Slow news day?
He’s used the same line before:
Classy. @washingtonpost makes fun of my girls. Stick w/ attacking me—Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.
https://t.co/N61ys6z8w1
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 22, 2015
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/264076-cruz-pans-cartoon-that-calls-daughters-political-props
Tone deaf.
That is ridiculous. Wouldn’t even be pegged as plagiarism. It is simply a well-known and often used expression.
You people are really reaching to make that accusation.
And, by the way, Heidi is way out of Trump’s league.
Now this IS breaking news.....
Didnt Sen. Cruz also once utter those more famous words, "Play it again Sam?"
Call in the GMen, private citizen partially quotes line from movie, must surely have broken some kind of Federal Law.
If not, let Obama issue an Executive Order to that effect. This kind of despicable behavior cannot go unpunished - at least according to the Trumpets.
From Breitbart
Quote:
Last August, Glenn Beck attacked Melania Trump, the wife of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, by accusing the former fashion model of “posing nude in lesbian porno shots.”
The accusation came as part of a lengthy Facebook post Beck wrote last summer criticizing the Trump candidacy. The talk radio host prefaced his comments by stating, “This is not an attack, this is an honest question.”
He then proceeded to list his issues with the New York billionaire, which included a swipe at the candidate’s wife. Beck claimed that in a Trump presidency “the First Lady would be the first to have posed nude in lesbian porno shots.”
There is nothing I detest more than a self-righteous, sanctimonious prude. Glenn Beck has a filthy mind to go with his vile mouth and I look forward to the day someone knocks his teeth down his throat.
Nonsense. It’s not theft, it’s called alluding (which requires no attribution), or more likely either a coincidence or a subconscious use of a catchphrase when one doesn’t either remember - or for that matter care about - the source.
Do people give Reagan attribution when they say “There you go again”?
Remember Bentson’s barb to Quayle “I knew Jack Kennedy ... you’re no Jack Kennedy”. That whole narrative, word for word, was used by Reagan (who made also made it a joke about his age since the subject of the comparison, in his case, was Thomas Jefferson). But attribution isn’t needed when you can assume that anyone familiar with the past use of a similar narrative will understand you are making fair use of that for your own purposes.
Imagine how ridiculous it would sound if someone concluded their remarks saying “That’s all folks ... oh, and by the way, I’m quoting Porky Pig”.
This is not a college thesis we’re talking about here, so any rhetorical devices that were once used in the media deserve no attribution. Besides, it’s quite likely that the use of this phrase goes back even further.
It’s Teddy’s fave movie and he watches it every night.
That’s just odd that anyone would be expected to give attribution for a common saying.
The phrase “out of your (my) league” is as common as “spill the beans”, maybe more so in this day and age.