What do all these people's names have in common?

[alfaniner]

comey
flynn
trump
pence
kelly
obama
nixon
putin
kaine
biden
devos
stone
dubke

Every time I see a new five-letter last name pop up, getting a major news cycle, it seems a little weirder.

 

[Mojo]

They are all in the same post.

 

[fagin]

They all lost their capital?

 

[C_Felix]

Covfefe

That's what they have in common.

 

[Upchurch]

They were all cherry picked for their character length to the exclusion of other names in the news with different character lengths?

 

[Octavo]

They were all cherry picked for their character length to the exclusion of other names in the news with different character lengths?

I'd say this was more sharpshooter than cherry picking

(I call that the fallacious nit-pick).

 

[Foolmewunz]

Page
Lieberman
Kushner
Spicer
Pelley
Franken
Griffin
Ryan
Clinton
Spicer
Merkel
May
Conway
McCain
Cruz

That's just from the headlines and sub-heads on Politico and CNN. Yes, of course, Trump's mentioned a number of times; he is the POTUS, after all. But the other names on the OP list are not.

I concur - sharpshooter fallacy.

 

[Oystein]

TSSF developed into a confirmation bias?

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

I think you are on to something. Let's follow it down the rabbit hole and see where it leads.

jim b comey
mikey flynn
donald j trump
mikey pence
megyn kelly
barak obama
dicky nixon
vladimir putin
tim m kaine
joe r biden
betsy devos
roger stone
mikey dubke

Notice any connection?

 

[Trebuchet]

There's nothing at all wrong with five-letter names.

Signed, Robert.

 

[Mike!]

They all contain at least one vowel.

 

[alfaniner]

I forgot

nunes

 

[Spindrift]

comey
flynn
trump
pence
kelly
obama
nixon
putin
kaine
biden
devos
stone
dubke

Every time I see a new five-letter last name pop up, getting a major news cycle, it seems a little weirder.

devil
satan
angel
jesus