Daily Kos⁠84%

Fox News covers for ‘state fair’ disaster, plus the Trump slump ⁠85%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

7/2/2026, 11:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Politically Left Leaning Bias, and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 54.3% saturation with 75 hits. Analysis detected 553 faulty-reasoning hits from 138 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠85% (3,472 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.10% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 28.3%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias28.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 15.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic15.2%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: 32.6%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect32.6%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: 12.3%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias12.3%This article: 13.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias13.0%This article: 47.8%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias47.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 7.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias7.2%This article: 5.8%Daily Kos Staff: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias5.8%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: 4.3%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect4.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 15.2%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem15.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 12.3%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority12.3%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: 17.4%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization17.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 16.7%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion16.7%This article: 5.1%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question5.1%This article: 8.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%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: 3.6%Daily Kos Staff: 1.7%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal3.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 13.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)13.0%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: 5.1%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote5.1%This article: 5.1%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection5.1%This article: 54.3%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice54.3%This article: 10.9%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination10.9%This article: 47.8%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias47.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 19.6%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…19.6%

138 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker4.3%attributed speech132writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageLyndon B. Johnson • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Lyndon B. Johnson

100%flagged-word coverage
6 attributed words100% of attributed speech94% writer coverage
0%30.0%60.0%Biased Writer Voice-56.8 ptsWriter: 56.8%Lyndon B. Johnson: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-50.0 ptsWriter: 50.0%Lyndon B. Johnson: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -20.5 ptsWriter: 20.5%Lyndon B. Johnson: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-11.4 ptsWriter: 11.4%Lyndon B. Johnson: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-5.3 ptsWriter: 5.3%Lyndon B. Johnson: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-5.3 ptsWriter: 5.3%Lyndon B. Johnson: 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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