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White House correspondents' dinner shooting: Selina Wang has the latest 92%

4/26/2026, 11:14:30 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Appeal to Authority, and Burden of Proof, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 35.7% saturation with 110 hits. Analysis detected 1,003 faulty-reasoning hits from 308 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.2% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,429 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 91.50% of the video peer group.

Okay, we've got new reporting today on the shooting incident at the White House correspondents dinner last night. 
Sources are telling ABC News that early evidence suggests the suspect's plan was a mass shooting and that the intended targets were Trump administration officials. 
Sources say the 31-year-old suspect shared a message with family that while dinner guests were not his targets, he would still go through most everyone there to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary. 
White House press secretary Caroline Levit posted that the night was quote hijacked by a depraved crazy person who sought to assassinate the president and kill as many top Trump administration officials as possible. 
as possible. I was inside the ballroom last night when it happened. We were just minutes into the dinner. 
I was sitting near the front of the stage when I heard banging then yelling, "Get on the ground." 
I got on I got on the ground. 
ground under the table as fast as I could as did other colleagues. 
Some ducked under chairs. Uh there was panic, there was confusion. 
Then law enforcement rushed into the ballroom. 
I mean, this was a room packed with top officials. 
Several members of the presidential line of succession were in there. 
The president, the vice president, the speaker of the house. 
Some agents were jumping over chairs to get to the people they protect. 
Some carrying them out. Speaker Johnson seen sprinting out with his security detail. 
And then when we were finally able to leave the ballroom, a group of us rushed here to the White House for the president's late night briefing. 
The president's late night briefing. The president says he wants this dinner rescheduled and held again soon, but whether that's possible, that's still unclear. 
Confirmation Bias
19.8%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
33.1%
Representativeness Heuristic
3.2%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
6.8%
Framing Effect
16.9%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
7.8%
Pessimism Bias
7.8%
Negativity Bias
35.7%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
12.3%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
4.2%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
11%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
13.3%
Primacy Effect
10.4%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
26.9%
False Dilemma
7.8%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
15.9%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
23.1%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
2.3%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
26.6%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
4.2%
Anecdotal
25.3%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
11%
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%

308 words analyzed.

Analysis

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