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Media Accuse Trump Jr. of Plagiarism
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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.


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To: progunner

This is old news


21 posted on 07/21/2016 9:56:05 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: progunner

I really don’t like Erick Erickson. He glommed on, then had to post not one but two updates. Turd.


22 posted on 07/21/2016 9:56:21 AM PDT by mancini
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To: uptowngirl

Erickson is the anti-Trump conservative.


23 posted on 07/21/2016 9:58:44 AM PDT by mancini
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To: progunner

This is all they got. It’s amazing how corrupt, biased, and vindictively partisan so many in the media are.


24 posted on 07/21/2016 9:59:52 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: conservativeimage.com

Kinda reminds me of Chris(tine) Matthews.


25 posted on 07/21/2016 10:04:01 AM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: Diogenesis

Erick Erickson is a s!imey little nobody with an B list rush hour talk show in Atlanta.


26 posted on 07/21/2016 10:05:16 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: progunner
The media plagiarizes itself every day. Once the daily “Talking Point” is released, they are all saying the same thing in the same way regardless of channel, station or location. It's kind of weird, actually.
27 posted on 07/21/2016 10:07:55 AM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: showme_the_Glory

that would actually be pretty funny


28 posted on 07/21/2016 10:13:21 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You know that the English unabridged dictionary is at least 5 inches think with words and meanings. Out of all of those words only a few are used over and over. But, they are used continually to convey thoughts, ideas and to describe situations.

They are in every book, every story, every news article and are in the public domain over and over.

So a phrase is similar to another by someone else, does that someone else have exclusive right to that phrase without copywrite?

If that is so, then we are all guilty of plagiarism. Because we use those phrases and words in every day conversation continuously. Maybe it would be better is no one spoke another word or put another word on a piece of paper. (src)

29 posted on 07/21/2016 10:19:43 AM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: progunner

I got up this morning wondering just who would be accused of plagiarism today.
It appears to be all the libs have left. Over on a couple of political forums, the libs are refusing to let it go.


30 posted on 07/21/2016 10:45:37 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: progunner

You got it!!!
The MSM idiots have one again adopted a single word as they theme for the covering of a Republican convention
Years ago they we smart enough to say the SAME old thing with different words. Today, they show their “for sale” bias by all using that “single word” thing.


31 posted on 07/21/2016 10:49:07 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (New York Times: "We print the news as it fits our views.")
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To: ConservativeDude
can we just get the “plagiarism” allegations against Pence going, just to be consistent?

His first words were "Thank you". Surely he stole them from someone.

32 posted on 07/21/2016 11:20:10 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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