Posted on 07/21/2016 9:33:52 AM PDT by progunner
Yet another member of the Trump family has been accused of plagiarism because of his speech at the Republican National Convention, this time Donald Trump Jr.
The accusations looked pretty damning, until someone noticed something — namely, that the person who wrote the article Trump was accusing of plagiarizing from was the same person who wrote Trump’s speech.
Erick Erickson of The Resurgent, an anti-Trump conservative and former editor of RedState, pointed out the “plagiarism” in an article.
“Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class,” Trump Jr. said. “Now they’re stalled on the ground floor. They’re like soviet-era department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers.”
Meanwhile, here was a passage by Frank Buckley that was published in The American Conservative back in May:
“What should be an elevator to the upper class is stalled on the ground floor. Part of the fault for this may be laid at the feet of the system’s entrenched interests: the teachers’ unions and the higher-education professoriate. Our schools and universities are like the old soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers. Why the sales clerks should want to keep things that way is perfectly understandable.”
That’s pretty damning. Trump Jr.’s speechwriters should be ashamed of themselves for plagiarizing Frank Buckley. What were their names again?
Oh yeah — Frank Buckley.
Then Speech’s REAL Author Steps Forward
I wonder if the MSM fully realizes how asinine they are making themselves to be. I'm wondering also if Rush will create another parody of the word plagiarizing as he did with the word gravitas.
Erickson is been boinking Mike Barnicle, making this
rather ironic.
haunted by ghost writers, huh
Yeah, well ... you are only allowed to use the same phrase once. Shame on Frank Buckley and the evil Trump Jr.
To be extra careful he should have invented a new language to speak in, to cover his bases.
can we just get the “plagiarism” allegations against Pence going, just to be consistent?
If they didn’t lie to the FBI, Congress and DOJ, then I don’t give a rats a##, right Killary?
The plagiarism that wasn’t: Donald Trump Jr’s speech sparks confusion
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/20/the-plagiarism-that-wasnt-donald-trump-jrs-speech-sparks-confusion.html
“Daily Show” tweet: Donald Trump Jr plagiarized Frank Buckley!
Frank Buckley:
Except it wasn’t stealing...
https://twitter.com/fbuckley/status/755604499977363456
Frank Buckley:
Such a silly kerfufle about the speech. Ironically, the lines I used I didn’t invent. I borrowed them from someone else. I forget whom.
https://twitter.com/fbuckley/status/755766488758267905
The Broncos won the Super Bowl! Oh crap, I just plagiarized every single news network.
“Erick Erickson of The Resurgent, an anti-Trump ‘conservative..
I’m confused. Why would Jr. have an anti-Trump person write a speech for him. Did I miss something?
Correct! Perhaps he should take a crash course in hieroglyphics
If we can get the media types to read Frank Buckley, that’s a good thing.
Didn’t the guy Trump Jr. supposedly “plagiarized” from post on Twitter that those accusations were retarded? Good on him for telling off the pond scum who comprise “journalists”.
Or Klingon?
They are all guilty as hell.
They all used the words, “the”, “and”, “are” and “is” knowing full well these words were taken verbatim from Michelle Obama’s speeches.
Yes.
Frank Buckley:
Except it wasn’t stealing...
https://twitter.com/fbuckley/status/755604499977363456
Frank Buckley:
Such a silly kerfufle about the speech. Ironically, the lines I used I didn’t invent. I borrowed them from someone else. I forget whom.
https://twitter.com/fbuckley/status/755766488758267905
Erick the Red can kiss my butt.
Yes he sure did
LOL.... Beam me up Scotty,,,, there’s no intelligent life down here....
Tomorrow they’ll be claiming that Trump used words from George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ronald Regan, ........ I would not be surprised if he didn’t sprinkle in a little plagiarism just for the sport of it for the lame media.
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.