Sad!

I know our memories are short, but really. Apparently Melania told NBC that she wrote her own speech with as little help as possible. Someone has suggested that she got burned by a trickster speechwriter.



To be fair, all that is canned BS, and Michelle Obama is not likely the first person to utter those very same words. But, it is kind of embarrassing, to say the least, when cut into a video like that.

Having said that, I wouldn't pull out My Little Pony to back me up.

Here is the RNC'a chief strategist citing My Little Pony to argue that Melania Trump did not plagiarize her speech pic.twitter.com/eRifu41wHC

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 19, 2016

 And as if that isn't enough, there's this...

Rickrolling is a prank and an Internet meme involving an unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a type of bait and switch using a disguised hyperlink. Those led to the music video believing that they were accessing some unrelated material are said to have been rickrolled.

[...]

Rickrolling is said to have begun as a variant of an earlier prank from the imageboard 4chan known as duckrolling,[1][5] in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The user at that point is said to have been "duckrolled".

  Wikipedia

Again, to be fair, it would be Melania who got rickrolled by her speechwriter, who's probably under the age of 25.   Or, more in keeping with the Trump campaign, one of his kids.  Like a freshmen who has to write an essay on a subject he knows nothing about,  and hasn't even begun research until the night before it's due, her speechwriter hits the internet and Google searches "first lady speech" and throws in a couple lines from a song he thinks would be a good theme for the campaign.  There you go.  Excellent speech.

Seriously, that's the level of the Trump campaign so far.  Why should the missus be expected to come up with something better?

Or maybe she did it herself.  She's a jewelry designer and a model.  He didn't marry her for her intellect, I'm guessing.  I'm thinking she should get props for anything she does beyond pose and smile.

But, this may be the best part:

Aides to the presumptive Republican nominee are scrambling to move past the imbroglio after a passage in Melania Trump's speech Monday night, which headlined the Republican National Convention's opening night, closely mirrored a portion of Michelle Obama's address to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said at a Bloomberg Politics event Tuesday morning he'd "probably" fire whoever was responsible for including plagiarized quotes, though he added: "It all kinda depends on the circumstances and how these things are written."

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It's set off infighting and finger-pointing within Trump's campaign, and two sources told CNN that Donald Trump himself is furious about it.

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Earlier in the day, Melania Trump told NBC's Matt Lauer: "I read once over it, that's all, because I wrote it ... with (as) little help as possible."

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Trump's aides chalked the controversy up to media bias and blamed Hillary Clinton's campaign.

  CNN

??

On the other hand, I'm going to go out on a limb, because I didn't watch any of the spectacle, and say that I bet all the other speeches last night were infinitely more objectionable.