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WHCD shooting was at same hotel where Ronald Reagan was shot 94%

4/26/2026, 8:31:26 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Negativity Bias, and Anecdotal, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 40.7% saturation with 55 hits. Analysis detected 432 faulty-reasoning hits from 135 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 91% and a BS Rank of 94% (1,021 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 93.90% of the video peer group.

the Washington Hilton. You know, of course, it's it's famous or it's infamous for the place where Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley in 1981. 
I was on a Secret Service detail in 1981. 
when John Hinckley tried to penetrate it here in Nashville and tried to kill Jimmy Carter. 
He had three guns on him and he couldn't get through our security. 
that day and he got arrested at the Nashville airport with the three pistols and he shot Ronald Reagan 6 months later. 
So these asalants get very determined. 
Uh this guy clearly he had the three guns. 
He checked in. He waited till the dinner started. 
Uh we don't know clearly his motive. 
Was his target only the 
only the 
Confirmation Bias
8.1%
Anchoring Bias
8.1%
Availability Heuristic
40.7%
Representativeness Heuristic
11.9%
Hindsight Bias
4.4%
Overconfidence Bias
11.1%
Framing Effect
19.3%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
28.9%
Self-Serving Bias
6.7%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
9.6%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
16.3%
Primacy Effect
19.3%
Blind-Spot Bias
5.2%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
6.7%
False Dilemma
19.3%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
12.6%
Red Herring
1.5%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
25.9%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
6.7%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
28.1%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
29.6%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

135 words analyzed.

Analysis

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