[NYS_Eric]

Amusing little read this AM...

[timsbella]

When one is educated with values, they can find better ways to say things. Fools and those without imagination use profanity.

[Reo]

Daily Kos: aka: Daily Cuss

[veronica]

The left is very angry. The right not as much. Except for a small cadre of anti-Rudy types. They are an embarrassment to the rest of us.

[Stepan12]

There's no reason for Freepers/Conservatives to descend into such a gutter as the Lib/Commies! Ann Coulter fights back with brass knuckles, but the much maligned beauty does not use foul language.

One convention that I found useful is the one Hon. Robert Bork used when coming close to writing foul language. He uses the first letter with elipses after it and then has in parenthesis, read without the elipses. It goes something like this from one of Judge Bork's books: F... the army (read without the elipses).

I personally think it's a good and relatively elegant idea for describing foul language without saying it.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I've been reading the Giuliani threads.
Even though passions are at a fever pitch, freepers try to keep it clean.
Gotta be proud of that.

[Abathar]

Geez, we're the foulest of the righty sites? And to think Pookie got a time out for using the A word in a comic.

There must be some REALLY strict Mod's on the other sites....

[missnry]

So... just out of curiosity do top of the keyboard entries register as naughty words?
i.e. OH *@##!!

[cgk]

A commenter at the site refined the methodology to account for overall site size, finding a "'7 words' to pages" ratio of "1 profanity every 2 pages" for Daily Kos and "1 every 121 pages" for the Free Republic ("the foulest" of the righty sites)

The mods are SLACKING! :-P.

Seriously though, the only ONE of Carlin's 7 dirty words I've seen let stand is the "P" one. I've even seen the "T" one removed. So I'm skeptical of the claim.

[xcamel]

There was a great post here on FR that showed the results... now I can't find it...

[stevem]

Something I've noticed in TV and movie efforts in recent years is the utter coarsening if ths culture, sometimes even among movie makers that I like. Still the talkies most worth watching tend to be ones I would not be embarrassed to take my grandkids to see.

My contention is the imagination and talent simply isn't as developed today as it was in days of yore.

The same can be said across the culture. I don't think liberals are really capable of imaginative thought. The talent and the imagination simply doesn't exist in liberals. Since liberals also have no real point to anything there is much vacuum in their communications. Vacuums must be filled with something. Hence...

[Drango]

Daily Kos can bite me.

[skimask]

Kos and DU are HATE sites filled with kids and burnt out hippies longing for the summer of love.

[Enterprise]

Stepan12 is right. Conservatives paid attention in school, thus, they have more words to choose from.

[raybbr]

Update @ 9:16am: Great point by reader Joe.

What? No Democratic Underground? No IndyMedia? No FreeRepublic? No Townhall? No FrontPageMag?

And thus, the numbers:

• Democratic Underground: 947,000
• IndyMedia: 206,000
• FreeRepublic: 4010
• TownHall.com (minus HH blog): 156
• FrontPageMag: 11,800

It only gets worse... 1537788-to-37285. 41-to-1. Holy mackeral.

[Alberta's Child]

1 every 121 pages" for the Free Republic . . .

If you deleted all of my posts, this number would probably change to 1 profanity every 14,000+ pages. LOL.

[Arrowhead1952]

Profanity is a crutch used by people with little intelligence and a limited vocabulary.

[MadIvan]

This comes as no surprise. They've been working so hard to define vulgarity as free speech because without it, they'd have little means to express themselves.

Regards, Ivan

[cincinnati65]

hmmmmm....wonder why my employer filters FreeRepublic, but allows DU?

[Mr. Brightside]

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[Graybeard58]

Can't find the article at the link you posted.