NBC News35%

Special Report: Looking back on the political legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham 6%

By NBC News36%

7/12/2026, 11:14:56 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Halo Effect, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 54.1% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 340 faulty-reasoning hits from 85 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 21.8% and a BS Rank of 6% (20,680 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.50% of the article peer group.

Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who had held his Senate seat since 2003 and was seen as a war hawk and significant voice on defense and foreign policy, has died at the age of 71 from a “sudden illness.” 
NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin and Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker report on Graham’s rise in Congress, his relationship with President Donald Trump, and his views on the wars in Iran and between Russia and Ukraine. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.7%NBC News: 2.1%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 43.5%NBC News: 3.1%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic43.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.9%NBC News: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 54.1%NBC News: 5.9%NBC News: 6.4%Framing Effect54.1%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.7%NBC News: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%NBC News: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 43.5%NBC News: 10.7%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias43.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 43.5%NBC News: 2.8%NBC News: 4.0%Halo Effect43.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.1%NBC News: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 42.4%NBC News: 1.0%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect42.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 42.4%NBC News: 4.0%NBC News: 3.2%Appeal to Authority42.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.3%NBC News: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.4%NBC News: 3.2%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 3.6%NBC News: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%NBC News: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.4%NBC News: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 1.5%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 43.5%NBC News: 2.1%NBC News: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)43.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 43.5%NBC News: 4.1%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote43.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.0%NBC News: 1.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 43.5%NBC News: 4.4%NBC News: 4.1%Biased Writer Voice43.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

85 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker42%attributed speech49writer words
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Writer's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 37 words • 100.0% coverageNBC News • 36 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

NBC News

100%flagged-word coverage
36 attributed words100% of attributed speech96% writer coverage
0%40.0%80.0%Unattributed Quote-75.5 ptsWriter: 75.5%NBC News: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-75.5 ptsWriter: 75.5%NBC News: 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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