{"id":22848,"date":"2016-07-19T19:44:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=22848"},"modified":"2016-07-19T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T23:44:16","slug":"twilight-sparkle-moonlights-as-a-trump-speechwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/twilight-sparkle-moonlights-as-a-trump-speechwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Sparkle moonlights as a Trump speechwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump gave a speech that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/2016\/07\/18\/melania-trump-michelle-obama\/\" target=snopes>blatantly copied<\/a> Michelle Obama's speech from 2008:<\/p>\n<p><center><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=5041583234001&playerID=1764219419001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRI6UgfPhFgV0s-3wZ2v95n&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=5041583234001&playerID=1764219419001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRI6UgfPhFgV0s-3wZ2v95n&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And that's fine, whatever - people reuse lines and phrases all the time. But what's really weird is that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/7\/19\/12226876\/melania-trump-michelle-obama-rnc-plagiarism-excuses-ranked\" target=_blank>their rush to excuse the plagiarism<\/a>, one of the spokesmen blamed Twlight Sparkle from <i>My Little Pony<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AYHFyY0sRh0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The real Twilight Sparkle is not amused.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is not Pony Princess approved. I&#39;m Twilight Sparkle &amp; do not approve this message \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5DfshRzPJh\">https:\/\/t.co\/5DfshRzPJh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; tara strong (@tarastrong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tarastrong\/status\/755460205245112320\">July 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We live in weird times, mates!<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Hasbro's SDCC exclusives (part 2)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/hasbros-sdcc-exclusives-part-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hasbro's SDCC exclusives (part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - October '12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/flippin-through-previews-october-12\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - October '12<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - September '14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/flippin-through-previews-september-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - September '14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Hasbro announces SDCC exclusive online sale details\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/hasbro-announces-sdcc-exclusive-online-sale-details\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hasbro announces SDCC exclusive online sale details<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"At last! It's her!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/at-last-its-her\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">At last! It's her!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump gave a speech that blatantly copied Michelle Obama's speech from 2008: And that's fine, whatever - people reuse lines and phrases all the time. But what's really weird is that in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/twilight-sparkle-moonlights-as-a-trump-speechwriter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,42],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-22848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-videos","tag-mlp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22851,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848\/revisions\/22851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}