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#SpeechGate: Who Set Up Melania Trump?
fitnews ^ | 7/19 | fit

Posted on 07/19/2016 10:34:53 AM PDT by RummyChick

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To: RummyChick

Zerohedge has the juice

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-19/did-michelle-obama-also-borrow-her-2008-speech


261 posted on 07/19/2016 2:37:22 PM PDT by stockpirate (Make America Mexico Again - MAMA end sarcasm)
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To: LucyT; azishot; All

I bet you that whoever inserted the language waited until Melania delivered the paragraph, called the liberals to jump on it and the rest is a commie storm distracting from all the truth said yesterday about the commies.


262 posted on 07/19/2016 2:40:52 PM PDT by melancholy
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To: bgill
"That doesn’t matter bs is exactly why we have the Terrorist in Chief with his Moo along with ValJar and the whole administration."
That's irrational nonsense. We have idiots leading this country because the weak minded and easily led have allowed the media to set the terms of the discussion.... Because the "NEWS" was about Mitt Romney's dog, or some made up quote about "seeing Russia from my house".
You have obviously been hoodwinked into believing that Melania Trump repeating some words has "meaning" and substance, while the fact that both our President and his Secretary of State have committed treason against the U.S. does not...
Or any number of other substantive issues facing our republic do not.
This is 100% shitshow.
It truly does not mean anything, yet here we are, Freepers, America's best and brightest conservatives, arguing about who is responsible for some leftist outrage aimed at Trump's WIFE!

We the people are responsible for holding BOTH the government and the media accountable. You are not doing your job. It's crap, & you're feeding it.
263 posted on 07/19/2016 2:42:59 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: Chaguito
At the risk of repeating myself, the left media, namely Vox.com picked up on unmemorable lines from Melania that matched unmemorable lines from Michelle almost in real time.

Is that the speech when Michelle said this was the first time she felt proud of America? Did Melania use that line too? I apologize but I did not listen to Melania. She does look good making for a good show piece when Trump is on tour.

264 posted on 07/19/2016 2:44:52 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: NELSON111

This is absurd.

Sure. It’s likely sabotage. Not only the Michelle quote, but also the rick roll lyrics. It was probably done on purpose.

But it’s insane to blame Cruz. How on earth would that help him? The Dems are laughing at us.

Brilliant lineup of speakers last night. Someone needs to find out who told Trump to go on O’Reilly live and interrupt FOX coverage in prime time.

Was that sabotage or just stupid?


265 posted on 07/19/2016 2:47:34 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: RummyChick
One longtime Trump supporter in early-voting South Carolina has a very interesting, very plausible theory.

According to the operative – who ran a pro-Trump political organization prior to the “First in the South” presidential primary – many of the “new hands” ushered aboard the Trump Train in recent weeks are not loyal to their new employer. Their allegiances remain with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas – the second-place GOP finisher who bitterly denounced Trump when he dropped out of the presidential race back in May.

That sounds like the former McCain operative from South Carolina who spread the idea that Mitt Romney loyalists were bad talking and backstabbing Palin in 2008. I'm not saying it's not true this time, but people have been known to spread rumors like this for reasons of their own.

266 posted on 07/19/2016 2:49:25 PM PDT by x
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To: WENDLE

So you’re arguing that if one guy (or more) sins, it absolves another?

Nope. Two wrongs still don’t make a right. Somebody messed up, probably intentionally, and successfully distracted from what should have been a very good 24 hour news cycle.


267 posted on 07/19/2016 2:56:09 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: bgill
Whether it was Cruz or someone else, Trump better track him down and name names loudly to the msm.

I don't disagree at all. I hope they are putting as much effort into finding the person responsible as they are into coming up with excuses and lame explanations.

268 posted on 07/19/2016 2:56:28 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: RummyChick

I would find out what happened. I would NOT use speechwriters either. I’ll bet the speech writer is to blame.


269 posted on 07/19/2016 3:00:48 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: RummyChick; All

“Not just somewhere similar.

EXACT WORDING.”

I think you are mistaken.

From Time, these are the “disputed” paragraphs. As you can see, they are *not* identical, except for some virtually cliche phrases.

From the Michelle Obama speech in 2008:

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: 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, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them. And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

Here is Melania Trump in 2016:

From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values 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. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life. That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son, and we need to pass those lessons on to the many generation to follow because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

As others have pointed out, many phrases in Michelle’s speech have also been used by others. Phrases such as “your word is your bond” is a cliche; less so is “you work hard for what you want in life”, but here is one from a twitter feed from 1 June, 2016:

https://twitter.com/bubba_era/status/737940949288943616

There are obvious differences, Michelle is talking about her and Barack, plural; Melania is talking about herself.

Similar paragraphs; but not duplicates.


270 posted on 07/19/2016 3:16:41 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Hugh the Scot
You have obviously been hoodwinked into believing that Melania Trump repeating some words has "meaning" and substance

Wake up. The words have nothing to do with it, it is the sabotaging of the campaign that is the problem. As I said, today it's a speech, tomorrow it's something 10 times worse.

271 posted on 07/19/2016 3:17:26 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill
You wake up.


His campaign isn't sabotaged, that's the point. It's a great big nothing-burger.

If there WERE enemies in the perimeter, and this is the best they could come up with, they are low-quality enemies indeed.

If you want to be led around by the nose by leftists; Well, that's none of my business.
272 posted on 07/19/2016 3:28:43 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: dynoman

Point is, whether or not he had second thoughts, someone within the campaign planted or leaked to the press.


273 posted on 07/19/2016 4:41:14 PM PDT by phoneman08
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To: phoneman08

Check out this comment;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3450921/posts?page=9#9


274 posted on 07/19/2016 4:51:36 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: RummyChick
"Many of the “new hands” ushered aboard the Trump Train in recent weeks are not loyal to their new employer."

The dimocraps have been doing that to the republican party for years.... Why are we surprised when it happens to trump and his folks.??

Besides... Remember that a lot of Trumps friends were of the very liberal Holleywood types.. Not exactly what you would call loyal in any sense of the word.!!

275 posted on 07/19/2016 4:53:48 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Jedidah

Troll alert. Soros suck.


276 posted on 07/19/2016 5:40:56 PM PDT by WENDLE (We must have LAW AND ORDER!!)
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To: RummyChick

The article quoted reads like this:

“According to the aide, Miller is one of several establishment “Republican” operatives loyal to Cruz who are working hard to sabotage Trump’s campaign from within – “like ISIS infiltrating the refugee population.”..”


277 posted on 07/19/2016 7:42:12 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: RummyChick

They probably are looking for the one(s) responsible for that wording. They don’t suffer fools.


278 posted on 07/20/2016 12:27:01 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: RummyChick

DID MELANIA PLAGIARIZE?
Michelle was a time bandit and stole Melania’s speech from the future!
At least I came to that conclusion after taking a good look at Melania


279 posted on 07/20/2016 9:56:27 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: RummyChick

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Paranoia strikes deep,

Into each heart it must creep...


280 posted on 07/20/2016 10:00:53 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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