Melania Trump convention speech seems to plagiarise Michelle Obama

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#101 deactivated-5b19214ec908b
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@JimB said:
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@toast_burner: In 2008 in a speech to the DNC she lifted lines from Saul Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals.

I googled that and the only relevant result was the breitbart, which is on par with The Onion in reliability. They used these two lines as evidence.

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."

This apparently is a copy of this

The standards of judgement 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.

So no it's just made up nonsense by a right wing blog. Stop reading the Breitbart, your IQ will increase by atleast 50 points the moment you do.

First of all I read it on Drudge which I said in my first post on this subject.

So how does me incorrectly guessing which rightwing blog you heard it from change anything? As you can clearly see from the two passages they are nothing a like, so the claims of plagiarism are just made up nonsense.

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#102 InGuacWeTrust
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Her speech was the best speech I have heard in about 8 years or so. Terrific!

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#103  Edited By PfizersaurusRex
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Her accent makes it look even more pathetic.

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@PfizersaurusRex said:

Her accent makes it look even more pathetic.

That's uncalled for. I'd like to see you try to give a speech to millions of people in your second or third language.

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#105 Mercenary848
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I can't believe all the republicans jumping to defend this dumb broad.

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#106  Edited By PfizersaurusRex
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@Aljosa23 said:
@PfizersaurusRex said:

Her accent makes it look even more pathetic.

That's uncalled for. I'd like to see you try to give a speech to millions of people in your second or third language.

If I had an accent I sure wouldn't be copy/pasting a very convincing Michelle Obama's speech, that's like slam dunking the ball in your own basket. But I guess it's the lazy ass who prepared the speech that's to blame.

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#107 lamprey263
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I heard her ghost writer was a previous Obama campaign writer, I think maybe someone thought someone was lazy and just rehashed old material

I'm more of the opinion, especially for someone who is a professional writer, that they might have consciously done this to sabotage the Trump campaign

they should nonetheless be fired, goes without saying

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I knew something was up when Melania said she was a successful black woman from Chicago.

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@themanofpears said:

Looks like a very lazy speech writer's work. They'll be looking for a job in the morning.

.. I don't know WHAT it is.. This couldn't be intentional because this is 2016, we can easily search something like this and get a hit on it within seconds.. And I don't see how this would be a mistake by the writer, such a thing would basically black list their entire career.

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#110 mattbbpl
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@sonicare said:

I knew something was up when Melania said she was a successful black woman from Chicago.

It's kind of funny how the most touching words spoken at the Republican convention were written by Michelle Obama :P

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@mattbbpl said:
@sonicare said:

I knew something was up when Melania said she was a successful black woman from Chicago.

It's kind of funny how the most touching words spoken at the Republican convention were written by Michelle Obama :P

I wonder what the over/under is on Trump plagiarising from Mein Kampf.

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@sonicare said:

I wonder what the over/under is on Trump plagiarising from Mein Kampf.

LOL. What could you do at this point but laugh?

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#113 angeldeb82
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More news: Earth, Wind & Fire, Adele, and The Turtles join the list of those whose songs have been used at the RNC without authorization against their wishes. Shame on the RNC!

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/20/earth-wind-fire-slam-rnc-september

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#114 angeldeb82
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I hate to double-post, but now George Harrison's estate, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, R.E.M., Aerosmith, and Luciano Pavarotti's family have joined other musicians whose songs have been used without authorization, against their wishes. Here we go again!

http://www.yahoo.com/news/george-harrison-estate-latest-blast-trump-song-155334447.html