Posted on 07/19/2016 10:11:00 AM PDT by big bad easter bunny
It’s been a few years since I taught in a university environment but this isn’t how you use plagiarism tools.
Who did Michelle steal from? The two sentences Melania used came from Bill Ayres and Bob Dole, supposedly. So, who is Michelle Obama’s Neil Kinnock?
Try http://turnitin.com/. . .tell us what it says there.
Anyone remember the author who accused Hillary of not just plagiarizing the title, but the whole book?
Good, but it won’t be on the evening news.
That’s the best they got? We must be winning. 96% when was the mooch ever married to the Donald? And where did she say she was ashamed of America? Talk about drawing small straws.
GOOD WORK! 96%. LMAO!
Why the h-e-double-hockey-sticks didn’t the Trump team run ALL their speeches against this or a similar tool???
That said, didn’t Melania write the speech herself? Perhaps she reviewed similar speeches and the phrasing stuck. I often wonder if musicians avoid listening to their peers lest a riff submerge in their memory only to resurface later in something they compose. Very easy for this to happen to a non-professional.
Also, when you look at political speeches, there surely is a template that fits the particular purpose. A bullet list of the passage in question and the points it must hit is likely universal. When you consider there is a natural sequence to lists, a fixed timeframe in which to say it, the need for simplicity of word choice, there MUST be similarity in the message.
Melania is not a speech-writer. Her team let her and Donald down, big time. The MSM has latched onto this because they not dare cover anything else that was said that night.
But, who did she plagiarize all of that from?
- Plagiarized - This is the Best Election Eva!
- Plagiarized - The media are wackos.
- Plagiarized - Fun, fun, fun
- Plagiarized - Go Trump Go!
- Plagiarized - LOL
Likely from every other gaggle of platitudes thrown out by the wife of a candidate dating back to Cromwell.
LOL...I guess I could have gone after them for ‘plagiarizing’ my tagline, for last night’s theme :)
Guess this story is going away
I am going to plagiarize myself ...
**** “I look at it as an opportunity ...
Every Speaker scheduled from now on should say and quote the supposed pilfered words Melania spoke last night and then Donald should as well and then follow it up with ...
Comparing who has said what and who has done what... who has a history of following through and who just utters words” ****
Just an idea
I don’t think you’re using this tool correctly. If you click on the phrase after running the tool (it changes the phrase into a link) it shows you the Google results from searching that phrase.
The results are showing Michelle Obama’s speech from 2008.
You’re comparing the speech to itself.
The leftist media does not care if Michelle Obama plagiarized some text! Heck, they do not care that Hillary lies to them, put the nation’s security in jeopardy and should be place in prison!
You waste your energy thinking that they have morals and ethics. Clearly they do not.
Best thing we can do to them is ignore them.
It would be helpful if you could write in sentence and paragraph style... not headline style...
It would be helpful if you could write in sentence and paragraph style... not headline style...
And Melania didn’t even write the speech - it was a prepared speech written by others.
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