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* Via the Daily Herald. Click the pic for a larger image…
More SOTS coverage in a bit. There are a ton of stories to go through, so chew on this one for a while.
*** UPDATE *** Something about that word cloud looked a bit off to me. The governor’s office thought the same thing. Turns out, the reason why words like “Quinn” and “Pat” appear so prominently is that the DH likely pasted the pdf version into the program, which would have those words on every page. So, here’s the text-only version. Click the pic for a larger size..
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:16 am
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Why so rosy, Governor Quinn? We should be concentrating on the $35 billion problem instead of tangents like this one: http://chicago.grubstreet.com/2012/02/you_can_have_my_shark_fin_when.html
Comment by 32nd Ward Roscoe Village Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:23 am
Sometimes presidents and governors need to give pep talks with a lot of buzz words that make people feel good. Obama’s good at it-Quinn isn’t.
Comment by Soccertease Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:24 am
It is interesting that it looks like he referenced his own name more than the word jobs.
Comment by OneMan Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:44 am
I missed the memo on word clouds. They’re everywhere now. They’re the new “synergy” or “thinking outside of the box.”
Comment by wordslinger Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:51 am
I’m not altogether familiar with how the word cloud works, I can never get it to work for me, but it’s generated by content, right? So there is theoretically more than one cloud for a speech, right?
Did the Herald cherry pick the one that had “new” and “tax” together? I call shennanigans.
Comment by Elijiah Snow Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:54 am
I don’t see soy, Land of Lincoln, or Mississippi River. He must have been off his game.
Comment by And I Approved This Message Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 10:15 am
Also, no “carp” and no “white sox”
Comment by Jake From Elwood Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 11:12 am
Yes! Triple word score! diagonal, near the center, running top-to-bottom: “moving thank tax”
What do I win?
Wait… it doesn’t work like that? Shoot.
Comment by Shock & Awww(e) Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 11:20 am
That’s a great chart-let’s play a better game and note the words NOT seen which frankly tell the REAL story of the blago/quinn/simon/madigan era:
success, growing, thriving, improving, improve, better, leading, blagojevich, creating, adding, rising, expanding, olympics, number 1, top, winning, rising, raising, global, won, praised, pleased, proud, achievements, suburbs, innovation, responsibility, cleaned up, ethics, reformed.
Comment by shore Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 12:00 pm
I like the first one “education Quinn must also Jobs Pat!”
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 3:35 pm