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Melania Trump speech appears to plagiarize Michelle Obama
The Hill ^ | /19/16 | Lisa Hagen

Posted on 07/18/2016 9:39:43 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey

Melania Trump’s highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night appears to have nearly copied a paragraph from Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; mediabias; melania; melaniaspeech; mooch; plagiarism
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To: Typical_Whitey
Melania said:
that you work hard for what you want in life: that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise; that you treat people with respect

Mooshell said:
that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect

Pure boilerplate. When someone plagiarizes, they choose arresting words and phrases; there would be no reason to lift standard words and phrases.
81 posted on 07/18/2016 10:10:03 PM PDT by jobim
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To: b4me

She said she wrote the speech “with as little help as possible.” A lot of wiggle room there.

I don’t think MSM will attack her personally; she is too likable and sympathetic. They will attack the Trump campaign, you know the routine — if they can’t get something simple like this right, how can they run the country?

If the speechwriter comes out and falls on his sword, as well he should, this could all go away very quickly.


82 posted on 07/18/2016 10:10:33 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Coronal

Looks like somebody is getting fired.


83 posted on 07/18/2016 10:11:07 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: montag813

cNN already called Melania a plagiarist..sheesh..who knows they could have sabotaged the teleprompter


84 posted on 07/18/2016 10:11:25 PM PDT by ground_fog
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To: Enchante

If Melania and Manafort were the only two to touch the speech they have a problem for there is no fall guy.


85 posted on 07/18/2016 10:11:41 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: weston

Check out Laura Bush’s 2004 speech, sounds awfully similar to Michelle Obama’s speech..and some online compared Obama’s speech to Duvak Patricks speech..bottom line is EVERYONE copies a little bit here and there from each other to show “Shared values”


86 posted on 07/18/2016 10:11:49 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: jennychase

yes but there is too much repetition here in a concentrated form to be accidental.... someone was working from Moochelle’s speech as an exemplar and screwed up bad, or else it is sabotage.....or maybe there is a 3rd version from the more distant past that Moochelle also plagiarized.


87 posted on 07/18/2016 10:12:13 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Typical_Whitey
I first heard that same paragraph in either an episode of The Rifleman or Gunsmoke. I also read it in a number of Louis L'Amour books. Melania didn't steal it from anybody. Geez.
88 posted on 07/18/2016 10:12:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: ViLaLuz
She should tell them it wasn’t intentional.

Doesn't matter. There are FREE plagiarism checkers on the internet. Teachers use them every day. And even if Moochele's speech isn't covered, a former First Lady candidate's speech, and they didn't check it? INSANE

89 posted on 07/18/2016 10:12:18 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

I think set up because they also inserted a rick roll..if you know what is...twitter lit up about it


90 posted on 07/18/2016 10:12:25 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: advertising guy

Plagiarism? Is that like criminal or even treasonous???


91 posted on 07/18/2016 10:12:36 PM PDT by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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To: sockhead

“I bet with a little research, someone can find that the paragraph did not originate with Michelle Obama. There is likely an earlier source that Michelle drew from.”

Yes. She should just admit that she copied it...

from Mamie Eisenhower’s speech...


92 posted on 07/18/2016 10:12:46 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: 867V309

Haha! Good one! CNN is absolutely giddy over this. Kinda like when they sat around chatting about all of Hillary’s lies. Er…wait


93 posted on 07/18/2016 10:13:35 PM PDT by BlueHorseShoe ( Let us all speak out, rise up, lead and conquer!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

My same thought. Trump loves beautiful feminine women like any red-blooded male, and has no lust for narcissistic Anderson Cooper, and Melania is not a tranny look-alike.

They are so jealous of the NATURAL beauty of a TRUE woman and an alpha male like Trump, who wouldn’t look twice at a Justin Bieber so he can’t be bribed.


94 posted on 07/18/2016 10:14:16 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Enchante

Yeah I think you should spend from now until November working on this. I think some of you are crazy. Needs to be said.


95 posted on 07/18/2016 10:14:19 PM PDT by Williams (If Trump is not the nominee ... The party's over.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

So, would you rather watch a gorgeous white woman give the speech, or an ugly black man posing a a woman?


96 posted on 07/18/2016 10:14:28 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Typical_Whitey

Oh snap! Whyyyyy? Now #crookedmelania is trending. She doesn’t know English well enough to have written it, and the hack who did, stole from Mooch’s speech. BUT WHY DID MELANIA SAY SHE WROTE IT ALONE?!

Why couldn’t she have like maybe NOT LIED? Like saying, “You know, my English isn’t strong enough to write a speech alone, but I believe everything I said. It’s all true.”


97 posted on 07/18/2016 10:16:01 PM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: petitfour

Proprietary property is protected ,this is not that


98 posted on 07/18/2016 10:16:03 PM PDT by advertising guy ( TRUMP , BUT VERIFY)
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This just seems like boilerplate speech filler. However I thought it was funny that there was a Rick-Roll in her speech. I am guessing one of Trump’s sons slipped that in there as a joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ


99 posted on 07/18/2016 10:16:45 PM PDT by Crispy
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To: Coronal

Two excerpted sentences are kinda similar. Talk about clutching at straws.


100 posted on 07/18/2016 10:17:24 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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