So, yeah.
So, yeah. It seems pretty noticeable that somebody dropped the ball and a small portion of Melania Trump's speech could legitimately be called plagiarized. Of course, it seems particularly lame as a gaff since I'm pretty sure all they had to do, assuming they proofed the speech ahead of time at all, was put in a comment like, "As Michelle Obama said in 2008, ..." or something like that. I mean, it's only plagiarism when you don't credit the source, right?
(Common words and values, my butt. That supposed 7% would get anyone's rear in a sling if you got caught at it in college, or even in high school. Give me a break.)
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/19/melania-trump-speech-used-same-passages-as-michelle-obamas-2008-address/
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/19/melania-trump-speech-used-same-passages-as-michelle-obamas-2008-address
(Common words and values, my butt. That supposed 7% would get anyone's rear in a sling if you got caught at it in college, or even in high school. Give me a break.)
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/19/melania-trump-speech-used-same-passages-as-michelle-obamas-2008-address/
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/19/melania-trump-speech-used-same-passages-as-michelle-obamas-2008-address
I saw this last night. It bemuses me beyond belief all the grief that Trump puts out about the Obamas, but at the end of the day their speeches are so good that they need to be plagiarized.
ReplyDeleteWell, I agree with the commentary that this is more of a sign of not knowing how or perhaps not wanting to put together a proper campaign team. I mean, sometimes there's a reason to hire professionals and insiders, no matter how much you are trying to sell the opposite story. If so many people immediately noticed the borrowing, then surely decent pros would have done so. Then again, I can totally see Trump telling even the pros he has hired, like Manafort, to back off, undermining their efforts. The saddest thing is this guy thinks he can run a country, which he obviously cannot. Yet all evidence of that will sway pro-Trump and anti-Hillary folk not one whit.
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