🧩 BND Motif Index · M798
Equivocator
A politician won't give a straight answer to a plain question, which is worse, X or Y, and the dodge is read as the answer.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 6claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 4right shows 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, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"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)
- 📰 Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and a U.S. photojournalist during olive harvest 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-19
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “Mike Rogers faked a microphone failure to avoid answering if he is a MAGA Republican and hypocritically smeared El-Sayed while having defended the Muslim Brotherhood himself.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “Iran is a greater threat to the United States than Israel is.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “Ilhan Omar's response to questions about her husband being her brother was evasive.”
🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) 🎙️ Ruthless 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-18 “Saying 'no state has a right to exist' about Israel is a dodge when the same people then call for a Palestinian state.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “James Talarico gave two different answers regarding whether he was released from a mental health facility.”
🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-10 “Abdul El-Sayed is unwilling to state whether Israel or Iran is a greater threat to the United States.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show
M798 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works