MAGA Said The Odyssey Would Flop. Whoops! ⁠92%

By Sam Stein⁠91% Sonny Bunch⁠79% Will Sommer⁠83%

7/22/2026, 2:21:32 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, In-Group Bias, and Straw Man, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 61.4% saturation with 89 hits. Analysis detected 568 faulty-reasoning hits from 145 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠92% (1,636 of 20,496 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.00% of the article peer group.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just pulled in $124.5 million over its opening weekend, the biggest domestic opening for a live-action film this year. 
So why has MAGA Twitter spent the weekend insisting it's a woke disaster, a box office fraud, and a betrayal of Homer himself? 
Sam Stein, Sonny Bunch, and Will Sommer give their takes on the right's bizarre backlash: the fake Achilles/Elliot Page casting controversy, the Emily Wilson translation discourse, the conspiracy theories about Rotten Tomatoes being "rigged," and the very online split between guys like Matt Walsh and Elon Musk (furious) and Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin (actually kind of into it). 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.9%Sam Stein: 2.8%The Bulwark: 5.8%Confirmation Bias15.9%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 15.9%Sam Stein: 4.3%The Bulwark: 3.0%Availability Heuristic15.9%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 20.0%Sam Stein: 16.4%The Bulwark: 6.9%Framing Effect20.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.3%The Bulwark: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.2%The Bulwark: 1.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.5%The Bulwark: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 61.4%Sam Stein: 28.8%The Bulwark: 11.4%Negativity Bias61.4%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.6%The Bulwark: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 40.7%Sam Stein: 3.2%The Bulwark: 3.0%In-Group Bias40.7%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 3.6%The Bulwark: 1.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 1.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.9%The Bulwark: 1.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.2%The Bulwark: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 8.0%The Bulwark: 3.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 40.7%Sam Stein: 2.8%The Bulwark: 0.8%Straw Man40.7%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 2.4%The Bulwark: 3.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 15.9%Sam Stein: 2.5%The Bulwark: 2.3%False Dilemma15.9%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 15.9%Sam Stein: 9.0%The Bulwark: 8.3%Hasty Generalization15.9%This article: 40.7%Sam Stein: 4.7%The Bulwark: 0.6%Red Herring40.7%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 5.1%The Bulwark: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.6%The Bulwark: 1.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.2%The Bulwark: 2.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 2.1%The Bulwark: 2.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.2%The Bulwark: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.6%The Bulwark: 2.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.2%The Bulwark: 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 45.5%Sam Stein: 24.1%The Bulwark: 15.4%Biased Writer Voice45.5%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 3.2%The Bulwark: 2.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 40.7%Sam Stein: 14.2%The Bulwark: 5.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias40.7%This article: 15.9%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias15.9%This article: 22.8%Sam Stein: 24.8%The Bulwark: 4.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…22.8%

145 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker10%attributed speech130writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 59 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageBulwark+ Takes • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverage
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15 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +86.2 ptsWriter: 13.8%Bulwark+ Takes: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-50.8 ptsWriter: 50.8%Bulwark+ Takes: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-45.4 ptsWriter: 45.4%Bulwark+ Takes: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -17.7 ptsWriter: 17.7%Bulwark+ Takes: 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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