2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRNC official desperately accuses Clinton of plagiarizing philosopher’s non-existent quote
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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 Thats 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 its ripped from Alexis de Tocquevilles 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 Trumps dramatic convention entrance, an allusion to Shakespeare.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/rnc-official-desperately-accuses-clinton-of-plagiarizing-philosophers-non-existent-quote/
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)"My fellow Americans"
and don't forget "God bless the United States of America"
sinkingfeeling
(51,448 posts)by Bill Clinton back in 1991-92. CBS ran the clips of a younger Bill this morning.
VMA131Marine
(4,138 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)Despite her attributing "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself" to him.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)I almost forgot what Melania "Actually" did.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)has long since passed into the realm of literary allusion.
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/