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Showing Original Post only (View all)Here We Go Again: Language In Trump Jr.'s RNC Speech Lifted From Article [View all]
Source: Talking Points memo
Donald Trump Jr. appears to have followed in his stepmother Melania Trump's footsteps and gave a prime-time Republican National Convention speech that lifted some language from a magazine article.
The Daily Show pointed out that a few lines from Trump Jr.'s speech on night two of the convention closely matched a passage from a piece written by F. H. Buckley and published in The American Conservative in May.
Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class. Now they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-era department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers, for the teachers and administrators and not the students.
And here is the paragraph from the original American Conservative piece:
What should be an elevator to the upper class is stalled on the ground floor. Part of the fault for this may be laid at the feet of the systems entrenched interests: the teachers unions and the higher-education professoriate. Our schools and universities are like the old Soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-jr-rnc-speech-lifted-language-too
I'm shocked, shocked that this sociopathic nepotism halfwit would be as intellectually lazy as his mail-order bride step-mom
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Here We Go Again: Language In Trump Jr.'s RNC Speech Lifted From Article [View all]
Adenoid_Hynkel
Jul 2016
OP
Except that it means that the concept of intellectual property and responsibility means nothing.
yardwork
Jul 2016
#19
Definitely lifted this as mention of soviet union and deprt stores is just not a coincidence
bjobotts
Jul 2016
#7
The writer didn't give the speech! It's admitting that Trump Jr. simply read a script!
yardwork
Jul 2016
#27
And they failed big time here, because it's now obvious that this speech is all about the writer.
yardwork
Jul 2016
#38
If the speechwriter is calling attention to their own ideas and words, they've failed.
yardwork
Jul 2016
#37
The GOP afraid of education and free thinking - hmmm sounds like Turkey right now.
tonyt53
Jul 2016
#26
The RNC and the Trump campaign will never admit wrongs, just tell more lies to cover up.
Thinkingabout
Jul 2016
#43