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Steve Deace: Is Mitch McConnell actually in the hospital, or is it ‘Soviet-level propaganda'? 67%
By BlazeTV Staff87%
7/14/2026, 4:00:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Burden of Proof, Negativity Bias, and Slippery Slope, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 34.2% saturation with 113 hits. Analysis detected 745 faulty-reasoning hits from 330 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.8% and a BS Rank of 67% (7,245 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.90% of the article peer group.
After a month of silence, Kentucky Republican Sen.
Mitch McConnell’s office shared a statement alongside a proof of life photograph of McConnell sitting in what appears to be a hospital bed alongside his wife while holding this Sunday’s Washington Post newspaper.
McConnell shared that he had fallen and had to deal with a “mild case of pneumonia.”
“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion,” the statement read.
“I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke.
I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages.
But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital.”
BlazeTV host Steve Deace isn’t totally buying McConnell’s story, calling the photo “fascinating.”
“I mean, you typically, when you see people in the hospital admitted for long periods of time, are they typically cord-free or there’s no IVs?”
he asks, pointing out that McConnell is free of any IVs, cords, and he’s dressed normally.
“When I look at this, I don’t see anything.
I don’t see any evidence of an IV.
I don’t see any machines,” he says.
“This to me was like Soviet-level propaganda here, right?
And you make sure to throw the wife in there with all the rumors that she had run off to China or something,” he adds.
“And his best friend in the Senate was Lindsey Graham,” co-host Todd Erzen chimes in.
“And he said nothing about Lindsey Graham too, because this came out hours after it was already out that Lindsey Graham had passed away,” executive producer Aaron McIntire adds.
“To me, the best thing that you can say is that he’s seriously hurt, which is unfortunate again for him and his family.
He’s seriously hurt, and they staged this in the hospital to make it look like he was due back and didn’t consider any of the details of the kinds of things we’re asking about,” Deace says.
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