Palin's ’Rogue’ in brief: Alaska, campaign, family, oil
by Matt Apuzzo / The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Not a speed reader? Want to get through Sarah Palin’s new book in a flash?

A look at Palin’s most frequently used words capture some of the key themes of the former Alaska governor’s memoir: Alaska, campaign, Todd, family, kids, right, governor, government, oil, work, energy.

The Associated Press electronically scanned the book, “Going Rogue,” and, using software to highlight the most common words, created a “word cloud” that captures the book in a nutshell. The software filters out common words like “and,” “or,” “like,” and “the,” presents the most substantive words visually.

The roughly 127,000-word book covers Palin’s life before politics, her years in local government in Wasilla, Alaska, her tenure as governor and her failed vice presidential campaign with Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

The themes will seem familiar to anyone who followed Palin’s campaign. She refers to her husband, Todd, more than 200 times, and uses words like “family,” “kids,” “mom” and “dad” about 600 times combined.

Palin, who championed “drill, baby, drill!” as a campaign slogan, used “oil” and “energy” more than 250 times

“Oil” and “energy” appear more than 250 times combined, nearly as often as she used the word “campaign.”

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AP-produced word cloud: http://bit.ly/3EVpiz

comments (9)
« toothless wrote on Sunday, Nov 22 at 06:44 PM »


Sarah you're number one and loved by many and that includes our family.
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« Oh_please wrote on Sunday, Nov 22 at 10:06 AM »
Man! Is it already time for Roadie's bi-monthly I'm-quitting-the-DNM-message-boards-FOREVER post.

Sheesh, time flies!
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« akbearable wrote on Sunday, Nov 22 at 07:40 AM »
Farewell Roadtrip,

You will be missed. Your creatively brilliant posts, your devotion to your one true love, that being Sarah. Oh how it must have been hard to bare witness her good name dragged through the mud by the hands of an uncaring evil liberal media. How you must have endured, night after painful night the ceaseless victimization and yet always keeping your torch burning ever brightly for Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. And your love, respect and compassion for all peoples, even the black man in the white house, as well as all the liberal sinners with viewpoints other then your own will surely have earned you a spot in heaven with the wonderful Christian faithful like the Palin Family. You have been a real trooper in the eyes of the Lord!
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« triproad wrote on Saturday, Nov 21 at 11:22 PM »
Goodbye FDNM, this is no longer fun or informative. I hope you news paper people have a plan B.

I was at Barnes and Nob today and there was Palin's book front and center. They had a table behind that with some Alaskan authors and most of those books had dust on them. Palin is breaking records with her book and you morons are lucky if you can break wind.

And the thought of the day, Later losers

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« 2raven wrote on Saturday, Nov 21 at 08:23 PM »
Sarah Palin used the most important words of her story. What other words would have been more important?

She put the best in it's priority. She exposed what has always been missing from other politic-

ians. It's what makes her stand above the rest.
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« goawaypalin wrote on Saturday, Nov 21 at 07:55 PM »
The ONLY thing "Rogue" about Palin is the out of date hair-do. Just hearing her name is is like hearing the name George Dubya! They are probably twins!
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« Jamie_Smith wrote on Saturday, Nov 21 at 07:49 PM »
Too bad the AP doesn't have software to filter out which words are actually Palin's and which are by the ghostwriter. Probably be a much lighter read and much easier for the fans to handle, not to mention afford.

How long before she resigns from the tour and puts the bus up on eBay?
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« Oh_please wrote on Saturday, Nov 21 at 07:24 PM »
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« Power_Of_The_O wrote on Saturday, Nov 21 at 04:45 PM »
Matt - Which one of the 12 AP "reporters" that were assigned to "fact check" Palin's book were you?

Since we counting the number of times that words were used

The AP has used the name "Palin" 400 billion times over the last year in their "stories".

But they are clearly journalists as they have also used the term "Tea Baggers" 560,543 times during the past year.

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