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Originally Posted by Max Goodman
The angry rhetoric of politicians and commentators with large followings kills. Churchgoers George Tiller and those Dylan Roof killed are likely among its victims. That there can never be proof that the words of anyone in particular caused a nut to kill someone makes it hard to criticize this dangerous speech and easy to criticize those who try to do so.
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Certainly! You'll get no argument from me about
that.^
But it doesn't make what I wrote untrue.
Trump wasn't inciting someone to commit assassination any more than Ozzy Osborne caused anyone to commit suicide, or Frank Zappa, for that matter, with his song "Suicide Chump":
Well go on and get it over with then,
find you a bridge and take a jump.
But you better get it right the first time,
'cause nothin's worse than a suicide chump.
All I said was that the author of the article stretched the truth and exaggerated, not that Trump's mutterings are not beneath his office and responsibility.