State of the Union, 2005: Fun with Word Counts

Arbiters of language and justice are seemingly obsessed with the issue of word count in President Bush’s speeches – in particular, his noted recent over-emphasis on the grandiose notions of “freedom” and “liberty“. Well, then, this seems like an easy (if not excessively lazy) manner of proving any sort of ideological point, however disingenuous it … Continue reading State of the Union, 2005: Fun with Word Counts