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I believe that is a very reasonable summation of the hundreds (thousands?) of words you have typed on the issue. Your overall point was IIRC that it's not fair to state as fact that, on the tape, Trump bragged about committing sexual assault because he explicitly said that "they let you do it," and thus it wasn't assault but consensual, or at least one couldn't state as fact that it was assault.

But yeah, I'm responding to an imaginary post. If only DoubleDown were here.

 

The full transcript of what Pres. Trump has said in the past week must also be read in the context of a career full of racist actions and words.

We can continue to parse sentence-by-sentence since Saturday, but it's ignoring the forest to scrutinize the trees.

 

OK, what about the alt-left that came charging them (ph)? Excuse me. What about the alt-left that came charging at the -- as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?

There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people -- neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.

But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know -- I don't know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit.

 

You are responding to an imaginary post.

 

Pete, it's really good to see you on the board. And in case there's any confusion about it, that's not in any way a shot at your character.

 

Yeah, I'm always going to be on the side of precise, accurate language in journalism over speculative language, even though the speculative language is almost surely accurate.

 

Well, I guess the joke's on me for engaging with you. I have spent much more time and energy than I should have during a work day to address your statements in what I believe was a reasoned way in order to have a discussion on things I care about, including language, the law, and the direction of this country. I thought you cared about those things as well.

But you're just playing a game, it seems. So I will tap out. My business partner will thank you.

The field is yours! Enjoy.

 

The forest-for-the-trees comments are spot on.

 

The number of "stick to sports" responses to this will set a record.

Dungy, Tampa teams help pay to move statue

 

I'm not going to defend a point I didn't make.

 

You just missed one word, in bold.