The American Conservative Article Rating- Bias Rating
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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.
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| "Webster's fills this out nicely by saying it is the use of indiscriminate, often unfounded, accusations, sensationalism, inquisitorial investigative methods, etc., ostensibly in suppression of communism." | Positive | 36% Conservative |
| "Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "What this demonstrates is that communism was in fact a serious menace in various precincts of government in the early postwar period, and it needed attention." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Asked if Trump was a Russian asset, as former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe had suggested was possible, Clapper said, I completely agree with the way Andy characterized it." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Or consider the behavior of the country's top intelligence officials under Barack Obama: James Clapper and John Brean." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Of Trump, it can be said that he brought about a major accomplishment in American politics when he forced into the national debate topics and civic concerns that had been ignored or suppressed for years by the political establishment." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Consider Representative Adam Schiff of California, who pronounced to the American people that he had the evidence on Trump, and it is more than just circumstantial." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Consider Representative Adam Schiff of California, who pronounced to the American people that he had the evidence on Trump, and it is more than just circumstantial." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "It demonstrates also that McCarthyism is rampant in our politics today, and it isn't confined merely to those considered boorish and heretical by journalistic and political figures such as Adam Schiff and Peter Spiegel." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Now here's an episode of the Trump era that truly fits the definition of McCarthyism: use of indiscriminate, often unfounded, accusations, check; sensationalism, check; inquisitorial investigative methods, check." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Clapper, meanwhile, invoked the constitutional definition of treason when he said Trump was essentially aiding and abetting the Russians." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Like Trump, writes Spiegel, the late Republican senator played on the fears of working-class Americans and used falsehoods and demagoguery to catapult himself into dominance of the Washington scene." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But, if Spiegel wants to make the McCarthy analogy in relation to Trump, let's do it -- begiing with the sturm und drang surrounding allegations that Trump was an agent in thrall to Russian handlers, a tool of Russian president Vladimir Putin." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Only a zealous partisan could look at that sordid tale and insist that what was done to Trump was not a display of McCarthyism, as we understand the term." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Peter Spiegel, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times, produced an interesting but highly flawed piece the other day in which he described a recent revelation that struck him as a key to understanding Donald Trump." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "He dismissed Trump's protests of iocence as hogwash, which constituted a roundabout allegation of treason." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Further, it perpetuates an inaccurate portrayal of the unfortunate McCarthy episode in American history, which leads inevitably to a faulty understanding of the meaning of Trump in our own time." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Tye suggests that McCarthy and Trump can be thrown together as examples of America's love affair with bullies." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
68% : Webster's fills this out nicely by saying it is "the use of indiscriminate, often unfounded, accusations, sensationalism, inquisitorial investigative methods, etc., ostensibly in suppression of communism."52% : Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies.
52% : What this demonstrates is that communism was in fact a serious menace in various precincts of government in the early postwar period, and it needed attention.
*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.