Posted on 07/19/2016 5:41:22 AM PDT by Pinkbell
I transcribed the relevant part of the interview.
CUOMO: Who takes the fall for cribbing Michelle Obama's speech in 2008? Whose fault is that?
MANAFORT: Well, there's no cribbing of Michelle Obama's speech. These were common words and values that she cares about her family, that uh, that things like that. I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night - she knew that. I mean, to think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama's words is crazy. I mean it's so, I mean once again, an example of a when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton how she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It's not going to work.
CUOMO: All I'm saying is the language is strikingly similar. I'm not making a big deal of it; I know everybody is talking about it this morning, but I don't think it's an allegation, it's not some suggestion without proof. I don't know why the campaign doesn't just own it and say people borrow phrases, that's what happened, and movie on? That's what, ironically, Obama did in 2008 when Clinton said he cribbed from Deval Patrick. He said, "Yeah, you're right, I did it."
MANAFORT: No, no he did do it. That's correct. But in this particular case, you know, there was a process certainly of collaboration that.. Certainly there's no feeling on her part that she did it. You know, what she did was use words that are common words, and to expect her to, to think that she would do something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech was going to be last night, is just really absurd.
CUOMO: Right, but again, that's assuming that it was Melania. I'm assuming that there were writers involved, but if that's the way you want to explain it, that's up to you. Let me ask you about something else.
Absolutely!
They are BARELY comparible and both are using common phrases...
What are you talking about?
I’ve used those same phrases and I never heard Michelle Obama’s speech.
And while all this is happening, Hillary Clinton still has Sean Smith’s blood on her hands while his mother after all this time can’t get an honest answer from her.
“pretty smart way to get everyone to hear her speech”
I have to admit that it worked o me.
I wasn’t planning to watch Melania’s speech, but this “scandal” made me watch it. She did very well. Will be a great first lady.
It isn’t a “meh” to me if someone will go to these lengths to sabotage the campaign.
I put a Cruzbot first on the list to look at...followed by a Romneybot
But you don’t have to care.
I do and I want the culprit found.
Jimmy McGill
Since Mar 23, 2016
Jimmy McGill hasn’t created an about page.
Exactly....that’s why the speechwriter needs to be FIRED.
I’ll bet anything you’d find the speech-writer has leftist leanings. What a great coup of the democraps to put a speechwriter on Trump’s staff. Simply a lack of vetting your volunteers/staff.
Please rip on the next first lady as it generate more stories some with pictures
Theme is also liberals and democrats are not afraid to attack legal immigrants, but illegals, we are supposed to worry about their feelings and cater to their needs.
Yep. Trump has said that the world of politics was a bit of a shock to him, the dishonesty involved is something that doesn't fly in business. Well, another lesson.
We must stop you from picking on our exalted leader Chairman Obama and his clone. So lets change the narrative to Melania and some comparison to the Chairman’s beard.
Main stream media is in the tank for the Libs so what ever they say is to be discarded immediately as the crap it is.
“Hillary will show up to speak at the dem convention with her normal horse blanket on.”
You’re killing me with this one. So incredibly accurate and hilarious.
During my own political career, in the off-years I wasn't up for re-election I had my own side business of doing PR for candidates up to and including the state level....designing layout and writing text for their brochures and full-page ads, writing their speeches, etc. Even those "Report to My Constituents" articles you see on the editorial pages of your local newspapers weekly or bi-weekly are ghost-written. I wrote columns for my conservative state senator for two years.
There's nothing new here, it's been going on for decades and decades immemorial. Major-league politics is a time-consuming business and it's a given that those plying this particular trade will employ professional speech writers and ghost-writers for their columns, speeches, books and so-called "autobiographies".
My take on this "plagiarism" report is either that it's deliberate sabotage or that it's a lazy, sneaky or unstable writer within the Trump campaign staff.
Leni
(Wow. His denial is just not credible. The side-by-side comparison of the two passages is damning.)
I would have to agree. I heard the evidence this morning. My first impression was, “This has to be a joke, right?”
I hope they fire the speech writer... On the other hand, how could anyone be so stupid to feel it is okay to copy the speech of M. Obama?
I’m back to my original question, This has to be a joke, right?
Smith: "She lied to me and then accused me of lying. [boos from the crowd]"
No matter what a person may think of Ann Coulter, her response to that question was so quick and so sharp as to be absolutely breathtaking!
Michelle Obama, in using those words, was "culturally appropriating" Western Civilization.
“He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down.”
"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
I know someone who does, at Occidental. Just for the record.
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