This time around, Barack Obama’s Olympic remarks included 26 first-person-singular words out of 1130, for a rate of 2.3%. This is slightly below his typical rate for presidential press conferences, and a bit more than half the rate of the George W. Bush pressers that I measured earlier (2.3/4.49 = 51%, to be precise).

If Will had presented an actual argument instead of a word count, we could have averted this embarrassing expose. But nooOOooo. The right has to run with cheap shots over substance when it doesn’t need to do so. Infuriating.