🧩 BND Motif Index · M786
Five O'Clock Follies
The government is said to be hiding how the war is really going, ships hit and losses unreported, while the official briefings insist all is well: Saigon's five o'clock follies, the light at the end of the tunnel.
- 9claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 4
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast
⚖️ center 2
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-22 “U.S. military bases are being destroyed by Iranian ballistic missiles and drones.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-21 “Donald Trump is spreading lies about the Iran war and its duration.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-16 “A video shows ships closely grouped together in the strait of Hormuz while Hegseth claims we won” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-16 “A video shows ships closely grouped together in the strait of Hormuz while Hegseth claims we won” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-07 “The cost of insuring tankers in the Strait of Hormuz has increased significantly.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-07 “The cost of transporting oil through the Strait of Hormuz has increased astronomically due to the risk of Iranian attacks.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-06 “The Trump regime is lying about the amount of oil successfully exiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ Up First (NPR) - 2026-10-05 “The Trump administration held a secret, high-level meeting at Camp David to discuss military intervention in Iran and Yemen.”
🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-05 “The Strait of Hormuz remains closed due to Iran's demands and attacks on oil tankers, with the U.S. and Gulf states resisting Iranian control.” 🧶 people online
M786 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-21 · what this is · how the index works