I was curious what results would come up in Google's auto-complete for various Republican figures and the Republican Party and Tea Party themselves.
For each entry below, I entered "[name/term] is/are" into Google and let auto-complete fill in with its suggestions. Sadly, cannot post screenshots, but this should be easily replicated.
Below are the results, for Palin, Beck, Newt, the Tea Party, Republicans, and Faux News.
Answers below the fold.
If you don't use Google auto-complete, if you type part of a phrase, it gives you choices for popular searches starting with that phrase. I tried out various people and entities followed by "is" or "are" as appropriate. Some interesting results.
First let's see what comes up when you type "Sarah Palin is" into Google:
sarah palin is an idiot
sarah palin is a joke
sarah palin is hot
sarah palin is retarded
sarah palin is a retard
sarah palin is dangerous
sarah palin is a racist
sarah palin is a dumbass
sarah palin is nuts
sarah palin is insane
Let's look: 9/10 - negative results, just one positive (if you take "hot" at positive; I assume Palin does, but I doubt that is her goal)
How about Glenn Back:
glenn beck is an idiot
glenn beck is going blind
glenn beck is insane
glenn beck is a mormon
glenn beck is awesome
glenn beck is wrong
glenn beck is a douchebag
glenn beck is a liar
glenn beck is right
glenn beck is a racist
Only 6/10 negative, 2/10 positive, 2 neutral (Mormon and going blind).
Interestingly idiot and racist show up for both Beck and Palin. Hmmmm. Also for the record I cannot imagine another public figure who would have a top ten list with "douchebag" in it.
Wonder how it goes for the Tea Party itself:
tea party is a joke
tea party is not racist
tea party is retarded
tea party is dead
tea party is dangerous
tea party is over
tea party is scary
tea party is good
tea party is the new kkk
tea party is kkk
8/10 negative on this one. Interestingly not only does the Tea Party get "racist" but two references to the KKK as well.
Maybe the senior statesman, Newt Gingrich, will do better,:
newt gingrich is an idiot
newt gingrich is a hypocrite
newt gingrich is a racist
newt gingrich is out to get himself
Maybe not. Only four entries, and he went 0 for 4. Nicely done, Newt.
How about Republicans as a whole:
republicans are retarded
republicans are insane
republicans are ignorant
republicans are hypocrites
republicans are destroying america
republicans are people too
republicans are mean
republicans are fascists
republicans are morons
republicans are like
That would be 8/10. The last choice "are like" is rather ambiguous; hard to say what it means so I will give them benefit of the doubt.
Finally, let's look at how the republicans propaganda machine does:
fox news is a joke
fox news is biased
fox news is not news
fox news is bullshit
fox news is propaganda
fox news is owned by
fox news is retarded
fox news is terrible
fox news is crap
fox news is the world broke
"A joke," "biased," "propaganda," "crap," and "bullshit"? I am shocked and appalled. I thought Fox was fair and balanced.