The Washington Post recently reported on right-wing media’s obsession with counting certain words President Obama said — particularly use of the personal pronouns like “I” and “me” — and singled out the Media Research Center and CNSNews.com for doing so.
We’ve noted CNS’ obsession with counting Obama’s use of personal pronouns and other trigger words, and it managed to squeeze in one more counting article before he left office.
A Jan. 11 CNS article by Susan Jones informs us in her usual sneering tone that “President Obama, the man who has embraced “change” throughout his presidency, used the word 16 times in his farewell speech Tuesday night, but he did not directly mention the change Americans embraced in November by voting for Donald Trump.”
The Post added: “If the conservative media really wants to keep monitoring presidential self-references, however, Donald Trump should provide plenty of material.” But it seems CNS is too busy uncritically transcribing Trump’s words to be bothered to count them.