The other day, while discussing the general use of profanity in blogging, Instapunk tossed off a challenge: someone ought to take a look at the use of naughty words (as exemplified by George Carlin’s infamous “seven words you can’t say on television”) in the top blogs of both sides.
Someone took him up on his challenge. Someone at “The News Buckit,” and here are the results.
Everyone’s focusing on how the Left “won” the contest in a humongous blowout — 18 to 1. In other words, if you find a bad word on a blog, the chances are around 93% that it’s on a left-winger’s site.
(By the way, is anyone else shocked that The Evangelical Outpost was NOT the lowest-ranking site? Scott Ott’s Scrappleface had 11, while EO had 34 — just barely edging out Stop The ACLU‘s 40.)
But I looked at one stat in particular: how did we at Wizbang score?
1,490 instances. That not only puts us at #5 on the right side (of 22), but at 10 (of 18) on the left.
Dang. Ain’t we a bunch of pottymouths?
Obviously, something needs to be done about that.
The first solution would be to go back and clean up our own pieces. But we don’t do that. The moving hand, having once writ, and all that.
So, if we can’t bring down our own score, how about raising others’?
We need some dedicated folks to go to some of those other right-wing sites and start cussing up a storm. Feel free to cut and paste from the leftist sites if your own words escape you.
