Posted on 01/26/2011 6:32:33 PM PST by speciallybland
This is a "word cloud" of President Obama's State of the Union address. The size of the words correspond to the frequency with which they were uttered by Obama. By looking at the cloud (which doesn't include common words like the, because that would be stupid), you can see some of the themes Obama focused on: "jobs," "people," "new."
Last night, after it was over, NPR asked its listeners to describe Obama's address in three words. They then tallied up all 4,000 or so responses and made that into a word cloud — a snapshot of what people took away from the speech. Here's what it looks like:
This is why we can't have nice things.
It did seem a bit fishy.
whence all the yack about salmon?
...I fear the odor of the BS struck me blind and deaf....
Zero made a stupid joke about salmon...mm
"0bama appoints salmon czar"
I like how ‘troops’ is one of the smallest words in the first bubble. Really highlights the CIC’s priorities.
Swimming upstream...against the current...to spawn...and die.
I chuckled when Zer0 talked about smoked salmon. I thought that salmon would be something Zer0 would try smoking—smoking in a pipe that is! LOL!
Heh... I actually thought that the salmon joke was about the only lucid moment he had. It was a pretty good line.
Looking at the cloud, one gets the impression that Obama thinks americans need jobs, spending, and government.
Yep, because Salmon only brought back memories of:
June 4, 2009
A prominent regional conservationist was appointed the first-ever Great Lakes czar Wednesday, making good on President Barack Obama’s campaign promise to elevate the health of the Great Lakes as a national issue.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/46866622.html
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
CHICAGO — The White House has tapped a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Wildlife Federation as the Asian carp czar to oversee the federal response to keeping the invasive species out of the Great Lakes.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/09/obama_names_carp_czar_to_overs.html
The "salmon" quote was an adaptation of ..I think FDR...or similar...
...who was talking about the argument between the state governments and the bureau of land management over the ownership of the bears....
....his joke was if a bear from a bureau of land management property crossed the border to mate with a bear from the state land...who owned the cubs.
See Levin transcript for today for the details.
seems that most of 0bambis teleprompter text was stolen.
That might actually be a good thing.
But then again, one of the smallest words is 'think'.
The only thing I heard last night was ....
more of the same
more of the same
more of the same
more of the same
more of the same
more of the same
more of the same
more of the same
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