Claims extracted
12
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
1 of 12 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans strongly right
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Publisher signals
96/100
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Once upon a time in Hollywood, the movies gave us a very clear sense of the world and of America’s place in it.
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movies → give → it
Most of us learned our history at the movie theater, from blockbusters like Glory or Saving Private Ryan or The Green Berets.
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Most → learn → Glory
And we walked away with our hands greasy with popcorn butter and our hearts full of pride that we were the good guys fighting the good fight and keeping the world safe and free.
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we → walk → world
How times have changed.
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times → change → ?
These days, Hollywood either avoids reality altogether—good luck finding more than a handful of mute films about 9/11, say—or delivers grim portraits of Americans behaving badly (see: anything by Oliver Stone).
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Hollywood → avoid → Stone
Which makes the new documentary Paging Hezbollah all the more rare, refreshing, and outright wonderful.
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Which → make → Hezbollah
Paging Hezbollah tells the story of how the Israeli military managed to trick the Lebanese terrorist organization into using beepers installed with plastic explosives, pressing the button one day in the fall of 2024 and watching the devices—and with them scores of hands, noses, eyes, and testicles—explode.
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devices → page → hands
It’s a riveting tale, and the director, Justin Folk, enjoyed unprecedented access to Israeli officials, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to David Barnea, the head of Mossad, Israel’s legendary intelligence agency.
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director → ’ → Mossad
Indeed, this was the first time that the Mossad chief sat down for an on-camera interview to explain in detail precisely how he and his team pulled off one of the greatest operations in modern military history.
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he → sit → history
The Free Press and 2WAY are teaming up for a real-time interactive election night special, November 3 from 8 p.m. ET until late.
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Press → team → late
Incredible as these details are, they might’ve, in the hands of a lesser filmmaker, made for a mosaic of mere machismo, all boom and bluster and no soul.
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they → make → machismo
Thankfully, the man the Israelis trusted with telling their story also possesses a virtue no less important than the ability to spin a great yarn—a sturdy moral compass.
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Israelis → trust → yarn
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