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.
This is old news
I really don’t like Erick Erickson. He glommed on, then had to post not one but two updates. Turd.
Erickson is the anti-Trump conservative.
This is all they got. It’s amazing how corrupt, biased, and vindictively partisan so many in the media are.
Kinda reminds me of Chris(tine) Matthews.
Erick Erickson is a s!imey little nobody with an B list rush hour talk show in Atlanta.
that would actually be pretty funny
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)
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.
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.
His first words were "Thank you". Surely he stole them from someone.
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