Updated - Profanity Greater On Liberal Blogs … WTF?!?
Hey, Matt! Come on now, man! I’ve been over to News Busters … I’ve [held] my tongue over there. Been a might hard at times on certain topics, but if I felt myself about to explode I’d scoot over to PatDollard.com and rattle off a profane-loaded rant that would make a Marine take a FUCKING step back in wonder and awe …
Have you checked out patdollard.com???
I mean, what the FUCK!?!??
How the FUCK have you missed the FUCKING ‘profane’ SHIT that we say over here, DAMN it??
Bash alone can pepper a FUCKING post with more “FUCKs” than an illegal Nevada whore house …
I demand a FUCKING recount … A FUCKING “Honorable Mention” at the very FUCKING least …
SHEFFIELD: Profanity greater on liberal blogs
by Matthew Sheffield - (WaTimes)
Poli-Tech column:
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.
(Before I get further into the results, let me say that I am deliberately making a distinction between blogs that do not usually allow readers to make comments and those that do. This means that some sites, such as the popular Instapundit or Newsmax, were not included.)
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.
Things aren’t quite that clear-cut, however, since some Web sites have more pages than others. According to Google, the top 10 conservative sites have about 6 million pages, while the top 10 liberal sites have about 13 million.
Dividing the number of instances of profanity by the number of pages of the sites on which they appear, then multiplying the result by 100 yields what might be called a “profanity quotient.”
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.
(CORRECTED PARAGRAPH:) That’s quite a disparity. Liberals are more than 12 times likely to use profanity than conservatives on the Web.
One thing that is interesting to note is that the profanity ratio of a particular site seems somewhat related to the writing style of the bloggers who run it.
For instance, the Ace of Spades blog has the highest profanity quotient on the right. This is likely due to the fact that “Ace,” the anonymous proprietor of the site, regularly uses profanity in his own writings and therefore is much less inclined to want to crack down on readers who respond using it.
Notable also in these stats are the liberal blogs Eschaton, Crooks and Liars, and Firedoglake, where profanity is so common you basically cannot take part in the discussion without running into it.
On the flip side, the popular conservative community Lucianne.com, run by literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, seems to have no profanity at all.
Why such a disparity between the right and left online?
Some on the right may take this as a sign of their superior intelligence. Others may theorize that it’s simply because liberals are angry at President Bush.
More than likely, it is a reflection of how things are offline. Conservatives, especially those who are more religious, are less likely to use profanity in their daily conversation.
Matthew Sheffield is a Web consultant and creator of NewsBusters.org.
*** UPDATE:
The ‘breakdown’ of Conservative vs Liberal Blog Profanity by the top ‘cock suckers’ … n`nat:
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I know I swear more online than in real life. But I still think those “tolerant liberals” are much more guilty of the profanity complex.
drill, glad to hear your a fellow NBer! I’m “wiwf” over there
August 7th, 2008 at 1:58 pmThat Fucking sucks. I thought we were better than them?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pmJust as long as we have the upper hand in alcohol and cigars.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pmI’m still drillanwr over there, but haven’t ‘commented’ over there since I began blogging here on Pat’s site …
August 7th, 2008 at 2:17 pmthat’s because liberals don’t have anything interesting to say if it isn’t insulting or berating to a person or an idea;
and on that note;
FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pmDoo doo cahcah poopy!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:37 pmThey must not hang around here.
For a blog on “our side”, this place is pretty profane but not just for it’s own sake and I think that makes the difference.
And guns!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:46 pmLiberals excel at cursing because that’s how their man-hating mother’s talk to them from the womb and their fathers are too busy being prissy bisexuals.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:50 pm_______________________________
Wow. Would you consider posting a picture of Natalie so the rest of us guys can avoid her at all costs.
Thanks 
PS - Only half kidding.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:09 pmA few God dammed weeks back,
after shitting out a marathon fucking fuckfest viewing of “Deadwood” seasons one, fucking two, and mother fucking three.
I fucking DID fucking notice a cock sucking huge fucking increase of cunt glazed swear fucking words spattering out of my face hole. All the fucking over fucking sensitive cunts that I fucking work with had an especially thick and splintery dry fucking stick up their fucking asses about it.
Since then I’ve spent some mother fucking quality fucking time on Patdollard.com.
Now my swearing has subsided like that very last dry heave after
a week long jack daniels and jack in the box binge.
Now everybody is fucking happy.
Patdollard.com,
August 7th, 2008 at 5:33 pmits time well spent.
Well they can keep that title for all i care. we are way heavier on facts while they just fill the comment boxes full of cuss words. although i do my fair share
Father: “Honey, have you seen my blowdryer?”
Mother to son: “Your dad is such a pussy, I should have married his sister”
Son: “Goo Goo Gah Gah!”
translation. daddy is a girl and mommy loves women.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:36 pmWow. Would you consider posting a picture of Natalie so the rest of us guys can avoid her at all costs. Thanks
I would but you’d be sorely disappointed with the set of nuts on her…
That’s Goodbye to Natalie…
Plus my wife would kill me if I did!
August 7th, 2008 at 6:17 pmYou make me … {sniffle} … proud.
August 7th, 2008 at 6:45 pmYeah, but Pat’s site has the most gun and beer usage - :gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun::gun:
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Yep, we are the most drunkin’ armed bastards on the internet …
August 7th, 2008 at 9:27 pm