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George Conway Is Back—and Trump Gave Him PLENTY to Work With 78%
By Sarah Longwell92%
7/22/2026, 10:58:33 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Loss Aversion, Confirmation Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 39.9% saturation with 61 hits. Analysis detected 239 faulty-reasoning hits from 153 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.4% and a BS Rank of 78% (4,474 of 20,299 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 78.00% of the article peer group.
Sarah Longwell welcomes George Conway back to The Illegal News to discuss Trump Media’s plan to sell Wall Street firms early access to Trump’s market-moving Truth Social posts.
They also talk about DOJ subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters and their families, Trump’s Qatar jet, the newly activated Alien Terrorist Removal Court, and the Paramount–Warner merger.
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Confirmation Bias
18.3%Confirmation Bias
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18.3%AuthorSarah Longwell
10.8%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
0.9%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Availability Heuristic
18.3%Availability Heuristic
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18.3%AuthorSarah Longwell
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
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Framing Effect
7.2%Framing Effect
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7.2%AuthorSarah Longwell
14.7%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Loss Aversion
19%Loss Aversion
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19%AuthorSarah Longwell
2.1%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Status Quo Bias
9.8%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
1.5%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
18.3%Negativity Bias
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18.3%AuthorSarah Longwell
25.9%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
3.6%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
7.2%Primacy Effect
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7.2%AuthorSarah Longwell
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
18.3%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
0%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorSarah Longwell
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
39.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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39.9%AuthorSarah Longwell
28.5%PublicationThe Bulwark
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153 words analyzed.
Analysis
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