07-19-2016, 05:20 PM
(07-19-2016, 03:54 PM)Maggot Wrote: They all do it.
It's just that certain media outlets tend to pick and choose who's nose they want to pick.
The same media was all over Obama's use of rhetoric which was very similar to Patrick's, Maggot. I remember it.
I also remember Obama explaining that he and Patrick shared a lot of ideals and had collaborated, Patrick verifying Obama's explanation, and both sharing speech writer David Axelrod.
Obama addressed the valid plagiarism accusation at the time, which was levied by the Clinton campaign when she was running against him. When addressing and explaining it, Obama admitted that he failed to cite/credit his source and acknowledged that he should have done so.
Trump's campaign, on the other hand, is busy floating inconsistent and idiotic claims rather than acknowledging and explaining the 'oops' and moving on.
It's elementary school idiocy for the Trump campaign to blame Melania's plagiarism on Hillary Clinton and to proclaim that Hillary is out to get Melania because Hillary is threatened by her. It wasn't the Clinton campaign that noticed the jack and pointed it out via Twitter; we already know that for a fact. Pushing a false narrative blaming Hillary Clinton for Melania's and/or the Trump campaign's fuck-up is unsurprising fodder for fools and the "poorly educated" folks who Trump loves and depends upon so much.
Some of Trump's surrogates insisting that it wasn't plagiarism at all and was just a coincidence is also funny bullshit to anyone who can read and listen and knows how the English language works.
Anyway, in my opinion, Melania's unauthorized lifting from Michelle Obama's speech won't sway anyone who supports her husband. It's minor compared to the volumes of more serious lies that the candidate himself, Donald Trump, has told the American people, has told the people whom he contracted, has told the people to whom he peddled Trump University, etc...