Daily Kos85%

You should see what we’re doing to immigrants 80%

By David Horsey92%

7/15/2026, 11:59:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Appeal to Emotion, and Politically Left Leaning Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 61% saturation with 50 hits. Analysis detected 305 faulty-reasoning hits from 82 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72% and a BS Rank of 80% (4,235 of 21,176 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 80.00% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 61.0%David Horsey: 18.5%Daily Kos: 9.0%Framing Effect61.0%This article: 17.1%David Horsey: 11.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion17.1%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.5%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 17.1%David Horsey: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias17.1%This article: 22.0%David Horsey: 7.5%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias22.0%This article: 14.6%David Horsey: 13.0%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias14.6%This article: 14.6%David Horsey: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias14.6%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 14.8%Daily Kos: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.5%Daily Kos: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 2.6%Daily Kos: 5.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 14.6%David Horsey: 7.7%Daily Kos: 2.4%False Dilemma14.6%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 22.0%David Horsey: 6.4%Daily Kos: 9.7%Hasty Generalization22.0%This article: 6.1%David Horsey: 0.5%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring6.1%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 31.7%David Horsey: 32.9%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion31.7%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 2.8%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 14.6%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)14.6%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 9.8%David Horsey: 1.7%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof9.8%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 9.8%David Horsey: 0.9%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)9.8%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 14.6%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 2.7%Unattributed Quote14.6%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 9.8%David Horsey: 26.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice9.8%This article: 24.4%David Horsey: 16.1%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination24.4%This article: 29.3%David Horsey: 14.6%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias29.3%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 39.0%David Horsey: 29.8%Daily Kos: 2.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…39.0%

82 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker6.1%attributed speech77writer words
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Writer's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageDavid Horsey • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

David Horsey

100%flagged-word coverage
5 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +64.9 ptsWriter: 35.1%David Horsey: 100.0%100.0%Politically Left Leaning B-31.2 ptsWriter: 31.2%David Horsey: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-26.0 ptsWriter: 26.0%David Horsey: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-15.6 ptsWriter: 15.6%David Horsey: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-10.4 ptsWriter: 10.4%David Horsey: 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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