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SpokenTruth said:
Aeolus451 said:

I wouldn't care because people copy the spoken word of other people all the time. It's harmless. People will often repeat phrases and words they like. If anything it's a compliment to whoever said it first or was quoted. Whenever someone quotes another person verbally, I've never seen them give credit to who they quoted. It's when the quote is written down on twitter or facebook or in a forum that you might see someone give credit to where they got it. 

If trump's wife or obama's wife quoted a racist or something along those lines then I could understand a shit storm over it. 

I hope you'll understsand that I remain dubious that you'd care not.

And the repeition of phrases is one thing.  The wholesale reproduction of entire passages is another.  And yes, people do say "quote" before quoting them in speech.

Seeing as in an earlier exchange with me this same poster attempted to shift focus away from the plagiarized speech and onto the "canidate who lies constantly" I would agree with your dubiousness.  Clear to see where the agenda with this one is.



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Aeolus451 said:
Neodegenerate said:

Sure if you want to get into the semantics of the word plagiarism and its practical application here.  However, doesn't change the fact that it is rather pathetic that someone making a speech about someone trying to run for the most important position in his country, and arguably the world, is ripping off words from someone who was doing the exact same thing eight years ago.

Are you serious? The wife of a canidate that copies other's words because she likes 'em versus a canidate who lies constantly. Which one is worse? Which one is the greater issue when selecting a canidate for the US presidency? 

Or which is worst a canidate who is known for decieving people to line his pockets time and again

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html?_r=1

Please, do not try to act as if Trump is does not have enough if not more dirt to his credit.  If anything the article I posted shows that what his wife did is very much not uncommon from what Trump himself has done with his own businesses.  So what is worst ,someone who lies about some emails or someone who has deceived people out of there money time and again, who has lied countless times to take money out of hard working people pockets to line his own.  Who own books show a history of deception to gain any advantage to make a deal.  I am not even trying to advocate Clinton but it kills me people are trying to make Trump look like the lesser of the 2 as if he is some saint or does not have a history of lying as well.

While you can look at Clinton tax documents and see where her money comes from, you are still waiting on Trump to release his which he wil not because the people who support him do not care.  They are more willing to believe how he makes his money instead of knowing.



IkePoR said:
Ljink96 said:

The American Republican party is torn and desperate. They have a great business man, horrible overall man running for president. And a running mate that's my former governer, of Indiana, running together. Mind's well let Oil and Water run together. America is in for dark times ahead.

4 bankrupcies is not great business.

I was just giving him the benefit of the doubt...I know about the bankrupcies. I just didn't wanna get shot down by not saying at least one good thing about the guy.



Aeolus451 said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
Looks like two women giving extremely generic speeches with slightly different words.

Exactly. It's hilarous how some are acting over this. 

First and foremost people are acting about this because it’s very apparent that Melania Plagiarize some lines from Michelle speech.  But not only that she sat there on TV and lied that she wrote her speech.  After that every, Trump paid PR person including many other Republicans came out and tried to spin it every which way you can instead of just saying the truth.  The point is that through all of this they made themselves look incredibly bad by not owning up to the mistake and moving own.  Probably would have gain some respect by just telling the truth instead of trying to spin such an obvious lift and lie their way out of it. 

When you are hammering the other candidate about being honest, but you have a perfect opportunity to show your honesty and totally blow it, it makes you look very bad in my book.  I believe this was a perfect opportunity for the Trump campaign to show when under a situation where honesty was the correct choice they totally failed.



CosmicSex said:
Bandorr said:

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12239342/donald-trump-melania-plagiarism

"Trump speechwriter Meredith Melver says the copied passages were due to a miscommunication. In her telling, Melania read some phrases to Melver over the phone and Melver didn’t realize they were verbatim quotes from Obama’s 2008 speech."

So basically Melania knew the speech was plagirizing Michelle Obama. She read it to her speech writer. Her speech writer wrote it down. She then read it out.

it is hilarious that they admit they copied passages and even here on this very forum people are defending it!  Trump was right!

 

Woah! I didn't know he actually said that. And they're still voting for him... Maybe it's to prove a point. Sorta like "Exit Through The Gift Shop". It's a movie, please watch it if you want the moral of the story.



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CosmicSex said:

Okay now you are being a bully and trying to reverse it on me.  I don't appreciate that and it isn't that kind of party.  I think it is fair to show a quote from the canidate himself... to quote, directly from his own campaign and to disagree with you without you calling everything an insult.  I can also say that anyone who would support someone who says the types of things he says about people (like calling them dumb) is questionable.  Stand up with a real argument or back off. I am reporting you for bullying btw. You don't get to block all convo you don't like by saying it offends you.  

The picture is fine, it's the implication that isn't. Agreeing with someone that calls someone an idiot is the same as calling someone an idiot as far as I am concerned. Intent is the key here.

Either way, this is essentially backseat moderating, so it can stop right here. Feel free to continue this via PM if needed.



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Super_Boom said:
CosmicSex said:

Okay now you are being a bully and trying to reverse it on me.  I don't appreciate that and it isn't that kind of party.  I think it is fair to show a quote from the canidate himself... to quote, directly from his own campaign and to disagree with you without you calling everything an insult.  I can also say that anyone who would support someone who says the types of things he says about people (like calling them dumb) is questionable.  Stand up with a real argument or back off. I am reporting you for bullying btw. You don't get to block all convo you don't like by saying it offends you.  

The picture is fine, it's the implication that isn't. Agreeing with someone that calls someone an idiot is the same as calling someone an idiot as far as I am concerned. Intent is the key here.

Either way, this is essentially backseat moderating, so it can stop right here. Feel free to continue this via PM if needed.

Fair enough.  Thank you.



SpokenTruth said:
Aeolus451 said:

I wouldn't care because people copy the spoken word of other people all the time. It's harmless. People will often repeat phrases and words they like. If anything it's a compliment to whoever said it first or was quoted. Whenever someone quotes another person verbally, I've never seen them give credit to who they quoted. It's when the quote is written down on twitter or facebook or in a forum that you might see someone give credit to where they got it. 

If trump's wife or obama's wife quoted a racist or something along those lines then I could understand a shit storm over it. 

I hope you'll understsand that I remain dubious that you'd care not.

And the repeition of phrases is one thing.  The wholesale reproduction of entire passages is another.  And yes, people do say "quote" before quoting them in speech.

 

That's fine by me. From my experience, it's extremely rare for someone to say quote before or after they repeat a quote verbally from something. I know alot of people who quote movies all the time and you have to pry at them to tell ya where they got it from. It's a very annoying inside joke so to speak especially if you don't know where it's from but they somehow expect you to get it. I understand that my experience is limited and that it likely doesn't show the truth of it but it's what I got at the moment.  

 

Machiavellian said:
Aeolus451 said:

Are you serious? The wife of a canidate that copies other's words because she likes 'em versus a canidate who lies constantly. Which one is worse? Which one is the greater issue when selecting a canidate for the US presidency? 

Or which is worst a canidate who is known for decieving people to line his pockets time and again

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html?_r=1

Please, do not try to act as if Trump is does not have enough if not more dirt to his credit.  If anything the article I posted shows that what his wife did is very much not uncommon from what Trump himself has done with his own businesses.  So what is worst ,someone who lies about some emails or someone who has deceived people out of there money time and again, who has lied countless times to take money out of hard working people pockets to line his own.  Who own books show a history of deception to gain any advantage to make a deal.  I am not even trying to advocate Clinton but it kills me people are trying to make Trump look like the lesser of the 2 as if he is some saint or does not have a history of lying as well.

While you can look at Clinton tax documents and see where her money comes from, you are still waiting on Trump to release his which he wil not because the people who support him do not care.  They are more willing to believe how he makes his money instead of knowing.

I'm sure that no one thinks trump is a saint or says that he is but many people do think he's the lesser of two evils or that he actually what the US needs. I'm willing to debate with ya via pm if ya like but the amount of replies I'm getting from this thread keeps bringing back here when I want to move on. Explaining my points over and over to several users just feels like I'm repeating myself. 



Dulfite said:
I know we always try to make vice President and First ladies, and what they do and say, seem important, but they are almost entirely unimportant and won't have an impact on any of our lives. She could say that we should replace the eagle with a toilet as our national bird and it wouldn't matter.

Have you ever learned about Eleanor Roosevelt? She may be a rare example but I'd argue she did more for the country and world than all but a few US presidents.



Aeolus451 said:

I admit that it's likely that she copied her speech but it's just a speech. The wording is extremely generic. She more or less quoted her.

what is quoting without making it apparent you are quoting called? plagiarizing

Aeolus451 said:

Could you not insult others? 

oh here is the PC police, "Trump is telling it like it is" - quote from too many republican vote to list them all