Melania Trump Plagiarizes Michelle Obama's Speech

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Aeolus451 said:

Neodegenerate said:

No one is saying she did.  The fact that there are portions though that are VERBATIM what Michelle said is what the issue at hand is.  There are probably 3,000 ways to say "respect each other and value the opinions of those around you" and instead of picking any of the 2,999 other options she picked the one that was already done.

As to your point about the majority of the news being liberal I would disagree.  For every major news network that is pro-Clinton there is another that is pro-Republican (though not necessarily Trump).  Your local news might sway one way or another depending on where you are, but largely if you want to get an unbiased look at something you can if you try hard enough.

My point is that someone can't plagiarize something that is commonly used in speeches or in conversations. 

In the US, the vast majority of the media is liberal and most of them don't hide it. If you don't believe me, I'm fine with that. 

There is a fairly big difference between "copying" a greeting such as "hi, how are you doing?" and copying 66+ words of a speech verbatim, if you were to put that speech into plagiarizing test software it would show up instantly as a copy and not original work.

As others have said, if this was a copy of something which is used in day to day speech or as a template somewhere which Michelle used... then point to that rather than suggesting that you can't be plagiarizing if you just copy 66 words directly from something else, that would be enough leeway to be able to copy the majority of Pop music without issue.