God is an iron

[pecunium]

From Media Matters

Last week, in an apparent effort to paint Sen. Hillary Clinton as self-absorbed, the AP's Ron Fournier counted the number of times she used "some variation of the pronoun 'I'" in her convention speech. Fournier came up with 17. Media Matters checked his work, and found 21 such uses. But Fournier's point was undermined by the fact that at least 13 of those uses of the pronoun were about Clinton's support for Obama, the importance of the 2008 election, or what matters in the election.

So ... when can we expect Fournier to tally up the number of times John "cause greater than self" McCain used the pronoun "I" in his convention speech? It's well over 100 -- and that doesn't even count variations.

Another blogger had the perseverance to count the variations (me, myself, mine, etc.). The final tally, more than 200.

Perhaps a letter to his boss, asking for such a comparison might be in order.

kcarroll@ap.org

Comments

[tfcocs.livejournal.com]

The problem should be rectified now! Sorry about that---

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. I don't know how to say this which doesn't risk coming out wrong, but it's fine with me if it was in a private thread. I was just trying to follow the link.

No offense was taken.

[tfcocs.livejournal.com]

NP! FWIW, I love having new readers; I like adding people to my reading list, too. It is addictive, like fine chocolate.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Me too, though the past couple of weeks have been strange; I've been sort of off much but photography for the past eight months or so, and now, that I've started again tens of people have added me, some (many) whom I can't track the point of contagion for.

Nice, but also a trifle spooky. I know I have several hundred readers I can't account for, but...