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Michelle Obama Copied Alinsky in Speech Melania Trump Allegedly Plagiarized
breitbart ^ | 7.19 | pollak

Posted on 07/19/2016 7:28:12 AM PDT by RummyChick

Melania Trump, wife of imminent Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and potential First Lady, faces accusations of plagiarism after several passages in her speech to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland appeared to echo lines from Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver.

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1 posted on 07/19/2016 7:28:12 AM PDT by RummyChick
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I would believe that Michael Obama probably did copy the Alskinky statement, but not Melania...she was to busy with her family and probably didn't even watch Michael Obama ever...

Media hype, through and through...

2 posted on 07/19/2016 7:30:39 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: RummyChick

Let’s see. I’m supposed to be concerned about this while the Democrat media allows Crooked Hillary to lie, steal, and commit treason without consequence?


3 posted on 07/19/2016 7:31:19 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: RummyChick

B.b.but how can this be? Michelle was the victim, not the thief?


4 posted on 07/19/2016 7:31:49 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: RummyChick

Excellent find!


5 posted on 07/19/2016 7:32:55 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: RummyChick

I’m not sure a partially “plagiarized” Alinsky speech helps.


6 posted on 07/19/2016 7:33:48 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: HarleyLady27
The basic choices are that Trump and his wife are rickrolling the RNC/GOPE/Media etc...

OR

She was sabatoged on purpose

Or

The speechwriter was lazy and hoped no one would notice he copied a Dem and Rick Astley

7 posted on 07/19/2016 7:33:53 AM PDT by RummyChick
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Weak sauce. This doesn’t compare.

This is one of the few times that it is completely acceptable to blame the speech writer. Accept that Melania’s speech was plagiarized by someone far beneath her on the pecking order and move along with no last harm or foul to her.

It’s shockingly lazy of the writer but doesn’t reflect on her.


8 posted on 07/19/2016 7:33:56 AM PDT by SleepySimon
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To: RummyChick

Melania should have written her own speech. Present your own work to the campaign protocol person for any clean up and save yourself embarrassment. From the headlines today, everyone plagerizes everyone else. Apparently we’ve run out of original ideas.


9 posted on 07/19/2016 7:34:46 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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10 posted on 07/19/2016 7:35:13 AM PDT by Baynative (Freedom; the dream of every human, the birth right of every American.)
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To: HarleyLady27

What Melania said was less important than her poise and seriousness as she delivered her lines.


11 posted on 07/19/2016 7:35:26 AM PDT by cymbeline
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Could it have been on purpose? Trump loves controversy. This is making everyone in the country go on YouTube and compare the two wives.


12 posted on 07/19/2016 7:35:54 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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At least Melania didn’t plagiarize Michelle’s fashion sense.


13 posted on 07/19/2016 7:38:17 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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“What Melania said was less important than her poise and seriousness as she delivered her lines.”

Amen. She could have delivered her speech in any of the half dozen languages she speaks and I would have understood her perfectly.


14 posted on 07/19/2016 7:38:38 AM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: cymbeline
I listened to her speech twice and both times, the love, the classy way about her, her humor, her love for America, just oozed out all over...

What a great First Lady she is going to be, in this age of our lives, she will even out do Jackie O...and that is no small job...Both of them are defined in their own rights...

15 posted on 07/19/2016 7:39:59 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: cymbeline
What Melania said was less important than her poise and seriousness as she delivered her lines.

The only thing important that any potential first lady has said in recent years is Michele's statement that Obama's nomination was the "first time she felt proud to be an American". Malania's speech (which I skipped) was just the usual political blah blah crap that most people say at speeches. There were probably some commencement addresses that used the same banal crap.

16 posted on 07/19/2016 7:42:12 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dallrymple)
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To: RummyChick

Sent Breitbart link to Drudge. He doesn’t have tjis yet.


17 posted on 07/19/2016 7:42:17 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: RummyChick
I found the following at Gateway Pundit: "Here is the comparison of the 2 passages against each other. The items in red are differences: Melania and Michelle Comparison :
18 posted on 07/19/2016 7:43:19 AM PDT by Ladysforest (Racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia and vulgarity - with just a smattering of threats and violence)
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To: Yo-Yo
She does wear boob belts..but they look so much better on Melania.
Meanwhile, Rick Astley is enjoying the publicity over a PResidential RickRoll..

19 posted on 07/19/2016 7:43:58 AM PDT by RummyChick
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Oh, to have a classy White House and First LADY once again...

The Obamas and Clintons have been such a blight on our great nation. I’ve never been less proud of us. I pray that we as a people can learn from decades of voting and ‘by the people’ mistakes and ignorance. One can hope.


20 posted on 07/19/2016 7:45:58 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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