Melania Trump’s speech uses lines from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech.
ADDED: On the positive side, no one will ever say "Your word is your bond" again. You're going to need another bond. Or screw the bond. No one cares about your bond anymore.
AND: Maybe there's some other speech that Michelle's speech was based on. I googled word is bond and got to some fascinating Urban Dictionary background and beyond.
MORE: Why was I wondering about some other speech? It's just so stupid to copy Michelle's speech that I theorized that Melania's speechwriter found some obscure speech to use and it just happened to be the same one Michelle's speechwriter used. These speeches are so generic, but good Lord, change the words. Swap in synonyms. What are they paying you for?
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 222 of 222Blogger John said..."Both Michelle's and Melania's quotes are from Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - listed in the same order, using the same or very similar words "
There you go, Althouse pegged it. Too bad she felt compelled to put in that "screw your bond" stuff.
Thank you, John.
Honest to god. Who fucking cares.
I can only say that the controversy caused me to watch the speech and there was a lot there that the media is trying to muffle away and shuffle out of sight. I'll put it this way. Hardly anyone prefers fat, shrill, ugly and anti-American - which is Hillary.
Put me down in the "who cares" category. First Ladies' speeches are so full of pablum (most convention speeches, for that matter) that I imagine it's hard to come up with new ways of saying this stuff. So this was a little lazy, but ridiculous to get worked up about.
Like a few other female commenters, I do find Melanua more like able and appealing than I thought I would. Still can't stand her husband though.
I have a friend who knows Melania well and [though she doesn't like Donald] has only praise for Melania and Ivanka.
What? Did she say that for the first time in her life, she is proud to be an American?
So the F---K What? Who really cares?
Michelle Obama ALWAYS wears a wig. Her hair is 3/4 of an inch long.
Original Mike: "Is that it? (and this may have been mentioned upthread; don't know). Is that the troll?"
7/19/16, 2:22 PM
What is the question?
"Sure, these were all done by speechwriters, but why? How much more powerful would it have been if an immigrant tore up the speech and spoke from the heart about what America means to her personally. Or what her spouse stand for. Speeches full of pablum by hired speechwriters are always inauthentic. Twelve months in could she not have sat down and written her own speech? This was an opportunity lost."
Exactly. You could have written words for money, to get panties off, or for posterity. Good, strong words with impact. Buckley-style.
Instead you emote like a malnourished child of Haitian ancestry angry the fisherman get to eat their catch.
Sad. Concerning. Distraught combobulention.
@hombre: Wasn't asking you per se, but the question is was this done to dredge up Michelle's "for the first time in my life" comment?
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/05/50-years-ago-today-albums-blonde-on.html?showComment=1463446726615#c2175421464576575182
Roger Moore is the best Bond.
Hail, Cesar was written as a Catholic welcome to Donald Trump into the White House.
Very impressive film, better than Barry
Lyndon visually.
Some here will think it tacky, gauche, heavy-handed, overwrought, and artsy/fartsy.
After repeated viewings they shall repent and abide.
"Crap like "your word is your bond"? Who talks like that?"
Wu Tang, of course:
www.thewordisbond.com/food-4-thought-word-is-bond/
You're really missing crack these days, professor.
AReasonableMan said...
"What is surprising is the amateurism of the plagiarism, it looks like grade school plagiarism or Chinese graduate student plagiarism, not the sophisticated shit some BA or MA should be able to churn out."
ARM, when I was taking graduate physics, it was understood that there were two separate curves on the qualifying exams. One for the Chinese, and a second much lower one for the Americans. This was partly because the Chinese had already taken the Chinese equivalent of at least a Masters before they got here. But it was also because they were very smart and worked so hard it hurt to watch them. I very much doubt that you would last half an hour in a class with most Chinese grad students.
Casual racism is easy, but race realism requires a certain amount of study if you're going to get it right. Maybe you should leave it to me.
Isn't the real story the brazenness of the Trump lies? And the incompetence in promoting those lies?
Melania claims she wrote the speech, with very little help of any kind. But the Trump campaign communications director talks about the speechwriters (plural) who worked on it. And now we've got Paul Manafort blaming the entire controversy on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
A few posts above, there was speculation that both the Michelle Obama and the Melania Trump speeches were drawn from Covey literature. Why didn't Melania say that? A simple, "I vas inspired by ze writings of Stephen Covey, not ze speeches of Michelle Obama." Simple. But nobody would believe that anyway. Not with the extent of the copying that we saw.
I sort of agree with all the theories. It was stupid. So stupid, it seemed beneath a lazy middle-schooler. The speechwriter(s) should be fired. Maybe they have been, already. Maybe they were outside contractors who will never be used again. No matter what you, Trump supporter, might think; this is the story of the convention so far.
Chuck says his word is his Gold Bond.
As person whose word is their bond can borrow without collateral. That's the source of the phrase. The person is so well known for integrity (and so solvent) that no "bond" is required to borrow.
Not much of that going around these days .Collarteral is king.
Robert Costa of the Washington Post is reporting that two former Bush speechwriters were the guys who started a first draft of a speech for Melania, then they were pushed aside. And Trump family insiders finished it.
No one is being fired; which tells me that the Bush staffers weren't the guys guilty of the plagiarism.
combobulention.
had to look that one up.
Well played, Guild. Well played.
I’m a little puzzled by an aspect of this kerfuffle. Out of all the speeches on the internet that could have been plagiarized it was Michelle Obama’s speech that was selected. My, my – what a coincidence. How perfect – maybe too perfect? Coincidences happen, of course … but perfect coincidences?
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