Republicans' anti-government chickens have finally come home to roost

Jul 23, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -50% Moderately Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    10% Negative

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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"They also used that message to persuade voters that the government was trying to oppress them with everything from creeping communism to affirmative action and women's rights."
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10% Conservative
"The GOP knew that government intervention was necessary but they made sure that the banks and the wealthy were taken care of while forcing everything else to be done on the cheap."
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6% Conservative
"The subtext of much of this was race, of course, as the cynical conservatives managed to convince people that the government was doling out handouts to the undeserving (and I think you know who they were talking about) in the form of welfare, while the hard-working Real Americans were paying the freight and getting the shaft."
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-6% Liberal
"Newsmax CEO, and friend of Trump, Chris Ruddy wrote a glowing op-ed complimenting President Biden on his vaccine program."
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-4% Liberal
"Newsmax CEO, and friend of Trump, Chris Ruddy wrote a glowing op-ed complimenting President Biden on his vaccine program."
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-4% Liberal
"But I think MSNBC's Chris Hayes was on to something when he suggested that they had thought they could stick with the base and its anti-vax, anti-Big Government attitude about this (continuing to reap the rewards that brings to them politically) and let Joe Biden's administration do the heavy lifting of getting their states vaccinated -- at which point they would swoop in and say what a terrible job he did."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"One of the House leaders, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La, a vaccine holdout, very ostentatiously got vaccinated and told anyone who'd listen that they should do it as well."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"(One suspects this relates to his close relationship with Donald Trump, who similarly twists himself into a pretzel on this subject, wanting credit for the vaccines but being unable to buck the conspiracy addled anti-vax sentiment of his followers.)"
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-20% Liberal
"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis actually went out and urged his constituents to get vaccinated now that his state is being overrun with COVID."
Negative
-28% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : They also used that message to persuade voters that the government was trying to oppress them with everything from creeping communism to affirmative action and women's rights.
53% : The GOP knew that government intervention was necessary but they made sure that the banks and the wealthy were taken care of while forcing everything else to be done on the cheap.
47% : The subtext of much of this was race, of course, as the cynical conservatives managed to convince people that the government was doling out handouts to the "undeserving" (and I think you know who they were talking about) in the form of welfare, while the hard-working Real Americans were paying the freight and getting the shaft.

*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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