tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post7344724168628604128..comments2024-03-27T01:27:21.576-08:00Comments on The Immoral Minority: The Late Show features the best Melania Trump impersonator ever, and the Trump campaign finally got a scapegoat for "speech-gate."Gryphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356503547155430235noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-35951490194516894652016-07-21T21:38:05.687-08:002016-07-21T21:38:05.687-08:00Meredith McIver is a real person.
Did she write ...Meredith McIver is a real person. <br /><br />Did she write Melania's speech? I doubt it. She apparently ghostwrites books for Trump but that's a different skill than speech writing. No, someone on his staff fucked up and McIver is taking the fall. She's a Democrat so she's probably had enough and is ready to leave as long as she gets a big, fat, golden parachute, which I'm sure she will providing she signs that non-disclosure and takes the fall. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-38403449314432488342016-07-21T17:25:34.854-08:002016-07-21T17:25:34.854-08:00No one can convince me that if Donald didn't w...No one can convince me that if Donald didn't write it, he certainly edited the final copy and included the plagiarized bits. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-11301201631680192082016-07-21T17:19:39.180-08:002016-07-21T17:19:39.180-08:00Trump doesn't care.
To him, anyone looking a...Trump doesn't care. <br /><br />To him, anyone looking at his wife's nude pics would just be envious because he OWNS her. <br /><br />His attitude would be, I have the hottest First Lady in the world. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-39997952356679455692016-07-21T17:10:45.774-08:002016-07-21T17:10:45.774-08:00Because the guy forgot to yell "Trick!" ...Because the guy forgot to yell "Trick!" after he said it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-68327207368761130972016-07-21T17:10:05.511-08:002016-07-21T17:10:05.511-08:00Sorry. I believe after McIver wrote the speech, *I...Sorry. I believe after McIver wrote the speech, *IF* she wrote the speech, Donald inserted the Michelle Obama stuff afterwards. <br /><br />Does anyone believe Donald would let Melania give a speech that he hadn't personally signed off on? Or that he wouldn't do any last minute re-writes and punching ups himself?<br /><br />I think Donald is the plagiarist. <br /><br />It probably went something like this: <br /><br />"Here's the speech. I fixed it up for you. If anyone asks, you wrote it all yourself. Got it?"<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-61406545164883548132016-07-21T17:07:02.281-08:002016-07-21T17:07:02.281-08:00Not surprised at all.
Trump has no legal grounds....Not surprised at all.<br /><br />Trump has no legal grounds. It's just him being a bully. <br /><br />But Schwartz has his number. He learned a lot shadowing Trump. Even turned the tables when Trump tried to stick him for half of the expense of the book's roll out party.<br /><br />Tony will keep every penny and donate it where he sees fit. He's already said that the royalties will be going to charities. And if Trump tried to stop royalty payments from this point on, he'll have a lawsuit on his hands and he'll LOSE. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-81355184802510184462016-07-21T17:00:38.067-08:002016-07-21T17:00:38.067-08:00Oh, that's bad.
*IF* they created this 15 ho...Oh, that's bad. <br /><br />*IF* they created this 15 hours ago and used stock photos from the internet, someone is going to find them. Whoever's photo they used is going to come forward and it will just blow up more. <br /><br />Is anyone else surprised that it is a "woman" that is getting the blame?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-18174407624766767982016-07-21T16:58:22.822-08:002016-07-21T16:58:22.822-08:00Sounds like Meredith was promised a bonus for writ...Sounds like Meredith was promised a bonus for writing this speech. Then was told no, that's too much and offered half. Then was told it was still too much and here's $50. <br /><br />She then put a little "polish" on the speech, grabbed the $50 and left the building. <br /><br />I sure hope she's running over to Hillary's campaign. Or SNL. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-6214195404297609772016-07-21T16:53:30.144-08:002016-07-21T16:53:30.144-08:00Is that who it is? She's brilliant.
Wonder i...Is that who it is? She's brilliant. <br /><br />Wonder if she'll be guesting on SNL.<br /><br />Imagine her, Tina Fey and whoever their current Hillary impersonator are, all together doing a The View type thing. It would be hilarious. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-39640078086685314022016-07-21T16:51:38.079-08:002016-07-21T16:51:38.079-08:00I find it interesting they found some low level, u...I find it interesting they found some low level, unknown WOMAN to be the fall guy. Since when would this McIver be given the sensitive and important task of writing Melania's speech. <br /><br />I also find it interesting that some other guy in the campaign already said *he* wrote it. <br /><br />I hope they follow through with legal indictments so the campaign can walk it back again and say no, McIver didn't write the speech and then give us another head on a platter. <br /><br />They're all liars, cheaters and thieves. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-67064214820194719422016-07-21T09:28:56.044-08:002016-07-21T09:28:56.044-08:00Melania will return with her husband to a grand en...Melania will return with her husband to a grand entrance. Family unity is Trump's high point. She needs to be with the family again. so what she made a mistake. She may not want to say a word about that but she needs to speak and come back with fortitude. <br /><br />I am curious how the campaign will handle her today. So far the staff stinks. May be the worst campaign in history. Yeah, they can do some shows and let Donald be Donald, but that is about it. They suck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-39269896226717352952016-07-21T06:58:12.239-08:002016-07-21T06:58:12.239-08:00McIver threw the whole speech together with a pape...McIver threw the whole speech together with a paper clip, a wad of chewing gum off the bottom of Melania's Jimmy Choos and a broken light bulb.<br /><br />Either that or Donald, himself, wrote it.66gardenersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-44481927671106213402016-07-21T05:40:08.305-08:002016-07-21T05:40:08.305-08:00Trump's argument that he can govern the countr...Trump's argument that he can govern the country despite his inexperience is that he will hire the right people----Considering the number of people he has hired to do work for his campaign, he has hired a very large percentage of incompetent people. One can just image what the country would be like if he had more than one thing to focus on and he would compound the number of incompetent appointments. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-26491217233646500242016-07-21T05:30:19.654-08:002016-07-21T05:30:19.654-08:00Yes, but mute them and watch his body language. Wh...Yes, but mute them and watch his body language. What a smarmy, narcissist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-53821215433926634382016-07-21T05:24:00.383-08:002016-07-21T05:24:00.383-08:00What do you mean "if he lies about the little...What do you mean "if he lies about the little things, what about the big things?" HE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-46010507366043493682016-07-21T05:21:16.705-08:002016-07-21T05:21:16.705-08:00Exactly. Either Melania is a liar or she plagiari...Exactly. Either Melania is a liar or she plagiarized. She can't have it both ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-77529839093964603382016-07-21T05:19:11.352-08:002016-07-21T05:19:11.352-08:00Oh please, you should be a paid apologist for the ...Oh please, you should be a paid apologist for the Trump campaign. I mean it, really. I'm sure God just put some gold stars on your chart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-26292685478115403492016-07-21T03:52:41.035-08:002016-07-21T03:52:41.035-08:00I find it interesting that Laura Bush is wearing d...I find it interesting that Laura Bush is wearing dresses much more now than she did as First Lady. <br />BeaglemomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-48030621884476195752016-07-21T03:51:09.123-08:002016-07-21T03:51:09.123-08:00I think the more serious problem is that McIver is...I think the more serious problem is that McIver is saying that Melania herself had read Michelle Obama's speech. Once the text was prepared (by whomever) Melania should have objected to the obvious use of Michelle Obama's words and phrases. Or is she too dumb or bottomed to know what plagiarism is? That letter, while it may indicate infractions by Trump and his henchmen (who never cared about federal law anyway) it also puts the blame for the plagiarism right at Melania's feet.<br />BeaglemomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-50484702208548273352016-07-21T03:24:22.457-08:002016-07-21T03:24:22.457-08:00Steve Schmidt shared insight the campaign handled ...Steve Schmidt shared insight the campaign handled this badly that the public is stupid and are fools. Also the incompetency of the campaign over this and the convention can hurt by not getting donor money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-83386943264595258622016-07-21T01:02:01.569-08:002016-07-21T01:02:01.569-08:00Shame. Shame. Shame. LOL!Shame. Shame. Shame. LOL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-18818691901975878802016-07-21T00:18:45.553-08:002016-07-21T00:18:45.553-08:00 I say lay off her. Melania has apologized (her s... I say lay off her. Melania has apologized (her speech writer, Meredith McIver has). Melania’s not running, either, her husband is. Meredith McIver might have plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech, but this isn’t speech class. Melania Trump (or Meredith McIver) might have exercised some poor, poor judgment, appropriating (well, to you) an experience that she never lived through, but did she really do that, make someone else’s experience her own because she used THAT someone else’s words? “Give me liberty or give me death” was an exclamation by Patrick Henry, but it’s still true, isn’t it? So why can’t I cite it (with no attribution) even if it captures exactly how I feel about democracy? Plus, aren’t we missing Melania’s point? Melania had been a Slovenian, a stranger, finding life in the United States through an arduous process of immersion, assimilation and education—enduring, I reckon, all those sharp stares from natives that even Michelle Obama, a native, would have endured. It isn’t her fault that Donald Trump fell in love with her. Last, her speech writer had approved her speech—shouldn’t that have given her enough of the bona fides? Melania wasn’t in it for academicians, but to make her husband look good during the GOP convention; a carnival that we all now condemn, but admit it—by apologizing, Melania and Meredith McIver JUST HUMANIZED it and gave substance to it (as Trump’s staff scrambled for the most evasive answer it could husband), and by being honest enough to say Melania admired Michelle Obama so that “you just must put this, Meredith, it’s very good.” Academists would give Melania an “F” for cribbing Michelle Obama’s speech, but I say give her a second chance.<br /><br /> Forget Mr. Trump’s apologists— it was they who showed lack of character with their My-Little-Pony act and sarcasm like “if we were going to crib a speech, why crib Michelle—why not Nancy Reagan?,” as if cribbing Mrs. Reagan would have been the more conservative thing to do than cribbing Michelle. The First Lady doesn’t belong to any political party; she belongs to the White House household. Remember Maria Shriver?<br /><br /> No, WE had been the racists. We liked to laugh at Melania because she’s a “stranger,” who “would close the door that let her in,” for no reason other than because she’s Mrs. Trump. But we don’t know that. She likes Michelle Obama, for one, and adored that cribbed passage. In either case, so what? The owner, Michelle, hasn’t complained. Quite the reverse, I’m sure she’s delighted.<br /><br /> Today, Melania and Meredith McIver just sent everybody upstairs, to their room. Shamed us. And that includes me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17781795920875058630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-10433652689908328432016-07-21T00:08:13.200-08:002016-07-21T00:08:13.200-08:00Huh? It reinforces their cheater/con image at a na...Huh? It reinforces their cheater/con image at a nat'l convention. The whole thing is an unmitigated disaster. His NATO remarks to the NY Times sealed it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-59710336717870320792016-07-20T23:58:06.609-08:002016-07-20T23:58:06.609-08:00From Andrew Sullivan:
Can you imagine then-Senator...From Andrew Sullivan:<br />Can you imagine then-Senator Barack Obama weaponizing a 9/11 widow on stage in Denver, in 2008, to rant and rage against George Bush? I’ve never seen anything more stomach-churningly distasteful on a political stage, and I’ve attended a Sarah Palin rally.<br />http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/andrew-sullivan-liveblogs-the-rnc-night-1.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-91696191403264022142016-07-20T22:33:23.703-08:002016-07-20T22:33:23.703-08:00Just watched Bill Maher, and Micheal Moore who was...Just watched Bill Maher, and Micheal Moore who was on the panel, said that there's a chance that Trump will win. He said forty million white men are sick of a black man running this country and they will make it to the polls. If there is this chance then the rest of us Democrats better haul ass to the polls come November. Also, a guest on Bill's show was the guy who ghostwrote Donald's Art of the Deal book to tell people what a sociopath Don really is. So folks it's coming down to the wire. We need to stop Donald from hijacking our country. It won't be good. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com