Another GOP Politician Arrested For Viciously Assaulting His Wife ⁠31%

By Red Painter⁠48%

8/7/2026, 4:07:50 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias, and Pessimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 31% saturation with 130 hits. Analysis detected 557 faulty-reasoning hits from 419 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33% and a BS Rank of ⁠31% (21,410 of 30,667 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 69.80% of the article peer group.

It's a feature, not a bug! 
Yet another Republican politician has been accused of assaulting his wife. 
This time he was not only arrested, but he resigned. 
Arkansas state representative Austin McCollum, a Republican candidate for Benton County judge, was arrested this past Saturday for a shocking and violent assault of his wife, Ragan. 
She reports that the couple returned from a wedding celebration when he 'got mad and started throwing things at me.' 
She stated that he threw numerous things, including shoes, deodorant, and even a metal hanger. 
He also prevented her from leaving the bedroom, blocking access by standing or sitting in front of the door. 
The situation escalated substantially. 
She reports that: 
"At some point he threw me face down on the bed and put both knees (and full body weight) on my back, holding my arms back. 
Then he removed his left knee and slid his right knee to the back of my neck, pushing my face into the mattress so that I couldn't breathe." 
She made it to the door and tried to escape, which led him to allegedly slam the door on her hand multiple times. 
Then he PUNCHED HER multiple times. 
The abuse continued. 
She reported that: 
"There was blood everywhere, and I couldn't see. 
He grabbed my hair and slammed my head to the ground multiple times. 
He finally let me up and began telling me to clean up and shower so that he could help stop the bleeding," 
When she was finally able to escape, she ran downstairs and found her grandmother before screaming for someone to call 911. 
He was arrested later that day and charged with suspicion of aggravated assault on a family or household member, false imprisonment in the first degree, and misdemeanor domestic battery. 
Police reported that they found him drunk, covered in blood on his arms and legs, as well as injuries to his knuckles consistent with someone punching something or someone. 
Ragan was also granted an order of protection after she told the court about numerous previous incidents of assault, one of which included him pushing her down a flight of stairs. 
He was released from jail on Sunday after posting a $10,000 bond and will be formally arraigned on September 8th. 
He resigned from his current position on Wednesday. 
Hopefully she remains safe. 
The most dangerous time for a victim of domestic violence is immediately after the abuser is charged and released from jail. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 14.3%Red Painter: 3.5%Crooks and Liars: 7.0%Confirmation Bias14.3%This article: 1.9%Red Painter: 0.5%Crooks and Liars: 0.8%Anchoring Bias1.9%This article: 21.5%Red Painter: 3.1%Crooks and Liars: 2.7%Availability Heuristic21.5%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 1.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 6.4%Red Painter: 2.3%Crooks and Liars: 7.9%Framing Effect6.4%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.1%Crooks and Liars: 0.9%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 11.0%Red Painter: 1.4%Crooks and Liars: 1.8%Pessimism Bias11.0%This article: 31.0%Red Painter: 10.6%Crooks and Liars: 19.5%Negativity Bias31.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 2.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 2.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 1.1%Crooks and Liars: 2.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.2%Crooks and Liars: 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 1.2%Crooks and Liars: 2.9%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 1.7%Crooks and Liars: 10.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 2.6%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 2.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 5.0%Red Painter: 0.6%Crooks and Liars: 1.7%False Dilemma5.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.7%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.4%Red Painter: 6.7%Crooks and Liars: 9.8%Hasty Generalization7.4%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.9%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 6.9%Red Painter: 8.1%Crooks and Liars: 9.0%Appeal to Emotion6.9%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.5%Crooks and Liars: 1.3%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.7%Crooks and Liars: 1.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 1.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 1.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 2.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.3%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 1.4%Red Painter: 0.2%Crooks and Liars: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)1.4%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.5%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 4.8%Red Painter: 0.6%Crooks and Liars: 3.8%Unattributed Quote4.8%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 8.8%Red Painter: 16.1%Crooks and Liars: 25.5%Biased Writer Voice8.8%This article: 1.0%Red Painter: 2.2%Crooks and Liars: 2.0%Indoctrination1.0%This article: 5.0%Red Painter: 5.6%Crooks and Liars: 11.9%Politically Left Leaning Bias5.0%This article: 6.4%Red Painter: 0.8%Crooks and Liars: 1.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias6.4%This article: 0.0%Red Painter: 0.0%Crooks and Liars: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

419 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker44%attributed speech233writer words
Selected voice

Ragan

62%flagged-word coverage
186 attributed words100% of attributed speech91% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Politically Right Leaning -11.6 ptsWriter: 11.6%Ragan: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+10.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Ragan: 10.8%10.8%Biased Writer Voice-1.4 ptsWriter: 9.4%Ragan: 8.1%8.1%Politically Left Leaning B-9.0 ptsWriter: 9.0%Ragan: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-1.7 ptsWriter: 1.7%Ragan: 0.0%0.0%

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

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