Or maybe you do.
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
Michelle was (rightly!) in trouble for using the ideas, not whole complete passages, of a communist. And the problem right now isn’t whether or not anybody else has plagiarized. In schools these days every student paper submitted is fed into a program which google-searches pre-existing text. My wife the expert, who deals with these cases all the time, said a student would have a hard time fighting disciplinary action for this amount of direct appropriation. Wishful thinking does us no good: the speech was copied, word for word, and Trump needs to find out and purge whomever was responsible.
Or maybe you do.
Read Michelle and Melania’s passages: they are not word-for-word.
In fact, I used plagiarism software on Michelle’s speech with the result that the program found 10 instances of plagiarism affecting Michelle’s phraseology. In addition, like Melania, several words had been used by others, probably including Alinsky: children, work, values, and nation. Michelle also misspelled one word and had four grammatical errors, according to the software.
But Dems never talk about their own weaknesses, from Michelle to Joe “The Plagiarist” Biden to Hillary, who broke several felony laws with the result that national secrets were compromised. Which do you think is worse: Melania’s speech or Hillary’s multiple felonies?
It is possible somebody slipped those sentences into her speech. What stands out is how quickly MSM pounced on it as if there had been a leak.
I’m watching our side believe its own press releases and getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that we’re not going to pull this off.
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