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Posted on 07/19/2016 5:41:22 AM PDT by Pinkbell
I transcribed the relevant part of the interview.
CUOMO: Who takes the fall for cribbing Michelle Obama's speech in 2008? Whose fault is that?
MANAFORT: Well, there's no cribbing of Michelle Obama's speech. These were common words and values that she cares about her family, that uh, that things like that. I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night - she knew that. I mean, to think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama's words is crazy. I mean it's so, I mean once again, an example of a when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton how she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It's not going to work.
CUOMO: All I'm saying is the language is strikingly similar. I'm not making a big deal of it; I know everybody is talking about it this morning, but I don't think it's an allegation, it's not some suggestion without proof. I don't know why the campaign doesn't just own it and say people borrow phrases, that's what happened, and movie on? That's what, ironically, Obama did in 2008 when Clinton said he cribbed from Deval Patrick. He said, "Yeah, you're right, I did it."
MANAFORT: No, no he did do it. That's correct. But in this particular case, you know, there was a process certainly of collaboration that.. Certainly there's no feeling on her part that she did it. You know, what she did was use words that are common words, and to expect her to, to think that she would do something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech was going to be last night, is just really absurd.
CUOMO: Right, but again, that's assuming that it was Melania. I'm assuming that there were writers involved, but if that's the way you want to explain it, that's up to you. Let me ask you about something else.
Listen, Tinkerbell, have fun with this story. It’s got your knickers in a twist despite long-time Freepers besides me telling you it’s a nothing burger.
Somebody give him a hankie, please.
I read the speeches of the last 5 or 6 first ladies from the GOP convention and all had the same theme and sounded basically the same. 99% of Melania’s speech sounded absolutely nothing like Mr. Ed Obama. Newt Gingrich said it’s “insanity” the way the libs are carrying on about the best speech of the night. But, then again, that’s why their doing it. Diminish anything and everything to do with Trump. Obama’s have a speech in 2008 lifted directly from
Duval Patrich. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech was lifted from Ralph Abernathy.
It’s bait. The Trump campaign wants the MSM and Dems to attack Mrs. Trump. Manafort is already going after Hillary for the attacks and blaming her directly. I believe it was planned.
I saw Paul Manafort on FNC shortly after he became Trump’s campaign manager.
He impressed me as a shifty-eyed, conniving slimeball who’d sell his mother to the highest bidder. He might be a great strategist to have working behind the scenes but he’s absolutely not anyone I’d want out in front of my campaign.
Maybe he was just tired.
I can. This whole "we work hard" meme is pretty much political stock. It's the same over and over again. That the two passages seemed similar doesn't shock me.
Well, you may be right. I also think it was an attempt to Palinize her quickly. The Brits over at Facebook think she’s a moron because the speech was not only plagerized, it was “stupid”. When I pointed out that perhaps the problem then lies with Michelle Obama, they fell silent.
“Morning Joe covered Manafort’s response in a restaurant full of people, and everyone laughed at it.”
Geez. Why not “report” how Morning joe uses a stacked audience:
https://youtu.be/oZi4qwx9Imc?t=13s
Good point!
Too bad posters emotionally lash out at other posters here instead of reading, analyzing and weighing who the real culprits are in this breaking news issue.
Keep up the good work!
Leni
I see why you don’t like Manafort. He came in and kicked the crap out of your loser boy Cruz and his minions.
The truth is self-evident. Though the sentiments are insipid, if someone lifted your words this way, you’d know you’d been wronged. Melania was made to look foolish, and Donald should be steamed about it.
Why on Earth is everyone so concerned about what CNN and MSNBC, or CBS, NBC and ABC for that matter? They are singing for their own constituency, which is already in the tank for Hillary. Does anyone actually think that votes will be determined based on what was in Melania’s speech? That’s just crazy.
I see our resident concern troll is up and busy ferreting out negative information on the Trump campaign. So concerned.
Michelle Obama Copied Alinsky in Speech Melania Trump Allegedly Plagiarized
The liberal media wants to do anything but talk about the security and safety bashing Hillary and Obama took last night. Is anyone suprised by this?
Typical Clinton M.O.
Attack the woman.
The only woman on stage not in political office or running for office.
Anything to not address why an IT guy was murdered in Benghazi, right? Was he setting up another server?
Now that they've messed with Melania, you can be sure her husband is going to defend her honor and instruct his op-researchers to dig up some embarrassing plagiarism authored by The Hag and Zero.
Unlike the GOPe, Trump fights back.
A woman AND a LEGAL IMMIGRANT. The MSM should be ashamed! (just a tinge of sarcasm)
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