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Megyn Kelly is triggered by superhero, and right-wing families try Russia ⁠89%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

6/30/2026, 4:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 55.2% saturation with 74 hits. Analysis detected 536 faulty-reasoning hits from 134 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠89% (2,575 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.20% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 6.0%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias6.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 3.7%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic3.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 35.8%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect35.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 4.5%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias4.5%This article: 54.5%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias54.5%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 11.9%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error11.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 4.5%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias4.5%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.9%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 6.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect6.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 29.1%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem29.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.7%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.5%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization7.5%This article: 6.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring6.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 37.3%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion37.3%This article: 10.4%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question10.4%This article: 7.5%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)7.5%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 6.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof6.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 14.9%Daily Kos Staff: 1.7%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal14.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 26.9%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)26.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.4%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote10.4%This article: 12.7%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection12.7%This article: 55.2%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice55.2%This article: 14.9%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination14.9%This article: 14.2%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias14.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 20.1%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…20.1%

134 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers25%attributed speech101writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Megyn Kelly • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageTrump • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageKen Paxton • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageMegyn Kelly • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Megyn Kelly

100%flagged-word coverage
17 attributed words52% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Megyn Kelly: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+54.5 ptsWriter: 45.5%Megyn Kelly: 100.0%100.0%Politically Left Leaning B+56.8 ptsWriter: 7.9%Megyn Kelly: 64.7%64.7%Unattributed Quote+27.4 ptsWriter: 7.9%Megyn Kelly: 35.3%35.3%Attempt to Sell a Product -26.7 ptsWriter: 26.7%Megyn Kelly: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-19.8 ptsWriter: 19.8%Megyn Kelly: 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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