Opinion | Manning Up, Letting Us Down

Sep 11, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -98% Extremely Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    22% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    76% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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  •   Conservative
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"But I will never forget how many top male editors and writers reacted after Colin Powell made his speech at the United Nations in 2003 making the case for war with Iraq."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"All this, even though he would later hit the White House bunker during the Black Lives Matter protests."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"After the respite of Barack Obama, Donald Trump became president."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"After the respite of Barack Obama, Donald Trump became president."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"When Trump was ruing in the Republican primaries, focus groups reported that the quality voters most admired in the reality show star was balls."
Positive
18% Conservative
"When Trump got Covid, he was happy to accept all the special medications he could get from his large team of doctors at Walter Reed."
Positive
16% Conservative
"And hopefully, he has something better to do on 9/11 than climb into a ring with Trump."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld wrecked W.'s presidency, with their overweening ideas about big-stick executive power, developed in the Ford administration when they were feeling crimped by post-Watergate restrictions; with their determination to exorcise our post-Vietnam ambivalence about using force; and with their loony plan to establish America as the sole superpower by preemptively striking potential foes."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"His fans were posting memes of him as Rambo, quite an upgrade for Cadet Bone Spurs, and Trump himself tweeted a picture of himself as a shirtless Rocky."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Never one to miss a cheesy tableau of machismo, Trump is providing ringside commentary on a boxing match on 9/11 at the Hard Rock Casino in Florida between Evander Holyfield, 58, and Vitor Belfort, 44."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"And though Biden does let slip the occasional schoolyard taunt, this president, blessedly, is not generally a hyper-masculine style of leader."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"During a promotional event for the Hasbeenpalooza, the 75-year-old bragged that he'd like to beat up the 78-year-old Joe Biden in the ring, that it would be his easiest fight and that Biden would go down within the first few seconds."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Biden is taking a tougher stance on vaccines to force more Covid deniers to get the shots to protect them and the rest of us."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"There were women who helped, too, including Condi Rice, Judy Miller and Hillary Clinton, whose husband advised her to vote for Iraq war authorization and famously told Democrats after 9/11, When people feel uncertain, they'd rather have someone who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump's faux tough-guy routine led to the lethal political divide on masks, which undermined our ability to beat the virus."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : But I will never forget how many top male editors and writers reacted after Colin Powell made his speech at the United Nations in 2003 making the case for war with Iraq.
41% : All this, even though he would later hit the White House bunker during the Black Lives Matter protests.

*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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