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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

CNN Has SOTU By The Numbers

CNN has made this list of frequently used words from the speech as well as some notable absences.

"America" or "American" - 49
"Iraq" or "Iraqi" - 34
"child" or "children" - 15
"enemy" - 10
"democratic" (little "d") or "democracy" - 8
"success" - 5
"War on Terror" - 4
"courage" - 4
"Madam Speaker" - 3
"failure" - 3
"troops" - 3
"Baby Einstein" - 3
"freedom" - 3
"evil" - 2
"friend" - 2
"victory" - 2
"Democrat" or "Democratic" (big "D") - 1
"Republican" - 0
"surge" - 0

It's also worth mentioning that Bush was interrupted 63 times by applause.

Source: CNN.com - CNN Political Ticker

2 comments:

Jessica said...

Haha, thats really nice.... n innovetive too.

Chris Mason said...

God I wish it wasn't true that Bush went on about Baby Einstein so much!