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MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff Disgusted by ‘Racist’ Slurs Used by Immigration Agents: ‘We Normally Don’t Say It On Television…’ 67%

By Sean James83%

8/1/2026, 5:55:54 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Indoctrination, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 31% saturation with 117 hits. Analysis detected 943 faulty-reasoning hits from 378 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54% and a BS Rank of 67% (8,941 of 26,836 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.70% of the article peer group.

MS NOW anchor Jacob Soboroff started his show off on Saturday by venting about the “disgusting” language ICE and border patrol agents used to describe illegal immigrants, according to newly released documents. 
Soboroff explained the texts were revealed because of a push by the ACLU in California. 
He ripped agents who referred to illegal immigrants as “bodies” in on exchange, with Soboroff reading the message that said “I think [border patrol agents] only know one way to operate  see bodies, chase bodies.” 
He then warned his viewers it got even worse. 
“Even more body camera footage and texts caught agents using racist language, slurs, to describe Latinos,” Soboroff said. 
“I want to warn you that the language you are about to hear is very offensive, it is disgusting. 
But I believe that it is important for you guys to hear and witness nonetheless.” 
MS NOW then had a technical difficulty and played the wrong clip. 
The camera cut back to Soboroff and he read the message. 
“The agent refers to a person as quote ‘wet.’ 
Wet is typically short for wetback. 
Which is a slur that ties back to Operation Wetback. 
We normally don’t say it on television, but you should know it, because that was the official and racist name for the 1954 deportation effort by the Dwight D. 
Eisenhower administration, which Donald Trump has lauded in the past and modeled this deportation effort after.” 
His gripes about the immigration agents comes after the Trump administration announced in July it had deported 356,389 people in the last year. 
Over on Fox News, Tomi Lahren said she was disappointed by those figures  she said MAGA fans wanted to see a lot more illegal immigrants get booted . 
Soboroff ended his segment by telling viewers they can thwart Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration by voting in the 2026 midterms. 
“All of this goes back to power. 
Who has the power and who gets the power, [and] what we do with the power. 
We the people,” he said. 
“On election day, we get to exercise it, we get to choose the kind of country that we want to be.” 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 13.8%Sean James: 4.3%Mediaite: 4.4%Confirmation Bias13.8%This article: 1.6%Sean James: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.8%Anchoring Bias1.6%This article: 2.6%Sean James: 3.0%Mediaite: 3.3%Availability Heuristic2.6%This article: 7.7%Sean James: 1.5%Mediaite: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic7.7%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.6%Mediaite: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 2.5%Mediaite: 1.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 14.6%Sean James: 8.6%Mediaite: 8.2%Framing Effect14.6%This article: 5.6%Sean James: 0.5%Mediaite: 0.4%Loss Aversion5.6%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 11.1%Sean James: 2.2%Mediaite: 1.2%Optimism Bias11.1%This article: 2.4%Sean James: 1.0%Mediaite: 1.4%Pessimism Bias2.4%This article: 31.0%Sean James: 12.4%Mediaite: 13.6%Negativity Bias31.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.9%Mediaite: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.4%Mediaite: 1.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 9.0%Sean James: 1.8%Mediaite: 1.9%In-Group Bias9.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 2.5%Mediaite: 1.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.9%Mediaite: 1.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 3.1%Mediaite: 2.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 9.3%Sean James: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.6%Primacy Effect9.3%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 4.0%Mediaite: 3.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.9%Mediaite: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 7.7%Sean James: 2.2%Mediaite: 3.2%Appeal to Authority7.7%This article: 5.6%Sean James: 2.6%Mediaite: 2.2%False Dilemma5.6%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.4%Mediaite: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 9.5%Sean James: 6.8%Mediaite: 6.7%Hasty Generalization9.5%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 28.8%Sean James: 8.3%Mediaite: 6.0%Appeal to Emotion28.8%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.1%Mediaite: 1.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 10.3%Sean James: 2.7%Mediaite: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)10.3%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.7%Mediaite: 1.1%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.4%Mediaite: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 11.6%Sean James: 2.1%Mediaite: 2.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)11.6%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 0.7%Mediaite: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 14.0%Sean James: 2.8%Mediaite: 3.0%Unattributed Quote14.0%This article: 5.0%Sean James: 2.5%Mediaite: 2.9%Quote-first Misdirection5.0%This article: 22.8%Sean James: 8.7%Mediaite: 7.5%Biased Writer Voice22.8%This article: 20.1%Sean James: 2.1%Mediaite: 1.6%Indoctrination20.1%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.3%Mediaite: 1.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sean James: 1.9%Mediaite: 1.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.6%Sean James: 1.3%Mediaite: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.6%

378 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers68%attributed speech121writer words
Selected voice

Jacob Soboroff

96%flagged-word coverage
228 attributed words89% of attributed speech69% writer coverage
0%22.5%45.0%Biased Writer Voice-26.8 ptsWriter: 42.1%Jacob Soboroff: 15.4%15.4%Indoctrination+33.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jacob Soboroff: 33.3%33.3%Unattributed Quote+23.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jacob Soboroff: 23.2%23.2%Quote-first Misdirection-15.7 ptsWriter: 15.7%Jacob Soboroff: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +9.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jacob Soboroff: 9.2%9.2%

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

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