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WordCloud https://www.dailykos.com/news/WordCloud News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:22:18 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:22:18 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) That Texting Investigator is in Good Company -- Trump IS an Idiot https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/12/16/1724980/-That-Texting-Investigator-is-in-Good-Company-Trump-IS-an-Idiot — That word “Idiot” was the top response of given by the American people in a <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2507" target="_blank">Quinnipiac Poll</a> a, to describe their president using a “single word.” Here are some of the others: <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Word Cloud - What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of President Trump? &lt;a href="https://t.co/eojiiD9Fme"&gt;https://t.co/eojiiD9Fme&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/tcmq0jm7hk"&gt;pic.twitter.com/tcmq0jm7hk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Quinnipiac Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/QuinnipiacPoll/status/940654761484972034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 12, 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Word Cloud - What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of President Trump? <a href="https://t.co/eojiiD9Fme">https://t.co/eojiiD9Fme</a> <a href="https://t.co/tcmq0jm7hk">pic.twitter.com/tcmq0jm7hk</a>Ã¢Â€Â” Quinnipiac Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/QuinnipiacPoll/status/940654761484972034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote></div> “Liar” and “Incompetent” were the 2nd and 3rd place presidential “descriptors” given to the pollsters. Those are slightly better than being an “Idiot”, I suppose. At least they suggest there is some ‘room for improvement’ — should the president choose to do so. But I think that’s giving him too much credit though. As his tweet history confirms, with Trump “<a href="http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/stupid" target="_blank">stupid</a>” is as stupid does. <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-quinnipiac-poll-idiot-liar-incompetent-745890" target="_blank">Newsweek</a> goes on to explain: <blockquote> American voters also had a dark view of Trump when it comes to <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/hope-hicks-donald-trump-brad-parscale-russia-investigation-robert-mueller-720008">the lingering investigation</a> of Russian influence on U.S. politics: Some 57 percent of those polled by Quinnipiac said Trump has tried to “derail or obstruct the investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 election.” More than half, or 52 percent, said the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. Just less than half, or 48 percent, said Trump did not collude with the Russian government to sway the outcome of the election. </blockquote> So when Peter Strzok — the Special Counsel investigator that Mueller fired — sent a private text, that he thought then Candidate Trump was “an idiot” — he was in good company: <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-strzok-lisa-page-texts-trump-idiot/" target="_blank">CBS News</a>: <blockquote> Strzok wonders in March 2016 whether Mr. Trump would "be a worse president than (Ted) Cruz?" Page responds, "Trump? Yes, I think so." Strzok then says Mr. Trump is "awful" and "an idiot." </blockquote> It would seem like a majority of Americans now agree with Strzok — along with members of Trump’s own Administration, too: • <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj4sJj9zY7YAhVH7GMKHWCyDtcQFgg2MAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fworld%2F2017%2F11%2F20%2F16680190%2Fhr-mcmaster-trump-idiot-kindergartner&usg=AOvVaw0MfuMtuZhsaQXsn0P_GsK_" target="_blank">H.R. McMaster reportedly thinks Trump is an “idiot” with the brain of a “kindergartner”</a> • <a href="http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/10/us_chief_diplomat_tells_it_like_it_is_trumps_a_mor.html" target="_blank">U.S. chief diplomat [Rex Tillerson] tells it like it is: Trump's a 'moron' with foreign policy</a> • <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333788-nsc-official-include-trumps-name-as-often-as-possible-so-he-reads" target="_blank" title="">NSC officials include Trump’s name as often as possible so he reads memos</a> Hmmm, when are these “too-biased to-be-trusted” people going to be fired too? Afterall the ‘Rhodes Scholar’ Donald <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/15/1724646/-Great-America-Alliance-PAC-money-is-out-to-Discredit-the-Mueller-Investigation-too" target="_blank" title="">must be supported</a> and his every word treated as gold — no matter what special brand of <a href="http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/Russia" target="_blank">lunacy</a> he chooses to utter on any given day. <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=dgI6XiYnVlk" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dgI6XiYnVlk" data-width="560" data-height="315" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> Rex Tillerson Called Trump a Moron: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgI6XiYnVlk" target="_blank">A Closer Look</a> <div> <div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA">Late Night with Seth Meyers</a> — Published on Oct 5, 2017</div> </div> — — — Let’s continue this Quinnipiac exercise in Democracy, shall we: What one word would you use to describe Donald Trump? Be precise. I know … ONLY one !?!@#% rss@dailykos.com (jamess) AmericanPeopleSpeak ArrogantLyingLiars bottomofthebarrel DangerousGame DisgustingBuffoon DonaldGump DonaldTrump EntitlementsAreNext FreakingIdiot IncompetenceIsNotaVirture intellectuallychallenged PresidentingIsHard QuinnipiacPoll ThatPresidentialPivot TheDistmantlingOfDemocracy Trumpisanidiot TrumpsInsultNation TrumpTwitterArchive WordCloud _1724980 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 13:57:41 +0000 Quinnipiac produced a Hillary Clinton word cloud https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/25/1491321/-Quinnipiac-produced-a-Hillary-Clinton-word-cloud Quinnipiac University Poll asked* in<a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2274" target="_blank" title=""> August of last year </a>the open ended question of what is the first word that comes to mind when voters think of Hillary Clinton. They produced <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us08272015_wordcloudHC_Ueg38d.pdf" target="_blank">the following word cloud</a> from those results. Those who still think Hillary is the best Democratic candidate should bear this image in mind. <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="hillary_wordcloud2.jpg" src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/215075/large/hillary_wordcloud2.jpg?1456432788" title="hillary_wordcloud2.jpg"> <figcaption>The most common response was “liar”.</figcaption> </figure> </div> Just in case anyone might think things for Hillary have improved since last August then check out this graph of her unfavorables/favorables. <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="rcp-hillary2.png" src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/215082/large/rcp-hillary2.png?1456433512" title="rcp-hillary2.png"> <figcaption>RED is unfavorable</figcaption> </figure> </div> *From August 20 - 25, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,563 registered voters nationwide (HT to<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/user/New%20Minas"> New Minas)</a> rss@dailykos.com (TrueBlueMountaineer) HillaryClinton Quinnipiac WordCloud _1491321 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:42:13 +0000 Bernie's Iowa Town Hall word cloud: guess the biggest word! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/25/1475227/-Bernie-s-Iowa-Town-Hall-word-cloud-guess-the-biggest-word Of course, the biggest word, the word Bernie kept repeating, is “people”. (I edited out the words Chris, Hillary, Clinton, and Secretary, and the text of questions, leaving only Bernie’s responses. The text was taken from CNN’s transcript, <a href="http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/01/26/cnn-iowa-democratic-presidential-town-hall-rush-transcript/" target="_blank" title="">cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/...</a>) “Wall” is so prominent because Bernie is focused on making Wall Street work for the people. rss@dailykos.com (orthogonal) bernie sanders word WordCloud _1475227 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:58:10 +0000 GOP Debate Word Cloud https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/15/1460642/-GOP-Debate-Word-Cloud Here’s a hastily put together word cloud on tonight’s GOP debate. It’s not perfect as I did it in a hurry. The transcript on which it’s based was taken from WaPo. I eliminated most of what I thought were not relevant words (e.g. the names of the candidates & hosts, common verbs like talking, going, seeing, etc., and combined a few (terrorists and terrorism into terrorists/ism, etc.). rss@dailykos.com (Calvino Partigiani) GOPDebate WordCloud _1460642 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 05:24:10 +0000 Dems Desperately Seeking Messaging Clarity https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1/30/1361289/-Dems-Desparately-Seeking-Messaging-Clarity It kind of seems like the Democratic Party 'got the message' of the Nov 2014 Election:   "Don't run from your shadows, if you want the majority of people to follow you." <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/house-democrats-vow-to-explain-their-vision-better-in/article_eed885a4-8cc7-560a-a19d-e9932f5505b5.html">House Democrats' new message on the economy</a>: We told you so by Charles Babinton, stltoday.com -- 1/30/2015 <blockquote>[...] "Democrats have to stand up, you've got to explain what we did," [Joe] Biden said to loud applause Friday. "Be proud of it... We can't let the Republican Party rewrite history." Obama said much the same the night before. "The record shows we were right" the president said, referring to the 2009 stimulus, the bank and auto industry bailouts, and other strategies to pull out the great recession of 2008. If the Democrats' were so right, reporters asked, why did Republicans clobber them in the 2014 midterm elections? Poor messaging, top Democrats said, which must be remedied. [...] </blockquote> "Poor Messaging"?  Well I guess, they're are worse problems to have. ... like Republicans running ALL branches of Government, circa 2017. The first step, is admitting ... you have a problem ... rss@dailykos.com (jamess) BetterOffBudget CongressionalProgressiveCaucus Democratic Party DemocraticParty DemocraticPlatform Framing IncomeInequality Joe Biden JoeBiden MessagingSurvey neoliberals PeoplesParty PoorMessagingProblem PopulismRising Republican-LitesLose standingforsomething SteveIsrael ThatVisionThing TheNewDealParty Word Cloud WordCloud WritersofHistory _1361289 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 01:04:16 +0000 Word Cloud: Top Words/Phrases Fox Uses To Get Wingnuts Riled Up https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/9/17/1239410/-Word-Cloud-Top-Words-Phrases-Fox-Uses-To-Get-Wingnuts-Riled-Up Yesterday on Twitter I tweeted a list of what I called "The Top Words/Phrases Fox Uses to Rile Wingnuts." Given 140 character limit, I could only squeeze in about seven items on my list. But then a funny thing happened, dozens of others tweeted their additions to the list. By the time it was done, the list had close to 100 entries. Here's a word cloud I put together that includes many of those entries: <div class="dkimg-c"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/49312/large/Wingnut_Word_Cloud.jpg?1379424662" alt="" width="550" height="359" /></div> rss@dailykos.com (Kwik) Anti-Obama Fox News FoxNews Recommended Wingnuts Word Cloud WordCloud _1239410 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:32:26 +0000 Romney Ramblings Run Rampant https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/3/1139693/-Romney-Ramblings-Run-Rampant Word clouds show visually what words were important in last night's presidential debate. Romney's word cloud had more number-words like "number", "million", "billion", "trillion", "percent," and "rate." It says that numbers matter more than what happens to people. Obama's word cloud had more people-words like "families", "folks", "middle-class", "help", "security" and "opportunity". Obama's words were more performance related like "best", "figure", "system", "problem", "reason", "replace" and "able". Romney's performance words went back to numbers like "lose", "lower" and "raise". Romney's Word Cloud: <img src="http://imageshack.us/a/img208/3272/romneydebatewordcloud.png" width="400" /> rss@dailykos.com (The Grace Kelly) Debate Obama romney Word Cloud WordCloud _1139693 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:45:05 +0000 Republicans are More Concerned about Pills than Jobs https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/2/23/1067586/-Republicans-are-More-Concerned-about-Pills-than-Jobs The top 25 words in last nights' Republican debate was again missing words like jobs, unemployment, foreclosure and economy.  Instead, the word "pills", short for contraception pills, made it in the top 25 words list. This shows that Republicans care more about what happens in bedrooms than in getting jobs. Indeed most of the top words were about places and positions, showing that the Republicans are concerned about an entitled place in society not in fixing the problems of the country. And of course, Obama is a focus word. But Republicans just substitute blaming the President for a discussion of policy. Indeed, "people think" still shows in the highest word usage in this debate as well as in previous debates showing that the focus is more marketing and illusion rather than substance. <img src="http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4158/feb23gopdebate.jpg" /> rss@dailykos.com (thegracekelly) 2012 Elections President romney Santorum Word Cloud WordCloud _1067586 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:23:48 +0000 Debt deal word cloud ... ridiculous https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/8/1/1001891/-Debt-deal-word-cloud-ridiculous As the pro forma vote on the debt deal approaches, here's a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/budget-talks-in-a-word-ridiculous-disgusting-and-stupid-top-poll/2011/07/12/gIQABdOrnI_blog.html">word cloud</a> based on a new Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll, where respondents were: <blockquote>Asked for single-word characterizations of the budget negotiations ...</blockquote> <div class="dkimg-c"><img src="http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/word_cloud_debt_ceiling1.jpg" alt="debt deal word cloud" height="296" width="550" /></div> That about sums it up, doesn't it? rss@dailykos.com (Barbara Morrill) Debt-Ceiling DebtCeiling Word Cloud WordCloud _1001891 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:10:02 +0000 A word cloud comparison of President Obama's and Sarah Palin's messages https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/13/936039/-A-word-cloud-comparison-of-President-Obama-s-and-Sarah-Palin-s-messages Using word cloud's from <a href="http://www.wordle.net/">wordle.net</a>, here's an interesting visual comparison of President Obama's speech at the Tucson memorial service and the web video delivered by  Sarah Palin from her home television studio. First, President Obama's word cloud: <img width="450" alt="Wordle.net Word Cloud of Obama speech" src="http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/obamawordle.png" height="250" /> Next, Sarah Palin's word cloud: <img width="450" alt="Wordle.net Word Cloud of Palin web video" src="http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/palinwordle.png" height="294" /> The word clouds show the contrast between their two approaches. They both recognized Saturday's shooting for the tragedy that it was, but the clear emphasis of President Obama's word choice was on focusing on the victims and that which unites us as a nation, whereas Palin focused on her grievances and what drives our country apart. rss@dailykos.com (Jed Lewison) Word Cloud WordCloud _936039 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:40:09 +0000 Dead Men Talking. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/5/800955/-Dead-Men-Talking In August, I read <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/25/13250/7577">this diary</a> by JR about Todd Willingham, the Texas inmate executed in 2004. The diary linked to an ABA Journal article that said in part: <blockquote> ... Craig Beyler, reviewed the case of Cameron Todd Willingham for the Texas Forensic Science Commission, created to investigate allegations of forensic mistakes, the Chicago Tribune reports. The newspaper obtained a copy of his report. Willingham was convicted of murder for the deaths of his three children who perished in the fire. Beyler is one of nine top fire scientists who have reviewed the case and found that the original investigators relied on outdated theories and folklore, the story says. Beyler wrote that the state fire marshal investigating the case "seems to be wholly without any realistic understanding of fires and how fire injuries are created." </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (Tapestry58) DeathPenalty Execution ToddWillingham Word Cloud WordCloud _800955 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:36:08 +0000 Iran speeches and statements -- word clouds https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/21/745177/-Iran-speeches-and-statements-word-clouds I've created some word clouds from <a href="http://www.wordle.net/">http://www.wordle.net/</a> from speeches given over the past days in the wake of the Iran election, as reported/translated on <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/">Andrew Sullivan's blog</a>. I find word clouds to be an interesting way to pull out the themes. (I'll add a few obvious observations as well, to show what I took out of these. I know this smacks a little of reading palms or pop psychology; I'm offering these for the fun of it alone.) Here is Mousavi's statement from yesterday. <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3396/3647118793_ebf3a98c36_d.jpg" /> In this case, the emphasis on revolution refers to the Islamic revolution -- <blockquote> I came to invite people to join the Islamic revolution in its honorable, original form, and to re-shape it into to what it must be </blockquote> He is saying that this isn't a revolt, but a people's protest against something illicit. rss@dailykos.com (merrily1000) AndrewSullivan Ayatollah Khamenei AyatollahKhamenei BarackObama GrandAyatollahMontazeri houseresolution Iran Election IranElection Khatami Mousavi President Obama Word Cloud WordCloud _745177 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:48:48 +0000 Word Cloud Analysis of last night's speeches https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/25/701621/-Word-Cloud-Analysis-of-last-night-s-speeches As an interesting exercise, here's a comparison of Wordle word clouds for both Obama's and Jindal's speech. The comparison is very enlightening. rss@dailykos.com (Mikado) Analysis Barack Obama BarackObama BobbyJindal Recommended Word Cloud WordCloud _701621 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:40:05 +0000 Word Clouds from Debate https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/623658/-Word-Clouds-from-Debate This diary is pretty self explanatory.  Short and sweet? I took the transcript from CNN, split out the Obama lines and the McCain lines, and made word (tag) clouds from them using <a href="http://wordle.net">wordle.net</a>.  The result is below the fold if you are interested. rss@dailykos.com (shock) Debate friends Word Cloud WordCloud _623658 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:22:51 +0000 Debate Wordclouds https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/612379/-Debate-Wordclouds I had a bit of spare time this morning, so I thought I'd go through the transcripts and split out the texts of both Senator Obama and Senator McCain's debate answers and see what the wordclouds looked like.  Here are the results: rss@dailykos.com (aztecraingod) Barack Obama BarackObama Debate John McCain JohnMcCain WordCloud _612379 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:54:39 +0000 Don't think of an Obama/Biden! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/12/596761/-Don-t-think-of-an-Obama-Biden Part of my daily routine is to open 15 tabs in Firefox with my favorite blogs. At the end of the day, it is a quick, easy way to gauge what happened on the campaign trail and decide where to dig in deeper. I realize the repugs have dominated the news cycles since their hatefest in Minnesota two weeks ago so their candidates are getting all the attention. And rightly so, Palin's past and McCain's honorless lies need to be exposed, dissected and discredited. What concerns me is the visual impression of the the home page of most of the progressive blogs. It seems every other word on DailyKos, TalkingPointsMemo and ThinkProgress are covered up with the M word and the P word. Obama is barely mentioned in the post titles and occasionally in the body of the posts. Poor Biden is rarely, if ever mentioned. Here is a wordcloud of DailyKos on Friday around 7:30 PM CST:   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23228084@N02/2851381163/" title="Kos Wordcloud by brobinson2102, on Flickr"><img width="448" alt="Kos Wordcloud" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2851381163_8da542a6ea_o.jpg" height="217" /></a> Somehow I can help but think all these free impressions are helping their candidate and hurting ours. rss@dailykos.com (BlueFrog) WordCloud _596761 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:48:37 +0000 Word Clouds of the Two Speeches https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/4/587394/-Word-Clouds-of-the-Two-Speeches I thought it would be at least interesting, and possibly revealing, to do word clouds of Obama's and McCain's acceptance speeches. (After I post this, I'll try to go back and do Biden and Palin as well.) Jump the fold to see how they turned out. rss@dailykos.com (bmaples) Acceptance Barack Obama BarackObama John McCain JohnMcCain Speech Word Cloud WordCloud _587394 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:28:34 +0000 McSame's Obama Obsession - **In Fancy Pictures** https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/4/562226/-McSame-s-Obama-Obsession-In-Fancy-Pictures <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/08/01/GR2008080102726.html">Today's WaPo has a great graphic</a>, a <a href="http://wordle.net/">a word cloud</a> comparing Obama's blog to McCain's.  The image is copyrighted, so I won't include it (click through on the link above to see it.  You may have to register.) This sample gives you an idea of how word clouds work.  The size of each word or phrase indicates how often that word is used.  At a glance it shows what the most important (or at least frequently mentioned) ideas are. <a target="_blank" href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/wordle/pepsigirl820/wordle.jpg?o=2"><img width="393" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/pepsigirl820/wordle.jpg" height="245" /></a> Go look at WaPo's picture and guess which is Obama's and which is McCain's.  The article gives it away, so don't peek. I'll wait for you below the fold. rss@dailykos.com (VA Classical Liberal) BarackObama Barak Obama campaingeblogs John McCain JohnMcCain Washington Post WashingtonPost Word Cloud WordCloud wordle.net _562226 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:27:32 +0000