But of course, the controversy was put to rest when the author of the article admitted he was a speechwriter of Donald Trump, Jr.'s speech and penned the passage at issue.
Nevertheless, egghead academics claim it to be "self-plagiarism," which is ridiculous for anyone in politics.
Gotcha journalism fails once again.
Self plagiarism? The ghost of George Orwell hangs heavy over this one. “1984”, described how the state (Obama”s minions) would corrupt the language.
How does the crime of plagiarism compare to the activities of people that come up with expressions like “affordable care act.”
It’s deflection since they can’t counter the speeches
I was hoping tgd libs were going to do this for day 2... They have now overplayed the plagiarism card
My son had a high school teacher who faced some kind of college penalty for self-plagiarizing. Not kidding. I don’t know if she was working on her Masters degree or what. But she was not a happy camper about it. Liberals make up lunatic rules for living.
I’d love to see Trump use three or for sentences from is various books in his speech, and not say specifically that they are from there. Drive the bean counters nuts.
This really is the kind of thing where you say so? and they give up. They don’t actually care and neither does the public.
Except it wasn't stealing...— Frank Buckley (@fbuckley) July 20, 2016
BFD
The media manufacturing a “scandal”, which they of course won’t do during Clinton’s convention.
Now, I could readily believe that the Trump campaign in disguise alerted the Daily Show that DJT Jr. was going to “plagiarize” a specific article. And the progressive twits bought into it. The howls by the eggheads is truly pathetic, self-defeating, and sweet.
Let’s see what happens with the next Trump family speaker.
Obviously the DemonRATs have created a new industry of running Republican speeches through these software programs scouring for hints of overlap with any past publication or speech. The Rs had better have a team on this right away, ever ‘Rat speech now and in the recent past needs to be subjected to the same treatment.
Ofc we know that Barack Obama and Joe Biden, among others, are big violators in the past, but the MSM won’t bring up those obvious comparisons.
I am certain that I heard O’Bama say “UHHH” on many occasions and NEVER ONCE attruibute it to the grandfather of the first caveman.
Next they’ll be claiming that someone plagiarized Sesame Street because some speech used the letter A and the number 3.
EVERY word plagiarized!!! .... From Merriam Webster!! Get a life Dems.
This is beyond ridiculous.
The MSM is the propaganda branch of the democrat party.
Logically then all speeches written by a speechwriter and delivered by someone who paid the speech writer would be plagiarism unless the speaker attributed at the beginning/end. Craziness! Fine then let’s say everybody has to write ther own speech. It was a great speech, well-delivered.