Learn from these heroic saints who lived against the grain

Jul 24, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    28% Moderately Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    28% Moderately Conservative

  • 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.

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  •   Conservative
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"Why does choosing to live a life of virtue, or vice, even matter?With abortion and many other issues, the world is in a massive state of confusion."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump will be in the spotlight as the case drags on."
Positive
26% Conservative
"Thankfully, they didn't acquiesce to his demands, but the testimony detailing how Trump bullied officials in the U.S. Department of Justice, state legislatures and local election offices was truly chilling."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Altogether it demonstrates a tyraical pattern in which Trump wielded the power of the presidency to work numerous chaels to overthrow the will of the voters."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Prosecuting Trump will demonstrate that the bedrock principles of the United States remain firm: The voters decide who holds power, and no one is above the law."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"We caot abandon the truth and remain a free nation, committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in her closing remarks Thursday."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Secret Service agents protecting Pence at the Capitol described being so afraid they called loved ones to say goodbye."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Besides, Trump's entire political persona -- from his campaign through his presidency -- was about breaking norms."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"This seems like a legitimate risk, but not a sufficient reason to back away from the pile of evidence that points toward Trump's culpability."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"But already the first eight hearings have shown that Trump was told many times, by several close and well-informed advisors, that there was no evidence of voter fraud or ballot irregularities that would have altered the outcome of the election."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"And then there is the jaw-dropping evidence of Trump menacing his own vice president."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"As the House panel demonstrated in painstaking detail during Thursday's hearing, Trump watched the rampage unfold on TV from the comfort of a White House dining room, rebuffing pleas from aides who wanted him to publicly condemn the violence and call off the mob."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The tweet further inflamed the frothing crowd that chanted, Hang Mike Pence."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"One of the arguments against prosecuting Trump is that it violates American norms because impeachment by Congress is the proper venue for holding a president accountable, not a criminal courtroom, and the Senate failed to muster the two-thirds majority required to find him guilty of inciting an insurrection."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"If the prosecution is unsuccessful and Trump is acquitted, he could gain more currency than he has now as a political loser."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Another argument against prosecution is that it could backfire and wind up empowering Trump instead of imprisoning him."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger testified that Trump called him and said, I need 11,000 votes, give me a break."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"He would likely cast it as political retribution by Biden's Justice Department, and use the process to develop a new arsenal of conspiracies with which to stoke his fans' grievances."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"And yet Trump continued to perpetuate the lie, using the misplaced trust of many Americans to continue the con."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"And then, for three hours after he left the rally, Trump refused to take steps to quell the violence as rioters battled with police, stormed into the Capitol and disrupted the electoral vote count."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"But former President Trump's multifaceted attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election that culminated with him inciting violent mobs to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory, was also an extraordinary development in American history -- one that nearly destroyed our democracy."
Positive
0% Conservative
"But former President Trump's multifaceted attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election that culminated with him inciting violent mobs to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory, was also an extraordinary development in American history -- one that nearly destroyed our democracy."
Positive
0% Conservative
"An election worker described facing racist death threats after Trump baselessly accused her of processing fraudulent ballots."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Trump's misconduct took place in the period between losing the November election and inciting the riot on Jan. 6."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Gen. William Barr called Trump's claim that the election was stolen."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Gen. William Barr called Trump's claim that the election was stolen."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"As the violence mounted on Jan. 6, Trump lobbed a tweet saying Vice President Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done by rejecting electoral votes for Biden."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"As the violence mounted on Jan. 6, Trump lobbed a tweet saying Vice President Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done by rejecting electoral votes for Biden."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"As the violence mounted on Jan. 6, Trump lobbed a tweet saying Vice President Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done by rejecting electoral votes for Biden."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump, though, thought Pence deserved it and didn't think the rioters were doing anything wrong, White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she heard Trump's chief of staff say."
Negative
-66% Liberal
"Trump, though, thought Pence deserved it and didn't think the rioters were doing anything wrong, White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she heard Trump's chief of staff say."
Negative
-66% Liberal
"Trump, though, thought Pence deserved it and didn't think the rioters were doing anything wrong, White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she heard Trump's chief of staff say."
Negative
-66% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : Why does choosing to live a life of virtue, or vice, even matter?With abortion and many other issues, the world is in a massive state of confusion.

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