MAGA Influencer Blames Antifa for His Own Alleged Sex Crime ⁠45%

By Tim Miller⁠99% Sam Stein⁠98% Will Sommer⁠94%

7/9/2026, 4:46:39 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 40.7% saturation with 118 hits. Analysis detected 588 faulty-reasoning hits from 290 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 40.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠45% (15,757 of 28,383 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 55.50% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 4.1%The Bulwark: 5.0%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 6.6%Tim Miller: 3.5%The Bulwark: 2.3%Availability Heuristic6.6%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.6%The Bulwark: 1.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 11.7%Tim Miller: 10.6%The Bulwark: 5.8%Framing Effect11.7%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 4.5%Tim Miller: 0.3%The Bulwark: 0.3%Status Quo Bias4.5%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 3.4%Tim Miller: 1.3%The Bulwark: 1.1%Optimism Bias3.4%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.6%The Bulwark: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 34.5%Tim Miller: 22.0%The Bulwark: 9.9%Negativity Bias34.5%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 1.4%The Bulwark: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 6.5%The Bulwark: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 1.1%The Bulwark: 1.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.6%The Bulwark: 0.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 2.2%The Bulwark: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 12.4%Tim Miller: 1.2%The Bulwark: 1.2%Recency Bias12.4%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.5%The Bulwark: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 9.0%Tim Miller: 3.6%The Bulwark: 3.0%Ad Hominem9.0%This article: 7.6%Tim Miller: 0.6%The Bulwark: 0.7%Straw Man7.6%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.6%The Bulwark: 2.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.2%The Bulwark: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.3%Tim Miller: 11.0%The Bulwark: 6.4%Hasty Generalization0.3%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 3.9%The Bulwark: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.6%The Bulwark: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 21.4%Tim Miller: 7.7%The Bulwark: 4.8%Appeal to Emotion21.4%This article: 4.8%Tim Miller: 3.0%The Bulwark: 1.2%Begging the Question4.8%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.8%The Bulwark: 1.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 1.2%The Bulwark: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 9.0%Tim Miller: 0.8%The Bulwark: 1.9%Anecdotal9.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.2%The Bulwark: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 1.2%The Bulwark: 1.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 3.4%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy3.4%This article: 4.5%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.6%Unattributed Quote4.5%This article: 3.8%Tim Miller: 0.8%The Bulwark: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection3.8%This article: 40.7%Tim Miller: 26.1%The Bulwark: 12.8%Biased Writer Voice40.7%This article: 2.8%Tim Miller: 1.2%The Bulwark: 2.2%Indoctrination2.8%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 20.3%The Bulwark: 4.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tim Miller: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.5%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 22.4%Tim Miller: 14.1%The Bulwark: 3.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…22.4%

290 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers22%attributed speech225writer words
Selected voice

Meghan McCain

100%flagged-word coverage
13 attributed words20% of attributed speech75% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Meghan McCain: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-43.6 ptsWriter: 43.6%Meghan McCain: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -14.7 ptsWriter: 14.7%Meghan McCain: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-4.9 ptsWriter: 4.9%Meghan McCain: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-3.6 ptsWriter: 3.6%Meghan McCain: 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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