The f'ing left

[Usually Lurkin]

mcsluggo's reply in the "Democrats are so patriotic" thread and the recent bruhaha over Edwards' bloggers had me thinking: are people on the left really that crass?

Apparantly, I'm not the only one.



http://newsbuckit.blogspot.com/2007/...er-say-on.html

Seven words you can never say on television"... but which are said on the Internet. A lot.
a post written by Patrick Ishmael
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 @ 8:15 PM
Talk about potty-mouths.

The Net's not always a kid-friendly place; there is plenty of foul language out there. And of course, the blogosphere is no different.

But how different are the Rightosphere and Leftosphere when it comes to "dirty" language? Which side produces the most profanity-laced diatribes? Via Instapundit, I happened upon this interesting challenge from InstaPunk:

I propose an exercise to be performed by those who have the software and expertise to carry it out. The exercise is this: Search six months' worth of content, posts and comments, of the 20 most popular blogs on the right and the left. The search criteria are George Carlin's infamous '7 Dirty Words.' [Click this link for the list of expletives.]

And this is what I found, using what I deemed -- through a mix of TTLB and 2006's Weblog Award lists -- to be the 18 biggest Lefty blogs, and 22 biggest Righty blogs. I couldn't account for the 6-month time period, and I even gave the Lefty blogs a 4 blog advantage. But it didn't make much of a difference.

So how much more does the Left use Carlin's "seven words" versus the Right? According to my calculations, try somewhere in the range of 18-to-1.

Yowsers.

How did I get this result? I searched Google using the following format and recorded the page results that were returned:

site:xyz.com "search term 1" OR "search term 2" OR "search term 3"...

Nine search terms total -- the seven profanities as single words, and two of those as their own two-word variations. I then added the individual site results together and compared them. The results are below.





Of course... is anyone surprised? Barring some mass programming shenanigans on the part of Right blogospheric bloggers, this pretty well fits, and goes beyond, the predictions most of us would have made.

Feel free to replicate the experiment and send your results, or if you have a refinement to the method or blog lists, send those, too. We're always willing to add to the profanity data bank.

And of course, this isn't scientific. But hey, it's pretty @*%#$&! close.

(Cross-posted at Gateway Pundit.)

Labels: blogosphere

[mcsluggo]

HA! thats f***ing rich!

[dude1394]

An update.. Timely stuff UL.

....

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.

[big_pth]

First of all, who freakin' cares? Second of all, these are BLOGS! The majority of bloggers are wannabe journalists who never made the cut in school or at the paper they applied at. The majority of bloggers are HACKS who don't do any research into their topics, besides what can be found on these here intrawebs. They conduct "interviews" by email, and rarely leave their desks/laptop stands. They use other Bloggers as references to support their arguments. Again, they are wannabe hacks. Both on the left and the right.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by big_pth

First of all, who freakin' cares? Second of all, these are BLOGS! The majority of bloggers are wannabe journalists who never made the cut in school or at the paper they applied at. The majority of bloggers are HACKS who don't do any research into their topics, besides what can be found on these here intrawebs. They conduct "interviews" by email, and rarely leave their desks/laptop stands. They use other Bloggers as references to support their arguments. Again, they are wannabe hacks. Both on the left and the right.

As opposed to "real" journalists right? I think you are underestimating citizen journalists.

[purplefrog]

I'm curious how do you think we should interpret these results?

[mcsluggo]

Liberals f***ing curse a s***load more than p***y f***ing d***head conservatives with their g****mned sphinkter tightening heads up their s**t covered a**holes.

[Mavdog]

this is so easy to understand, the right is too uptight to allow themselves to freely express their opinions with the color and emphasis that profanity affords....

[big_pth]

Originally Posted by dude1394

As opposed to "real" journalists right? I think you are underestimating citizen journalists.

Uh...no...I am not. 95% of Bloggers do not answer to editors. They don't have fact checkers. They don't have to have what they are going to throw up on their blog checked and then approved by someone else. They can just throw whatever crap they want against the wall and see if it sticks. There is little to no accountability in the "blogosphere." And yes, a REAL journalist will go out and do the interviews, do the leg work. They have other people check the facts before it is allowed out.

[chumdawg]

Adios, mofo.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by big_pth

Uh...no...I am not. 95% of Bloggers do not answer to editors. They don't have fact checkers. They don't have to have what they are going to throw up on their blog checked and then approved by someone else. They can just throw whatever crap they want against the wall and see if it sticks. There is little to no accountability in the "blogosphere." And yes, a REAL journalist will go out and do the interviews, do the leg work. They have other people check the facts before it is allowed out.

Dan Rather, Eason Jordan, Lawrence Odonnel, George Galloway.

[alexamenos]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to mcsluggo again.

Originally Posted by mcsluggo

Liberals f***ing curse a s***load more than p***y f***ing d***head conservatives with their g****mned sphinkter tightening heads up their s**t covered a**holes.

even tho i hate all the f***ing profanity that masks the s***-for-brains stupidity of the typical blog/i-net post, etc....

i do ever-so-f***ing much enjoy a good retort.

cheers

[WurzburgBorn]

I'm not trying to make an argument against the thesis that there's more swearing on the left's pages, but since I consider myself on the left, it'd be cool to see the numbers on the left pages I actually visit.

http://www.commondreams.org/
http://democracynow.org/
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

Maybe they're just not considered blogs.

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally Posted by WurzburgBorn

I'm not trying to make an argument against the thesis that there's more swearing on the left's pages, but since I consider myself on the left, it'd be cool to see the numbers on the left pages I actually visit.

http://www.commondreams.org/
http://democracynow.org/
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

Maybe they're just not considered blogs.

Give it a shot, Wurzburg. Here's what Patrick Ishmael did:
"How did I get this result? I searched Google using the following format and recorded the page results that were returned:

site:xyz.com "search term 1" OR "search term 2" OR "search term 3"...

Nine search terms total -- the seven profanities as single words, and two of those as their own two-word variations. I then added the individual site results together and compared them. The results are below."

Those sites you mentioned may not have been at his sources, "TTLB and 2006's Weblog Award." It would probably be worth it to run the searches, though, and post the results as a comment on his blog.

[big_pth]

Originally Posted by dude1394

Dan Rather, Eason Jordan, Lawrence Odonnel, George Galloway.

Rather and Jordan quit because they screwed up. That doesn't make all journalist liars. If you think four examples of journalists making mistakes proves that all bloggers are 100% truthful and are just as reliable as respected journalists, then I will cease trying to discuss this with you as I doubt anything will change your mind.