🧩 BND Motif Index · M889
We wuz robbed
A loser insists the prize, the race or the title was stolen from him, by the judges, a hostile committee or a crooked count, and the cry of robbery becomes the story.
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ 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.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 1 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump criticizes Norway over Nobel Peace Prize snub 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-27
- 📰 Trump criticizes Nobel Peace Prize snub 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-13
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-27 “Trump wants nothing to do with Norway because he believes he settled wars without receiving the Nobel Prize.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 2
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-30 “Norway responded to Donald Trump calling it a 'shithouse country' by embracing the insult with toilet humor.”
- 2026-10-12 “Trump blames Norway for denying him a Nobel Peace Prize no warmonger could win.”
M889 · first seen 2026-10-12 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works