BS Summary: This video contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, In-Group Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 7.4% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 403 faulty-reasoning hits from 771 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.2% and a BS Rank of 35% (11,056 of 16,813 videos). This video is better (less manipulative) than 65.80% of the video peer group.
What do you love about America?
What do I love?
Something about us is the land of opportunity.
>> [music]
>> For American legend Billie Jean King, that opportunity had to be fought for.
Growing up, tennis wasn't even on her radar.
So, I'm going to do something.
So, I'm starting with a different type of ball.
>> Go ahead.
So, so Billie Jean, the reason why I tossed that ball to you cuz I want you to take me back.
I'm 5 years older than my brother, so that I think that helps people to understand.
But he and I did everything together.
We played American football, we played baseball.
King grew up in a middle-class family, a self-described public park kid from Long Beach, California.
I was about 9 years old, and my heart sank because I realized for the first time, because of my gender, because I'm a girl, I'll never be able to play baseball.
In fifth grade, a friend took her to a country club and introduced her to tennis.
My dad's a firefighter, and my mom's a homemaker.
I'm going, "No way we can afford to play tennis."
But she loved it so much, she saved up.
$8.29 in a mason jar up in the cupboard, and I go, "Mommy, Daddy, I've got to get a racket now."
I slept with that racket, I loved it, I'd take care of it.
And then the man >> Tennis was an exclusive, white, male-dominated sport at the time.
>> [screaming]
>> I promised myself if I could ever be number one in the world, which I already wanted to be, Yeah.
that I hopefully could make this world a better place.
Mrs. Billie Jean King [music] of America, the new queen of tennis.
King winning 39 Grand Slam titles, 20 at Wimbledon, and claiming a host of firsts, forming the Women's Tennis Association, and fighting to get equal pay for women at the US Open.
Whatever will help the future, that's what I'll do.
But she often was ridiculed.
Well, here we are, the best players in the world are called amateurs.
I said, "This has got to go."
Were people telling you, "Hey, hey Billie Jean, just just hit the ball.
Just hit the ball. We don't want to hear all this."
>> Be quiet. You're a girl, be quiet. Don't rock the boat. Just be happy that you have this opportunity."
And of course I'm thinking, it's not the road I'm going to take.
She rocked the boat in 1973.
I like the idea that I'm playing for someone else besides myself.
Accepting a challenge against Bobby Riggs to a three-set match dubbed Battle of the Sexes.
>> Billie Jean [music] King versus Bobby Riggs. Look at that crowd.
>> 90 million people would tune in as 29-year-old King beat 55-year-old Riggs in straight sets.
How she approached her matches became her approach to life.
It's one ball at a time, staying in the process.
But why is life like that?
If you don't stay in the present of the now, it doesn't work.
Pressure, King has often said, is a privilege.
That mantra becoming symbolic of her work on and off the court, from equality to gay rights.
When you see the American flag,
what do you think? Oh my god, I think about my parents.
My dad would always cry, he was in the Navy. My mother would cry.
>> Why? I don't know. It's us. It's It's the home of the,
you know, brave. What do you think that little girl would have would have said if you would have told her,
"You can't even play baseball, but
you're going to grow up, and you're going to be a part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers."
>> not have believed you.
King's wish today to build upon a more inclusive America.
Every time I talk to somebody that's just gotten here, I go, "Why'd you come here?"
Every time it's this just about the same answer.
"I want to make a better life for my family."
So, something about us is the land of opportunity.
>> [applause]
>> And I want us to keep it that way.
Billie Jean King, our great American this week.
And if you know a great American in your life, we invite you to share with us by going online to nbcnews.com/greatamericans.
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