The laid-off journalist that was first to call Melania Trump's speech (TR)

Tampa Bay Times ^ | 07/20/16 | Sara DiNatale

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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.

[Gargantua]

Oh yeah, you can tell just looking at his gap-toothed smile and velcro hairdo, this guy is a cognitive giant! No wonder he figured this out sitting on his unemployed ass in a "coffee shop." More likely a crack house.

[highball]

So what? It’s no secret that I don’t think Trump is a terrible candidate. This is one of the reasons why; he lies about stupid stuff when he doesn’t have to.

Not sure what that has to do with anything, though; I didn’t make the Trump campaign plagiarize a speech, and I didn’t make them lie about it either.

[kiryandil]

It’s no secret that I don’t think Trump is a terrible candidate.

I'm glad you're supporting Trump fully because you don't think he's a terrible candidate. :)

I guess that means you think he's a GOOD candidate...

[highball]

Ugh. My kingdom for an edit button. ;)

Make no mistake, Trump is a bad candidate. Bad enough that the campaign is disorganized and panicky, but they lie about stupid stuff, stuff easily disproven.

If we want to stop Hillary (and no matter how bad I think Trump is, I want to stop Hillary), then Trump is going to have to stop the lies and start getting his act together.