BND - No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

🎙️ What a show tells

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

LEFTour grouping of the show
53claims in our motif index
47motifs 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.

what it tells far more often than the other shows we follow, and what they tell that it never does; each motif colored by its genre, the layer of story it is

Archetypesa kind of person
Plotswhat happened
Beliefsa premise
Theorieswhat people think is behind it
Argumentsa move in an argument
⚪ left white, the smaller genres:
Valueshow things ought to be

motifs it tells far more often than the other shows we follow; the bar is how many times more often, by its share of its tellings against theirs

motifs told on the most other shows that never came up on this one; the bar is how many other shows told it

every motif its claims came up in, the most first: 47 in all, the top 40 here

🎨 What kind of stories: its tellings by genre

the motifs its claims came up in, the most first; the bar is how many of its claims

the bar on the same scale as the first

the shows that tell the same motifs in much the same proportions, and the ones that least do; each colored by the show's lean, our loose grouping by reputation

leans left
center
leans right
not grouped by lean

the shows whose motifs overlap most with its own, whatever their lean; the bar is how alike (100%: the same motifs in the same proportions)

the shows with the least in common with it; the bar is how alike, on the same scale

its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs

2026-11-01 “Republicans have let down their voters by failing to deliver on promises to cut costs and drain the swamp.”
🧩 Political accountability 🧩 Politicians' empty promises
2026-11-01 “Trump's decision to go to war with Iran caused oil prices to spike.”
🧩 The buck stops here 🧩 Pain at the pump 🧩 The war hits your wallet
2026-11-01 “Republicans made groceries more expensive with tariffs and gas more expensive with war.”
🧩 Tariffs hurt consumers 🧩 The war hits your wallet
2026-11-01 “A Democratic win in Virginia's 5th district would signal a tsunami environment.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 As Maine goes
2026-11-01 “A blue wave will occur and Democrats will capture the House.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 Big Mo
2026-11-01 “The rise in diesel and gas prices is caused by Trump's catastrophic war in Iran.”
🧩 Oil market instability 🧩 The war hits your wallet
2026-11-01 “Democrats may win back blue-collar voters due to concerns over inflation and the economy.”
🧩 It's the economy, stupid
2026-11-01 “Alaska's politics are unorthodox: its voters cross party lines readily, and its ranked choice voting is said to make it easier for Democrats to win.”
🧩 Broken electoral math
2026-11-01 “Some pollsters are producing fake or phony polls to manipulate the public.”
🧩 Polls are manipulated
2026-11-01 “James Tallarico is leading Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race.”
🧩 Tight race
2026-11-01 “Reliable Republican voters are not responding to polls at their usual rates.”
🧩 Shy Tory
2026-11-01 “Republican redistricting in Texas may backfire because Southern districts are leaning toward Democrats.”
🧩 Dummymander
2026-11-01 “Democrats are becoming competitive in districts that were drawn to benefit Republicans.”
🧩 Dummymander
2026-10-28 “Trump is using voter intimidation by threatening to put federal agents around voting booths.”
🧩 Intimidation 🧩 Ballot security
2026-10-28 “Donald Trump abused, assaulted, and raped numerous women in coordination with Jeffrey Epstein.”
🧩 The rap sheet
2026-10-28 “Maine is losing money because Senator Susan Collins fails to use her position as appropriations chair effectively.”
🧩 Not up to the task
2026-10-28 “Susan Collins votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time.”
🧩 Lapdog
2026-10-28 “Republicans have become a cult that prefers Donald Trump over Abraham Lincoln.”
🧩 The party is a cult
2026-10-25 “Dan Sullivan is said to have tripled his wealth in office, voting for tariffs that help his family's company while Alaskans struggle with rising costs.”
🧩 Wealth hoarding 🧩 Class conflict 🧩 Graft
2026-10-25 “Black and young voters are showing a notable increase in turnout.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 The fundamentals
2026-10-25 “Republican voters turn out from fear of Democrats taking charge, not to do it for Trump.”
🧩 Enthusiasm gap
2026-10-25 “Democrats traditionally turn out in higher numbers via mail ballots.”
🧩 The fundamentals
2026-10-25 “Black voter turnout can make gerrymandered districts competitive and put unexpected seats in play.”
🧩 Dummymander 🧩 Sleeping giant
2026-10-25 “Dan Sullivan supported a war in Iran that raised prices on gas and groceries.”
🧩 The war hits your wallet
2026-10-21 “Tariffs and trade wars have hurt Iowa farmers more than any other state.”
🧩 Backfiring policy
2026-10-21 “Democratic candidates in Texas are leading Republican incumbents in recent polling.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 Blue Texas
2026-10-21 “Polls have been wrong about Donald Trump in the past.”
🧩 Polls are inaccurate
2026-10-21 “Polls are more likely to be underestimating Democrats than Republicans.”
🧩 Polls are inaccurate
2026-10-21 “Democrats are showing much higher enthusiasm and turnout in early voting compared to Republicans.”
🧩 Enthusiasm gap
2026-10-21 “Republicans are missing in action because they are failing to get low-propensity voters to the polls.”
🧩 Enthusiasm gap

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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

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✍️ Tells more than others

🙈 Others tell, it doesn't

🧩 Its repertoire

🧩 Told most

🧩 And then

👯 Tells the most alike

👯 Most alike

🙃 Least alike

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