Obvious, but interesting

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on March 2, 2007

I don't visit the lefty blogosphere all that often because too often there's little point in doing so. The mainstream media are generally pretty good about reporting accurately the position of the left and without the heaping pile of foul language that too often makes up most of the lefty blogs' "arguments."

Over at Newsbuckit, Patrick Ishmael did a Google search on the top blogs from the right and left of the blogosphere looking for George Carlin's infamous seven words you can't say on TV.

It should come as no surprise that you can find those words far more often on lefty blogs than right-wing blogs -- at a ration of 18-to-1.

Now, the study is a little inaccurate. I suspect that some of the hits are false positives where the offending word isn't in a blog post or even a comment, but in a trackback to the righty blog from the lefty one. For example, Evangelical Outpost had the dirty words 34 times according to Newsbuckit's search, but knowing the content of that site, I suspect that the vast majority of those are false positives.

0 comments on “Obvious, but interesting”

  1. Yo Matt,

    Just wanted to let you know I stop by here almost every day. Keep up the good work.

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