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Weekly Standard Scrapbook: Lefty site has 60x more profanity than FR
The Weekly Standard ^
| 3/3/2007
Posted on 03/03/2007 6:28:05 AM PST by NYS_Eric
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To: NYS_Eric
Update @ 9:16am: Great point by reader Joe.
What? No Democratic Underground? No IndyMedia? No FreeRepublic? No Townhall? No FrontPageMag?
And thus, the numbers:
- Democratic Underground: 947,000
- IndyMedia: 206,000
- FreeRepublic: 4010
- TownHall.com (minus HH blog): 156
- FrontPageMag: 11,800
It only gets worse... 1537788-to-37285.
41-to-1. Holy mackeral.
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:44:28 AM PST
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: NYS_Eric
1 every 121 pages" for the Free Republic . . . If you deleted all of my posts, this number would probably change to 1 profanity every 14,000+ pages. LOL.
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:45:49 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: conservativeharleyguy
"...M***********"...!" I first heard that word in "music" played in a Florida public college cafeteria. I'd just gotten out of the Navyin 1972!
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:46:53 AM PST
by
Eclectica
(Ask your MD about Evolution. Please!)
To: veronica
So long as that 80% Giuliani speaks of truly includes a commitment to putting Scalia-type judges on the federal courts (especially the Sup Court), then he may be okay. I'd like to hear him reconcile his support for Roe with this alleged desire to support anti-Roe judges like Scalia.
I'm sure he'd be terrible on immigration, but then again, so is President Bush, Senator McCain, and all prominent Democrats.
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:47:56 AM PST
by
Aetius
To: NYS_Eric
Profanity is a crutch used by people with little intelligence and a limited vocabulary.
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:48:05 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The dims and Ron Paul screwed our troops.)
To: saganite
Being against Rudy is fine. It's the way that is expressed, by some, that is embarrassing.
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:48:24 AM PST
by
veronica
('My 80% ally is not my 20% enemy.' ........Rudy reminds us what Ronald Reagan said.)
To: NYS_Eric
This comes as no surprise. They've been working so hard to define vulgarity as free speech because without it, they'd have little means to express themselves.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:49:29 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: Stepan12
>>>There's no reason for Freepers/Conservatives to descend into such a gutter as the Lib/Commies!
My Grandma always said that profanity was the feeble minded people's way of expressing themselves with force. Wise lady, my Grandma. Miss her dearly...
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:50:25 AM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
(2007 Democrats: As FONDA the troops as HANOI JANE in the 1970's.)
To: Enterprise; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Conservatives paid attention in school, thus, they have more words to choose from. Would you say we have a... PLETHORA of words to choose from?
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:50:30 AM PST
by
cgk
To: Enterprise
nope - it must have been pulled.
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:51:06 AM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: cgk
"Plethora? Plethopra? We don' need no steenkin' plethora!"
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:54:45 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(Drop pork bombs on the Islamofascist wankers. Praise the Lord and pass the hammunition.)
To: NYS_Eric
hmmmmm....wonder why my employer filters FreeRepublic, but allows DU?
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:00:00 AM PST
by
cincinnati65
(Lucky participant in 189 different Nigerian business deals......still waiting on payment.)
To: NYS_Eric
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To: NYS_Eric
Can't find the article at the link you posted.
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:01:41 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: conservativeharleyguy; Arrowhead1952
Those possibilities are certainly true, in and of themselves, but throw in the anger factor and it certainly increases the amount of profanity.
My personal opinion on the "quick and dirty" is that I think DU got sampled in an off period.
I can't remember the last time I went there, or why, but the indiscriminate use of profanity mooted any effort at comprehending whatever the topic and "analysis" was.
To: All
If you look up the seven words(which I won't repeat here), it's certainly not words we use around here regularly, with the exception of maybe sh*t when we say BS. My theory is that PJ's daily DU funnies that quote some of the bad words on DU are skewing our results.
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:02:41 AM PST
by
Elyse
(I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
To: NYS_Eric
It's obvious from a quick reading that the leftist sites have little of substance to say.
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:03:13 AM PST
by
popdonnelly
([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
To: Aetius
So long as that 80% Giuliani speaks of truly includes a commitment to putting Scalia-type judges on the federal courts (especially the Sup Court), then he may be okay.He just appointed his old friend and Reagan Justice Dept ally Ted Olsen as chair of his legal and judicial advisory group. That's about as good a start as he can get.
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:03:19 AM PST
by
Reo
To: NYS_Eric
Never mind, I found it but it's not an excerpt, you posted the whole thing.
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:03:56 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: cgk
Plethora? PLETHORA???? We don't need no stinking PLETHORA!!!
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:05:23 AM PST
by
Reo
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