Discussion: Melania Trump's RNC Speech Mirrors Michelle Obama's Nearly Verbatim

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Maybe Melania is trying to say that all lives matter, not just black lives.

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OMG. Two Republican strategists just called this outright plagiarism. They made three points: 1. Melania’s speech was a highlight of tonight’s convention and this discovery has destroyed all of that. 2. Melania would not have necessarily known where the words came from, so it is likely the speechwriters’ fault 3. Could this have been deliberate sabotage of the campaign?

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No surprise. We have learned over the last year that low information voters love incompetent leaders surrounded by incompetent people. Trump, once again, has lived up to his own caricature.

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it showed

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Joe Biden sure does.

“No one is ever told what COULD HAVE BEEN.” --Aslan

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You can’t blame the girl, she graduated Trump University, Dumba Cum Laude. This is what happens when you outsource your speech writing to China–they have no respect for copy rights!

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I read earlier that her speech writer and speaking coach worked with her for 5 weeks to prepare for this.

Despite the fact Trump has been told not to use Queen’s music, he did it again tonight. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/9/1536802/-Queen-tells-Trump-he-s-not-a-Champion-so-stop-using-our-music

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This story has made me watch MSNBC to see the reactions of the pundits.
This is the sweetest beginning of the week.
BRAVO Trumps, BRAVO!

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Sounds like yr enjoying it as much as Matt Pearce is

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Actually, there is almost nothing plagarized. Now, if you called it “pablum”, you might have something. But plagarization? No, that is not the case. If you want to make it SEEM plagarized, you can distort it. But, no, this is not plagarization.

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plagiarism definition fail.

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Ha! They can’t even get over the low, low bar of a spouse’s speech without tripping over their own fucking tits! It will overshadow everything, and be the ONLY story that comes out of THE ENTIRE NIGHT! I love it!

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Sorry, two (Republican) officials have already called it clear plagiarism. That is not even under discussion - the question is how the Trump campaign will respond.

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Along with the announcement that Trump is filing a $50 million lawsuit against ‘Art of the Deal’ co-author Tony Schwartz. (Or has he already done that?)

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Looks like those days are back. Quite a firestorm underway already. The story of the night.

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HOW DARE THEY!!!???

Grins, giddy. This should trump Benghazi over the next news cycle or so…

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If you’re a candidate’s spouse, you have one job. Don’t become the story.

YOU HAD ONE JOB!

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Are you joking? Of course it’s plagiarism! Many sentences are nearly word-for-word copies. No question.

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Well no wonder she needed very little help since the speech had already been written for her

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If nickdanger, purveyor of proof by assertion, says it ain’t so, then it ain’t so. End of story, over and out.
I mean, in what possible way does passing off someone else’s speech as your own qualify as plagiarism? And don’t give me some definition that proves me wrong like the one below, because see my first sentence and get outa my face!

pla¡gia¡rism
[ˈplājəˌrizəm]
NOUN

the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
synonyms: copying ¡ infringement of copyright ¡ piracy ¡ theft ¡ [more]
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