The Atlantic Article RatingA Senator Who Loved to Kibitz
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10% Center
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60% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
-8% Center
- Politician Portrayal
86% Negative
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
Sentiments
Overall Sentiment
-4% Negative
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "And it might be a sabbatical that will go on for the rest of my life." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Everyone was saying Joe's the most wonderful guy, the usual crap you hear, McCain said." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Everyone was saying Joe's the most wonderful guy, the usual crap you hear, McCain said." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Many Democrats had rid themselves of Lieberman, and the feeling was quite mutual." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "Lieberman got up and declared this provision to the room: In order to convert, McCain must first have a bris." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Lieberman got up and declared this provision to the room: In order to convert, McCain must first have a bris." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But what I'll miss and remember most about Lieberman was that the man loved to kibitz." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "I explained that I was taking a sabbatical from elective partisan politics, Lieberman told me in his sonorous, almost prayerful tone." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "In my experience with Lieberman, that was usually a sign that he was ready to let loose a bit, sometimes after a few glasses of wine." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Both Lieberman and McCain had an earthy wisdom born of their very different backgrounds: Lieberman was shaped by his deep Jewish faith, McCain by the five-and-a-half years he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Both Lieberman and McCain had an earthy wisdom born of their very different backgrounds: Lieberman was shaped by his deep Jewish faith, McCain by the five-and-a-half years he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Both Lieberman and McCain had an earthy wisdom born of their very different backgrounds: Lieberman was shaped by his deep Jewish faith, McCain by the five-and-a-half years he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Both Lieberman and McCain had an earthy wisdom born of their very different backgrounds: Lieberman was shaped by his deep Jewish faith, McCain by the five-and-a-half years he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "As he finished his account, McCain was bent over in laughter, just as he had been when he'd told me the exact same story the week before." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Fuy story about Lieberman, McCain said to me in 2013, when I was writing about him for The New York Times Magazine." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Fuy story about Lieberman, McCain said to me in 2013, when I was writing about him for The New York Times Magazine." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Lieberman told me that he had been invited to speak at both Obama's and Romney's conventions that summer." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Lieberman told me that he had been invited to speak at both Obama's and Romney's conventions that summer." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Lieberman told me that he had been invited to speak at both Obama's and Romney's conventions that summer." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Mark Leibovich: A politician who loved being courtedLieberman left me -- and his legions of kibitzees -- with an abundance of these parting gifts, which I have been recounting to myself since his death." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "He, in turn, was the subject of many stories himself, often on the theme of his Judaism -- and often offered up by McCain, another kibitzer of the highest order." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "He described an event where the Israeli ambassador in Washington had honored Lieberman after he left the Senate." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "I'm thankful that most of my encounters with Lieberman came before social media made politicians so suspicious and scared." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "It was a few days before that year's election, between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "It was a few days before that year's election, between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "I asked Lieberman if he would still get to use the Senate gym after he departed Congress." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Let's say he was covered in part, said Lieberman." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Sure enough, he was:There's an older guy on the park bench, crying -- tell me if you've heard this one, Lieberman said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Say what you will about Joe Lieberman, the self-described Independent Democrat senator from Coecticut and onetime Democratic vice-presidential candidate." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Coecticut Democrats had formalized the divorce in 2006, when they opted for liberal Ned Lamont over their incumbent senator in the primary before Lieberman managed to get reelected as an independent." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Coecticut Democrats had formalized the divorce in 2006, when they opted for liberal Ned Lamont over their incumbent senator in the primary before Lieberman managed to get reelected as an independent." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Lieberman, in that infuriating (to Democrats) way of his, had declined to endorse either candidate." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Finally, a jogger stops, sees the guy sobbing, Lieberman proceeded." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "A serious policy debate with Lieberman could veer sharply into a one-man Borscht Belt on the Potomac." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Was Bentsen dressed?" | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Because for all these years with Joe, I've had to eat that crappy salmon." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Lo and behold, it was the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, who, like Lieberman, had been a failed Democratic ruing mate." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Lo and behold, it was the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, who, like Lieberman, had been a failed Democratic ruing mate." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Joe Lieberman weighs the Trump riskThis was no great surprise, given that he had endorsed his close friend, Republican John McCain, against Obama in 2008." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Joe Lieberman weighs the Trump riskThis was no great surprise, given that he had endorsed his close friend, Republican John McCain, against Obama in 2008." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Joe Lieberman weighs the Trump riskThis was no great surprise, given that he had endorsed his close friend, Republican John McCain, against Obama in 2008." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
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54% : "And it might be a sabbatical that will go on for the rest of my life.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.