ABC News99%

White House accuses Smithsonian of presenting 'a radical view of American history' 73%

7/7/2026, 12:44:34 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Confirmation Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 42% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 458 faulty-reasoning hits from 162 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64.9% and a BS Rank of 73% (6,035 of 21,886 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 72.40% of the video peer group.

Let's look at the Smithsonian Institution by the numbers. 
The Smithsonian was founded in 1846. 
It's currently the world's largest museum complex with 21 museums as well as 
21 museums as well as galleries and the National Zoo. 
The institution says it has over 157 million objects and specimens in the its collection, as well as 14.9 million total visits to its locations in 2025. 
The Smithsonian says it receives more than $1 billion in federal funding, 
which makes up about 62% of its total funding. 
And for the most part, these museums cost $0 to visit, except for 
Cooper Hewitt in New York City. 
A spokesperson for the Smithsonian 
Institution responded to the White House's report in a statement to ABC 
News saying, "For [music] more than 180 
years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with non-partisan and 
independent scholarship, and we [music] remain committed to doing so." 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 24.1%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias24.1%This article: 11.1%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias11.1%This article: 30.9%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic30.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 8.0%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias8.0%This article: 37.7%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect37.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 8.0%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias8.0%This article: 6.2%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias6.2%This article: 14.8%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias14.8%This article: 6.8%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias6.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 7.4%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 21.0%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect21.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 4.3%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect4.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 42.0%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority42.0%This article: 5.6%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma5.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 16.7%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization16.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 7.4%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion7.4%This article: 6.8%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question6.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 5.6%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof5.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 4.3%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal4.3%This article: 6.2%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman6.2%This article: 8.0%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)8.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

162 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers41%attributed speech96writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageSmithsonian • 12 words • 0.0% coverageSmithsonian • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageSmithsonian • 5 words • 0.0% coverageSmithsonian • 12 words • 0.0% coverageABC • 7 words • 0.0% coverageABC • 11 words • 0.0% coverageABC • 10 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

ABC

100%flagged-word coverage
28 attributed words42% of attributed speech77% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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