I can’t add much to the commentary by Hilzoy, Kevin Drum, Billmon, and others, but I can write a Perl program to analyze text. Here are phrases used by Scott McClellan three or more times during today’s press briefing:
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get into commenting on |
| 8 |
get to the bottom of |
| 7 |
not going to get into |
| 6 |
an ongoing criminal investigation |
| 6 |
just not going to |
| 5 |
not going to get into commenting |
| 5 |
not get into commenting on |
| 5 |
get into commenting on it |
| 5 |
I’m just not going to |
| 5 |
be glad to talk about |
| 5 |
I will be glad to |
| 5 |
to talk about it |
| 5 |
it while it is |
| 4 |
not going to get into commenting on |
| 4 |
an ongoing investigation, and |
| 4 |
the investigation is complete |
| 4 |
I will be glad to talk about |
| 4 |
get to the bottom of this |
| 4 |
be glad to talk about it |
| 4 |
the United States Senate |
| 4 |
to get to the bottom of |
| 4 |
at the appropriate time |
| 4 |
get to the bottom of it |
| 4 |
the fight to the enemy |
| 4 |
that we not get into |
| 4 |
as we move forward |
| 4 |
on it while it is |
| 4 |
in a serious way |
| 4 |
we are going to |
| 3 |
no one wants to get to the bottom of it more than the President of the United States |
| 3 |
not going to get into commenting on it |
| 3 |
get into commenting on it while it is |
| 3 |
that we not get into commenting on |
| 3 |
I will be glad to talk about it |
| 3 |
be glad to talk about it at |
| 3 |
take the fight to the enemy |
| 3 |
in the United States Senate |
| 3 |
it while it is ongoing |
