Leftist Excuses Plagiarized Speeches by Obama, Biden

"It’s one thing to be a plagiarist. It’s another thing to be a moronic plagiarist.”

On Tuesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, panelist John Heilemann was up in arms over Melania Trump's alleged theft of Michelle Obama's speech from the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying her doing so was much worse than when Barack Obama and Joe Biden did the same.

Heilemann added that whoever was responsible for writing the speech for Mrs. Trump is "too stupid to be employed." Co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed, saying, "What frustrates me is Melania’s story and Melania in her own words is very effective. A lot of that was, obviously. She speaks multiple languages. She could have done so much with it, and some jerk put in a speech from Michelle Obama’s 2008—how does that happen?”

However, Brzezinski noted that Obama was accused of plagiarism by Hillary Clinton in 2008, as well, for supposedly copying text from a speech by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Joe Biden was discovered as a plagiarist in 1987, lifting from a law review article he wrote in law school and from a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock, according to Washington Free Beacon.

But for Heilemann, that's not that big of a deal since both Obama and Biden stole from fellow Democrats:

“For Joe Biden to plagiarize Neil Kinnock is wrong. But Joe Biden is a Democrat. Neil Kinnock is a Labor Party politician. The same thing’s true with Barack Obama, Deval Patrick. Somebody got it in their mind when they were under pressure, stressed out, trying to get this speech together for her, to cut-and-paste Michelle Obama’s speech at the Trump campaign. It’s one thing to be a plagiarist. It’s another thing to be a moronic plagiarist.”

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