Columnist Dan Froomkin noted that it was possible to do a word search on messages posted at Americasupportsyou.mil, and wondered if certain words were more likely to show up in a search than others. A participant in his Live Online chat today obliged with an interesting list of searches:
White House Talk: Dan Froomkin
Douglassville, PaRe: americasupportsyou.mil
Keyword search:
pray – 9,425
god – 5,488
Christian – 96
Islam / Muslim – 4
Republican – 46
Democrat – 18
media – 230
democracy – 137
Interesting results.Dan Froomkin: Fabulous. Thanks.
Other word searches are encouraged. Some attendees obviously think that messages that support the military but that also oppose the leadership of this country might not show up, so have fun searching for messages from the loyal opposition! So far, I’ve only found a few: “lied to us – 1” and a few scattered amongst the word search “for peace.”
