Posted on 07/20/2016 7:12:25 AM PDT by shortstop
I'd fire him.
If somebody derailed my convention and embarrassed my wife, I'd fire him.
Not the speechwriter.
The campaign manager.
This situation in which Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention included two plagiarized sections is so needless and destructive, it is such a self-inflicted wound, that you almost wonder if it was sabotage.
It is easier to imagine someone wanting to torpedo the Trump campaign than it is to think that anyone getting paid to write would be so stupid and unethical as to steal someone else's words.
Also, to be honest, it's astounding to think that a team of people hired to write a speech about a woman's admiration of her husband would need to read much less steal another person's thoughts on the subject.
For that point, why does it take a team of people to express one person's thoughts?
And how is it that something that would get a 10th-grader flunked in English class ends up being in the repertoire of a presidential campaign?
I'm flabbergasted.
And I'm not some Democrat shill. I'm a Republican. I've been on the Trump train since Iowa. I'm going to vote for Donald Trump in November and I'm going to encourage others to do the same. I've even offered my services as a speech writer to someone speaking at the convention.
And this dumbfounds even me.
It's as if the Clinton campaign hacked the computers and inserted a couple of paragraphs as a poison pill.
But that's not what happened.
The possible future first lady of the United States seems to have misrepresented the primary authorship of her speech in an interview with Matt Lauer, and after plagiarism popped up in her speech, the campaign denied its existence and said that the criticisms were nothing more than partisan sniping.
Un-frigging-believable.
The impact is to brand Melania Trump as a joke in the public mind. Look for a trending hashtag. That stain won't wash away anytime soon. The matter also took an entire day of the convention -- 25 percent of the whole -- and made it about this self-inflected wound. When folks woke up Tuesday morning, they didn't hear about Rudy Giuliani's tremendously provocative speech, or Marcus Latrell's touching words, or even the tears of a woman who blames her son's death in Benghazi on Hillary Clinton. The news wasn't about securing our shores or patrolling our streets, it wasn't about taking care of veterans or fighting terrorists, it was about plagiarism.
It was an embarrassment and a distraction.
The party-approved campaign manager, the almost creepy guy with the lounge-lizard affect, had screwed the pooch. This is the big game, this is the moment of opportunity, and somebody put on a suicide vest. It is just incredible.
It continues the narrative of Trump being a tone-deaf screwup. It prompts new questions about Trump's ability to manage and lead. If you can't have stability in your campaign, if you can't have consistent and appropriate performance in your operation, how the hell are you going to run the country? You say you're great at running golf courses and wineries, but what about the relatively simpler process of keeping a campaign on track?
Manafort should go.
The professional-politician hack who Trump brought on to satisfy the party bosses who hate him. He should go. It was his watch, it was his job, and he screwed the pooch.
So he should go.
Before the next bomb on this snake-bit campaign is dropped.
This led to the fake attack on Don JR which was slapped back in their faces when the "perjured" author came out and said he put that statement in while working on the speech with him.
Those who jumped and doubled down have egg on their faces and have only an inane false meme to show for it - make them look petty and stupid...
And you are helping.
Somebody dropped the ball. If chopping the head off Manafort is a little too much of a public problem, then whoever gave the final ok to load the thing on the teleprompter should get the boot. There MUST be at least one or two heads that roll.
It doesn’t bother me. Who cares?
How the HELL do the left find these speeches SO DAMN FAST especially by an obscure writer???
Absolutely not. The MSM are circling like sharks. The slightest hint of blood in the water will send them into a feeding frenzy of Great White proportions. The absolute ONLY way to deal with their leftist hysterics is to change the subject and move on.
The simple explanation is Melania admire Moochelle’s remarks and inserted them herself in her speech, hoping she wouldn’t get caught.
It didn’t reflect well on her character and judgment.
If you can’t say it in your own words, its best to say nothing all. No one respects a plagiarist.
And conservatives don’t defend intellectual theft, period.
Yes, it was a self-inflicted disaster and this is no way to run a campaign much less than a country.
If the Trump campaign had been forthright and yes, this was an inexcusable mistake, people would have moved on.
Defending it made it a lot worse like they had something to cover up and did.
Speech would have been a lot more powerful if it had been Melania’s words.
In an era when war was a possibility it was considered politics by other means. So much more now the converse is true. Politics is war by other means. No Quarter, no mercy.
When you got nothing positive to say about your side, you get good at digging up potential "scandals" in the other side.
You plagiarized that!
If saying "my word is my bond" is plagiarism then 50% of action stories and 100% of Westerns are plagiarized.
Classy all around and should put this whole thing to bed.
Tempest in a teapot!
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Yep! This is nothing to get worked up over. Seriously! Compared to the crap Hillary has pulled off this does not even register on the radar.
Just a LEGAL one.
Dear Bob:
Your sentence fragment filled, disjointed screed would have earned you a *D* in the junior high school I attended. In the first 11 sentences, you start three of them with “and”. The good sisters would become quite cross over that indeed!
Three words could be a sentence, but never a paragraph. Paragraphs usually have two or more sentences carrying through an idea or train of thought. You know this already I am sure.
Most of the time you can be quite entertaining and even thought-provoking, but this time you fall considerably short of your usual standard.
Grammar police mode off.
“I’m flabbergasted”
I’m not.
“I’m flabbergasted”
I’m not.
What a drama queen. A week from today, nobody (except concern troll types) will even remember this nothingburger.
Success by hard work and "my word is my bond" is antithetical to their whole philosphy.
What hogwash. If anyone's a "liability" it's ridiculous snowflakes like you, throwing your aprons over your heads about a non-story.
Man up.
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