World Goes to Hell, Melania to Blame

 

Melania Trump used a few lines from a Michelle Obama speech last night. Obama was revealed to have lied about the Iran deal such that the outlaw state will have nuclear weapons a lot faster than he claimed. Can you guess which news is dominating today’s headlines? Go on. Guess.

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  1. Front Seat Cat Member
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    While driving to my properties today, listening to Limbaugh on Fox station, he played several pieces where Obama listed exact phrases from former Mass Gov Devel Patrick and others – he played them back to back and they were identical – Hilary the same – her camp even admitted it and they moved on – just shows what idiots the main stream media are –

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  2. Pelayo Inactive
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    The line about wanting our children to believe they can reach their dreams if they work hard is used so often it is basically a cliché at this point.  I refuse to believe Michelle Obama was the first person to say that.  Please.  Politicians use material from old speeches all the time.

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  3. Freesmith Member
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    I listened to yesterday’s Klavan, Ben Shapiro, and The Federalist podcasts. All three of them bemoaned the amount of time that the brouhaha over Mrs. Trump’s speech took away from the coverage of more important issues and better speeches. All three podcasts spent an inordinate amount of time stating and restating and illustrating that woeful fact…to the detriment of covering more important issues and better speeches.

    Are our people crazy?

    Does anyone reading these words think that NPR or MSNBC or The New Yorker podcast or Vox’s podcast would ever be so stupid as to devote so much time to masochistic self-analysis and breast-beating during an election cycle, when anybody with a brain wants to grab every opportunity possible to influence even a single undecided voter?

    This is not a case of principled conservatives versus unethical progressives; this is a case of stupid and self-defeating versus being smart and playing to win once the game starts.

    I think there is something in writing called the imitative fallacy. If I recall it says that it is wrong to write something boring to illustrate boredom. Klavan, Shapiro and The Federalist (among others) may not literally be committing it, but they are sure doing something like it to me.

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  4. Freesmith Member
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    I just spent half-an-hour playing with my dog in the back yard and listening to the newly posted Commentary podcast, this one featuring only “Whine” and “Whiner” because “Whinest” is in Cleveland.

    Sure enough, the pair spent ten minutes bemoaning the controversy over Melania Trump’s speech, just like robots.

    Andrew, at least you had the common sense and fighting spirit to play a side-by-side comparison of Melania with Michelle Obama: not reciting the cribbed paragraph, but on the “pride in being an American” statements of the two women.

    Conservatives should continually point out the attitudes and sensibilities of the minority occupation government which currently governs us against the gratitude and humility of European immigrants. Thanks.

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