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orangecrush

(19,390 posts)
Mon May 7, 2018, 09:49 PM May 2018

Melania Trump Cyberbullying Booklet Appears to Be Copied From FTC Document Released During Obama Adm


Two years ago, Melania Trump copied several lines in her Republican National Convention speech from an address Michelle Obama delivered in 2008. On Monday, Melania Trump formally announced the launch of an anti-cyberbullying initiative. As part of that initiative, the White House released a booklet that, in the words of Melania’s signed introduction, is intended to “help kids act thoughtfully and kindly” online. And, as BuzzFeed News’ Ryan Mac points out, it appears that the booklet was almost completely copied from a document released by the Federal Trade Commission in 2014.


https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/melania-trump-cyberbullying-booklet-apparently-plagiarized.html

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Melania Trump Cyberbullying Booklet Appears to Be Copied From FTC Document Released During Obama Adm (Original Post) orangecrush May 2018 OP
Who the fuck is supposed to be writing !Melania's written words? hedda_foil May 2018 #1
The copy and paste queen of Habitual Plagiarism.... HipChick May 2018 #2
And NO learning curve... dixiegrrrrl May 2018 #3
I tend to agree. Blue_true May 2018 #4
"Meredith McIver" strikes again. NT Adrahil May 2018 #5
This White House is incompetent, so of course her support staff is going to fail. Hortensis May 2018 #6
Never does an original thought enter her mind. She's a clone's clone. nt oasis May 2018 #7
Not only a birther .... LenaBaby61 May 2018 #8

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. And NO learning curve...
Mon May 7, 2018, 11:23 PM
May 2018

You'd think she would learned.
Actually, I think this is something her staff did, trying to find a project for her.
SHE would be highly unlikely to stumble on the source of the plagiarized material. someone had to find it and bring it to her, perhaps as "their" idea.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
4. I tend to agree.
Mon May 7, 2018, 11:30 PM
May 2018

They would have been smarter to attribute the information to it's original source, then add to or modify things that they disagreed with, with footnotes. The clumsiness of their effort is astounding. As far as Melania, she seems to be not much more inquisitive than her husband, so it is easy to see how a hack job work get the green light from her, I doubt that she even read it.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. This White House is incompetent, so of course her support staff is going to fail.
Mon May 7, 2018, 11:41 PM
May 2018

Very unfortunate. Cyberbullying is actually a worthy project, and it'd be great if national discussion wasn't distracted from that. There's no sport in the kick Melania thing, certainly.

LenaBaby61

(6,972 posts)
8. Not only a birther ....
Tue May 8, 2018, 01:13 PM
May 2018

But the Third Lady Melania's a serial plagiarize too.

Her supporters call FLOTUS Obama unclassy and worse. Yet, Melania's the classy one?

Uh NO.

She had a long time to work on her campaign, because she does very little else around that White House. Yet, she's okay knowing that her staff lifted and pasted someone elses hard work on cyber-bullying in her roll out campaign?



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