Raw Story⁠93%

Trump kicks off Independence Day with predawn post about Pee-wee Herman ⁠78%

By Kathleen Culliton⁠79%

7/4/2026, 4:25:47 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Unattributed Quote, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 28.6% saturation with 73 hits. Analysis detected 531 faulty-reasoning hits from 255 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 68.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠78% (5,011 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 77.10% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of the nation he leads by blasting out insulting memes at about 2 a.m. 
Trump took to Truth Social at 2:11 a.m. precisely to make sure American citizens knew for certain he thinks Sen. 
Jon Ossoff (D-GA) looks like Pee-wee Herman. 
The president returned at 2:19 a.m. to remind the nation he believes Rep. 
James Talarico (D-TX), currently running for the Senate, looks like MAD Magazine's Alfred E. 
Neuman. 
For good measure, the leader of the free world blacked out one of Talarico's front teeth. 
Ossoff has served a vocal critic of Trump in recent weeks as he runs against the president's chosen candidate for Georgia, Rep. 
Mike Collins. 
When Trump dubbed Ossoff "Dumocrat Senator, Os(jerk!) 
off" last month, Ossoff was ready with a retort, focused on the conflict in Iran. 
"The president is humiliated globally by this failed war," said Ossoff. 
"He’s an increasingly unstable lame duck and a national disgrace.” 
While Trump may enjoy filling his mornings sharing memes on social media, there is one thing he typically does not do, according to a recent analysis. 
Trump, 80, made just three public appearances in Washington before 11 a.m. in all of June, according to the Daily Beast. 
The Daily Beast's review noted his public events were more often slated to take place in the afternoon or later and dubbed his schedule “shockingly lazy." 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 7.4%Rawstory: 8.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 5.5%Rawstory: 4.5%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 5.5%Kathleen Culliton: 1.1%Rawstory: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic5.5%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.3%Rawstory: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 7.8%Kathleen Culliton: 2.8%Rawstory: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias7.8%This article: 28.6%Kathleen Culliton: 13.5%Rawstory: 13.4%Framing Effect28.6%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 8.2%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 2.9%Pessimism Bias8.2%This article: 28.6%Kathleen Culliton: 21.4%Rawstory: 21.6%Negativity Bias28.6%This article: 5.9%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias5.9%This article: 5.1%Kathleen Culliton: 2.7%Rawstory: 2.8%Fundamental Attribution Error5.1%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 8.6%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 2.5%In-Group Bias8.6%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.4%Rawstory: 1.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 0.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.1%Rawstory: 0.9%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 10.2%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 1.8%Recency Bias10.2%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.7%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 5.9%Rawstory: 6.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.8%Rawstory: 0.7%Straw Man0.0%This article: 10.2%Kathleen Culliton: 4.0%Rawstory: 4.1%Appeal to Authority10.2%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.0%Rawstory: 3.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 1.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 8.2%Kathleen Culliton: 12.4%Rawstory: 12.1%Hasty Generalization8.2%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.3%Rawstory: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.4%Rawstory: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 10.2%Kathleen Culliton: 8.4%Rawstory: 9.2%Appeal to Emotion10.2%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.3%Rawstory: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 3.7%Rawstory: 3.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.4%Rawstory: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.4%Rawstory: 1.7%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.6%Rawstory: 0.5%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 8.6%Kathleen Culliton: 4.4%Rawstory: 3.9%Anecdotal8.6%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.3%Rawstory: 0.3%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.0%Rawstory: 2.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 27.5%Kathleen Culliton: 4.9%Rawstory: 5.3%Unattributed Quote27.5%This article: 5.5%Kathleen Culliton: 5.8%Rawstory: 4.1%Quote-first Misdirection5.5%This article: 24.7%Kathleen Culliton: 16.5%Rawstory: 15.7%Biased Writer Voice24.7%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.9%Rawstory: 3.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 5.6%Rawstory: 8.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 1.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 4.7%Kathleen Culliton: 0.4%Rawstory: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…4.7%

255 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers27%attributed speech187writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageJon Ossoff • 11 words • 0.0% coverageJon Ossoff • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Beast • 21 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Beast • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Daily Beast

100%flagged-word coverage
47 attributed words69% of attributed speech93% writer coverage
0%30.0%60.0%Biased Writer Voice+35.5 ptsWriter: 19.8%Daily Beast: 55.3%55.3%Unattributed Quote-37.4 ptsWriter: 37.4%Daily Beast: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-7.5 ptsWriter: 7.5%Daily Beast: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -6.4 ptsWriter: 6.4%Daily Beast: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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