Your original post was long and, to a lot of us, seemingly hysterical - including your comment about putting it through some computer thing to see all the plagiarizing.
It is a nothing burger. But I am concerned about the concern-trolls here and elsewhere who are blowing this spectacularly out of proportion. Many interesting things happened last night but this is all anyone - and some of us who should know better - is talking about.
No, it wasn’t long. There were comments about checking whether it was plagiarized multiple times on FR. Some speculated Michelle’s speech was plagiarized. I was looking that up because if it was, the media has to shut up. It literally took less than a minute to plug Michelle’s speech into that thing.
How out of proportion? I said Melania had nothing to do with it after the first statement referred to a team of writers. I have even said that maybe, just maybe, it really is a coincidence, but it seemed unlikely that there would be lines and structure that matched. Other FReepers said the same thing last night and this morning. It was a news issue all over the news last night and this morning. That was all the media was talking about. I was posting the campaign manager’s statement he gave on CNN. I didn’t write the title of the post which was from the video which I linked to. For the record, Reince himself as said he’d probably fire the speech writer.
But national campaign co-chair Sam Clovis was less sanguine, telling MSNBC that the speech should have been run through anti-plagiarism software.
"I'm sure action will be taken inside the campaign to make sure it will never happen again," Clovis said.
Source to NBC:
"It's piss-poor staff work," a source within the campaign told NBC News. "Melania has been humiliated. No doubt heads are going to roll."
Lewandowski:
Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was fired after clashing with Manafort, said on CNN that whoever approved the speech should be "held accountable."
Reince Priebus said he'd "probably" fire the writer.
CNN also says this:
It's set off infighting and finger-pointing within Trump's campaign, and two sources told CNN that Donald Trump himself is furious about it.
Melania is the love of Trump's life. He absolutely adores her, and if someone did do this to her whether through error or on purpose, Trump would be furious. If someone did it to her, I'd be furious. She doesn't deserve it as all accounts and everything we've seen indicate that she is a wonderful woman. As Chris Christie said, 93% of the speech is different, and she read it well.
My father talked to me after work this evening that all he has heard about all day was "that damn speech." People on FR may not think it's a big deal, but the general populace is talking about it.