🎙️ What a show tells
Ruthless
- RIGHTour grouping of the show
- 34claims in our motif index
- 35motifs 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
🧩 Pandering 🧩 Own goal 🧩 Radical left 🧩 Polls are inaccurate 🧩 Lied on a form 🧩 The impostor
👯 Tells the most alike
the shows whose stories overlap most with its own, whatever their lean
- 🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show 42% alike · right
- 🎙️ Fox News Rundown 39% alike · right
- 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 37% alike · right
- 🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 37% alike · right
- 🎙️ The Benny Show 36% alike · right
🧩 Its repertoire
every motif its claims came up in, the most first
🧩 The impostor ×3 🧩 Radical left ×2 🧩 Polls are inaccurate ×2 🧩 Own goal ×2 🧩 Pandering ×2 🧩 Lied on a form ×2 🧩 Dangerous protests ×1 🧩 Immigration as infiltration ×1 🧩 Showman politician ×1 🧩 Antisemitic left ×1 🧩 Protests too much ×1 🧩 Words mean things ×1 🧩 Sputnik moment ×1 🧩 This changes everything ×1 🧩 Sheep's clothing ×1 🧩 Shadowbanned ×1 🧩 Humpty Dumpty ×1 🧩 They bring what they fled ×1 🧩 Manufacturing consent ×1 🧩 Regulatory capture ×1 🧩 Equivocator ×1 🧩 Entryism ×1 🧩 Ratf*cking ×1 🧩 Spoiler candidate ×1 🧩 Smear campaign ×1 🧩 This is who they are ×1 🧩 Not up to the task ×1 🧩 Big Mo ×1 🧩 The markets know ×1 🧩 Central casting ×1 🧩 Divide and conquer ×1 🧩 Playing the victim ×1 🧩 Nothing to run on ×1 🧩 The Bible doesn't say that ×1 🧩 Turning a blind eye ×1
🎙️ Lately on the show
its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs
- 2026-10-28 “The Democratic Party is becoming more socialist and supports crazy policies.”
🧩 Radical left - 2026-10-28 “The Democratic Party has become increasingly anti-Semitic.”
🧩 Antisemitic left - 2026-10-28 “The radical base of the Democrat Party is taking over the party.”
🧩 Entryism - 2026-10-27 “Republicans are running scary ads to make people think Democrats are radicals or communists.”
🧩 Nothing to run on - 2026-10-23 “Susan Collins has a history of winning elections despite losing every single poll.”
🧩 Polls are inaccurate - 2026-10-23 “Ilhan Omar's father may have misrepresented his status as a warlord or her age when entering the country.”
🧩 The impostor 🧩 Lied on a form - 2026-10-23 “Ilhan Omar's response to questions about her husband being her brother was evasive.”
🧩 Protests too much 🧩 Equivocator - 2026-10-23 “Democrats use schemes to trick voters while claiming to defend democracy.”
🧩 Ratf*cking - 2026-10-23 “Democrats use independent candidates to push conservative voters toward the left or toward protest votes.”
🧩 Spoiler candidate - 2026-10-23 “Ilhan Omar is not related to her former husband.”
🧩 Smear campaign - 2026-10-23 “Ilhan Omar may not be a U.S. citizen because she was over 18 when her father was naturalized.”
🧩 Lied on a form - 2026-10-22 “Abdul El-Sayed falsely claims to be a practicing physician.”
🧩 The impostor - 2026-10-22 “An ad used by Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign turns an opponent into a sympathetic figure by omitting context about her family.”
🧩 Own goal - 2026-10-22 “Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign made an unforced error that could damage other Republican candidates in Ohio.”
🧩 Own goal - 2026-10-22 “Mark Zuckerberg's Meta shut down the No Kings account during protests.”
🧩 Shadowbanned - 2026-10-22 “Abdul El-Sayed panders to Black voters by acting out a persona rather than being natural.”
🧩 Pandering - 2026-10-22 “Amy Acton is a horrible politician who has zero business becoming governor of Ohio.”
🧩 Not up to the task - 2026-10-22 “Amy Acton's campaign falsely claimed a man lunged at her during a campaign event.”
🧩 Playing the victim - 2026-10-21 “Politics is a visual medium that Trump respects through physical fitness.”
🧩 Showman politician 🧩 Central casting - 2026-10-21 “Pollsters are failing to understand the electorate because they cannot predict voter turnout.”
🧩 Polls are inaccurate - 2026-10-21 “The left makes a complete mess of places during riots and expects others to clean it up.”
🧩 This is who they are - 2026-10-21 “Republicans are performing well in Ohio and Iowa.”
🧩 Big Mo - 2026-10-21 “Prediction markets are a better way to understand public opinion than polls.”
🧩 The markets know - 2026-10-20 “Riots are occurring across France involving violent attacks and the burning of property.”
🧩 Dangerous protests - 2026-10-16 “The Bible is silent on the issue of abortion.”
🧩 The Bible doesn't say that - 2026-10-08 “There is a massive disconnect between actual news and what is currently being presented as news.”
🧩 Manufacturing consent - 2026-10-07 “Abdul El-Sayed claims to be a capitalist because he believes in using supply and demand to allocate resources.”
🧩 Radical left 🧩 Words mean things 🧩 Sheep's clothing 🧩 Humpty Dumpty - 2026-10-07 “Abdul El-Sayed is lying about his origins to appeal to different voting blocs.”
🧩 The impostor 🧩 Pandering - 2026-10-06 “Minnesota is experiencing a balkanization where political and social life is divided by Somali clan affiliations.”
🧩 Immigration as infiltration 🧩 They bring what they fled - 2026-10-06 “Excessive regulation in the US could inadvertently hand the AI lead to China.”
🧩 Sputnik moment