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.
Hillary and Obama get a pass for all the damage and suffering they caused to this world. That why many of us do not even watch the liberal talkers anymore.
Melania was born in Yugoslavia and managed to get out of Dodge before the SHTF by practicing the ethnic referenced in both her speech and Michelle’s. Melania lived it, Michelle talked about it but then complained about life as an Ivy league student. Neither woman owns these concepts as they are pretty universal.
The comparison is right after the picture of Donald & Melania.
The structure is what is most questionable. The words do not match up 100%.
But to me it is no big deal. Doesn't change how I feel about voting for Donald J. Trump. He will become our 45th President.
Agree, The legacy of the GOPeTards. Fear of a gene pool collapsing media, Morning Joe, for God's sake, is the Deliverance banjo boy. There's a pile of little bones under Mika Joe's bridge. Don't do their work for them. Go see 13 hours and get angry instead.
The lamestreamers have already spent more time “investigating” this speech than they have any of the crimes committed FOR YEARS by Hitlery OR ObeyMe.
And to watch so-called conservatives wringing their hands over this, jumping thru the lefty hoops, dancing to the lamestream’s tune — pathetic.
I just feel like that phrase, the way she said it, is a common political promise of we won’t give up or let you down. I never even thought of the song. I don’t think that’s a big deal.
I caught a bit of the Sixty Minutes interview and I saw a bit of Matt Lauer interview Trump this morning. Both interviewers took on the tone of calling Trump “into account” for some things he had said. They came across as a fussy school-marm.
Can you imagine them taken that tone with the witch?
Reminds me of when someone interviewing Ann Coulter strangely asking her if she had ever seen two women making love. Her reply: “Only when Katie Couric is interviewing Hillary Clinton.”
These anti American liberals are always cheering foreign entities rather than people in our own country.
You first.
Here, they didn't go far enough. Let me help:
Evil Paul Manafort Weakly Denies Melania Trump Plagiarism Charge, But He's Such A Liar, What A Petty Little Creep, Vote For Hillary!
If true, pretty smart way to get everyone to hear her speech, LOL.
I believe it was purposeful.
Melania is the PERFECT First Lady and would be a sincere breath of fresh, wonderful smelling air after this last regime. Look deep. The enemy is everywhere and needs to be rooted out NOW.
...so I wake up this morning, and I see a woman being attacked by the foaming rabid bitches in the media. I thought the left was the champion of oppressed women, yet they are the ones doing the oppressing. Hypocrites. Nothing but fraudulent hypocrites.
What was all that Moochele prattle about changing our history, first time proud of this country, etc.? Didn’t hear any of that last night.
Are you still running Melania’s speech through the plagiarizer, Tinkerbell?
The biggest story since the email scandal!
I could see Trump doing something like this himself. But I can’t see him doing it on her first real test in the public eye.
No way.
Last night before the copying Obama’s speech came up I kept thinking that she was being made fun by someone inside the camp because of that rick roll. Of course, she could just like the lyric.
Does Trump know about Rickrolling? He is internet savvy but he might have never thought about it. You can bet he heard that speech hundreds of times while she practiced it with her coaches.
See post #46. In reality this is a tempest in a teapot, and does not rise to the level of concern you are experiencing.
A SABOTEUR did this to Melanie and needs to be rooted out!!
Much to my surprise; the Smith speech is front and center on my ISP’s newspage this morning.
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