Austan Goolsbee writes for the NYT and figures out who is who in the bias battle. Here amongst other deep analyses, they associate words with political affiliations and terms like Terri Schiavo as catch phrase of the Republicans. Oh really??? We visited the media sources daily prior to the election and found vast leftist quantities of references to disparage Terri's Legacy. These far lefties who would have us MoveOn are themselves unable to shake the effect of her legacy and repeat her name over and over,(maybe in their efforts to purge it from their consciences or whatever replaced consciences). We see the same patterns on our threads as interlopers cry that we should MoveOn, yet cannot break themselves away from fretting.
Hear it from the New York Times...
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Dr. Gentzkow and Dr. Shapiro started in the world of the political. They parsed the words of politicians — all the words — from the 2005 Congressional Record. They found the 1,000 most partisan phrases uttered in the year. They measured this by comparing how frequently a phrase was used by one side or the other.
In 2005, phrases like “death tax,” “illegal aliens,” “Terri Schiavo,” and “nuclear power” came mostly from Republicans. Phrases like “minimum wage,” “public broadcasting,” “middle class” and “oil companies” came mostly from Democrats. Using those phrases, the two economists made a simple index of partisanship that comported nicely with standard measures like a politician’s score on the Americans for Democratic Action ideological scale.
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