Mediaite⁠70%

US Launches Ninth Straight Night Of Strikes On Iran After American Death Toll Rises ⁠83%

By Jennifer Bowers Bahney⁠52%

7/20/2026, 12:22:34 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Pessimism Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 20% saturation with 89 hits. Analysis detected 987 faulty-reasoning hits from 445 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (3,845 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.40% of the article peer group.

U.S. 
Central Command announced Sunday that it has unleashed the ninth consecutive night of strikes on Iran, in light of a rising U.S. death toll in the Gulf. 
“CENTCOM began conducting a new wave of strikes against Iran at 7 p.m. 
ET today for the ninth consecutive night,” CENTCOM’s post read. 
“The strikes will continue degrading Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz.” 
CENTCOM began conducting a new wave of strikes against Iran at 7 p.m. 
ET today for the ninth consecutive night. 
The strikes will continue degrading Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz. 
Earlier Sunday, CENTCOM reported finding the remains of what they believed to be the missing U.S. service member struck by the same missiles that killed two troops Friday night. 
Those killings increased the U.S. death toll to 17 soldiers since the start of the Iran war. 
“This is a ninth round of strikes,” began Fox News’s Joey Jones . 
“One of the points of contention here is what are we hitting? 
And is it civilian infrastructure? 
Because there’s international rules against that.” 
“They’ll say things like, ‘We hit 160 telecom towers that could be used for…drones,’ so, they are connecting the civilian infrastructure to the military operations, which the IRGC essentially operates in Iran to begin with,” Jones continued. 
“So, there really isn’t a good way to discern between the two to begin with so we’re almost in a sit and wait to see how effective these strikes are.” 
Co-Host Tomi Lahren added, “I think it is notable if it’s the ninth consecutive night of strikes. 
I don’t know if this is in direct response to the killing of our service members, or if this was the plan all along.” 
I guess we’re not sure but we have to assume things will ramp up due to the attacks on our service members and if those continue to imagine President Trump is not going to stand for that, and I would expect him to escalate accordingly. 
I think there will be a lot of discussions this week to the point we’ve all been making about how does this impact our economy and are Republicans going to get cold feet because we’re couple of months for midterms? 
All things we will find out this week I’m sure. 
Watch the clip above via The Big Weekend Show on Fox News. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 14.4%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 5.6%Mediaite: 5.0%Confirmation Bias14.4%This article: 6.7%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 2.8%Mediaite: 0.9%Anchoring Bias6.7%This article: 5.4%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 3.0%Mediaite: 3.8%Availability Heuristic5.4%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 1.0%Mediaite: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 12.4%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 3.8%Mediaite: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias12.4%This article: 20.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 10.9%Mediaite: 9.1%Framing Effect20.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.5%Mediaite: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 3.2%Mediaite: 1.2%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 16.9%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 2.2%Mediaite: 1.6%Pessimism Bias16.9%This article: 12.8%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 9.9%Mediaite: 14.7%Negativity Bias12.8%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 1.6%Mediaite: 1.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.3%Mediaite: 1.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 1.5%Mediaite: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 8.3%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.7%Mediaite: 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias8.3%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.8%Mediaite: 1.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 9.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 5.0%Mediaite: 2.3%Recency Bias9.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.8%Mediaite: 3.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 1.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 7.0%Mediaite: 3.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 15.5%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 2.5%Mediaite: 2.4%False Dilemma15.5%This article: 10.1%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 2.2%Mediaite: 1.3%Slippery Slope10.1%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 6.7%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 4.5%Mediaite: 7.6%Hasty Generalization6.7%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 2.9%Mediaite: 6.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.9%Mediaite: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 19.3%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 3.8%Mediaite: 2.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)19.3%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 1.0%Mediaite: 1.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.6%Mediaite: 3.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 8.3%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 2.7%Mediaite: 2.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)8.3%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.8%Mediaite: 0.6%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 19.6%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 8.5%Mediaite: 3.3%Unattributed Quote19.6%This article: 9.7%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 3.5%Mediaite: 3.2%Quote-first Misdirection9.7%This article: 15.1%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 3.6%Mediaite: 8.3%Biased Writer Voice15.1%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.6%Mediaite: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.3%Mediaite: 2.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 9.0%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 3.6%Mediaite: 1.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias9.0%This article: 2.7%Jennifer Bowers Bahney: 0.7%Mediaite: 1.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…2.7%

445 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers79%attributed speech92writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageCentral Command • 13 words • 100.0% coverageCentral Command • 10 words • 0.0% coverageCentral Command • 21 words • 100.0% coverageCentral Command • 13 words • 0.0% coverageCentral Command • 7 words • 0.0% coverageCentral Command • 21 words • 0.0% coverageCentral Command • 29 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageJoey Jones • 13 words • 100.0% coverageJoey Jones • 12 words • 0.0% coverageJoey Jones • 5 words • 0.0% coverageJoey Jones • 6 words • 0.0% coverageJoey Jones • 37 words • 100.0% coverageJoey Jones • 30 words • 0.0% coverageTomi Lahren • 17 words • 100.0% coverageTomi Lahren • 24 words • 0.0% coverageTomi Lahren • 45 words • 0.0% coverageTomi Lahren • 40 words • 100.0% coverageTomi Lahren • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Tomi Lahren

100%flagged-word coverage
136 attributed words39% of attributed speech76% writer coverage
0%15.0%30.0%Politically Right Leaning +29.4 ptsWriter: 0.0%Tomi Lahren: 29.4%29.4%Biased Writer Voice+0.1 ptsWriter: 29.3%Tomi Lahren: 29.4%29.4%Attempt to Sell a Product -13.0 ptsWriter: 13.0%Tomi Lahren: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection+12.5 ptsWriter: 0.0%Tomi Lahren: 12.5%12.5%

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

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