"Disastrous...this turns the first night into a disaster."~Steve Schmidt - MSNBC (Edit w/ video)

[Surya Gayatri]

Absolutely devastating proof that Melania Trump's speech tonight was lifted word for word from Michele Obama's great 2008 introductory speech.

They've now got the video up of side by side comparisons with Melania mouthing Michelle's words.

This will be THE story that chases everything else off of the frontpage in tomorrow's news cycle.

What an unmitigated, monumental train wreck.

ETA - Side by side comparison:

[vegetarian x]

1. Yes, but Trump is bulletproof

[Surya Gayatri]

5. This is just TOO bad to go without causing some damage.

[vegetarian x]

27. I cannot imagine his supporters leaving for anything.

Remember, he said he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue, and with the demographics of his supporters, I think he's correct.

[Surya Gayatri]

29. Nobody said anything about his band of brainwashed, zombie supporters.

The whole purpose of a national party's convention is to INTRODUCE the candidate to the rest of the nation, i.e. the middle of the electorate to be found between the two bases.

Melania Trump, the potential FLOTUS, has been introduced as a liar and a plagarist.

[MADem]

7. His first night of all that wonderment--Benghazi Mom, Giuliani, all that military rah-rah...it is

GONE. Done. Pooof....like it NEVER HAPPENED.

The ONLY story is Melania, all dickie-dooed up her lovely white dress, reading a speech delivered by First Lady Michelle Obama.

Now, we know one big thing: Mrs. Trump is a PLAGIARIST. Either that, or a LIAR. She said she wrote the speech herself; so if someone else wrote it for her, she's simply a big fibber. Pick one!!!

This IS the story for tomorrow.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. It was better coming from Michelle!

[ecstatic]

11. +1000. nt

[Surya Gayatri]

12. No contest. Literally, a piss-poor imitation.

[pamela]

15. Michelle was MUCH better!

That's going to hurt more than the plagiarism. They keep showing the two speeches together and Michelle is warm and emotive while Melania is stiff, cold and unemotional. I watched the Stepford Wives the other night and the robots had more warmth.

[MadCrow]

33. Melania could not have done better

when she chose Michelle Obama as her role model!

[ailsagirl]

56. Absolutely no comparison

It was a heartfelt and noble speech by Michelle-- I remember it well.

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. Michelle is an original

Accept no substitutes.

[raven mad]

24. Well, hell yeah - ANYTHING is better coming from Michelle.

She has the brains, and guts.

[SeattleVet]

38. Yeah! And much of what tRump says...

was also much better in the original German.

[DoBotherMe]

43. LOL!

[greatauntoftriplets]

46. Mrs. Obama actually seemed to mean it.

Not so much with the other one.

[MADem]

3. This is HILARIOUS--the video of each of them giving the speech is a scream.

What's hilarious is that the GOP LOVED the words of a (gasp) BLACK WOMAN with a KENYAN HUSBAND!!! Oh, the opportunities for snark!!!!

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Oh.My.God! What hilarity will now ensue. The only "high point" of the

whole evening has now been proven to be a complete sham. "The speech was supposed to be 'the crown jewel' of the night"...(MSNBC)

[MADem]

10. It WAS a crown jewel--from FLOTUS MICHELLE's crown!!! Ha ha ha!!! nt

[NBachers]

32. Yes- they were clapping and cheering Michelle Obama!

[spanone]

4. how about a BIGGER disaster

[ecstatic]

6. Uggh. I wish tweety would stop giving Trump free advice!

Let him sink!

[MADem]

8. Naaaah--he's reeling Trump in. He thinks the SON IN LAW wrote it, I suspect.

[Skittles]

13. who wrote it for her?

[Surya Gayatri]

18. No one knows, because there are no proper full-time speech writers on the Trump staff.

They think it may have been some day-jobber hack who took the easy way because he/she was being paid peanuts.

[SeattleVet]

49. Who wrote it for her?

Wikipedia.

[awoke_in_2003]

50. You mean

"Who copied it for her?"

[sheshe2]

14. Birther boys wife plagiarized

said Kenyans wife.

Priceless.

[gratuitous]

16. As that great Republican philosopher Rick Perry would say . . .

Oops.

[Rex]

19. You gotta be shitting me!?

The GOP RNC NRA FOXnews all went down the toilet. Must have needed a lot of TP!

[uponit7771]

30. +1, I agree with one of the posters, we're being punked

[csziggy]

20. Parallel speeches

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Best compilation of "Melania's Greatest Hits"...LOL!

[mercuryblues]

22. So the

Crown jewel of the republican convention was Michelle Obama's speech.

A speech the republicans ripped apart 8 years ago. But loved tonight.

Mrs. Trump is on record saying she wrote the speech "with as little help as possible" I think she needs to send Michelle Obama a check for her help.

[Surya Gayatri]

23. Or at least acknowledge Michelle's contribution in the transcript!

Liars all! She informed Matt Lauer earlier in the day that she'd written it "almost all by herself."

Waiting to see how Trump et al. manage damage control.

[raven mad]

25. Enough by herself -

with a copy of a speech by THE First Lady................

[Volaris]

36. It will be Michelles fault.

For being too good a speechwriter that it just begs to be 'repeated'.

Or, there's a Flux Capacitor and Obamas been hiding it so real, patriotic, murican Christians can't go back in time and get baby jeebus a proper hotel room like he DESERVES, because dirty liberals just want baby jesus to suffer in the cold.

does anyone know what's on tomorrow's convention agenda?

[jmowreader]

26. The night was a disaster BEFORE Melania's stolen speech

This just makes it an EXTRA YOOGE disaster!

[sofa king]

28. Yes!

And is was a terrible night after that, too, worse even, with terrible speeches and a deflated, disinterested crowd.

It started with an incompetent and autocratic election-theft. Speakers were laughing at the bullshit they had to say, the ancient crowd bugged out early, there were lines and imagery lifted straight out of Triumph of the Will, the stage itself turned red whenever black people were speaking, and I swear General Flynn counted Canada among our enemies.

And the Benghazi Bros.

And the group picture of five thousand hateful white people, with the cameraman failing to set up before everyone was told to stand stock still, like a frozen bag of snake venom.

A total, comedic train-wreck, The Producers come to life. Someone is gonna get ri-i-i-i-ch writing the comedy screenplay of it, someday, if America survives this.

[calimary]

31. Did anyone see CNN's coverage?

OMG! We switched over from MSNBC to see if they had it and they were indeed starting to cover it. It was Don Lemon and a colleague with a panel of talking heads. It was a fuck-up but the blame was going to the speechwriters.

I kept mumbling about the clip with Matt Lauer interviewing her and Donald that I'd seen way earlier, when they'd arrived before her speech. He asked her if she'd been practicing her speech and she said she'd just looked over it, and added "because I wrote it, with as little help as possible." And I kept mumbling "she said she wrote it!"

Well, they talked about it and showed the clips of the Michelle Obama speech and Melania's - um - excerpts. And speechwriters messed up and on and on. And then somebody brought up that she'd talked with Matt Lauer beforehand, and "show the clip." And BANG! "...because I wrote it, with as little help as possible." End of clip, cue the talent.

And they cut back to Don Lemon and his colleague sitting there side-by-side, and it was BEE-YOO-TEE-FULL!!! There they sat, facing the camera, mute. They sat there for two or three beats, staring blankly at the camera, with nothing to say. Finally one of them broke their frozen silence and quipped something like "the only thing I have to say about that at this point is "no comment'."

I almost fell down laughing! Those blank stares! Sheer caught-with-their-pants-down blank stares. They had no idea what to say. Their blank expressions told you everything! Textbook deer-in-the-headlights! PRICELESS!!!

Welcome to the big leagues, Melania.

Edited to correct her quote so it's exact.

[writes3000]

34. Oh, yeah. I saw it. I was so glad they played that clip.

And I was so glad for the panelists who called it out for what it was - plagiarism.

[winstars]

35. I would love to see that clip...

[LittleGirl]

44. That's hysterical

I wished I had seen that! But since I live in Switzerland, I didn't want to lose sleep over this silly convention thing. Probably will lose sleep next week.

[napkinz]

37. another day, another F up!

They're just not ready for prime time.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. Merely more proof that Obama is a time-traveling shape shifting illuminizard

Michelle stole the speech from Melania!

[Scurrilous]

40. K & R

[napkinz]

41. K&R

[Rose Siding]

42. "The party of Lincoln had better start drinkin'"

Christmas in July

[Sophiegirl]

45. He is a brilliant entertainer.

This is fabulous!

[Rose Siding]

47. This kind of satire is his gift.

This week there's a good reason to watch The Late Show.

[northoftheborder]

48. It was great! Surprise guests!

[tonyt53]

51. Trump's followers simply do not care.

[Skittles]

52. I heard an NPR report this morning

they sang her praises, never mentioned it

[progressoid]

57. They (npr) talked about it during the evening news.

Then they played a clip from some Trump mouthpiece. He tried to shift the focus to Hillary saying that she politicizing this because she can't deal with another strong woman.

NPR then pointed out that there were many other people outside of the Clinton campaign that also calling attention to this.

[heresAthingdotcom]

53. Trump's 40%

"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited,
their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.
In consequence of these facts,
all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided,
the effect will piddle away,
for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered." ("Adolf Hitler: quote on propaganda&quot  

to Trump's enablers nothing changes their minds....

Trump said he could shoot someone and he wouldn't lose votes.... Hitler gassed millions and he didn't lose support....

There is currently a Law suit filed in New York against Mr. Trump for the Rape of a 13 year old girl...

Why The New Child Rape Case Filed Against Donald Trump Should Not Be Ignored

In covering a story, a media outlet is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news that a lawsuit has been filed against Mr. Trump, and ideally putting the complaint in context. Unproven allegations are just that - unproven, and should be identified that way. (Mr. Trump’s lawyer says the charges are “categorically untrue, completely fabricated and politically motivated.”) Proof comes later, at trial. But the November election will come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed innocent, we are permitted - no, we are obligated — to analyze the case’s viability now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html

Case 1:16-cv -04642 Read the Donald Trump Rape Charge Law Suit.... https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-Rape-Lawsuit-and-Affidavits#fullscreen?platform=hootsuite


I think Trump is a sinking ship and while the 40% will hang on all the while the furnaces are burning... the 60% has better sense.....

[czarjak]

54. Disaster expert...

Steve Schmitt says what?

[Moonwalk]

55. Don't worry about Trump followers...

...yes, most of them are on the clown car for the full ride and don't care that it's heading for a crash. BUT...a lot of people (voters) will gravitate towards candidates that seem "powerful"--like being part of the group that mocks rather than gets mocked.

I really doubt that the Democrats are going to let this go during their convention. It's going to come up again and again--as well as anything else they can mock. And when that happens some voters will bail out of the car. They'll do the old Peter denying Jesus thrice thing: "Me? With Trump? No way! I'd never vote for him...."

That said, as pampered as this poor woman is, I have to feel bad about her. She's riding shotgun where ever Trump wants to go, and if that means she reads the speech they give her and pretends she wrote it. Whether or not she's happy with this ride, she's stuck in the car and has to do what she's told. And read the speeches they give her. And say she wrote them.

[napkinz]

58. looks like they are screwing up the second night