War With Iran Kicks Off ... Again ⁠36%

By Steve Hayes⁠19% Jonah Goldberg⁠33% Michael Warren⁠8% Mike Nelson⁠78%

7/14/2026, 7:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Biased Writer Voice, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 92.2% saturation with 71 hits. Analysis detected 225 faulty-reasoning hits from 77 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠36% (13,193 of 20,444 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 64.50% of the article peer group.

Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Mike Warren, and Mike Nelson to break down the return of hostilities with Iran and the changing realities in the Russia-Ukraine war, and to recall Lindsey Graham’s tenure in American politics. 
**The Agenda:** 
—Is the war back on? 
—Oil prices down, stocks up 
—“The guardian of the strait.” 
—Russia-Ukraine war 
—Russia’s economic crisis 
—Lindsey Graham’s Tenacious Pursuit of Influence 
—NWYT: Being a curmudgeon 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 7.8%Steve Hayes: 3.2%The Dispatch: 3.5%Confirmation Bias7.8%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 2.3%The Dispatch: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 51.9%Steve Hayes: 0.9%The Dispatch: 1.7%Availability Heuristic51.9%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 1.0%The Dispatch: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 92.2%Steve Hayes: 7.1%The Dispatch: 4.8%Framing Effect92.2%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.5%The Dispatch: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 6.5%Steve Hayes: 1.5%The Dispatch: 1.6%Optimism Bias6.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.5%The Dispatch: 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 26.0%Steve Hayes: 3.0%The Dispatch: 5.1%Negativity Bias26.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 1.3%The Dispatch: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 14.3%Steve Hayes: 4.4%The Dispatch: 1.9%Halo Effect14.3%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 9.1%Steve Hayes: 1.3%The Dispatch: 1.0%Recency Bias9.1%This article: 1.3%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Primacy Effect1.3%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 4.7%The Dispatch: 3.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 6.5%Steve Hayes: 0.3%The Dispatch: 2.0%False Dilemma6.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.4%The Dispatch: 5.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 2.4%The Dispatch: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.8%The Dispatch: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 6.5%Steve Hayes: 3.6%The Dispatch: 1.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)6.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.3%The Dispatch: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 14.3%Steve Hayes: 1.7%The Dispatch: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)14.3%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 6.5%Steve Hayes: 1.6%The Dispatch: 1.3%Unattributed Quote6.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.4%The Dispatch: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 49.4%Steve Hayes: 3.1%The Dispatch: 6.7%Biased Writer Voice49.4%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hayes: 4.0%The Dispatch: 6.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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