Melania Trump speech appears to plagiarize Michelle Obama

The Hill ^ | /19/16 | Lisa Hagen

[Typical_Whitey]

Melania Trump’s highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night appears to have nearly copied a paragraph from Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

[seastay]

It was intentional , how many liberals are parsing the whole speech now , people whom would never invested the time to listen otherwise ... It's s brilliant scandal, the speech and her face will appear now on every left wing media outlet, otherwise her speech may just have gone unheard to those not following the convention . Trump is the master of art of free advertising via scandal. Consider trump supporters just will shake their heads, while those that did not know trump will either be unchanged or perhaps better yet, introduced to next First Lady, somebody they never would have given the time of day to listen anything she would have said, perhaps like the rest of the speech...

[Secret Agent Man]

Id say it is very similar.

That said, I’d say that it has probably been said similary about a hundred times before at numerous conventions.

[jonrick46]

"The fact that the similarities were discovered so quickly doesn’t pass the smell test. That could have only occurred if the media was tipped off."

I was thinking the same thing. Perfectly said.

[jobim]

Something catching, unique, not trite

[Secret Agent Man]

I agree, this was planted in the speech deliberately and people were tipped off about it.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Of course they were tipped off!

Trump tipped them off!

This is classic Trump! Cause a controversy to grab the news cycle, and just when the liberal media thinks... THIS TIME we got him! He will just tweet something witty like ... Those weren't the same speeches... Melania never said she was proud of America for the first time in her life. And Trump wins again.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Classic Rick Roll by Melania and Trump on liberals :)

[Chgogal]

Michelle: This is the first time in my life I am proud of my country.

I bet Melania will never ever say those words.

Screw Micelle Obama and screw MSM

[Fresh Wind]

I’ll be worried when Melania says something like “all this for a damn flag”. Until then BFD.

[jonrick46]

The drama about the similar words will be interesting. I think it is amazing how quickly the media found the similarities. It raises a red flag that makes me suspect someone planted the wording in the speech to later raise the copycat issue. That would be the conspiracy theory that, if true, would make this a real drama. On the other hand, if these words were used because they were so perfect in how they expressed what they wanted to say, I say it is done all the time. You see it all the time in how the media reports the news. The media uses the same wording other news outlets use all the time.

[ri4dc]

> My take is that they want the leftist media to compare the speeches

I agree with you, and think this was a classic Trump head fake.

The media won’t see that they are reminding the public what else Michelle said in that same speech. ‘First time proud of USA’ vrs. ‘Greatest privilege on earth to be a US citizen’. The contrast is stark.

This is nothing but a typical headline grabber for Trump, and it works every time. I think it was beautiful !

[Mr. K]

THAT’S what they are calling plagiarism???

holee keeripes the media is losing it.

that’s a good sign, because they will come out looking even worse

[Pinkbell]

VERY odd. Very. His feed was just disdain for Republicans. Melania speaks, and he remembers that snippet of a speech by Michelle Obama from 8 years ago? It wasn’t like he ran it through a tracker later to find plagiarism. He, based on his feed, seemed to know off the top of his head and then Googled to prove himself right. How did the media then pick up on it so quickly from this Twitter feed? He says he’s a journalist, but you go to his website and it’s about interior design.

[Chaguito]

Here’s my judgment: This was put in by a writer on purpose, along with words from the Rick Ashley song, “...never, ever let you down.” as a cruel joke.

Melania was rickrolled and the whole thing was coordinated by a mole in her staff of writers.

[Chaguito]

Rick Astley song: “I’ll never let you down”

Melania: “he’ll never, ever let you down”

Definition of rickrolling: hitting a link you think will be something good and being re-directed to a Rick Astley song.

This whole thing is an act of sabotage from within the writer staff.

Melania’s speech was absolutely wonderful, but someone made sure she would be damaged. It shouldn’t be too hard to find out who did this.

[katykelly]

OMG , rickrolled !

[Califreak]

I noticed that.

Made me suspicious.

[Sir_Ed]

Nah, parts were plagiarized.

No self-respecting teacher would accept that as a homework assignment, too many phrases are word-for-word identical.

The speechwriters were either 5th columns or unprofessional.

I don’t understand why Melania said she wrote it when she obviously didn’t.

It was a discouraging end to a beautifully delivered speech.

Ed

[cynwoody]

Stuff it, moron!