Note to Trump and Manafort: KEEP on STONEwalling!

[Gabi Hayes]

PLEASE!!!!

this is the BEST! watching these surrogates twist themselves into pretzels trying to defend the plagiarism is the BEST! they even use the same words as talking points. the best they can come up with is 'common words.' sort of like they hired ten thousand monkeys on word processors and they all came up with the exact, same 'common words.'

and THEN, at the outset, for Manafort to blame Hillary was the sine qua non of brazen projection!

his jock must be made of 70 weight spider silk.

[hexola]

1. I suspect they are feverishly checking and re-writing all the other speeches...

They better!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

4. especially donald's acceptance speech:

Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8

[flamingdem]

26. Not PC to laugh at this but..

Comedy gold this candidate

[Bluenorthwest]

46. This is exactly what comedy should be, the public destruction of conservative decorum

using the rich and powerful as the punch line. It could not possibly be more fitting to laugh at this.

[Gabi Hayes]

49. excellent....and how often do you hear the TV goofs mention the quote from his

ex wife about the Hitler speeches

[Gabi Hayes]

2. and, hey! Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, you fool!

she's on CNN right now, and Larry Sabato has been sitting next to her, laughing at her, shaking his head in disgust, and looking at her as if she's insane. this is almost as good as Trump going off on mosquitoes.

[malaise]

3. I'm expecting Queen to challenge the use of

their classic We are the Champions

[Gabi Hayes]

5. it might have been colbert, or else seth myers, who said last night that he came out to a song

by a famous bisexual

if you haven't been watching Myers' 'A Closer Look,' go to his NBC page. he rips Trump almost every night with that segment, and last night's was a classic. at that point, I had DVR on the cable channels and my PinP set on antenna NBC so I could watch him

[malaise]

29. LOL and they condemned this before

http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-slammed-by-queen-guitarist-for-using-we-are-the-champions/

Balart said Queen has challenged Don the Con again - honestly these scumbags follow no rules

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. OMG me too ! Could not believe it when I heard that !nt

[malaise]

14. Plagiarism, copyright violations

these fuggers have no moral compass

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. And like someone said this morning - they operate in a Post-Truth framework. Think

the Repukes figured that out long ago. Say whatever and everyone other than Fox and Rush will call you on it. And, since they control Fox and Rush, no harm can be done.

their base never questions anything, they are not encouraged to. They believe everything in every stupid chain email.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. HA ! Queen rep just tweeted out "unauthorized" use of Champions

[Gabi Hayes]

39. they just reported it on msnbc.

now lewandowski is turning pretzel on cnn.

he's actually admitting a mistake was made!!!! this is new, and could be the latest ploy.

who are they going to hang out to dry?

it's going to happen soon, I fear

DAMN

DAMN

DAMN

they finally wised up

[Laura PourMeADrink]

55. OMG that's hysterical GH ! A new ploy "admitting mistakes" LOL ! nt

[malaise]

41. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahhaha

This is the definition of a clusterfuck

[Gabi Hayes]

43. is there a may wine called

Schadenfreude?

drinkenzie DEEP!

[malaise]

44. Hehehehehhehe

[Chiyo-chichi]

6. "Common words"?

It's a pretty big coincidence that the only speech that shares these phrases in common was a convention speech from another potential First Lady.

And it's all the more ironic that the original speaker of those phrases was the wife of the man the Republicans are lambasting at every opportunity.

Donald Trump "treats people with respect"? Suuuuuure he does. Just scroll through his Twitter feed.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. the lifted passages are RIFE with irony, to say the least

getting them at NYT, but it won't load

later

[Gabi Hayes]

10. finally....here are the exact words Melania accidentally used that were the same,

'common words' Michelle stole from her. not kidding about that. see my other thread.

michelle's words bolded in melania's speech

From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect.
They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily lives. That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son. And we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow. Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”


Mrs. Obama, in her 2008 speech:

“Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them. And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”


Ms. Trump:

“I was born in Slovenia, a small, beautiful and then-Communist country in Central Europe. My sister, Ines, who is an incredible woman and a friend, and I were raised by my wonderful parents. My elegant and hard-working mother, Amalija, introduced me to fashion and beauty. My father, Viktor, instilled in me a passion for business and travel. Their integrity, compassion and intelligence reflects to this day on me and for my love of family and America.”





Mrs. Obama, in 2008:

“And I come here as a daughter — raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion and her intelligence reflected in my own daughters.”




her mother introduced her to fashion and beauty! wow! what a stylist! she has the best words! just like her husband! how fortunate that two amazing wordsmiths found each other. a coincidence like finding the same 'common words' as Michelle's!

[malaise]

15. Not potential first lady

She's been first lady for almost eight years

[Chiyo-chichi]

23. I meant that at the time she gave the speech in 2008,

Michelle Obama was the potential First Lady.

The point I was trying to make is that it's too big of a coincidence that the "common words" came from another spouse at a Presidential nominating convention.

[pnwmom]

7. Yes, please do! Overshadow the next four days with this, please!

[Gabi Hayes]

9. manafort is having a press conference, and has already stopped taking questions about the plage

after baldly denying that the 1000+ word speech only had a few COMMON WORDS in them!

he repeated the same hogswallow about HILLARY being the first one to spread the story; claiming she always goes on the attack against a woman

the compliant press meekly started asking wimpy questions, ending with a softball about why she spoke. Manafort then went on a horseshit panegyric about what a wonderful woman she is

too bad they didn't ask him where she got her diploma

[underpants]

11. Normally here is what would be done

Fire someone, anyone. The problem with this outfit as Mark Halperin pointed out in Morning Joe (yes he actually made a salient point) there is no one to fire because there really isn't a campaign. Then apologize and add in some sort of joke.

Okay so Team Trump has:
Blamed Hillary
Blamed the media (victim!!)
Threw his wife under the bus

Since there is no one to fire and Trump is never going to apologize they should DO NOTHING. Let it be a story until this afternoon and then something else will come up. Take advantage of the 24 hour news cycle- there has to be a new story tomorrow- his actually getting the nomination today will wash this away. It will still be mentioned but the banner story tonight and tomorrow will be his becoming the nominee.

Manaforte is an idiot.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. hubris times 100. and the word is that it's got to be somebody in the family who

did the bulk of the writing. it could be her, because of Manafort's oblique reference that she knew what she was doing

I heard somebody mention last night that it could very well be Ivanka's hubby, publisher Jared Kushner

that makes sense

[underpants]

34. Well, I mean, they could blame Scott Baio

He WAS there

[Gabi Hayes]

38. so was triumph the comic insult dog

but HE accused melania of stealing his jokes

I started a thread about it.

[underpants]

42. Looking for the thread now....

To poop on!

I keed I keed

[Gabi Hayes]

45. poop on this!

I'm a keeder, as well

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028026404

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. I predict that this will give Trump an opportunity to come out in one of

those emphatic tearful defense of his wife moments to gain female sympathy votes. And maybe Melania coming out and saying that she admires Michelle so much she may have inadvertently copied her thoughts. This could be done to capture independent voters who like the cross-over appeal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. I don't think so.

Tearfulness and empathy are signs of weakness to a narcissistic bully like Trump. And no way in hell would Melania be allowed to express anything like admiration for Michelle Obama, the second-most-hated woman in GOP World.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

54. So just a sheer and utter screw up? Nothing nefarious anywhere? Just seems

too fishy, no? First of all, she claims to have written the whole thing. So, maybe someone left here with a bunch of old speeches and she thought it was OK to just slightly reword the words?

[Cracklin Charlie]

17. They have had months to prepare for this.

Calling the RNC a clown show is an insult to clowns.

This show is straight up amateur hour!

[onecaliberal]

19. It's worse than amateur hour. It's a train wreck.

People on Twitter first noticed that Insania Trump plagiarized Obamas 08 speech.

[Cracklin Charlie]

20. They don't seem to have any idea what they're doing

I think my dog could run a better campaign.

Pepper 2016!

[onecaliberal]

22. None of them have formal education. That is abundantly clear.

There is no chance in hell a smart person would have allowed this to happen. Breathtaking stupidity doesn't have a problem with that speech, the rest of us do.

[Cracklin Charlie]

24. If Trump was smart...

He would have hired professionals to run his campaign.

Something is empty with him, and it's either his brain or his wallet.

[onecaliberal]

27. It's a combination of both. The guy doesn't have the wealth he advertises but whatever.

If he had half a brain he wouldn't allow the person running his campaign to do a pressed denying what happened last night.

[Cracklin Charlie]

30. Then it's decided...

No brain.

Pepper 2016!

[onecaliberal]

32. Definitely, no brain.

[underpants]

36. He tried but 2 of them quit after a week or so

and this is when political ops make their money and their names.

He runs the whole thing on whims and short attention span.

[Gabi Hayes]

21. not according to manafArt

bork.....the sound of Chris Christie in shorts, getting up off a vinyl couch

[onecaliberal]

25. He's the most stupid of all thinking it doesn't matter.

When you consider their audience, it's not hard to understand who buys that hogwash.

[flamingdem]

28. We should be eating pretzels watching the convention

instead of popcorn

[Gabi Hayes]

31. smirking propagandist Kellyanne Conway joins the list of pretzels

these people are absolutely amazing in their ability to sit there and deny deny deny deny reality

[Gabi Hayes]

33. jesus! why did it take so long.....the best group in the world

this song fits the trump fiasco campaign in so many ways

[Gabi Hayes]

35. this just in: Katy Tur, msnbc reporting that Manafart is the one, at this moment,

under the gun with the campaign

could be some cool action coming soon

btw, why didn't the media follow up manafart's accusation that Hillary was the first to put this out there

of course, they were too meek to dare ask for PROOF. surprised?

[Gabi Hayes]

40. lewandowski just said no apology is necessary; just fix it.

never apologize, never explain

he just said that manafart, as highest staffer, should probably resign

will CNN hire him, too?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa

[Bluenorthwest]

47. "I haven't been involved in plagiarism." Donald Trump, August 15, 2015

Washington (CNN)Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said he would "do great" in a hypothetical matchup with Vice President Joe Biden in part because of the prospective candidate's plagiarism in law school.
"I think I'd matchup great. I'm a job producer. I've had a great record, I haven't been involved in plagiarism. I think I would match up very well against him," Trump told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday night.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-plagiarism/

[The Second Stone]

48. Will Trump, if bizarrely elected, plagiarize Obama's policies too?

He never expected to get this far. This is really bizarre. I hope he tanks in the polls quickly.

[Gothmog]

50. This tactic is working so well why give it up

[Gabi Hayes]

51. manafort is toast. lewandowski turned on him. you KNOW he didn't do that of his own volition

just a matter of how long it takes for them to concoct the next act in this horrorshow

that's All this campaign is: one scam followed by the next, followed by an unending backfill of dirty lies

[leftynyc]

56. He didn't just turn on him

The battles between lewandowski and manofort are very well known and it's because of manofort that cory got canned. He's just returning the favor.

[Gabi Hayes]

57. "turn" was definitely a bad, uh, turn of phrase. I know that....manafort most

likely got CL fired. I forgot to use my best words, and MY words are the BEST! and the STRONGEST! and usually have the most LETTERS!

[leftynyc]

58. And now I have to explain

why I'm laughing so hard in the office. Thanks, I needed that.

[calimary]

52. And from now on, when Melania responds to some message,

does she pick up the mic and say - "copy that!" ?