RNC official desperately accuses Clinton of plagiarizing philosopher’s non-existent quote

[DonViejo]

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After an embarrassing scandal involving the speech that Melania Trump gave at the RNC being lifted from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama, the Republican Party was desperate to find something that could come close to plagiarism. One right-wing pundit accused Michelle Obama of plagiarism. Donald Trump Jr. also accused President Barack Obama of plagiarism because he used the phrase “That’s not the America I know.” However, if that was plagiarism, then Trump plagiarized it from President Obama who actually first used the phrase in Cleveland in 2010.

The only thing they could manage, according to The Hill, was Clinton saying “America is great because America is good.” RNC communications director Sean Spicer alleges that it’s ripped from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which reads, “America is great because she is good.”

Sean Spicer ✔
@seanspicer

#plagarism alert @hillaryclinton at @DemConvention "America is great bc America is good," de Tocqueville "America is great bc she is good"

11:29 PM - 28 Jul 2016

If the RNC is so desperate to find uses of plagiarism they could also accuse Clinton of lifting “God bless America,” which appears on the U.S. currency, or accuse Chelsea Clinton who referred to “the sound and fury” of Trump’s dramatic convention entrance, an allusion to Shakespeare.

full article
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/rnc-official-desperately-accuses-clinton-of-plagiarizing-philosophers-non-existent-quote/

[Happyhippychick]

1. She totally plagiarized when she said

"My fellow Americans"
and don't forget "God bless the United States of America"

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Apparently, Trump's campaign slogan was taken from speeches given

by Bill Clinton back in 1991-92. CBS ran the clips of a younger Bill this morning.

[VMA131Marine]

3. They keep using that word ...

[procon]

4. "The" - for sure that word was blatant plagiarism . nt

[forgotmylogin]

5. I'm surprised they didn't try to accuse her of plagiarizing Roosevelt.

Despite her attributing "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself" to him.

[liberal N proud]

6. The entire Trump campaign is a bunch of juveniles

[Grassy Knoll]

7. Thanks Spencer.....

I almost forgot what Melania "Actually" did.

[pnwmom]

8. Since that author died in 1859 anything he wrote is well past the copyright date and

has long since passed into the realm of literary allusion.

Allusion Definition
Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.

http://literarydevices.net/allusion/

[Chitown Kev]

9. Exactly.