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Paul Manafort Weakly Denies Any Charges of Melania Trump Plagiarism: ‘There’s No Cribbing’
CNN via Youtube ^ | July 19, 2016

Posted on 07/19/2016 5:41:22 AM PDT by Pinkbell

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To: entropy12

The campaign said she wrote it with a team of writers, so I think she sat down with them and told them her thoughts, maybe wrote some lines herself, and this was added in. Manafort makes it clear here that Melania herself didn’t write this part.


301 posted on 07/19/2016 9:06:48 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Helicondelta
You always seem very “concerned”.


302 posted on 07/19/2016 9:09:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special re words "radical Islam"!, Nation of IsIam is just "Islam." NOI/ISIS equals murder!)
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To: Jimmy McGill

Giving in to the left is how we got Obama. When our enimies are never called out on thier cribbing then punishing ourselves for it just stupid.


303 posted on 07/19/2016 9:09:52 AM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Just because I have to defend myself, doesn’t mean I’ve done anything wrong. It’s not to everybody. There are probably thousands of members of FR. There is one group of posters that attack me, certainly not the majority of this forum. Who do you think I support for President?


304 posted on 07/19/2016 9:10:05 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Chaguito

And who was recently hired as Trump’s communications adviser? A former Cruz aide.


305 posted on 07/19/2016 9:10:10 AM PDT by pollyg107
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To: over3Owithabrain
your loser boy Cruz and his minions.

Oh, look, it's another FReeper doing his part to put Hillary in the White House.

306 posted on 07/19/2016 9:10:24 AM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson, 1824)
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To: Pinkbell
.. there were parts of about 8 lines that were copied word for word.

(emphasis added)

You have ABSOLUTELY NO WAY of knowing that, and your phrasing it thus strikes me as a bit of a slip-up, revelatory of some kind of agenda.

307 posted on 07/19/2016 9:14:02 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: MinuteGal

Thanks so much. You have made me feel better. It’s hard to believe you were attacked as you are one of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. I really appreciate your kind words.


308 posted on 07/19/2016 9:16:14 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: tomkat

Tempest in a teapot. Only the leftist media cares about this. The American people have far more important concerns.


309 posted on 07/19/2016 9:16:23 AM PDT by Bridesheadfan
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To: Pinkbell

“Who do you think I support for President?”

Not Donald Trump.


310 posted on 07/19/2016 9:16:40 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: entropy12
"Mostly all true what you said..."

ALL of what I said is true, LOL.

The point you make in your post is correct also...speech writers will amplify on biographical material and other notes provided by the speaker-to-be.

To add to your observation, the speaker is always free to add or subtract to the speech-writer's end product as he/she sees fit.

However, she appears to have been reading a text provided for her based on her notes or whatever...it's basically irrelevant.

The syntax in the speech is not her style of speaking, so it leads me to my conclusion that she's completely innocent of any plagiarism charges....and that a campaign staff speech writer is the varlet here, either by deliberate sabotage or willful, sneaky laziness.

The sentences were definity cribbed, unless one has one's head in the sand like an ostrich!

I feel really bad for Melania.

Leni

311 posted on 07/19/2016 9:19:30 AM PDT by MinuteGal ( GO, TRUMP, GO !!!....)
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To: Bridesheadfan
Absolutely agree, but the traction it's getting in here today is rather disconcerting     :-(
312 posted on 07/19/2016 9:21:11 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: tomkat

Some of the phrases are identical or nearly identical and in the exact order of the speech. That’s all I’m saying.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12221566/melania-trump-michelle-obama

For the record, Reince Priebus has said the speech writer should be fired. Why would Reince say that if he didn’t think it was copied? Reince is not up to any tricks. Trump has praised Reince.

http://nypost.com/2016/07/19/priebus-id-probably-fire-melania-trumps-speechwriter/


313 posted on 07/19/2016 9:21:11 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Who then?


314 posted on 07/19/2016 9:21:50 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: MinuteGal

See 113. Reince said he would probably fire the speech writer.


315 posted on 07/19/2016 9:23:05 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Tempest in a teapot

Well, as to the matter at hand, absolutely. A big nothingburger.

But, they're looking for our guy's Achilles heel, something that can knock him off message, get him angry, and make him do something stupid.

Viewed in that light, we don't know yet how big of a deal this will become.

316 posted on 07/19/2016 9:24:37 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
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To: pollyg107

Whoops!


317 posted on 07/19/2016 9:28:42 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Cowboy Bob

Sorry Liberals, Melania Trump Did Not Plagiarize Michelle Obama’s Speech
IOTW Report ^ | July 19, 2016 | Staff
Posted on 7/19/2016, 8:57:18 AM by bobsunshine

DCGazette […] Did Melania use a few sentences that were similar to Michelle Obama’s speech? Sure, but that is common. ALL First Lady speeches resonate the same universal concepts.

The fact is, you can go back and look at Laura Bush’s speech, Nancy Reagan, and even Hillary when she was first lady and find the same type of comments.

In a speech Hillary Clinton gave in 2014 for the New American foundation. Hillary spoke of the same values saying,

” my mother and father gave us a middle-class life with opportunities she never could have imagined for herself but which she always believed could be possible for her children. And that was a great gift that I will be forever grateful for, and then Bill and I of course worked hard to pass on those values to our daughter.”

(In other words, passing on values to the next generation, like Michelle Obama said in 2008.)

Laura Bush said in her 2004 RNC speech,

“If you’re determined and you want to work hard, you can do anything you want to. That’s the beautiful thing about America.”

(The same concept of Michelle Obama’s speech in 2008.)

Even Ann Romney’s speech hit the same notes in 2012

“Mitt will be the first to tell you that he is the most fortunate man in the world. He had two loving parents who gave him strong values and taught him the value of work.”

Hillary is actually the biggest offender when it comes to plagiarism, she plagiarized Bernie Sanders so often that the hashtag #StealTheBern was born. more here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3450820/posts


318 posted on 07/19/2016 9:34:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special re words "radical Islam"!, Nation of IsIam is just "Islam." NOI/ISIS equals murder!)
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To: newgeezer

Lol. Another Cruz loser begging to be noticed and basing their 2016 vote on their butthurt feelings.


319 posted on 07/19/2016 9:36:30 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Pinkbell

Who knows? I see at 4:30AM you were on another thread about this subject and then felt compelled to post it yourself at 8:41 AM. So concerned. :-)


320 posted on 07/19/2016 9:42:14 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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