2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAm I tracking? Melania read the speech writer Michelle's quotes over the phone
because she admires Michelle Obama. The speechwriter somehow works them into the speech by some freak accident, it wasn't caught in the speech vetting process. And Melania, who first quoted them to her speech writer doesn't remember the lines came from Michelle?
Something smells in Cleveland, and it's not just Chirs Chrisie.
lapucelle
(18,037 posts)They hung her out to dry with the Donald's permission.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)she fessed up to it, straightforward, took responsibility and apologized to not only the Trumps but Michelle Obama.
Two thumbs up to her, a VERY rare moment of direct personal responsibility.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)fall guy, probably in exchange for money or for some other benefit.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)The odds are that there just might be one person of integrity in that group of mind fucked idiots.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)but then, I'm a cynic.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)I'm not quite so forgiving. To me it was a way of taking responsibility, but she knew her job was safe since she is a close 'family friend'. As an author, I don't understand how she could have included Michelle's passages in that speech without acknowledging where that information, particularly since she says that Melania had read her the passages related to Michelle over the phone. So she puts together a speech and doesn't say either, "hey where are those passages from Michelle Obama you referred to in our telecon", or "hey those passages you came up with regarding those values you learned from your parents are pretty good, did you do that yourself?"
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)jcgoldie
(11,582 posts)Passes what smell test? Seriously it reads like complete bullshit.
rickford66
(5,498 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)she would have made attribution to the admired Michelle Obama.
Hard to imagine she could say that at RNC and not get booed.
Maeve
(42,224 posts)hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)Admiring Michelle Obama? I would think that is heresy in repub world.
jcgoldie
(11,582 posts)...As long as she doesn't get uppity and try to tell our fat kids what to eat at school.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)...three wives, all with Trump children and a ton of daddy's money - how could there possibly be discord in the Trump family?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)To put it politely.