The Clinton media did their best to stir up another plagiarism controversy at the RNC, but it backfired spectacularly when the speechwriter for Donald Trump Jr. hit them with the truth.
It started with The Daily Show – the comedy show that is the main source of “journalism” for the left – tweeting out a comparison of Trump’s speech to the author F.H. Buckley, who penned a column for The American Conservative magazine.
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 20, 2016
The implication was that Trump had lifted the lines from Buckley’s column for his own speech, something they desperately tried to smear Melania Trump with the previous night.
The media, not interested in doing any type of research, ran with it.
Judd Legum at ThinkProgress posted a column titled Donald Trump’s Speech Also Plagiarized.
Even RedState’s Erick Erickson jumped the gun, posting a column with the screaming headline, HOLY CRAP: Donald Trump Jr’s Speech Had Plagiarism Too.
Almost immediately however, Federalist author Mollie Hemmingway noted that Trump’s speech was likely written by Buckley himself.
Um, guys, FBuck probably wrote the speech. It’s like Axelrod writing both “Just Words” speeches for Patrick/Obama. https://t.co/gYWSGrDcJl
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 20, 2016
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It’s a somewhat obvious link, considering Buckley has been supportive of the Trump campaign.
Via The Federalist:
In fact that Trump quote sounds exactly like what George Mason University law professor Frank H. Buckley says about the administrative state. He says it a lot, and not just in the article The Daily Show found.
At first blush it looks like a retread of the previous night’s scandal, where Melania Trump’s speech echoed Michelle Obama’s speech from eight years prior.
The only similarity, though, is that both situations speak to a somewhat amateur campaign operation that doesn’t fine tune messages.
Anyone who has heard Buckley speak in recent months knows that he’s a fan of Trump’s. I personally heard him speak in favor of the Trump operation at the end of April. He’s written things critical of him, too, but he’s definitely a fan.
Buckley himself took to social media and shut down the cries of plagiarism shortly thereafter:
Except it wasn’t stealing…
— Frank Buckley (@fbuckley) July 20, 2016
As for the aforementioned columns, their authors quickly went back and rewrote the headlines.
Legum’s post is now titled Donald Trump Jr’s Speech Was Also Cribbed and had to be updated with Buckley’s statement.
Erickson also modified his headline, eliminating the “HOLY CRAP” and adding a “but” at the end. He said what happened was “still wrong.”
Neither it seemed could simply admit they were wrong in following the Daily Show’s lead.
A search of Donald Trump Jr.’s speech shows several media outlets either had to change their articles or provide updates after realizing they’d jumped the gun by buying into the Daily Show’s smear attempt.
Even they had to backtrack …
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 20, 2016
Jason Miller, a Trump spokesman, responded to the uproar in the best possible manner.
1/2 Nice try Clinton machine – Francis Buckley is a friend of Don Jr.’s and worked with him on the speech.
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) July 20, 2016
2/2 Your time would be better spent searching for Crooked Hillary’s missing emails rather than disparaging a real American Patriot.
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) July 20, 2016
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Anything to denigrate one’s opponent. Dirty politics? Nope, just business as usual for liberals, who, if they can’t make their point resort to insults, personal attacks, and accusations. And if you think it’s bad now, just wait a couple of weeks! This one is going to be a real mud wrestling extravaganza!
if the daily show is the “media information station” no wonder a large portion of the youth of America are totally empty headed, and historically ignorant. It appears that it’s easier for liberal youth and adults to regurgitate the lies than investigate the truth
We have a long enough political history that you can trace just about anything anyone can say to someone else. That is what happens in a mature empire. Get used to it.
Google “Two Minute Conservative” for more.
The Clinton machine and the left stream media have nothing better to do than to pick apart every speech made by any Republican??? It’s quite alright that Hillary and Bill has broken laws and gotten away with it but if any Republican/Conservative makes any speech that even remotely sounds like some other speech, they are all over it!!!!! It’s WORDS – get over it!!!!
Maybe the media would more profitably track down the lies that Hillary has told over the years – plenty to keep them busy for job security.
The DNC is running scared. I think there convention will be rather boring, after all they will have to listen to EW who is just as bad as HC – ABSOLUTELY NO TALENT FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING, PLUS THERE IS NOTHING BUT LIES FROM THE MOST CORRUPT AND FOUL MOUTHED POLITICIAN EVER IN AMERICA.
I guess RNC speakers will just have to start using UNUSED words, never before spoken — like kjsihccodham, njsadidmkojbd, and sakjofkjise. They may be hard to pronounce, impossible to understand, but at least noone can claim that they were plagiarized….Just pointing out the idiocy of Lamestream Media Critics. Carry on.
Isn’t that a free form of NEWSPEAK (George Orwell)?