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I’ve been in talk radio long enough to know it doesn’t really matter what you say. It’s what they say you said.

Al Gore never claimed he invented the Internet. There is no record of Marie Antoinette saying, “Let them eat cake.” Nor does the Mother Superior in The Sound of Music utter the words, “Maria, what is it you can’t face?!”

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And Justin Trudeau did not recently compare Canada’s treatment of Muslims to the Holocaust.

[np_storybar title=”David Frum: Trudeau didn’t just defend the niqab. He defended the niqab by trivializing the Holocaust” link=”http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/16/david-frum-trudeau-didnt-just-defend-the-niqab-he-defended-the-niqab-by-trivializing-the-holocaust/”]When a politician says, “I am not a crook,” he does so because many people have reasonable doubts to the contrary. Likewise, when a politician prefaces a political speech with a long and emphatic denial that he’s pandering to a “key audience” or “swing voters” — well, brace yourself for pandering delivered in a large, family-sized container.