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John McWhorter apparently is unfamiliar with Will Rodgers’ advice, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

When we last heard from McWhorter a month ago, the New York Times columnist and Columbia linguistics professor was talking openly about his fantasy that someone would assassinate former President Donald Trump. He made those comments on “The Glenn Show” with Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury.

Two weeks later, Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa.

Let’s state the obvious: There was no connection between McWhorter’s irresponsible words and Crooks’ insane act.

Still, the assassination attempt prompted McWhorter to revisit his earlier comments during his regular appearance with Loury this week. Actually, it was less a case of revisiting than revisionism.

Here’s what McWhorter told Loury this week (starting at 2:19): “I don’t remember exactly how I put it, but I said repeatedly a half-sentence along the lines of, ‘You know, sometimes I almost wish that, that – I almost wish that somebody,’ and that’s what I uttered, and we know what that is. And we know why I didn’t complete the sentence, because that’s a horrible thing to wish of anybody, no matter how you feel about them. But I did say that, and I shouldn’t have.”

This is some serious gaslighting by McWhorter.

Now, here’s exactly what McWhorter said … 

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