Profanity greater on liberal blogs

[tannybogus]

Are liberals more profane than conservatives? Online, the answer seems to be yes. Profanity, those taboo words banned from the broadcast airwaves, is a feature of many people's daily lives. It's much less so in the establishment media world. TV and radio broadcasts are legally prohibited from using it, most newspapers (including this one) have traditionally refrained from its usage.

That's not the case with the Web, where bloggers and readers face no such restrictions. That likely comes as no surprise; what may be surprising, however, is to what degree profanity seems to be a feature more common on one side of the political blogosphere than the other.

Which side is that? For answers, I turned to the search engine Google to see how common swearing is in the right and left blog universes by looking up the late stand-up comic George Carlin's "seven dirty words" in the most popular blog communities.

The results showed that online liberals tend to use profanity a lot more than online conservatives.

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Searching for Mr. Carlin's seven words and some popular variants at the top 10 conservative Web communities yields about 70,000 results. That is dwarfed in comparison to the 1.9 million instances of profanity on liberal sites.
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The top 10 liberal sites (Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Democratic Underground, Talking Points Memo, Crooks and Liars, Think Progress, Atrios, Greenwald, MyDD and Firedoglake) have a profanity quotient of 14.6.

The top 10 conservative sites (Free Republic, Hot Air, Little Green Footballs, Townhall, NewsBusters, Lucianne.com, Wizbang, Ace of Spades, Red State and Volokh Conspiracy) have a quotient of 1.17.
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http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/07/profanity-greater-on-liberal-blogs/

Yay!! We win, and DU is one of the sites studied. It makes sense. We've had to endure 7 years of BushCo.(I know it's the W. Times, but still...)
:rant:

[rurallib]

1. Our mommies aren't looking over our shoulders.

They fear getting kicked out of the basement if they make mommy mad.

[Warpy]

2. The search on conservative sites was greatly hampered

by the conservatives' inability to spell even four letter words correctly.

[beam me up scottie]

9. !

:spray: You kill me! :rofl:

[AnnieBW]

3. Well, F**k That S**t!

:rofl:

[DebJ]

4. It's because conservatives can't spell s**t! (pun intended). n/t

[marmar]

5. We don't live in a delusional fantasyworld, so there's more to cuss about.....

..... %$#@!!$%&! :mad:

[nebenaube]

6. they are just afraid that they will misspell f*ck! n/t

[rurallib]

18. phuque?

[beam me up scottie]

22. Elitist!

:rofl:

[napoleon_in_rags]

7. Conservatives have a culture of hiding things...

...and that ranges from profanity to the secrecy of this administration. When they have to take things out of the shadows and operative openly, that's when they fuck up. :)

[CatWoman]

8. so fucking what????

at least we don't obsess over leading, font size and typeface.

[tannybogus]

10. I want to medal!

Surely this is an Olympic event.:toast:

[Gabi Hayes]

15. you forgot to capitalize.....

and you forgot the comma after 'size'

please be more careful!


thank you. thank you very much

[DearAbby]

11. well gosh darn-it shucky darns!...n/t

[Trajan]

12. Conservative policies are FAR more profane than mere words ...

Fuck them right wing assholes ....

:silly:

[liberalmuse]

13. In words, but not deeds.

I've gotten pretty vulgar since 2000. Some words just give that anger an extra punch. But I don't steal, lie, cheat, toe tap under restroom stalls, molest kids, rape, kill, warmonger, horde, slander, gay bash, shit on The Constitution, etc, etc, etc.

[beam me up scottie]

14. And you call yourself a liberal...

:D

[tannybogus]

16. DL Hughley said he didn't know about the gay bathroom foot tap signals.

But he said he was never going in the restroom with his ipod again.

[arcadian]

17. You're shittin' me.

:rofl:

[Lost-in-FL]

19. Big f____ing deal!!

:+

[slampoet]

20. More profanity but less Obscenity and Depravity.

Add up the words rather than just freekin count them like a poindexter.

[FrenchieCat]

21. We ought to be using more profanity. We are more outraged.

After all, we are the ones under attack constantly.

[Jack Rabbit]

23. We are the voice of the unwashed massses

And if you hate profanity, you must hate the troops who use it all the time.

Every fucking vet here knows that.

[lpbk2713]

24. So fuggen what?

I celebrate being able to express myself however I damn well please.


Ed to add: Is FR really the #1 wingnut site? Damn, that's so fuggen pathetic.
That website looks like is was designed by and aimed toward elementary school kids. :rofl:
Understandable when you think about it. :rofl:

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

25. So the Washington Times thinks us fucking liberals use too much goddamned fucking profanity and shit

Well then, here's my salute to Reverend fucking Moon and his fucking friends......

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I think the Rude Pundit leaves everyone in the dust... and in more ways than one

[patrice]

27. Supporting killer dictators isn't profane, but saying FUCK is.

Oh! those "Christian" values!!! :crazy:

[cliffordu]

28. Fuckin' A

[proud patriot]

33. profanity is in the eye of the beholder

I find war profane ..humans killing humans is profane to me.

I fucking hate it .

[TahitiNut]

29. "Shit" is only profane ...

... to people who worship it. :shrug:

No wonder the Washington Times published such dreck.

[ColbertWatcher]

30. But don't these GOP mouthpieces call everything "too" liberal?

Isn't that what they did when they "studied" "liberal bias" on PBS?

[MisterP]

31. howzabout obscene policies

"I wanna nook Mecca" "Mooslimes are EEBUL!" "glass and take gas!" "forests don't need our protection, some guy who belches after talking on the radio told me!" "wolves are terrists"
"EXTERMINATE"

[Ilsa]

32. Repuglicans are afraid of everything, even profanity. Too bad

they aren't afraid of their obscene policies and crooked philosophy.

[R. P. McMurphy]

34. Profane words don't offend me as much

as intolerant attitudes. I'd like to see the ratio of hate/intolerant comments in the respective communities. I'll bet the conservatives wouldn't be proud of that comparison.

[patrice]

35. This is one of those issues that drives me absolutely nuttttss!!!

You all know how reasonable I am, but this BULLSHIT about words makes me crazy. It's absolutely nothing but a power struggle.

Unless the context is specifically about sex, when I say FUCK, if you're thinking of people doing things to one another with certain body parts, THERE'S SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH

YOU

.

When I say SHIT, if you're thinking about excrement

YOU'RE SICK!!!

Words are letters combined into phonemes, which are combined into morphemes, which are combined into memes. There's nothing necessary about any of it.

[Greyhound]

36. Fuck those fucking fucks! n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

37. Darn tootin! n/t

[Rincewind]

38. I don't fucking believe that shit, damn it.

[Radical Activist]

39. That's because conservatives only repeat what they hear on talk radio

where profanity isn't allowed.

[Joanne98]

40. I don't think that's even true. The most cussing is on the yahoo finance boards

capitalists cuss a LOT! They're all Republicans SO.. They win.

[Dark]

41. Just wait until after Obama wins. Then we'll see who curses more.

nt

[anonymous171]

48. lol true.

I remember freepers used to use such colorful language when describing the Clintons. I'm sure they'll find equally profane phrases to use against Obama.

[Marr]

42. Liberals are living through the worst presidential administration in the nation's history.

Conservatives are too stupid to realize it-- or cheering for it. Of course one side is angry and cursing.

[Swamp Rat]

43. Because their search engines look for words that are correctly spelled.

:dunce:

[mcctatas]

44. ....

:spray:

Beat me to it;)

[Swamp Rat]

45. If they modified the search engine to account for numerous misspellings, then we'd see completely

different results... dollars to donuts. :D

[anonymous171]

46. Our language may be profane and corrupt, but our beliefs are pure and true.

With the repukes it's the other way around.

[SeattleGirl]

47. Well, fuck yeah!

We are not part of the Daddy Party!