COMMENT
Plagiarism, in normal life, is a serious charge and not one
to be uttered lightly, and it is never one to be shouted from the rooftops, but
in politics things are different.
So we see stories everywhere, literally everywhere, saying
Melania Trump “plagiarized” a paragraph from Michelle Obama’s convention speech
of 2008.
In fact, this is a very good measure of how totally bent the
press is against Trump.
Melania is not a politician.
She does not write speeches.
She did not write this speech.
I doubt very much she ever listened to Michelle Obama.
Actually, few people do.
While Melania is a very intelligent woman – she speaks four
languages - how could she possibly know whether a speechwriter on her husband’s
staff borrowed a few phrases?
Clearly, she could not. So how can she be accused of
plagiarizing Mrs. Obama as the press is almost universally asserting?
The whole point of such “speeches” is just to show off a
candidate’s spouse, not really to say anything. All such speeches, including
Mrs. Obama’s of 2008, are just fluff, filler, devoid of significance, excuses
to be put on stage before lights and cameras and to be judged for poise and
tone.
And Mrs. Trump delivered her modest words with great success,
and this genuinely beautiful woman just sparkled on camera.
The press should be ashamed of the accusations, but the
press - as we can see from the way it handles a whole panoply of serious and
deadly world events - no longer has much to do with digging out information and
presenting it with impartiality.
Sadly, its role now is largely as a propaganda machine, one just
as clumsy and obvious in its way as Pravda was in the heyday of the USSR.
