Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Vocabulary of the Union!

posted by Will
Since it's a tired, tedious, meaningless litany anyway (apart from a few highly questionable assertions that stand out), here's a list of a few of the State of the Union's constituent (or glaringly absent) words. Perhaps they will be more interesting and instructive than the inane, thickly-lacquered, and over-buffed whole.

Instances of keywords found (or reasonably expected to be found) in searches of the text of the State of the Union:

(Quick count. Instances include variants--terror, terrorism, terrorists...)

"Afghanistan": 2
"Al Qaida": 3
"Bin Laden": 2
"Britain" (or England, or United Kingdom): 0
"China": 1
"Corrupt": 2 (both referring to other countries)
"Darfur": 0
"Debt": 0
"Deficit": 2
"Earmark": 1
"Economy": 16
"Enron": 0
"Environment": 1
"Evil": 2
"Faith": 4
"Freedom": 17
"Genocide": 1
"Gulf Coast": 1
"Hamas": 1
"India": 1
"Intelligence": 1
"Iraq": 16
"Iran": 6
"Katrina": 0
"Liberty": 4
"Lobby": 0
"Moral": 1
"Oil": 3
"North Korea": 1
"Reform": 9
"Religion": 0
"Russia": 0
"Saudi Arabia": 1
"Security": 10
"Switch Grass": 1
"Sudan": 0
"Syria": 1
"Terror": 20
"United Nations": 0
"Zarqawi": 1

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