Right on Cue, Twitter Grabs Insanity of Spicer’s Attack and Memes It for All It’s Worth
Rather than apologize for plagiarizing from Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, the entire Trump campaign, and many in the Republican Party have decided to keep the issue alive. There’s no denying Melania Trump, or her speechwriter, plagiarized from Michelle Obama’s speech, but now the Republican National Committee’s Communications Director and Chief Strategist, Sean Spicer, has decided to use My Little Pony as a defense of Melania’s plagiarism, because Michelle Obama said in her 2008 speech, “we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
On CNN Tuesday afternoon, Spicer went ballistic, quoting similar phrases from Kid Rock, John Legend, Public Enemy, Akon, and House of Pain.
“When it comes to the speech, let’s actually put this in perspective,” Spicer said, as the Washington Examiner reports. “We had a 2,000-word statement, we’re talking about 70 words [and] three passages. Melania Trump said, ‘You work hard for what you get in life.’ John Legend said, ‘Work hard to be anything you want in life.’ Kid Rock said, ‘Work hard to be anything you want in life.'”
Of course, at issue is two full paragraphs, not just 70 words, and as a communications director Spicer should know better.
“Melania Trump said, ‘The strength of your dreams and willingness to work for them,'” Spicer continued. “Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony said, ‘This is your dream. Anything you can do in your dreams, you can do now.’ I mean if we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through Google and say, ‘Hey, who else has said them?,’ I could come up with a list in five minutes. And that’s what this is.”
Spicer called it “sad” that “the world introduction” of Melania Trump has been marred by the Clinton campaign. Spicer and other Republicans immediately attacked the Clinton campaign as if they were to blame for the uproar, but in reality the Clinton campaign has said nothing about Melania Trump’s blatant plagiarism, and certainly did not discover the theft.
“I just quoted Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony. She said something similar too, so did Mrs. Obama plagiarize her?”
Just like Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, Spicer called Melania Trump’s plagiarism “common phrases.”
John Legend even weighed in:
Then right on cue, Twitter grabbed the insanity of Spicer’s argument and memed it for all it’s worth — take a look:Â
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Melania Trump by Disney ABC Television Group via Flickr and a CC licenseÂ
Twilight Sparkle via Twitter
Hat tip: Charles Clymer/Facebook