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Offline SCarpelan

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« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2016, 05:05:29 am »
Call me nitpicking, but isn't there a rule against announcing yourself as a ghostwriter?

If there is such a rule I don't think it applies when it's made explicit in the cover of the book in question.

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Schwartz had ghostwritten Trump’s 1987 breakthrough memoir, earning a joint byline on the cover, half of the book’s five-hundred-thousand-dollar advance, and half of the royalties.

And Trump still makes statements like “We need a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ” He doesn't give a fuck about any evidence when he lies.

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« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2016, 05:31:31 am »
But Crooked Hillary has e-mails and Benghazi and voted for the Iraq War.
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« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2016, 06:29:29 am »
To be fair, I'd tell my principles to fuck right off just for the $250 000, never mind the royalties. That's just me, though.

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Re: National Elections Thread
« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2016, 09:17:43 am »
Have this bit of cancer I found.

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« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2016, 10:14:39 am »
She plagiarized also someone else. When I heard the speech I knew I wouldn't be the only one to catch this.

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« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2016, 10:46:04 am »
Oh so a few word were changed around but the essence of what she was saying and the fact that what she was saying copied Michelle Obama beat by beat isn't Plagiarism?
Melania clearly didn't know what she was going to be saying before that speech. They probably handed it to her five minutes before she went out to say it. I mean she sounds like a fucking robot reciting lines typed into a computer.
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« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2016, 12:14:41 pm »
If there is such a rule I don't think it applies when it's made explicit in the cover of the book in question.

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Schwartz had ghostwritten Trump’s 1987 breakthrough memoir, earning a joint byline on the cover, half of the book’s five-hundred-thousand-dollar advance, and half of the royalties.

And Trump still makes statements like “We need a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ” He doesn't give a fuck about any evidence when he lies.

Odd, I thought ghostwriters didn't get credited. That's what makes them ghostwriters instead of just authors.

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Re: National Elections Thread
« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2016, 04:08:24 pm »
So day 1 of the GOP Convention.



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Re: National Elections Thread
« Reply #23 on: July 19, 2016, 04:32:30 pm »
Well, according to my RNC bingo card, if someone drops the line "Crazy Bernie" or if Mike Tyson makes an appearance and Trump talks about his peepee, then I have a bingo.
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« Reply #24 on: July 19, 2016, 05:26:46 pm »
-insert colorful Nazi reference to Trump and modern Republican party-
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« Reply #25 on: July 19, 2016, 07:28:26 pm »
I love the defence to the charge of plagiarism: "this concept that Michelle Obama invented the English Language is just wrong"

The fact she did this on a day when someone spoke at the convention saying White people had contributed more to civilization than any other race is pretty spectacularly funny. (Although in fairness he was probably talking about the game "Civilization". I mean was Sid Mier white?)

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« Reply #26 on: July 19, 2016, 07:28:48 pm »
Because Plagiarism is better story.

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« Reply #27 on: July 19, 2016, 07:33:17 pm »
And because at this point racism is basically the GOP's hat, it's like beating a dead horse (granted it's a dead horse that needs to be beaten repeatedly cause if not, people will forget about it and that's not a good thing.)

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« Reply #28 on: July 19, 2016, 07:35:31 pm »
Oh dear grief this is disgusting:

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« Reply #29 on: July 19, 2016, 07:48:12 pm »
Heh, I remember that picture from the 2008 primaries. Ah, good times.