🎙️ What a show tells
Left, Right & Center
- CENTERour grouping of the show
- 9claims in our motif index
- 8motifs they came up in
⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.
What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.
✍️ Its signature
the motifs it tells far more than the other shows we follow do
🧩 Solution in search of a problem 🧩 Electability
👯 Tells the most alike
the shows whose stories overlap most with its own, whatever their lean
- 🎙️ NPR Politics Podcast 31% alike · center
- 🎙️ Hacks on Tap 26% alike · left
- 🎙️ The David Frum Show 24% alike · left
- 🎙️ Pod Save America 17% alike · left
- 🎙️ Forum (KQED) 15% alike · center
🧩 Its repertoire
every motif its claims came up in, the most first
🧩 Electability ×2 🧩 Solution in search of a problem ×2 🧩 Inflammatory political rhetoric ×1 🧩 The guardrails will hold ×1 🧩 Tit for tat ×1 🧩 Own goal ×1 🧩 Voter fraud ×1 🧩 Islamophobia ×1
🎙️ Lately on the show
its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs
- 2026-10-23 “Donald Trump uses rhetoric about Muslims to tap into fear.”
🧩 Inflammatory political rhetoric 🧩 Islamophobia - 2026-10-23 “The decentralized nature of U.S. elections makes it impossible to steal an election at scale.”
🧩 The guardrails will hold - 2026-10-23 “Abdul El-Sayed's personal attacks on Usha Vance have gotten under J.D. Vance's skin.”
🧩 Tit for tat - 2026-10-23 “Vivek Ramaswamy has miscalculated politically by running the ad.”
🧩 Own goal - 2026-10-23 “Abdul El-Sayed has performed poorly with Black voters in Michigan.”
🧩 Electability - 2026-10-23 “Ken Paxton's poor candidate quality may prevent Republicans from winning in Texas.”
🧩 Electability - 2026-10-23 “Non-citizens are voting in federal elections in large numbers.”
🧩 Voter fraud - 2026-10-23 “Allegations of rigged voting machines are actually caused by voter error.”
🧩 Solution in search of a problem - 2026-10-23 “The Trump administration's claims about non-citizen voting are not made in good faith because the numbers keep changing.”
🧩 Solution in search of a problem