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Late Night TV 29%

7/7/2026, 1:05:59 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Unattributed Quote, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 23.8% saturation with 224 hits. Analysis detected 1,683 faulty-reasoning hits from 942 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 39.4% and a BS Rank of 29% (14,766 of 20,557 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 71.80% of the article peer group.

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Bill Maher celebrated his ability to anger the right and the left Sunday as he received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize, with a message to those who complain about being mocked: Stop being ridiculous. 
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Comedians including Louis C.K. and Jay Leno and political figures like Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Sen. 
John Fetterman (D-PA) turned out for Bill Maher on Sunday as he received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize. 
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Set for a sit-down interview with Mark Twain Prize winner Maher, the vice president rolled into CBS Television… 
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By Armando Tinoco 
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“I mean, podcasts really are the new talk show. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 11.5%Deadline: 2.4%Confirmation Bias11.5%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 7.7%Deadline: 3.3%Availability Heuristic7.7%This article: 1.6%Deadline: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic1.6%This article: 3.5%Deadline: 0.6%Hindsight Bias3.5%This article: 3.0%Deadline: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias3.0%This article: 19.3%Deadline: 6.5%Framing Effect19.3%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.5%Deadline: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.5%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 2.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 2.2%Deadline: 0.9%Pessimism Bias2.2%This article: 23.8%Deadline: 6.1%Negativity Bias23.8%This article: 4.2%Deadline: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias4.2%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 2.0%Deadline: 6.6%Halo Effect2.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 2.5%Deadline: 1.3%Recency Bias2.5%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 3.2%Deadline: 0.3%Ad Hominem3.2%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 6.2%Deadline: 4.0%Appeal to Authority6.2%This article: 4.8%Deadline: 1.0%False Dilemma4.8%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 9.2%Deadline: 3.6%Hasty Generalization9.2%This article: 1.2%Deadline: 0.4%Red Herring1.2%This article: 3.6%Deadline: 0.9%Bandwagon3.6%This article: 6.7%Deadline: 3.7%Appeal to Emotion6.7%This article: 1.7%Deadline: 0.6%Begging the Question1.7%This article: 6.3%Deadline: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)6.3%This article: 1.4%Deadline: 0.0%Tu Quoque1.4%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 3.7%Deadline: 1.4%Anecdotal3.7%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 13.4%Deadline: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)13.4%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 15.4%Deadline: 3.0%Unattributed Quote15.4%This article: 2.4%Deadline: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection2.4%This article: 8.9%Deadline: 6.4%Biased Writer Voice8.9%This article: 3.2%Deadline: 1.0%Indoctrination3.2%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Deadline: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.5%Deadline: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.5%

942 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Selected voice

Kathy Griffin

100%flagged-word coverage
27 attributed words15% of attributed speech79% writer coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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