The Free Press77%
The Charlie Kirk Killing and America’s Forgotten History of Left-Wing Terror 100%
By Coleman Hughes89%
7/20/2026, 9:01:12 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Politically Right Leaning Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 71 hits. Analysis detected 485 faulty-reasoning hits from 71 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 100% (52 of 18,786 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 99.70% of the article peer group.
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at *National Review* and author of the new book *Blood & Progress*, which makes the case that left-wing political violence has a long and largely forgotten history in America.
He joins Coleman Hughes to argue that the commonly held belief that political violence is largely a right-wing phenomenon is not just inaccurate but ac…
Confirmation Bias
35.2%Confirmation Bias
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35.2%AuthorColeman Hughes
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
49.3%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
100%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
15.5%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
49.3%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
49.3%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
35.2%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
35.2%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
49.3%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
100%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
100%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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71 words analyzed.
Analysis
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