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The absurdity of partisanship
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Bill O'Reilly
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Columns 47
Words 33473
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 16.68
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 39.54
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 28.11
Democratic Index -47.39
Republican Index 29.66
Positive Index 33.11
Negative Index 39.82
Neutral Index 27.07
Kerry Index -28.44
Bush Index 35.54



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 27 Kerry(14), John Kerry(10), Hillary, Howard Dean, Harry Truman
Negative Democratic 127 Kerry(36), John Kerry(19), Howard Dean(11), Democratic(5), Hillary Clinton(5), Clinton(5), Democrats(4), Carville(3), democrats(3), Hillary(3), democratic(2), Dean(2), Brazile(2), Democratic Party(2), George Soros(2), Bill Clinton(2), James Carville(2), George Wallace(2), Wallace, Bill Lockyer, Lockyer, Edward Kennedy, Barbra Streisand, McGovern, Donna Brazile, Al Gore, Jim McDermott, John Conyers, Ted Kennedy, Kennedy, General Wesley Clark, Paul Begala, Begala, President Clinton, John Edwards
Neutral Democratic 57Kerry(20), John Kerry(10), Bill Clinton(4), Democratic(3), President Clinton(3), Dean(2), Jimmy Carter(2), Hillary(2), Democrats(2), democrats, John Edwards, Richard Holbrooke, Hillary Clinton, Kennedy, Howard Dean, democratic, Al Gore, Edwards
Positive Republican 121 Bush(40), President Bush(14), Ronald Reagan(12), the President(11), Bush administration(5), Reagan(5), Republican(5), George W. Bush(5), Cheney(3), The President(2), the president(2), former President(2), Arnold, President Reagan, administration, Bushies, Laura Bush, Colin Powell, Powell, W, Rumsfeld, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, GOP, Republicans, Mary Matalin
Negative Republican 51 Bush(10), President Bush(9), the President(4), Bush administration(4), Dick Cheney(2), Arnold(2), Donald Rumsfeld(2), Goldwater, GOP, Ronald Reagan, The President, Karl Rove, Richard Nixon, Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rummy, President Ford, Limbaugh, Mr. President, Reagan, Republicans, Republican, administration, Bloomberg
Neutral Republican 64Bush(16), the President(12), Bush administration(7), President Bush(7), Rush Limbaugh(3), Reagan(3), Republican(3), The President(2), George W. Bush(2), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bill Bennett, republican, Republicans, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, Nixon, Colin Powell



List of Columns

Lines in yellow indicate a substantive crossover column, meaning that the column is of opposite sign to the pundit's Normalized Total PI for the season, and contains at least five non-neutral partisan references.
Title/
Date
words Norm
PI
Partisan References
War Party
30 December 2004
756 100 1D-: George Soros
Sergeant Courageous
23 December 2004
704 0
Judges to Parents: Mind Your Own Business
16 December 2004
622 0
Take Your Christmas and Stuff It
9 December 2004
683 100 1R-: Bloomberg
It's News to Us
2 December 2004
629 0 1D=
Dan Rather
24 November 2004
688 26 4D+: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
3R+: Bush, George W. Bush, President Bush
1D=
Semper Fi
18 November 2004
565 0
Iraq and Roll
11 November 2004
586 20 1R-: administration
4R=
Memo to Hillary
4 November 2004
910 88 20D-: Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Clinton, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Kerry, John Kerry, John Edwards, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, John Kerry, Hillary
2R+: President Bush, George W. Bush
3D=
Assessing the Kerry Challenge
28 October 2004
665 26 3D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
9D-: Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry
1R+: Bush administration
3R-: Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, Bush administration
3D=
Assessing the Bush Presidency
21 October 2004
671 13 2D-: democratic, Kerry
5R+: Bush, the President, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush
5R-: Bush, the President, Bush, the President, Bush
3D=, 5R=
Fight or Die
14 October 2004
548 48 2D-: John Kerry, Howard Dean
1R-: President Bush
Closing the Deal
7 October 2004
652 1 2D+: John Kerry, Kerry
3D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
2R+: Bush, Reagan
3R-: Bush administration, the President, Bush
8D=, 7R=
High Hopes
30 September 2004
702 62 3D-: John Kerry, John Kerry, John Kerry
1R-: President Bush
President Bush Enters the No Spin Zone
23 September 2004
733 62 2D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton
7R+: President Bush, the President, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, The President, Bush
6R=
The Terrible Truth About Terror
16 September 2004
714 100 1D-: John Kerry
2R+: Bush, the president
Say It Ain't So, Ted Turner
9 September 2004
755 100 8D-: James Carville, Paul Begala, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Carville, Begala, Kerry
7R+: GOP, Republicans, Bush, Mary Matalin, President Bush, Bush, Cheney
Night of the Living Dumb
2 September 2004
780 84 4D-: Kerry, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Kerry
19R+: President Bush, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bush, the President, Bush, the President, Republican, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, the President, the President, Bush
2D=, 2R=
The Convention Blues
26 August 2004
650 29 1D+: Harry Truman
1D=, 2R=
With Liberty and Slander for All
19 August 2004
737 5 1D+: John Kerry
1R+: George W. Bush
3D=, 2R=
The Swift Boat Blues
12 August 2004
673 6 5D+: Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry
2D-: Kerry, General Wesley Clark
3R+: Republican, President Bush, Bush
5D=
Up In Smoke
5 August 2004
629 0
Moore Sense Please
29 July 2004
781 62 5D-: Democratic, Howard Dean, Dean, Democratic, Howard Dean
4R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
4D=, 1R=
Who's Sorry Now?
22 July 2004
840 73 2D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton
9R+: President Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush
1R-: President Bush
2R=
The Price of Freedom
15 July 2004
683 100 2R+: Ronald Reagan, Republican
Cosby's Crusade
8 July 2004
921 17 1D-: Democrats
2R-: Republicans, Republican
No Brie for Me
1 July 2004
729 67 5R+: Colin Powell, Powell, Ronald Reagan, President Bush, W
1D=, 1R=
THE EVOLUTION OF MICHAEL MOORE
24 June 2004
813 78 3D-: Democratic, Jim McDermott, John Conyers
3R+: Bushies, President Bush, the president
2R=
Sign of the Times
17 June 2004
881 61 7R+: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Bush administration, the President, administration, Ronald Reagan
1D=, 3R=
Ronald Reagan
7 June 2004
767 64 13R+: Ronald Reagan, Reagan, former President, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, former President, Ronald Reagan
1R-: Reagan
2D=, 2R=
Aiding Osama
3 June 2004
713 13 1D-: Al Gore
1R+: Bush administration
4R-: the President, Bush, President Bush, Mr. President
1D=, 4R=
Paging Don Corleone
29 April 2004
838 56 1D+: Howard Dean
14D-: John Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, democrats, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, democrats, John Kerry
7R+: the President, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, The President, Bush
3R-: President Bush, Bush administration, President Ford
4D=, 3R=
O'Dodge Ball
21 April 2004
650 44 1D-: Hillary Clinton
1R+: Arnold
7R-: President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rummy
1R=
Who's Watching Us
15 April 2004
756 100 1R-: Richard Nixon
Radio Daze
1 April 2004
655 57 2D+: Kerry, Hillary
3D-: George Wallace, Edward Kennedy, Barbra Streisand
6R+: Bush, Cheney, Laura Bush, Rumsfeld, Bush, Bush
Activists Should Not Be Journalists
25 March 2004
644 0 1D+: John Kerry
1D-: Kerry
2D=, 2R=
Who's Looking Out for the Babies?
18 March 2004
716 0
This Bud's Not For Me
4 March 2004
582 0
Law, Order and the Left
26 February 2004
732 48 4D-: George Wallace, Wallace, Bill Lockyer, Lockyer
2R-: Arnold, Arnold
Hating Mel
19 February 2004
711 0
The Press is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
11 February 2004
659 0 1R+: Bush
1R-: Bush administration
3D=, 6R=
American Culture Exposed
5 February 2004
789 100 1D-: Howard Dean
Enslaving Kids
29 January 2004
732 100 1D-: President Clinton
Let's Hear it for Persistence
22 January 2004
745 17 7D+: John Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry
12D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, Kerry, Kennedy, Kerry, Howard Dean, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
2R+: Bush, the President
2R-: President Bush, Karl Rove
6D=, 3R=
Fair Warning to the Democrats
15 January 2004
657 86 14D-: Democrats, Democratic Party, democrats, Democratic, George Soros, Democrats, James Carville, Donna Brazile, democratic, Carville, Brazile, Carville, Brazile, Democratic Party
6R+: the President, Bush, Bush, the President, Bush, Cheney
2R-: Bush, Dick Cheney
Yes We Can't
8 January 2004
619 44 1D-: Howard Dean
8R-: GOP, Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan, Bush, The President, Bush, President Bush
1D=, 4R=
Bad Year Rising
1 January 2004
808 49 6D-: Howard Dean, Howard Dean, Democratic, Dean, Howard Dean, McGovern
2R+: Bush administration, President Bush
2R-: Limbaugh, Goldwater
2D=, 2R=