Picasso supposedly once said "“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”

Guess that also applies to bullshit artists like Trump and his staff.

BBC version side-by-side

The entire first day of the RNC was a disaster from the get go.

States who, according to rules, wanted a roll call vote on adopting the rules were ignored. The convention secretary was actually hiding out so she didn't have to accept their petition. Colorado walked out. The chair called a voice vote and immediately said the ayes have it as calls for "point of order" rang out all over the venue and were ignored. But, it's OK if you are a Republican. You can just make up your own rules and procedures as you go.

It went downhill from there with a phantasmagoria of stupid and embarrassing, capped off by Melania being used and tossed aside like a cheap prop on a reality TV show.

noun

a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.

Trump campaign now blaming Clinton, saying she is threatened by Melania so Clinton is jut trying to tear her down.

Speech pales in comparison to what was actually said by the others yesterday. It went full circle from a former American Senator Gordon Humphrey referring to Trump supporters as brown shirts to Stephen King intimating that the historical contributions of nonwhite “subgroups” during his MSNBC appearance were less than those of whites, a comment ingeniously prompted by the esteemed Charles Pierce btw.
Meanwhile Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard wants to know if yesterday was a farce or a debacle.

They're actually denying this? And there's a unicorn with a pink horn in my back yard right now.

Mucb better to blame it on a speechwriter, fire him or her, and say sorry, it won't happen again. And it was in no way Melania's fault (which I don't think it was, in spite of her saying yesterday she wrote much of the speech herself).

I heard one pundit on either CNN or MSNBC say last night that Trump's son-in-law has been doing some speechwriting. I have no idea if this is true, but if he wrote the speech last night, it would be tough to fire the speechwriter.

Here is something I've wondered. When two people are married they become one in sight of the law. Right? Melania wasn't born in this country so does that make the Donald's bid for the presidency illegal?

If the Donald believes that president Obama is not an American citizen and is Islam because his father was from Africa and followed Islam, then wouldn't that make Melania Trump communist because it appears that her father was communist? How safe will it be to have a person with a communist upbringing within the walls of the whitehouse?
I'm just using Donald Trump logic again! Again, sorry, I'll try not to do it again.