Posted on 07/19/2016 8:57:18 AM PDT by bobsunshine
DCGazette […] Did Melania use a few sentences that were similar to Michelle Obama’s speech? Sure, but that is common. ALL First Lady speeches resonate the same universal concepts.
The fact is, you can go back and look at Laura Bush’s speech, Nancy Reagan, and even Hillary when she was first lady and find the same type of comments.
In a speech Hillary Clinton gave in 2014 for the New American foundation. Hillary spoke of the same values saying,
” my mother and father gave us a middle-class life with opportunities she never could have imagined for herself but which she always believed could be possible for her children. And that was a great gift that I will be forever grateful for, and then Bill and I of course worked hard to pass on those values to our daughter.”
(In other words, passing on values to the next generation, like Michelle Obama said in 2008.)
Laura Bush said in her 2004 RNC speech,
“If you’re determined and you want to work hard, you can do anything you want to. That’s the beautiful thing about America.”
(The same concept of Michelle Obama’s speech in 2008.)
Even Ann Romney’s speech hit the same notes in 2012
“Mitt will be the first to tell you that he is the most fortunate man in the world. He had two loving parents who gave him strong values and taught him the value of work.”
Hillary is actually the biggest offender when it comes to plagiarism, she plagiarized Bernie Sanders so often that the hashtag #StealTheBern was born. more here
Melania: “It Would Not Be a Trump Contest Without Excitement and Drama”
That’s what they get for using speechomatic.com.
One of the few cases when the left gets upset that someone looks like they are parroting Queen or King Obama.
If she had plagiarized one of Obama’s “Islam is a religion of peace and I apologize for my country” speeches the left would have loved it and praised her from taking lines from such an intelligent leader.
So Mike Hearn posted a video of a split screen with Melania Trump and Michelle Obama side-by-side.
You can see it here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/mikehearn/status/755260215021432832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Melania’s speech writer was shockingly lazy but that doesn’t reflect poorly on her.
Does Ebonics count as one?
“Love is just a word that’s heard, when things are being said ... “
`Cliches’ isn’t really the right word.
platitudes: statements that express ideas that are not new
They can be annoying, even insipid, but what really has the left’s pantys in a bunch is the way she delivered them.
They expected a bubble-headed model, but Melania knocked it out of the park.
This is all they’ve got: to attack the message, the inspirational/aspirational things that are always said at political conventions.
I challenge you and the writer to find me an instance of this exact partial sentence besides Melania and Michelle...Google has an incredible wealth of information on the internet. Find this exact wording:
“that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say “
I get the feel of the comment but is there any reason to think this was subversive rather than a shockingly shockingly lazy writer that thought no-one would notice?
This is not just a case of a sentence or a concept being similar.
The speech writer obviously found the paragraph, liked it and did a very poor job of inserting it into Melania’s speech.
Lazy, lazy speech writer.
Is it worse to be a subversive or so bad that you think you can lift a speech from the opposing side and no one will notice when you know the media is going to go over every word???
either way, the person’s head should roll.
I agree.
-PJ
The liberal media is foaming at the mouth and rending their garments over this alleged plagiarism, but the American public is paying scant attention knowing this is just BS
As Hillary got a roasting yesterday I’m sure they’re all just trying to find a narrative they can hang on to that might gain traction. FAIL.
This will affect zero votes. It’s just, “let’s talk about anything except the calls for Hillary to be put in prison, for lying to grieving mothers and compromising national security.”
The only thing I thought was missing last night, considering the theme was “Make America Safe Again” was a specific segment on the email server and what the law says....unless I missed it.
Yup. And FReeepers are fixated on this “story.” Mealania’s love for her husband, children, America, her path to citizenship, and the rest of her speech are over shadowed by this “plagiarism” bullsh if.
I cannot see any person copying the creature. Trump’s wife merely praised her husband and listed those traits she finds worthy of our thought.
I am thinking the email thing is being very, very carefully evaluated by the Trump team as to its true usefulness. As well it should be. It’s my opinion that this, finally is the absolutely crucial vote-flipping issue and mentioning it was not necessary at the convention.
This is pure gold, handed on a platter to Trump et al if they play it right. It’s not just gold, it’s platinum and rhodium.
The whole world saw that HRC lied her not-insubstantial ass off. It’s nobody’s opinion. Everybody saw it. Then they saw LL cover for her.
The really critical issue for Blacks should be made to be: You unhappy ‘bout da way the justice system treats you? Then why don’t you vote for the biggest example of exactly what you’re complaining about?
I do not know the precise means by which those neurons can be converted but if they can’t see this, they can’t see anything. But I *do* know this is the golden baseball bat. Right here.
The shameless lying and cover up is to me quite literally the parting of the ocean. The opportunity must not be squandered.
Sorry, folks. My wife is an attorney working in intellectual property rights and this isn’t somebody using the same cliches, this is word for word. It’s plagiary and would stand up as plagiary in any court. The only question is how it happened, and our theory? A traitor within the campaign figured out a smart-ass way to punk his boss’s wife. You can bet Trump is on the trail of that punker.
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.”
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/08/michelle_obama_4.html
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