Sounded very similar. Who is responsible for this crap?
A college kid can’t turn a paper in and get away with copying anything.
They feed it through a website to match it against other things that are written to detect if something was copied.
That’s been around for quite awhile now.
Hard to believe that a speech of this profile could have had this happen.
Move on and don’t do it again.
Anything to avoid reviewing Mrs. Smith’s testimony.
I don’t think the use of a paragraph from another speech is a big deal in and of itself, BUT:
They took MICHELLE OBAMA’S? Seriously? Of all people to crib from? Why were they using her speech as a template at ALL?
And it was STUPID. This ISN’T a college paper. The stupidity bothers me more than the cribbing.
Michelle: “And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them.”
So, the "key phrases" the author of this drivel is in a tizzy about are common American idioms for being an upstanding individual. Lisa Hagen is a twit, and relies on Barack's former speechwriter as her "authoritative" source that this is a big issue.
Melania stated, apparently, that she wrote the speech with little outside help. Which means that these stock phrases, rather than being scribed by a professional writer, were selected by the speaker herself.
Any bets on whether Michelle wrote her own speech?
1) Melania didn’t write the speech. 2) both were about the same things—so naturally the wording is close. 3) the DNC/Hillary people were quick to condemn the talk—like they knew in advance. 4) might have been done on purpose—A few bucks (or thousands of them) to the speech writer and we have an instant controversy.