Ellison's Independence Day Video Sparks Backlash Amid Pardon Scandal ⁠85%

By Scott McClallen⁠27%

7/4/2026, 8:00:39 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Negativity Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 32.5% saturation with 74 hits. Analysis detected 697 faulty-reasoning hits from 228 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠85% (3,469 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.20% of the article peer group.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison released a video about America’s 250th birthday in which he encourages America to import foreigners and naturalize them. 
"Every time this country faced a moment of crisis, every time we had to decide who we really are, the best of us chose to expand the circle," Ellison said. 
"To bring more people in. 
To make that promise of freedom and justice real for more Americans." 
On June 10, Minnesota Gov. 
Tim Walz, Ellison, and one other person pardoned an illegal alien and child rapist so that he could fight deportation. 
Minnesota’s Board of Pardons includes the governor, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the attorney general. 
“They want to take back the rights of the people born here," Ellison said. 
"They want to take back the rights of the people who came here.” 
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, slamming Europe for importing what he called "Third World criminals." 
Trump's administration has focused on deporting illegal aliens and stopping illegal immigration at America's borders. 
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228 words analyzed.

Speakers

5speakers81%attributed speech44writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageKeith Ellison • 23 words • 100.0% coverageKeith Ellison • 30 words • 100.0% coverageKeith Ellison • 5 words • 100.0% coverageKeith Ellison • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageTim Walz • 20 words • 100.0% coverageMinnesota’s Board of Pardons • 18 words • 0.0% coverageKeith Ellison • 14 words • 100.0% coverageKeith Ellison • 13 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageTownhall • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageTownhall • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
18 attributed words9.8% of attributed speech84% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 100.0%100.0%Politically Right Leaning -34.1 ptsWriter: 34.1%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -29.5 ptsWriter: 29.5%Donald Trump: 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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