🧩 BND Motif Index · M1067
Three sheets to the wind
A figure is said to be a drunk, slurring, stumbling, showing up loaded, and every gaffe is put down to the bottle: Hegseth crashing a tank into the Pentagon, the council candidate with a 'three beer warmup'.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Moral Scandals🗂️ Political Faux Pas
- 2claims filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
- 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.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"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)
- 📰 Indiana Democratic candidate admits to drinking before televised interview 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-21
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Pete Hegseth was arrested for drunkenly crashing a tank into the Pentagon.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-22 “A Democratic candidate for Fayette County Council appeared intoxicated during a local interview.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show
M1067 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works