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Related: About this forumGOPers claim it was actually Michelle Obama who plagiarized
After several lines of Melania Trumps speech at the Republican National Convention last week were found to have been plagiarized from a speech that Michelle Obama gave at the 2008 Democratic convention, some of the Trump campaigns defenders went to absurd lengths to defend or deny the plagiarism.Among them was Rachel Campos-Duffy, a spokeswoman for the Koch-funded conservative Latino group Libre Initiative and an RNC speaker, who told the Catholic TV news network EWTN on Thursday that if anyone had plagiarized it was Michelle Obama, because she lifted her 2008 speech from the opportunity message that has been the platform of the Republican Party.
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When Arroyo pointed out that they used the same line at some point, Campos-Duffy responded that it was pretty generic stuff and that the media was simply trying to distract from the fact that Melania Trump looked spectacular.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rachel-campos-duffy-michelle-obama-real-plagiarist
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GOPers claim it was actually Michelle Obama who plagiarized (Original Post)
Cali_Democrat
Jul 2016
OP
I saw the side by side. Do they really want to there about who looked spectacular? nt
glennward
Jul 2016
#5
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)1. And how a woman looks supercedes everything about her, right?
Even plagiarism. Sigh.
cutroot
(877 posts)2. Still no appearances by Ms. McIver???
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Another Trump created
invisible character.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)4. Boy
doing anything they can to avoid the stigma of theft aren't they? asshats
glennward
(989 posts)5. I saw the side by side. Do they really want to there about who looked spectacular? nt
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)6. That jackass is married to Sean Duffy...
the dumbass house member who told CNN that white men finally have a voice.