Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-2067-8279
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
The publicly available texts of the George W. Bush administration from September 11, 2001, to March 19, 2003, as presented in The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, were analyzed for word frequency and the words themselves analyzed for emotional weight using the NRC Emotion Intensity Lexicon. Transcripts of six television news agencies (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, and PBS) were also analyzed for word frequency to determine the extent to which these agencies may have repeated and consequently amplified the rhetoric of the administration. Public opinion polling for this same period was examined in an attempt to gauge the effect the government’s rhetoric concerning Iraq and Saddam Hussein and the echoing of that rhetoric by television news might be having on the public’s receptivity to the idea of going to war with Iraq.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL
First Page
56
Last Page
89
Recommended Citation
Russo, M. F. (2023). Wooing “Willing Dupes”: The Bush Administration’s Use of Emotional Language in the Drive Toward War with Iraq. Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, 6 (4), 56-89. Retrieved from https://repository.lsu.edu/libraries_pubs/296
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