Mother Jones Article Rating

Dead at 100, Henry Kissinger leaves behind a bloody legacy

  • Bias Rating

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -47% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : He made millions as a consultant, author, and commentator in the decades since he left government.
51% : He brokered the US opening to China and pursued detente with the Soviet Union during his stints as President Richard Nixon's national security adviser and secretary of state.
45% : Throughout his career in government and politics, Kissinger was an unprincipled schemer who engaged in multiple acts of skullduggery.
36% : On December 6, President Gerald Ford and Kissinger, then Ford's secretary of state, en route from a visit to Beijing, stopped in Jakarta to meet with Suharto, who headed the nation's military regime.
28% : Yet Nixon and Kissinger declined to criticize Yahya or take action to end the barbarous assault.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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