Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
10%
2 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans right
of the writing, not the subject · beta estimate
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Sports
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
The New Jersey Olympian who was notoriously found too insane to be convicted of shooting an award-winning equestrian in the chest reckons he is now preparing for “the biggest comeback story in the history of sports.”
asserted
he → find → sports
Barisone, a member of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games squad, had faced up to 60 years in prison for the attempted murders of Kanarek and her fiancé, Robert Goodwin — whom he shot at but missed — but was found not guilty by reason of insanity in April 2022.
asserted
he → face → April
Despite his insanity defense, he was soon released from psychiatric state custody in November 2023, and once again runs a dressage farm in Loxahatchee, Florida, about 20 miles from Palm Beach.
asserted
he → release → Beach
There, he told the New Yorker that he was the real victim — calling himself a “terrific guy who snapped” at his victims, whom he called the “scum of the earth.”
“I want my dignity back.
asserted
I → tell → dignity
I want my reputation back,” he said — while teasing his plans for a triumphant return to the sporting spotlight.
asserted
he → want → spotlight
“If this goes right, if I can make another team, a World Cup, a world championship, I will be the biggest comeback story in the history of sports,” he wildly claimed.
asserted
he → go → sports
Barisone has never denied being the gunman, but has filed a slew of lawsuits — including one where he claimed the shooting could’ve been avoided — as part of his desperate bid to repair his reputation.
uncertain
shooting → deny → reputation
He was a famed dressage coach – competing in the Grand Prix and winning more than 100 competitions — before his remarkable fall from grace.
asserted
He → compete → grace
He went viral for teaching Stephen Colbert dressage, which he labeled “horse ballet.”
asserted
he → go → which
He called the equestrian industry an “incestuous cesspool of filth,” labeling horse dealers “shysters.”
asserted
He → call → dealers
Barisone began working with Kanarek in March 2018 at his Loxahatchee facility – before allowing her and her boyfriend, Robert Goodwin, to live in a vacant apartment on his New Jersey farm while she continued training.
asserted
she → begin → farm
But their relationship deteriorated.
asserted
relationship → deteriorate → ?
Barisone claimed the trainee and her boyfriend had violated a verbal agreement to leave the farm once they finished training.
asserted
they → claim → farm
Cops were also called to the home in the 10 days before the shooting.
asserted
Cops → call → shooting
Barisone shot Kanarek twice in the chest and she told 911 dispatchers, “I’ve been shot in the heart.
asserted
I → shoot → heart
“Michael Barisone shot me,” she said.
asserted
she → shoot → me
Kanarek recalled how she couldn’t breathe properly, comparing the feeling to “being in a pool and stuck under a raft that someone was on.”
asserted
someone → recall → that
Barisone also tried to fire at Goodwin during the struggle, but the bullet missed him.
asserted
bullet → try → him
The dressage expert was charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of weapon possession – but during his trial, doctors claimed he was legally insane, suffering from delusions and paranoia.
asserted
he → charge → delusions
He is now writing a memoir called “Pure Evil,” he told the New Yorker — in which he claims the old him “died” in the shooting from “a shattered dream and a broken heart.”
uncertain
him → write → dream
The Aporia
