Uh Oh, Melania's speech was plagiarized

[HUGGY]

Donald has bragged that he and Melania have never had so much as a disagreement in all the time they have known each other.

All that changed last night. Whatcha wanna bet they had a doozy last night over that plagiarism thingy?

Your thoughts?

I don't think in the grand scheme of things that any sane person would care. It's a perspective first lady.

You are right. You didn't write Michelle's speech. If you did you could file a legitimate lawsuit this morning. You have nothing to gain by calling it a theft.

Michelle is a dem and their property is fair game. I get it.

I've never voted for a democrat, but then I've never stolen from one either.

First of all, I meant prospective.

As to the rest, I hardly think using two lines that may or may not have been penned for the first lady is plagiarism.

This is as I said, nothing.

Well, I'm sorry to inform you that those two lines are well within the boundaries of plagiarism. Maybe in your neck of the woods stealing is "nothing". I think we will see that this will not just go away.

I don't dislike Melania. I don't think she knew what she did at the time. I don't like Trump only because I don't like bullies. Not because of some of the things he has promised. They "sound" good but just are not well thought out and doable. I will not vote for Hillary.

 

[bodecea]

The hate from the left sure is strong around here. You guys mad or something?

Had this been Hillary or Michelle, you maggots would be in diapers all day

Yep. Both ends of the spectrum are pretty quick to act like children.
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So what's the centrist position on plagiarism?

one line in the speech was similar. BFD, so the two women feel the same way about getting ahead through hard work, how awful!

Only Melania actually meant it.

Ah...that's the excuse now?

 

[LoneLaugher]

I don't think the passages in question are all that unique and it is possible that she didn't plagiarize. I can give her the benefit of the doubt.

That said....her comments were very generic and did not portray her husband in a new light.....which was what her task was.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Oh Helly... the lies and then the lies.... and then more lies..

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[g5000]

I don't think the passages in question are all that unique and it is possible that she didn't plagiarize. I can give her the benefit of the doubt.

That said....her comments were very generic and did not portray her husband in a new light.....which was what her task was.

See post 756. It's obvious plagiarism.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

James Comey TRASHES lying Helly

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Crooked Helly lying, committing perjury, cannot be trusted with classified material Versus Melania posing half nude.. ROFLMAO

You snakes on the left are hELLarious.

 

[P@triot]

Here's a classy First Lady:

Why....because she's not Slovenian? Racist xenophobe.....

 

[NYcarbineer]

After 8+ years of viciousness directed at Michelle Obama,

where on earth did the RWnuts come up with the idea that Melania Trump would be off-limits?

As if anyone cares what you cry over. LOL

Nice meltdown.

 

[bodecea]

The hate from the left sure is strong around here. You guys mad or something?

Had this been Hillary or Michelle, you maggots would be in diapers all day

Yep. Both ends of the spectrum are pretty quick to act like children.
.

So what's the centrist position on plagiarism?

What's the GOP position on porn?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Trump/Pence 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saving America and returning her to her greatness!

LIBERALS hate this country and have apologized for America for the last 8 yrs.. Their time is over.

I don't see Hillary Clinton saying that America is not a great country.

 

[P@triot]

Lol the muted reaction from USMB RWs to this is hilarious.

LOL...it was after 1:00 a.m. when you typed that. Unlike libtard parasites who mooch off of society, conservatives have jobs. We're not up typing on message boards at 1:00 a.m. - we're sleeping because we have to go to work in the morning.

 

[S.J.]

Trump/Pence 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saving America and returning her to her greatness!

LIBERALS hate this country and have apologized for America for the last 8 yrs.. Their time is over.

I don't see Hillary Clinton saying that America is not a great country.

What difference does it make?

 

[mudwhistle]

by Joel B. Pollak19 Jul 20160

19 Jul, 201619 Jul, 2016


Melania Trump, wife of imminent Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and potential First Lady, faces accusations of plagiarism after several passages in her speech to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland appeared to echo lines from Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver.
Trump’s wife joins Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden as accused plagiarists. Even Michelle Obama was accused of plagiarizing part of her own 2008 DNC speech.



Barack Obama: “Don’t tell me words don’t matter.” As then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) surpassed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, largely on the strength of his oratory, Clinton said that Obama’s record was “just words.” Obama responded in a speech whose refrain was lifted from then-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. The Obama campaign did not even bother to refute the claim. Instead, it circulated examples of lines that it said Clinton herself had borrowed from Obama. The left media defended Obama, saying that he had not committed plagiarism, but merely, at worst, “poor footnoting.”

Hillary Clinton: “No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.” After the Obama campaign accused Clinton of stealing lines in 2008 — a claim supplemented by The New Republic, which accused her of stealing lines from then-Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) — she ought to have learned her lesson. But in 2016, she stole lines from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who responded by telling NBC News’ Meet the Press, jokingly: “We’re looking into the copyright issues here.” Clinton was accused of lifting other lines, too — and Sanders supporters responded on Twitter with the wry hashtag: #StealtheBern.

Joe Biden: “My ancestors who worked in the coal mines…”. Biden was found to have borrowed heavily from the oratory — and the biography — of British Labour Party leader Neal Kinnock, without attribution. In addition, it was discovered he had committed plagiarism while in law school. The scandal helped bring down Biden’s presidential campaign in 1988 — though Biden’s angry outburst at a reporter — “I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect” — didn’t help, either.

Michelle Obama: “…the world as it should be.” In 2008, the aspiring First Lady was accused by bloggers of lifting lines for her DNC speech from Saul Alinsky. Alinsky wrote, in Rules for Radicals (emphasis added): “The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.” Michelle Obama said: “And Barack stood up that day, and he spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about ‘the world as it is‘ and ‘the world as it should be.'” (Perhaps Mr. Obama who left out the attribution.)

The Trump campaign denied it borrowed lines from Michelle Obama, including: “that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond…”.

Senior communications adviser Jason Miller said: “In writing her beautiful speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking. Melania’s immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it such a success.”

Regardless, Mrs. Trump is in good company. She will spend days being likened to Michelle Obama.

Which was, perhaps, the point.

Michelle Obama Copied Alinksy in Speech Melania Trump Plagiarized

 

[Redfish]

The level of envy and jealousy is hilarious

liberal desperation is more accurate.

Are you admitting that all of the criticism of Michelle Obama over the years has been RW desperation?

NO, it was earned.

 

[P@triot]

What's the GOP position on porn?

Wow...where to even begin with this one? For starters, why are you even concerned about the body of Melania Trump and what photo shoots she takes part of? In addition, she didn't even show nudity in her pictures, much less engage in "porn".

Second - what happened to a woman's "right to choose"? It's "her body" - I thought you libtards approved of a woman doing what she wishes with her body?!?

Third and finally, why are you such an anti-Slovenian xenophobe?

This one short post by bodecea here encompassed everything about the modern day liberal - hate for women, relegating women to nothing but sexual objects, and xenophobia.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

In case no one has said this - There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this hot mess .....

Obviously, Duh Donuld wrote Michelle's speech.


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[Hutch Starskey]

The level of envy and jealousy is hilarious

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As is the level of incompetence and lack of integrity the Trump campaign displayed that has facilitated the media storm.They served this up on a silver platter themselves.

 

[Trinnity]

You leftie trolls got nothin'. Keep up the FAIL.

Jeez, careful there. Don't use up your daily quota of complete sentences too early.

Wow, you hurt my feelings. I'm devastated.

 

[P@triot]

Here is the question I have for anyone who is not a left-wing partisan hack: why would Melania Trump "plagiarize" a speech from Michelle Obama (who is largely considered a joke in America)? Wouldn't it be exponentially more likely that she would plagiarize Ronald Reagan, or George Washington, or some other well respected, great leader?

I'm not saying she didn't. I have no idea (and neither does anyone else here right now). But anyone looking at this objectively has to ask why she would plagiarize Michelle Obama of all people. It doesn't seem very likely.