Melania’s speech mess: Why you shouldn’t rule out that it was an inside job

[heresAthingdotcom]

Melania's plagiarism scandal may be a non-issue for Trump die-hards, but it is indicative of the company he keeps
Let’s for a moment concede that Melania Trump’s RNC speech wasn’t a soft coup d’état by disgruntled Trump staffers who chose to deliberately and obviously embarrass the nominee’s wife in order to derail the convention. Let’s also agree that Trump’s writers were pressed against a hard deadline and, lacking rhetorical spark, chose to secretly borrow key paragraphs from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech.


Frankly, I don’t think it went down that way at all, and at the risk of appearing conspiratorial, I tend to believe this was an inside job. Even if the report from NBC News exonerating speechwriter Matt Scully is accurate, it’s difficult not to conclude that the plagiarized portions must have come from another source within the campaign rather than from Melania herself. It had to have been friendly-fire payback against Trump by staffers who felt slighted in some way, so they ripped off the passages in question from a really, really obvious source and punctuated it all with a reference to Rick Astley and the now universally well-known “Rickroll” prank — just to insure that social media and the political press caught the plagiarism. (Melania’s speech included the sentence, “He will never give up, and most importantly, he will never let you down,” which closely resembles the chorus from the Rick Astley song/meme.)

http://www.salon.com/2016/07/20/melanias_speech_mess_why_you_shouldnt_rule_out_that_it_was_an_inside_job/

[onecaliberal]

1. A speech was written for her, she and her friend changed it.

No one set her up, she did it to herself because they're too stupid to know you're not supposed to do that.