Comments on: Political Name Calling http://nycreport.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/political-name-calling/ A Rat's Eye View of the Big Apple and its Habitrails Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: nycrenegade http://nycreport.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/political-name-calling/#comment-4 nycrenegade Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:09:09 +0000 http://nycreport.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/political-name-calling/#comment-4 Your data is very interesting. "Traitor" is not a label I had identified as a common term used against Obama (certainly used obliquely). That's quite a spike registered on your data. I also wonder if the "Nazi" usage spike in 2008 coincides Obama's speech in Berlin? It would make sense. Your data is very interesting. “Traitor” is not a label I had identified as a common term used against Obama (certainly used obliquely). That’s quite a spike registered on your data.

I also wonder if the “Nazi” usage spike in 2008 coincides Obama’s speech in Berlin? It would make sense.

]]> By: fdeblauwe http://nycreport.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/political-name-calling/#comment-3 fdeblauwe Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:12:49 +0000 http://nycreport.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/political-name-calling/#comment-3 Interesting. It just happens that today I wrote a post on my Word Face-Off blog that tracks the "Google-popularity" of such political derogatory terms for the last 4 years: http://wordfaceoff.blogspot.com/2008/09/nazi-vs-anarchist-vs-fascist-vs-gestapo.html. Interesting. It just happens that today I wrote a post on my Word Face-Off blog that tracks the “Google-popularity” of such political derogatory terms for the last 4 years: http://wordfaceoff.blogspot.com/2008/09/nazi-vs-anarchist-vs-fascist-vs-gestapo.html.

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