‘Ask yourself if Michelle Obama would have been given a pass had she done the same thing in 2008?’

[kpete]

......the hypocrisy was too much for Joy Reid to stand by and say nothing. Reid pointed out that if Michelle Obama’s speech had been plagiarized she would not have been given a pass.

“I’ll start by quoting a guy called Tom Nichols, who’s a conservative and very prominent on Twitter, who said, ‘Ask yourself if Michelle Obama would have been given a pass had she done the same thing in 2008?’ I think we’re all very quickly passing the responsibility onto staff. Clearly, this is a campaign that is poorly staffed. I think that has been clear for a long time. But they sent Melania Trump over to Matt Lauer to say that she wrote it [the speech]. But we’re immediately dismissing the idea that she had anything to do with it. I doubt that we would dismiss the idea that Michelle Obama had anything to do with it.

She’s an adult woman. She’s grown up. She has participated in the delivery of this speech. She gave the speech. So I think you have to give responsibility — sure, to the staff, the campaign management has been poor here — but Melania Trump did give the speech and Michelle Obama wouldn’t have gotten a pass.”

http://addictinginfo.org/2016/07/19/watch-joy-reid-has-perfect-response-to-melania-trumps-plagiarized-speech/

[Kingofalldems]

1. Dowdy would have hearings planned already.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. No doubt.

Had GOPers controlled Congress in 2008, congressional investigations would have started immediately.

[Journeyman]

2. Questions for which the answer is known don't need to be asked . . .

[MichiganVote]

3. Congressional hearing, jail or political lynching

[Cosmocat]

5. Been saying this from moment one - had MO did the same thing with Laura Bush's speech

she would have been destroyed, totally, with great vitriol, and universally.

[gratuitous]

6. Come on, people

You expect Melania Trump to come up with her own thoughts about integrity, truthfulness and hard work?

It's doubly astonishing that that's the part someone decided to lift from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech. Like the murderer convicted of killing his parents, pleading for leniency because he's an orphan.

[tenderfoot]

7. Righties would have been all over her like a cheap suit and no "do you feel sorry for Michelle?" ops

from the concerned amongst us.

[treestar]

8. Michelle was not given a pass for anything

she said or did or wore or whatever. The double standard is sickening.

[toddwv]

9. Are you kidding me?

Hell, they would've tried to impeach her.

[Seeinghope]

10. That is what is suppose to make us the Democrats and them The Republicans.

We don't have to reach down to their levels they should try to be reaching up to ours.

Look at their policy pushes on social programs. They are non caring, mean spirited, have the all about me, attitude, they will jump on anything that they can get their lying lizard hands on, to make themselves look better and us worse. So, yes they would have all would have piled on her. So does that mean that we should be going down that slippery slope with them? If so, how much better people are we than them?