Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The laid-off journalist that was first to call Melania Trump's speech (TR)
Tampa Bay Times ^ | 07/20/16 | Sara DiNatale

Posted on 07/20/2016 8:42:43 AM PDT by shortstop

Jarrett Hill was sitting in a Los Angeles Starbucks scrolling through Twitter and answering Facebook messages while listening to Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday night.

Something made him stop. It was the phrase "strength of your dreams."

"It kind of made me pause for a minute," Hill told The New York Times. "I remembered that line from Michelle Obama's speech."

Not bad for a guy chilling at a coffee shop.

Except, Hill is actually a trained journalist who not long ago was laid off from a broadcast job. According to his LinkedIn profile, his last on-air job was with Tampa station WFTS, on The Now Tampa Bay for nine months between 2014-15.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; convention; jarretthill; melaniaspeech; melaniaspeechwriter; meredithmciver; plagiarism; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-84 next last
To: SoCal Pubbie

23 words strung together in the exact order. It came from Michelle’s speech. So everyone stop pretending it didn’t happen. How it happened - is another matter.

According to the speechwriter , she wrote down those 23 words in her notes from Melania’s reading the speech in her broken English.

she didn’t come up with those 23 words on her own strung together the same way as Michelle’s speech.


41 posted on 07/20/2016 10:05:05 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: trebb

It isn’t enough to say you have heard the cliches.

I have used all of them.

You cannot find those 23 words strung together anywhere in that same order. At least I haven’t and no one else has shown me a link that does.

Instead, people keep trying to find me bits and pieces to advance it couldn’t have happened.

It was OBVIOUS it happened. And now the speechwriter has admitted it.


42 posted on 07/20/2016 10:07:35 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: shortstop

My God the media and libs are desperate. This is all they have? The lines in question were the type of banality found in nearly every single commencement and valedictorian speech in history. “Strength of your dreams.” “Your word is your bond.” Who hasn’t heard those a million times.


43 posted on 07/20/2016 10:17:38 AM PDT by Organic Panic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shortstop
Well, at least this will give Mr. Hill enough notoriety that somebody probably will hire him. Look at what he has inadvertently done (much to his credit, actually).

He took a minor "who cares" non-story and the Dems and their media lapdogs, who haven't had anything else to whine about for the past two days, keep beating this extremely silly non-issue like a rented mule. Talk about a story going viral.

And this is significant. Because going into day 3 of the convention, THIS IS ALL THEY'VE GOT.

A cheap shot at the candidates wife. A beautiful, articulate woman who will make a much better First Lady than Bill Clinton, and WAY more presentable than Michelle the Mau Mau.

So far the Black Supremacist Party (the newly coined name of the recently united "BLM/Black Panther" howler monkeys) has been pretty tame, probably because someone tipped them off to the fact that that you can't "open carry" in Ohio unless you have a valid Concealed Handgun License, and none of them could pass the FBI background check. Not to mention all the white, black and Hispanic middle class people legally practicing open carry, probably for the first time in their lives.

So. Trump seems to have pulled off a miracle. No violence, a great show, and the delegates seem to be having a great time in Cleveland.

But next week, we have the democrat convention to look forward to, and that will be a totally different story. Take a lesson from 1968 - when the hard core left wing rabble are dissatisfied (and when are they not, right?) that the democrat party is still going to be called Democrats (a misnomer if there ever was one) instead of Democratic Socialist with neo-communist sprinkles on top, they can get very anarchistic and burn down cities. It's like the Sunnis vs the Shiites. Watch out, all you liberal democrats in Pittsburgh. The chickens are coming home to roost.

44 posted on 07/20/2016 10:29:12 AM PDT by Kenton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shortstop

“strength of your dreams”

I wonder how many hits on Google that would get. I can’t see on mobile but it seems to have been used in My Little Pony before Michelle used it.


45 posted on 07/20/2016 10:31:22 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shortstop

46 posted on 07/20/2016 10:39:48 AM PDT by mbarker12474
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shortstop

LOL!! He’s most likely working for Soros or Hillary.


47 posted on 07/20/2016 10:42:50 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chauncey Gardiner

LOL....Melania could have been reading the NYC PHONE BOOK!!


48 posted on 07/20/2016 10:43:57 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: RummyChick

Are you a NEVER TRUMP??? Just asking.


49 posted on 07/20/2016 10:45:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: RummyChick

Where did the speech writer admit it?


50 posted on 07/20/2016 10:47:59 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: dynoman

Did you miss the part where she said Melania read her the speech. She wrote notes. Then 23 exact words in the exact order were taken from the speech.


51 posted on 07/20/2016 10:54:09 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: RummyChick

LOL! The media got trolled!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/755787159735570432


52 posted on 07/20/2016 10:55:39 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy

Why? Because I will call a spade a spade?

It was obvious that the speech was lifted from Michelle. If you paid attention to the threads, I posted yesterday that Cruz rickrolled Trump on April 1. That put me on alert that something nefarious might have happened because Melania used the Rickroll words.

I don’t give ANYONE a pass. It was clear the speech was lifted. I was astounded at so many here who tried to pretend it wasn’t.


53 posted on 07/20/2016 10:56:21 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: RummyChick

I didn’t read that got a link?


54 posted on 07/20/2016 10:56:28 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: dynoman

I like the trolling down behind CNN with delegates and their signs. Like Clinton News Network


55 posted on 07/20/2016 10:57:28 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: fella; RummyChick

Fella,

Thanks for that info; pinging rummychick:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3451139/posts?page=26#26


56 posted on 07/20/2016 10:59:59 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: RummyChick

Check this out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3450921/posts?page=9#9


57 posted on 07/20/2016 11:01:21 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: shortstop

I wonder what’s harder explaining that outfit to his parents or telling them he is gay.


58 posted on 07/20/2016 11:02:50 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: WildHighlander57

23 word structure doesn’t appear hundreds of times by hundreds of people. I checked it.

That was a HUGE clue that the speech was lifted. And as such, I was vindicated in my assessment as we now know someone has taken the fall for lifting Michelle’s speech. Although, she claims she never looked at it..just that Melania read it to her.


59 posted on 07/20/2016 11:02:59 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: dynoman

There were people here that recognized that the speech was lifted but thought that Trump did it intentionally. It is still possible that he did and this woman took the fall.

Who knows. But we do know Michelle’s speech was lifted.


60 posted on 07/20/2016 11:05:01 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-84 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson