The right move would be to own up to the mistake. Of course, Arrogant Donald Jr will not and instead blame plagiarism on Hillary and the media.
But some big names are there. And it’s pretty basic that you put the headliners last, or at least at the end of primetime coverage. The major networks are airing an hour from 10:00 to 11:00, so they shouldn’t be blowing half their load at 9:30 and then having the room empty out at 10:30. Imagine if the Oscars told you the best picture and actors first, and then went on to give out the awards for the best soundtrack in a foreign opera or whatever.
Chris Christie talked about he and Donald are going to fire everybody even vaguely connected to the Obama administration. So … that’s sort of jobs-related.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-purge-exclusive-idUSKCN10003A
So yeah, they want a special law passed to prevent Obama administration people from moving to civil service jobs, which are harder to fire.
So I guess that’s going to mean more jobs for repo officers. Republicans - always looking out for the little guys!
Speaking of little guys - remember Travelgate? It was one of the first bullshit Republican investigations of Bill Clinton’s tenure, from 1993. It eventually got rolled into Ken Starr’s chamber. In a nutshell - the Clintons fired some of the holdovers from the preceeding Republican admins who worked in the Whitehouse travel office. The new admin has the right to appoint their own people to this post, but the Republicans accused them of … well it was never really clear, since the President is entitled to appoint whoever he wants. But somehow, it was a Scandal! that eventually spawned investigations "by the FBI and the Department of Justice, the White House itself, the General Accounting Office, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and the Whitewater Independent Counsel " to quote that Wiki link. The investigation into Travelgate didn’t wrap up until 2000.
In an eerily prescient development, the investigator found that Hillary might have said some things that were incorrect, over the course of seven years, but no charges could be brought because it wasn’t clear that she deliberately lied.
All because Bill Clinton exercised his right to appoint his own people in charge of his travel arrangements. And he didn’t even need a special law from congress!
But I guess announcing ahead of time that you’re going to conduct a partisan witchhunt and put people out of jobs - even when they aren’t political appointments - is no big deal if you’re a Republican and you just tell everyone ahead of time. I mean, yeah, that’s kind of going to be a short investigation, there.
I understand your point. I am just saying with Rubio, Cruz, Romney, the Bushes, etc. unavailable, tonight was pitifully lacking in Republican star power. Any normal campaign would be able to fill out the evening with big names instead of relying on the Trump family and obscure soap opera stars to pad out the schedule.
They aren’t Americans. Duh. Like that Mexican judge, remember?
Apparently not plagiarism, as Trump Jr.'s speechwriter was the writer of the article in question.
The guy who wrote the speech was also the writer of the American Conservative article, so he was stealing from himself.
That’s some lazy, second-rate job. My clients would certainly not appreciate if I were to recycle my own material (I am a food writer). And in light of last night’s debacle, they should have reworked it.
Not everyone who saw this tweet will see the retraction.
Give enough monkeys enough typewriters…
It was noticeable and noticed, apparently. That’s the AP. they go to every news outlet on the planet.
Coming in late here but would it be fair to say that the Republican power brokers have figured Trump is pretty much unsaleable to moderate sensible Republicans, so they have decided their best strategy is “forget persuading people to vote for Trump, just denigrate Clinton in the hope of persuading moderates to vote against her”?
Edited to add: and by the way, is a whole convention chanting that their political opposition candidate should be locked up a new low? Sounds very third world.
I think what we’re seeing here is the clear evidence that none of the really top rate people want to work for the Trump campaign. (speech writers, policy experts, genuinely good political organisers). It was called back in May, now here’s the evidence:
Really? Please cite any broadcast or cable regulation, FCC rule, voluntary code of conduct, or any other documented rule, regulation, or ethical standard that prohibits this particular “malpractice” of showing an empty hall. When you find it, provide the rule or regulation number, and then reconcile it for us with the First Amendment. I’ll wait.
Umm, WTF? This is nonsensical.
Dude…
He was making a joke / pointing the finger at what is a criminally incompetent campaign…
To allow the show to be so boring the hall is empty while it’s being televised is stupid organisation.
Yeah, I was like “Is this a joke?” and it seems others were wondering the same thing. So I went to Google the term to try to explain what it means, and found, to my surprise, that the first hit defines it as **wolfpup **seems to:
I have **never **seen it used this way. I have been a political junkie for decades now, and I’ve always seen it used as a snarky way of saying that someone’s campaign team has dropped the ball in terms of making sure something obvious or de rigueur is taken care of. The implication is of political stupidity, not malice. At least as I had always understood it!
Wereupon Big Macintosh, the humble, rarely-speaking farm pony, turns into a freakin’ alicorn princess, complete with dress and all.
This is funnier to me than it should be.
Well, let’s see. So far The Donald, a rank political newcomer, has mopped the floor with 16 other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, most of whom were established and seasoned politicos. He’s thwarted numerous attempts by the Republican establishment to block or undercut his delegate count or otherwise deny him the nomination. He just officially achieved the Republican nomination at the convention. And he accomplished all this while playing the media like a violin to his advantage and spending hardly any money relatively speaking on his campaign. What he’s accomplished is not just amazing but phenomenal.
And yet to you guys he’s stupid but criminally incompetent because his wife’s speech didn’t get properly vetted and because people left the convention hall after the big/interesting (i.e., family) names had already spoken.
We should all be so stupid and incompetent.
Donald Trump won the nomination at a time when American politics is descending into insanity. He won’t be able to hide his ineptitude if, God forbid, he becomes president.
gotta say, Ben Carson really has embarrassed himself with the Lucifer/Alinsky bit; he was one of the Republicans I really liked and thought he was a respectable guy with a great life story.