Stop digging and change the subject. Now you'll have another news cycle devoted to "Brony" jokes.
Posted on 07/19/2016 3:42:14 PM PDT by CtBigPat
See BS evening nooze was all over the speech issue. Oh she copied moo belle micheal Obummer.
Yes, the script writer slipped one in on the Trump team. That won’t happen again. Someone should be fired.
It’s not like anyone expected her to write her own speech, it was prepared for her. Manafort most likely was up to this. Do not know why.....
Chris37 gets it.
No, it's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Plagiarism, plagiarism everywhere!
If a Trump speechwriter mysteriously disappears, then maybe this wasn't a campaign stunt.
That phrase was common in the ‘50s when I was a kid. It is not original with MLP or any of us living today. It can probably be found in fairy tales.
Yup. I think all this was intentional by the Trump folks. Done to highlight the fact that Michelle Obama might say the words, but doesn't come through. Such as giving respect to others, etc. Michelle is disrespectful of our nation, our allies, law-abiding folks, etc. Trump got people thinking about the words Michelle mentioned in 2008, that was parroted off a teleprompter but words that were meaningless coming from her.
Why am I thinking of the courtroom scene from "Flash of Genius"? :)
Hard work, values, yada, yada. There are only so many ways to say those banalities.
Stop digging and change the subject. Now you'll have another news cycle devoted to "Brony" jokes.
A lot of MLP titles are take-offs of common phrases.
Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep? is a really good episode. Very funny but with deep themes of regret, self harm and forgiveness.
They're called cloppers.
Supposedly they're a small subset of the "Bronies" (Adult men who are into "My Little Pony")...
“Trump might have done this to keep every media outlet talking about the convention non stop.”
Shhhhh.....The MSM checks this site.
I’m both angry and discouraged that Melania or anyone on the Trump campaign staff would be so stupid as to plagiarize a passage from Michelle Obama — of all people! By the time I was twelve-years-old I had enough sense to know the difference between using a common expression (such as “your word is your bond”) and copying an entire passage, just changing a few words.
“There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech. These were common words and values...,” Manafort said. “To think that she’d be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is crazy.”
Yeah, sure. I’m dumbfounded that they’d copy from her speech too, but it obviously happened.
Not that copying a few lines in the speech of the nominee’s wife has much importance compared with the important issues that face us — and, of course, the Democrats have plagiarized in the past too, most notably, Biden — but it’s of vital importance that Hillary Clinton be defeated in November. That the Trump campaign would give the opposition an opportunity for criticism in what should have been a risk-free speech doesn’t inspire confidence. How are we going to win an election when we have people involved in the campaign who are so stupid that they’d copy a passage from Michelle Obama (and others who transparently lie about it)?
The only consolation I have is that the Democrats do foolish things too. They have the media to cover for them, though.
Do you know that Michelle Obama lifted that speech from Alinsky's writings? So Michelle originally plagiarized it. So maybe the speech by Melania was by design.
I think I WROTE Rule 34, back when Gore invented the Internet.
I don’t know how close Michelle’s passage is to Alinsky’s, and neither does most of the American public. That’s not what the media are publicizing. The plagiarism in Melania’s speech is hurting, not helping.
Okay. But I personally think it doesn’t matter. It’s small potatoes. The MSM and the Dems are going to be shrill and throw mud around no matter what is said or done. At least with Trump and his family, they have strong spines and fight back (unlike the GOPe insiders who regularly cave or go PC).
Of course. It was just a joke.
This was intentional I have decided. It is the long game against the media. Epic Rick Roll! Millennials don’t watch the news or politics much but Rick Rolling the media will get their respect. That will trend on social media. This also sends a message to Cruz, Kasich and lil Jebby that broken promises will have consequences. Trump just forced Cruz’s hand about the endorsement promise. Cruz will endorse or forever be lying Ted.
It’s not like Moochelle coined any of the phrases - heard them all, and permutations of them all, many times over the decades.
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