Poor Melania.
I saw an article the other day, claiming that everyone who enters Trump’s orbit eventually surrenders every last ounce of their dignity. Even his wife now. Sweet Jesus.
Ooooh. Busted. Speech was completely plagiarized from, get this - Michelle Obama!
This completely unbelievable!
U am not kidding, BTW.
Poor Melania. I’d never heard her speak before. I thought she did well, they obviously trained her thoroughly to read the left teleprompter for a while, and then switch to the one on the right. Sometimes, in the pauses between sentences, she looked straight ahead!
Everybody’s got this Melania-Michelle stuff but nobody posts the link! What is the matter with you people! You can’t post such a juicy gob without a cite! That un-Cecilian!
And during those long pauses, Miss Transylvania did dramatic squints to emphasize an amazing point she just made:
“Donal’ vill protect you.” <<eyes narrow dramatically>>
And I would jump over five Serbian scarecrows to have Michelle sneer at me in disapproval.
It’s hitting the teevee already. But thankfully the Trump campaign is very good at damage control, and not digging deeper when faced with a hole.
Ask and ye shall receive: Melania Trump's speech appears to have been plagiarized from a Michelle Obama speech (seriously)
Great minds think alike!
WaPo is on it:
Oh, please. Do you really think these sort of comments originated with Michelle Obama? They’re typical boiler-plate political pronouncements like I’ve heard politicians make all my life. Hell, in this country’s halcyon days teachers stressed the same things.
Somehow, I’m getting a vague whift of eau de rodent.
Here is NPR’s transcript of Michele’s 2008 DNC speech
Just scanning, seems this one bit shows up there:
I dunno, standard Hallmark political treacle?
ETA: what I don’t see is that whole preceding paragraph reflected in Michele’s 2008 speech.
ETA again, my mistake its there.
I love that Rosenberg is using the (((ECHOES))) tag to tell the anti-Semites to go fuck themselves.
It’s at TPM, too -
Also, this:
This is the best. Perfect. Christmas is early and often this year.
…that are still in, y’know, someone else’s exact words. At my university, Melania would have just gotten herself an F and an academic conduct violation charge.
(((Yair Rosenberg))) rules:
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/755262101606768640
^we need an LOL smilie
Maybe. But not WORD. FOR. WORD. That’s called plagiarism. Clearly this isn’t on poor Melania. More likely this a result of the bargain basement campaign these yahoos are running. I can only imagine the rage The Orange One is going to go into about this. I wouldn’t want to be that speechwriter.