Or maybe you do.
Posted on 07/19/2016 8:57:18 AM PDT by bobsunshine
Michelle was (rightly!) in trouble for using the ideas, not whole complete passages, of a communist. And the problem right now isn’t whether or not anybody else has plagiarized. In schools these days every student paper submitted is fed into a program which google-searches pre-existing text. My wife the expert, who deals with these cases all the time, said a student would have a hard time fighting disciplinary action for this amount of direct appropriation. Wishful thinking does us no good: the speech was copied, word for word, and Trump needs to find out and purge whomever was responsible.
Or maybe you do.
Read Michelle and Melania’s passages: they are not word-for-word.
In fact, I used plagiarism software on Michelle’s speech with the result that the program found 10 instances of plagiarism affecting Michelle’s phraseology. In addition, like Melania, several words had been used by others, probably including Alinsky: children, work, values, and nation. Michelle also misspelled one word and had four grammatical errors, according to the software.
But Dems never talk about their own weaknesses, from Michelle to Joe “The Plagiarist” Biden to Hillary, who broke several felony laws with the result that national secrets were compromised. Which do you think is worse: Melania’s speech or Hillary’s multiple felonies?
It is possible somebody slipped those sentences into her speech. What stands out is how quickly MSM pounced on it as if there had been a leak.
I’m watching our side believe its own press releases and getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that we’re not going to pull this off.
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