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Abomination: Biden Plagiarizes President Reagan’s Boys of Pointe du Hoc Speech
Just when there was no possible way I could detest, loathe, and despise the drooling, dementia-ridden, pathetic husk of a man now occupying the office of the President of the United States more—although the sensation returns on an almost daily basis—along comes news that the few highlights of his Normandy Cemetery D-Day speech were plagiarized from one of greatest Americans who ever lived, our icon, President Reagan.
While I needed no reminder of why I, like so many others, thought President Reagan’s speech at Pointe du Hoc was one of the great speeches in American history, a post on American Thinker by Andea Widburg, The good parts of Biden’s D-Day speech came straight from Ronald Reagan, spells it out much more succinctly than I ever could:
First, you should never let a man whose idea of oratory is to alternate between a whisper and a shout copy a man who was famed for his speeches. Most especially, you shouldn’t copy one of that famed orator’s greatest speeches. The contrast is incredible. Reagan’s voice is beautiful, his tempo is perfect, and his emotional modulation is spot on. Biden just yells. It’s a painful reminder of how far we have fallen. (Emphasis mine)
I would have to spend the rest of the day in the thesaurus to find adequate words to describe my revulsion at seeing this thug making, in effect, President Reagan’s speech, apparently on the very same spot where the man I have often referred to as our Last Real President offered his tribute to The Boys of Pointe du Hoc. Most of the words that spring to mind are not fit for polite company and thus will not appear here.
From X (Twitter): “Joe Biden essentially plagiarized Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 speech at Pointe du Hoc today in Normandy. Watch these clips side by side. Wow:”
We are reminded in Widburg’s post of Biden’s extensive history of plagiarism:
Second, this isn’t Biden’s first plagiarism moment. Biden’s penchant for “borrowing” from others began in law school when he plagiarized content from a law review journal. Then, in 1987, he destroyed his first run for president by plagiarizing John and Bobby Kennedy and Neil Kinnock, a British politician:
Back in 1965 and 1987, Joe was a dishonest dim bulb, but he was also mentally competent. However, when he started his third successful presidential run in 2019, Joe’s bulb was burned out. Everything from that date forward was the product of the people surrounding him, bringing me to my final point:
Here the author lists the many names of those famous — now more accurately infamous — Democrats who have “borrowed” important passages from important works such as, perhaps most prominently recently, the President of Harvard Claudine Gay.
Appropriately, as we all need at least a little smile after three years of this malign administration, the author then put out a video by the incomparable Tom Lehrer, certainly one of the wittiest performers ever seen in America, about the “value” of plagiarism:
The next five months are going to seem like five years (fifty? five hundred?) and I pray that we make it to the election without further major damage to the Republic.
God Help us.
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Could have been worse. Did you know that just based on his West Point entrance exam scores he was asked to plan D-Day and turned it down because there were no black or female senior officers?
The irony that is utterly lost on him, and whoever wrote these words for him, is that this did not ASSOCIATE him in Americans’ minds with Reagan; rather, it CONTRASTED him with Reagan, and very unfavorably so.
This is the most – no, another equally – hideous part. His handlers thought it would be a good idea.
Hideous. That is the word I’ve been looking for when discussion our current National nightmare! I’m going to remember that one!
With respect, everything in the known universe is “lost on him” and I would say that with sadness were we not talking about a man in this potentially dangerous position being affected by dementia.
I’ve told this story before, so I hope you’ll excuse a person of “extremely advanced maturity” for repeating it, but I was lucky enough to go on a D Day to the Rhine tour in the Summer of 2019 and stood on that very spot; considering our love of President Reagan that moment was one of the great ones of my life!
Mayor Pete was unavailable??
I expect Mayor Pete wasn’t alive yet.
You’re missing the mandatory “No joke.”
That’s about the least plagiarism in any Biden speech form 1970-2008.
In Biden’s imaginary world Pete could have been ready to lead Joe’s brilliantly planned invasion.
“You think I’m kiddin’. I’m not.”
C’mon, man!
“Anyway….”
I long ago ran out of words to express the disgust I feel for this man as a person and as a president. I doubt he has said an honest word or performed an honest task since kindergarten.
If this was 2031, he would have begun with “Four score and seven years ago …”
I would say this is the ultimate example of being 2 faced. With one face they demonize (Until Trump, was there anyone who could trigger a lefty like Reagan?) and with the other face they plagiarize…
I guess their patron pagan spirit (?) would be Janus. (they’ve renounced god and no longer deserve patron saints)
I am a broken record on this, so apologies if you have heard this before. You have no idea how right you are. The chapters in this book dealing with Biden will absolutely confirm and reinforce your view. What is most fascinating is how he is a product of his upbringing, and how he has passed certain things on to his progeny. https://www.amazon.com/What-Takes-Way-White-House/dp/0679746498
I lived near Philadelphia when Biden first got elected to the Senate. The Philadelphia media covered Delaware politics extensively. He was a garbage human being then, and nothing has changed since. When I see the empty hulk of a human he is now, I find myself unable to care. He deserves the worst outcome that can happen.
Thanks for that recommendation; judging by the size of the book I will try to set aside a couple of months to get through it — lest I am thought to be making some kind of snarky remark, it is an honest assessment by a very, very slow reader but it sure does look like the kind of book I would like to study. Here is my recommendation for more on the Biden Crime family, if you can stomach it: Blood Money by Peter Schweizer. Below is the Amazon summary and it will truly turn your stomach to learn the actual facts of how this syndicate – because let’s face it that’s exactly what it is- works– highly recommended:
God Help us.
I read an article this morning which brings home, once again, what garbage this entire family really is about Navy Joan’s mom, Lunden (?), being interviewed by Megan Kelly about her new book. It is a poignant story of how these wretched people have pretended their own granddaughter simply didn’t exist and then finally acknowledged her primarily due to politics, not love. In the Deep South we have a couple of phrases with which to describe families like this none of which are suited for polite company or certainly for this age of heightened sensitivites in which so many delicate little feelings can be hurt with mere words. However, it is entirely possible that a number of our fellow Ricochetti are quite familiar with them and may have even used one or two of them at some time in their life. However, the word garbage is a good stand-in for what I really want to say. Five more months; hope we make it.
I doubt he has – and probably never had – the self-awareness to properly suffer from it.
One of the virtues of the book is that it was written in the early 1990s, before everything became so political. The author takes a real, classical, reporter’s approach to the subject. In other words, unlike many authors today, he didn’t start out with an axe to grind against Biden (or the other candidates profiled), so the honest look is all the more damning.