?:Consider the following extended argument:

    I think it's safe to say Martin Luther King, Jr., was the Civil Rights Movement's most successful leader. For either Reverend King, Malcolm X, or Robert Kennedy was the Civil Rights Movement's most successful leader; and it wasn't Malcolm X or Robert Kennedy.

    Now, Malcolm wasn't the Civil Rights Movement's most successfull leader because his message was misrepresented by the mass media. After all, the mass media repeatedly claimed that he advocated violence against white people.

    Third, Robert Kennedy wasn't the Civil Rights Movement's most successful leader because of the limitations of his government position as the Attorney General. After all, after he spoke more freely after he resigned as the Attorney General.

    In fact, every public figure who openly criticized Reverend King harmed the Movement; and both Malcolm X and Robert Kennedy openly criticized Reverend King. So, both of them harmed the Movement.

    No

    HINT: An Argument by Elimination seeks to logically rule out various possibilities until only a single possibility remains. This italicized argument neither articulates multiple options nor eliminates any specific option (i.e., Claims it's false).

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