A containment barrier too late ⁠76%

By Silvio Canto⁠93% Jr.⁠51%

8/1/2026, 9:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Emotion, and Indoctrination, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 34.5% saturation with 127 hits. Analysis detected 949 faulty-reasoning hits from 368 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 61.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠76% (6,464 of 26,148 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.30% of the article peer group.

What do you when your leftist prime minister "invites" young men of military age to seek more opportunities? 
You get women complaining about their personal safety or merchants fighting the aforementioned young men looting their stores. 
And you get Spain to build a containment barrier to keep the "opportunity seekers" away from your country - i.e., all 60,000 of them. 
I guess the Spanish P.M. cannot call it a fence for fear that his party will accuse him of sounding like Trump. 
Let's check this developing story : 
Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long (1,600-foot) containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the frontier earlier this week. 
The death toll has climbed to 67, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday. 
A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta's urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border. 
Spain's interior ministry says the majority of those who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco. 
"We are relentless against those who break the law," Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told journalists in Ceuta on Saturday. 
Relentless against those who break the law? 
Please explain that to the women harassed by "visitors" or shopkeepers fighting looters. 
The interior minister's statement about those who break the law will definitely go down as the joke of the century. 
It was this socialist government that set the table for something like this to happen. 
Installing a fence now is okay but way too late. 
The unintended consequence of watching these videos is that it may have finally taught the Europeans that the threat is very close to home. 
They are calling for urgent meetings to discuss the problem. 
Let's hope these E.U. leaders come to their senses after watching the border breach. 
Last, but not least, I hope these videos are shown to voters listening to candidates who want to eliminate ICE. 
PS: Check out my blog for posts, podcasts, and videos . 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 9.5%Silvio Canto: 4.8%American Thinker: 9.9%Confirmation Bias9.5%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 9.2%Silvio Canto: 8.2%American Thinker: 3.4%Availability Heuristic9.2%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 1.4%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 12.0%Silvio Canto: 4.3%American Thinker: 1.2%Hindsight Bias12.0%This article: 5.4%Silvio Canto: 1.4%American Thinker: 2.6%Overconfidence Bias5.4%This article: 6.5%Silvio Canto: 9.5%American Thinker: 6.5%Framing Effect6.5%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 2.7%Silvio Canto: 0.7%American Thinker: 0.7%Status Quo Bias2.7%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 3.8%Silvio Canto: 1.0%American Thinker: 1.5%Optimism Bias3.8%This article: 6.5%Silvio Canto: 1.6%American Thinker: 2.4%Pessimism Bias6.5%This article: 34.5%Silvio Canto: 16.5%American Thinker: 11.9%Negativity Bias34.5%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 4.8%American Thinker: 2.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 1.2%American Thinker: 3.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 8.2%American Thinker: 4.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 2.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 5.4%Silvio Canto: 1.4%American Thinker: 1.1%Recency Bias5.4%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 2.9%American Thinker: 5.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 2.4%American Thinker: 3.8%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 4.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 4.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 3.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 10.3%Silvio Canto: 11.8%American Thinker: 15.4%Hasty Generalization10.3%This article: 4.9%Silvio Canto: 1.2%American Thinker: 0.6%Red Herring4.9%This article: 8.2%Silvio Canto: 2.0%American Thinker: 0.5%Bandwagon8.2%This article: 18.2%Silvio Canto: 13.5%American Thinker: 8.1%Appeal to Emotion18.2%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 2.3%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 10.6%Silvio Canto: 3.7%American Thinker: 3.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)10.6%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.4%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 4.1%Silvio Canto: 1.0%American Thinker: 1.5%Burden of Proof4.1%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.5%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.7%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 10.3%Silvio Canto: 4.7%American Thinker: 3.3%Anecdotal10.3%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.4%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 1.4%Silvio Canto: 0.3%American Thinker: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)1.4%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 1.9%Silvio Canto: 0.5%American Thinker: 0.2%Personal Incredulity1.9%This article: 2.7%Silvio Canto: 0.7%American Thinker: 0.2%Special Pleading2.7%This article: 6.5%Silvio Canto: 1.6%American Thinker: 0.7%Genetic Fallacy6.5%This article: 15.2%Silvio Canto: 3.8%American Thinker: 2.7%Unattributed Quote15.2%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 33.2%Silvio Canto: 25.5%American Thinker: 20.8%Biased Writer Voice33.2%This article: 15.8%Silvio Canto: 8.6%American Thinker: 5.6%Indoctrination15.8%This article: 0.0%Silvio Canto: 0.0%American Thinker: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 10.6%Silvio Canto: 26.4%American Thinker: 13.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias10.6%This article: 8.4%Silvio Canto: 3.6%American Thinker: 0.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…8.4%

368 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers19%attributed speech298writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
20 attributed words29% of attributed speech98% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+87.9 ptsWriter: 12.1%Fernando Grande-Marlaska: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+65.8 ptsWriter: 34.2%Fernando Grande-Marlaska: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-19.5 ptsWriter: 19.5%Fernando Grande-Marlaska: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -13.1 ptsWriter: 13.1%Fernando Grande-Marlaska: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -10.4 ptsWriter: 10.4%Fernando Grande-Marlaska: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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