Beg Your Pardon, Susan Collins?

Feb 01, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -84% Extremely Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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

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  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"Making institutions look like America is what affirmative action does."
Positive
22% Conservative
"Affirmative action is picking somebody not as well qualified for past wrongs."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Earlier this week, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer informed President Joe Biden of his coming retirement in June."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Earlier this week, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer informed President Joe Biden of his coming retirement in June."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"GRAHAM: Kamala"
Negative
-2% Liberal
"GRAHAM: Kamala"
Negative
-2% Liberal
"And what President Biden did was as a candidate, make this pledge."
Positive
2% Conservative
"COLLINS: Well, we're a long ways from 2024."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"When Kamala Harris and her associates and the people that work for her, her staffers, raised money to bail out the rioters who hit cops in the head and burned down stores."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"We beg to differ, Susan."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"You say we're a long way away from --COLLINS:"
Negative
-18% Liberal
", I do not think the president should have made -- that President Trump should have made that pledge to do pardons."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"But Collins continued trying to insist otherwise."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"COLLINS: Actually, this isn't exactly the same."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"And you voted to convict President Trump as well."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Maine's Senator Susan Collins, fresh from showing her doorknob collection to her niece Samantha, decided to try to set up her excuse for her eventual NO vote on the very qualified yet still to be determined SCOTUS nominee."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Vice President Kamala Harris was not and is not President."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"I'm sure Graham didn't fuck that up a nanosecond later..."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"As George Stephanopoulos pointed out to Collins, Ronald Reagan said he would appoint a woman before he selected Sandra Day O'Coor and Trump aounced he would pick a woman within hours of RBG's passing."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"As George Stephanopoulos pointed out to Collins, Ronald Reagan said he would appoint a woman before he selected Sandra Day O'Coor and Trump aounced he would pick a woman within hours of RBG's passing."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Biden aouncing he would select a Black woman to fill a SCOTUS vacancy, whether as president or candidate, is no different."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"GRAHAM: Well, it's not different to me."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"After giving empty platitudes, Collins proceeded to pull bullshit reasons out of nowhere for why she will object to this nomination."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Fuy, Susan Collins's research failed to mention that Reagan aounced he would pick a woman for SCOTUS while he was a candidate, similar to Biden."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Fuy, Susan Collins's research failed to mention that Reagan aounced he would pick a woman for SCOTUS while he was a candidate, similar to Biden."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Collins will fall in line, like those other qualified candidates if Trump aounces he's ruing."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Collins will fall in line, like those other qualified candidates if Trump aounces he's ruing."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"But when Graham was asked about Trump's pardon-dangling, he gave a more forceful answer than Collins."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"But when Graham was asked about Trump's pardon-dangling, he gave a more forceful answer than Collins."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"But when Graham was asked about Trump's pardon-dangling, he gave a more forceful answer than Collins."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"But the most disturbing moment is when Stephanopoulos asks Collins about Trump floating potential pardons if he is re-elected for his failed insurrection pawns."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"But the most disturbing moment is when Stephanopoulos asks Collins about Trump floating potential pardons if he is re-elected for his failed insurrection pawns."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Political remora and US Senator Lindsey Graham gave a very different answer than Collins when asked the same question about Biden's potential SCOTUS nominee."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Political remora and US Senator Lindsey Graham gave a very different answer than Collins when asked the same question about Biden's potential SCOTUS nominee."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Political remora and US Senator Lindsey Graham gave a very different answer than Collins when asked the same question about Biden's potential SCOTUS nominee."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Collins voted to impeach and convict Trump in his second impeachment, which would have made him ineligible to run for federal office ever again if we lived in a proper democracy, but couldn't muster the vaguest attempt to shut the door on endorsing Trump in 2024."
Negative
-70% Liberal
"Collins voted to impeach and convict Trump in his second impeachment, which would have made him ineligible to run for federal office ever again if we lived in a proper democracy, but couldn't muster the vaguest attempt to shut the door on endorsing Trump in 2024."
Negative
-70% Liberal
"Collins voted to impeach and convict Trump in his second impeachment, which would have made him ineligible to run for federal office ever again if we lived in a proper democracy, but couldn't muster the vaguest attempt to shut the door on endorsing Trump in 2024."
Negative
-70% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Making institutions look like America" is what affirmative action does.
38% : Affirmative action is picking somebody not as well qualified for past wrongs.

*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.

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