🧩 BND Motif Index · M497
Send in the big guns
When no one could handle the situation, they brought in the big guns to deal with it. Usually a particularly strong hero comes in to settle a difficult problem.
- 3claims filed under it
- 1right 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 The cavalry arrives
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- right-leaning
"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)
- 📰 Cornell appoints former Deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-08
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Cornell Brings In Ex-Justice Official Sally Yates” “Kathy Hochul is appointing Tish James because she knows what the outcome will be” “Letitia James is the overseer, if you will, on this from the criminal side, ... which is a huge indicator that these boys are in deep trouble” “with New York AG Letitia James appointed as special prosecutor”
🧶 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 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-15 “The involvement of Letitia James indicates that the individuals involved in the Cornell case are in significant trouble.” 1
Retold online 2
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-07 “Cornell University has hired former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to conduct an independent review of its handling of sexual misconduct claims, including the Chi Phi fraternity case.”
- 2026-10-05 “New York Attorney General Letitia James has been appointed as a special prosecutor in a reopened criminal investigation into alleged sexual assault at Cornell University.”
M497 · first seen 2026-10-06 · last 2026-10-15 · what this is · how the index works