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liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:08 PM Jul 2016

ROFLMAO! RNC Defends Melania Trump : Speech also stole from 'My Little Pony' and Kid Rock

Source : NY Daily News


Melania Trump’s speech wasn’t stolen from Michelle Obama, just lifted from “My Little Pony.”

Republican National Committee chief strategist Sean Spicer attempted Tuesday to shrug off accusations of plagiarism leveled against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s wife by trying to prove that phrases from her speech are so pedestrian they’re used in the popular throwback cartoon as well as by singers John Legend and Kid Rock.

“We had a 2,000-word statement, we’re talking about 70 words, three passages. And this idea of plagiarism, if we want to talk about let’s talk about,” Spicer said on CNN.

“Melania Trump said: ‘The strength of your dreams and willingness to work for them.’ Twilight Sparkle from “My Little Pony” said: ‘This is your dream. Anything you can do in your dreams you can do now.’ ”



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ROFLMAO! RNC Defends Melania Trump : Speech also stole from 'My Little Pony' and Kid Rock (Original Post) liberalnarb Jul 2016 OP
They're pathetic and their truthiness problem is not going away C_U_L8R Jul 2016 #1
Speakers at that convention also stole from Barack Obama and John Kerry. liberalnarb Jul 2016 #2
Poorly edited NYDailyNews article. Quote not John Legend's? vegetarian x Jul 2016 #3

C_U_L8R

(45,020 posts)
1. They're pathetic and their truthiness problem is not going away
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:10 PM
Jul 2016

It is clearly, without a doubt, plagiarism
and all their squirming and deceptions just
makes it worse. They are getting all the
ridicule and condemnation they deserve.

 

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
2. Speakers at that convention also stole from Barack Obama and John Kerry.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:19 PM
Jul 2016

"There is not a White America or a Black America there is the United States of America." Some jackass stole that line last night.

vegetarian x

(150 posts)
3. Poorly edited NYDailyNews article. Quote not John Legend's?
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:33 PM
Jul 2016

When I open the link to the NYDailyNews article:

Somehow I doubt the quote in the last paragraph is from John Legend. Attribution reverts back to Spicer?

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