# The Onion: Most Used Words In The GOP Debate
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 7, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258 "2015-08-07T18:54:41Z")
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/1 "2015-08-07T18:54:41Z")
I haven’t watched either debate yet so I don’t know how accurate this is. Given that it’s The Onion, it may even be totally bogus. Then again, sometimes the truth works as satire when it’s presented the right way. In this case, as a word cloud.
> **[Most Used Words In The GOP Debate](https://www.theonion.com/most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate-1819592295)**
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> On Thursday night, the top 10 Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland to engage in the first primary debate. Below are the words and phrases used by the candidates, weighted by the frequency with which they...
Was “Pillage” actually the most common word? Did someone actually say “Bigger, chunkier military” not once but at least several times?
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### Author:  [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/2 "2015-08-07T18:56:45Z")
Of course it’s totally bogus. Obviously so. It’s The Onion.
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/3 "2015-08-07T18:59:59Z")
As you suspect, the Onion is a satirical site. This is not an accurate graph (funny though it may be).
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/4 "2015-08-07T19:04:03Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> As you suspect, the Onion is a satirical site. This is not an accurate graph (funny though it may be).
Oh I didn’t just suspect. I knew for certain that it’s a satirical site. But like Jon Stewart, sometimes the straight truth is as funny as anything.
Hey. Poe’s law. It’s hard to tell sometimes. 😛
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/5 "2015-08-07T19:07:11Z")
“I stand with the President”
You had to even ask if that was really one of the most common phrases? 😃
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/6 "2015-08-07T19:10:47Z")
> [@Terr](#):
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> Of course it’s totally bogus. Obviously so. It’s The Onion.
Except that some of the cloud is amusingly accurate.
Just a sample.
> [@](#):
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> Corpse of Ronald Reagan
> Bigger, chunkier military
> Fetus killing fields
> Don’t look that up
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/7 "2015-08-07T19:12:23Z")
I hadn’t read them all.
I suppose that could have been something like “When I’m elected, people will be able to proudly say ‘I stand with the President’.”
But obviously it’s bogus.
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### Author:  [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/8 "2015-08-07T19:15:33Z")
Wait… are you satire?
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/9 "2015-08-07T19:22:17Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> Wait… are you satire?
What do you think? 😉
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/10 "2015-08-07T19:30:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Except that some of the cloud is amusingly accurate.
> Just a sample.
Right. Factually bogus, but true in spirit.
Unless you’re saying that those things were actually said. I can easily believe “Fetus killing fields” and “Don’t look that up”. “Corpse of Ronald Reagan” is a little more questionable but not impossible. But “Bigger, chunkier military” was said several times? “Bigger military” I could absolutely believe, but “chunkier”?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/11 "2015-08-07T19:44:06Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> Right. Factually bogus, but true in spirit.
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> Unless you’re saying that those things were actually said. I can easily believe “Fetus killing fields” and “Don’t look that up”. “Corpse of Ronald Reagan” is a little more questionable but not impossible. But “Bigger, chunkier military” was said several times? “Bigger military” I could absolutely believe, but “chunkier”?
That’s what I meant.
Someone invoked Reagan.
Someone said our military was small and weak.
A number of things, they hope no one will look up.
It’s a mix of totally made up and based on things that were actually said.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/12 "2015-08-07T19:48:48Z")
I’m pretty sure everything in that word cloud was, in fact, uttered by one of the candidates. Even the phrase “I stand with the president”, I kinda sorts vaguely remember one of them saying, but I don’t remember what that was referring to. The sizes of the text, reflecting frequencies, looks totally bogus. The phrase “I hope no women are watching” certainly was spoken only once.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/13 "2015-08-07T19:53:23Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> **I’m pretty sure everything in that word cloud was, in fact, uttered by one of the candidates.** Even the phrase “I stand with the president”, I kinda sorts vaguely remember one of them saying, but I don’t remember what that was referring to. The sizes of the text, reflecting frequencies, looks totally bogus. The phrase “I hope no women are watching” certainly was spoken only once.
Pearls, rubies, dubloons.
Cookout at my house.
350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Triple-berry blast.
Maybe not. 😃
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/14 "2015-08-07T19:53:25Z")
[Transcript of debate](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-of-the-2015-gop-debate-9-pm/) courtesy of CBS News. Searchable plain text (i.e., html, not PDF image).
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/15 "2015-08-07T19:57:17Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> I’m pretty sure everything in that word cloud was, in fact, uttered by one of the candidates. Even the phrase “I stand with the president”, I kinda sorts vaguely remember one of them saying, but I don’t remember what that was referring to. The sizes of the text, reflecting frequencies, looks totally bogus. The phrase “I hope no women are watching” certainly was spoken only once.
[ul]
[li]“My siamese twin”[/li][li]“Hard bodied hunks”[/li][li]“Street meat”[/li][li]“My friend God”[/li][li]“Bigger, chunkier military”[/li][/ul]
If you’re right then I definitely have to watch this thing.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/16 "2015-08-07T19:59:55Z")
Okay, just poked through that transcript I linked. Can’t find “stand with the president” anywhere.
Now let’s see which of the other phrases in that word cloud were actually spoken.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/17 "2015-08-07T20:00:10Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> [Transcript of debate](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-of-the-2015-gop-debate-9-pm/) courtesy of CBS News. Searchable plain text (i.e., html, not PDF image).
A page search on “chunkier” finds nothing. I was actually hoping that it would be there. 😃
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/18 "2015-08-07T20:07:22Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> [ul]
> [li]“My siamese twin”[/li][li]“Hard bodied hunks”[/li][li]“Street meat”[/li][li]“My friend God”[/li][li]“Bigger, chunkier military”[/li][/ul]
> If you’re right then I definitely have to watch this thing.
Okay, now I can’t find _any_ of those phrases in the transcripts. And I’m sure at least some of those were said. Was I hallucinating the whole thing?
Aha! At the beginning of the transcript, it says “Transcript provided by Fox News”. Was it edited? I’m going to look for some others. Megyn Kelly asked Trump a question about some of the misogynistic things he’s said over the years, and Trump more-or-less doubled down and stood by what he said – and he said “I hope no women are watching” or something very much like that.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/19 "2015-08-07T20:07:51Z")
A search on “siamese” doesn’t find “my siamese twin”, but it does find a statement from Carson: "I’m the only one to separate siamese twins… ", which makes sense in it’s context.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-most-used-words-in-the-gop-debate/727258/20 "2015-08-07T20:15:06Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Okay, now I can’t find _any_ of those phrases in the transcripts. And I’m sure at least some of those were said. Was I hallucinating the whole thing?
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> Aha! At the beginning of the transcript, it says “Transcript provided by Fox News”. Was it edited? I’m going to look for some others. Megyn Kelly asked Trump a question about some of the misogynistic things he’s said over the years, and Trump more-or-less doubled down and stood by what he said – and he said “I hope no women are watching” or something very much like that.
I have it on my DVR. I’m not about to sit and make a transcript, but if I get around to watching it I’ll try to look for some of those phrases. The more oddball ones would certainly stand out. However, for example, the word “owls” is not in the transcript and I can’t imagine why Fox would consider owls to be controversial enough to leave out of the transcript.
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