{"id":23138,"date":"2016-07-20T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23138"},"modified":"2016-07-20T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:54:45","slug":"melania-is-not-a-virginal-plagiarizer-surprise-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/melania-is-not-a-virginal-plagiarizer-surprise-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Is NOT a Virginal Plagiarizer \u2013 Surprise, Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a while, I didn’t think there was going to be any eye-catching nuggets today – but the Trumps proved me wrong!<\/p>\n

The story that Herr Drumpf’s<\/strong> campaign has FINALLY<\/em> fabricated<\/s> … settled on WRT Melania’s<\/strong> plagiarizing Michelle Obama<\/strong> is that an in-house staff writer, Meredith McIver<\/strong><\/a>, at Trump Organization is the guilty party.  Well, at least Meredith is the sacrificial lamb being offered up on the golden altar.<\/p>\n

But it turns out that this is NOT <\/em><\/strong><\/u>the first time Melania has stolen<\/s> … plagiarized<\/s> … “borrowed” a quote, unattributed, from another accomplished black woman.  Back a few years it was Marva Collins<\/strong><\/a>, an educator and civil rights activist that Melania plagiarized.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Tweet that Melania Twittered out<\/a> back then:<\/p>\n

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“Always trust yourself, think for yourself, act for yourself, speak for yourself. Be yourself!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Truly it is a wonderful sentiment worthy of a Tweet – but unfortunately it’s not Melania’s.  She stole it from the late Ms. Collins. <\/p>\n

But please take special note of the irony in Melania’s decision to leave out Ms. Collins last sentence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Always trust yourself, think for yourself, act for yourself, speak for yourself. Be yourself! Imitation is suicide.<\/span><\/span>”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Obama-Michelle_Plagiarized_Marva-Collins_QuoteS\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have no doubt Melania’s eliding the last sentence from her Tweet was purposeful.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to think that Melania WAS<\/em><\/strong> the guilty party for plagiarizing Michelle Obama<\/strong>.  It just took the “Keystone Kops”<\/em> Drumpf camp this long to put a passably plausible story together and select their sacrificial lamb.<\/p>\n

My feeling that Melania is the guilty party is buttressed by some candid photos that (once again courtesy of Google) I have been able to uncover.<\/p>\n

\"Melania-Trump_Cheat-Copy_Michelle-Obama\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Melania-Trump_Cheat-Copy_Michelle-Obama_02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But apparently it doesn’t seem to bother The Donald<\/em><\/strong> one least little bit.<\/p>\n

\"Trump_Face_Facial-ExpressionS\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, well – at least Melania chose strong, accomplished women to admire and steal from.<\/p>\n

\"Obama-Michelle_Hillary_Loved-Your-Speech\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a while, I didn’t think there was going to be any eye-catching nuggets today – but the Trumps proved me wrong! The story that Herr Drumpf’s campaign has FINALLY fabricated … settled on WRT Melania’s plagiarizing Michelle Obama is that an in-house staff writer, Meredith McIver, at Trump Organization is the guilty party.  Well, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}