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Friday, February 22, 2019
ADL Head Caught Misrepresenting Hoffman’s Speech
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Unfortunately, Michael, I fear that Mr Greenblatt has left himself some plausible deniability in his sentence construction. He can reasonably claim that he intended “on that day” to simply mean that you were Farrakhan’s fellow speaker on that day, and that he was not saying that you actually espoused any Holocaust-denying views on that day. He would say that the phrase about Holocaust-denying views was descriptive of you, rather than descriptive of your speech on that day. Such ambiguous semantic mischief and misdirection is common among liberals. This is not to deny that many, if not most, people who did not hear the speeches, would indeed gather from Greenblatt’s statement that you did, in fact, deny the Holocaust on that day.
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