the message was there.

911/al Qaida/Saddam

Just out of curiosity, I copied and pasted the text from a few news websites and made tag clouds using the wordle site versus using their feeds.

ABC News Front Page Cloud

MSNBC Front Page Cloud

Fox News Front page Cloud

CNN Front page Cloud

All right, so now I've made a few of these Clouds using the exact same site that the Boston Globe says they used. I went to McCain's and Obama's Blog sites and copied and pasted all the text off their front pages and entered it into wordle.net. Here's what I came up with:

McCain Blog Front Page Cloud 8-14 2030EST

Obama Blog Front page Cloud 8-14 2030EST

Obviously, I copied EVERYTHING on the front pages, not just story text. As evident from the Digg, Facebook, etc tags in Obama's cloud, they're good at getting others to spread the word and have numerous stories on their front page. And I also created these clouds after the Boston Globe story came out, so I'm assuming that each candidate's blogs have been updated since then (maybe not though?). But I'm really, really curious how the Boston Globe cats did their Clouds because you can clearly see that McCain's name should have shown up in his cloud...

Zenrage @ 30:

I'd love to see this done with George W Dipshit's 2004 speeches.

How overwhelming do you think the words Terrorist and 9/11 would be?

Great Idea. You could do something spectacular with all the stupid crap he's said.
mushroom cloud, they hate us for our freedoms,terrrists,religion ect ,ect, ect.

Poor fella, he is so jealous of Obama and his ability to speak well and inspire American people, where he can not, is a shame. He has nothing to offer 90% of the American people, but he is very good to the 10%, that will be the only recipients of his continued extension of the Bush Tax Cuts, while he and the republicans continue to finance these contractors in that illegal invasion, he also strongly supported and continues to this day.

The old stupid senile 73 year old bastard, continues to try to get American people to see him as some kind of a hero, because of his 40year ago military experience, that he spent the majority of his time in captivity, after he recked four air plains, I might add.

Our troops are counting on us to rescue them from that hell they have been subjected to and I believe that the majority of American people are going to be running to the polls to vote democrats in not just the presidency, but every congressional and senate seat, open.

This election should no doubt be a blow out. We have the only necessary ingrediant to win this race, and that is the power of the numbers, where we will be joining hands all over this country to form a circle around our country and just snatch it back from the nasty, filthy, dirty hands of some of the most vile, disgusting people who will say and do anything for a dame buck.

I always thought that there has to be something so important to most people that they would not take money to protect and defend, but these people in our national media, our political arena and corporate America have shown me that, there are a lot of people who will sell everything they are as a people, to have money and power, and they sleep very well as they do it.

last week the nytimes had an article by Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg titled "In Loose Style, McCain Leads a Camp Divided" which was annoying enough that i sent in a letter to the editor, asking them what they are thinking publishing crap like that. below is part of the dissection i sent to the nytimes:

These are the words which they use to describe John McCain:

"so quick," "march off," "white tornado," "overseer of a kingdom," "keeps aides constantly on edge," "colliding centers of power," "tension is healthy," "hungers for information," "especially studious," "former navy pilot," "preaches," "improvise under pressure," "military maxim," "intensely loyal," "management style," "well informed," "flexible," "freewheeling," "shoot-from-the-hip," "damn-the-consequences authenticity," "grudging acceptance," "discipline," "avidly seeks," "routinely resists," "he refused," "intensely interested," "open to conflicting opinions," "impetuous," "tolerant," "less hierarchical," "more free-form style," "[like] Bill Clinton"

I have to admit, that last one really made me laugh. I guess they think there may be Democrats and/or independents who thought well enough of the Clinton presidency but may be dumb enough to believe on Nagourney and Rutenberg's say-so that McCain is even on the same planet as Bill Clinton.

Senator Obama, of course, is described as "rigidly controlled" and "nearly corporate."

even though the article was purporting to discuss the serious failings of mccain's campaign, it did so using language which insidiously leaves the reader with a much more helpful impression than the facts themselves do.

the piles of words are important because the cumulative effect is the one which sticks most thoroughly.