Four Score and Seven Years Ago

Just Libs making something of nothing. They do this when they have nothing substantive to address.



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Originally posted by: lvfritz
This is really one funny thread......you mean that there are real people out there who think that a Republican speech writer went looking for a speech to plagiarize, and he found Michelle Obama? Really?

If I was going to plagiarize, at least I would steal from someone worth the effort. The only thing Michelle has that I would like to steal is the scowl she uses on her husband.


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Originally posted by: IndyBoilerman
Just Libs making something of nothing. They do this when they have nothing substantive to address.
From Bush speech writer David Frum's article, Ten Reasons Why Melania Trump's Speech Will Have A Lasting Impact:

"5) Trump has just vividly demonstrated that his campaign—never mind the campaign, he himself—have zero skill at crisis management. Confronted with this comically absurd failure, their instinct is not only to lie, shift blame, and refuse responsibility, but to do so in laughably unbelievable ways. It’s all a big joke when the crisis in question is a plagiarized speech by a would-be first lady. It won’t be so funny when a President Trump tries to manage a truly life-and-death crisis in the same blundering, dopey, and cowardly way."
After all the gloating by the media about how bad the Republican convention was, the recent polls now have Trump in the lead
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: billryan
Who to believe? The person who wrote the speech and apologized for lifting segments or Team Trump?
She wrote the apology on Trump Organization letterhead and identified herself as a Trump Organization employee. Since she wrote the speech as a Trump corporate employee, she broke the law.

These people are amateurs.


You have no idea of what is actually defined as plagiarism. Bits and pieces of similar statements made by others within the total context of a speech or written work don't constitute plagiarism without looking at the total speech or written work. The threshold for punishment or expulsion at the university level requires less than 83% or 84% (I can't remember the exact percentage) of the work to be original. Those standards would also apply to legal matters pertaining to plagiarism. Mrs. Trump's speech contained less than 3% of similar statements made by the guy who is married to Øbama. No one broke the law.
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