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OMG - who wrote this ending part of the speech? Disney? (Original Post) dhol82 Feb 2019 OP
It sounds like a parody. madaboutharry Feb 2019 #1
Are you sure it's the ending?????? Is there hope????? nt LAS14 Feb 2019 #2
Lawrence Welk?? EveHammond13 Feb 2019 #3
Cut and paste C_U_L8R Feb 2019 #4
I bet Stephen Miller riverwalker Feb 2019 #5
Melania probably lifted it from a movie she saw last week. TheBlackAdder Feb 2019 #6
Now that would make sense. dhol82 Feb 2019 #10
As I posted elsewhere, it reminded me of this scene from "The Birdcage" dflprincess Feb 2019 #7
That was the entire speech, pretty much. Oneironaut Feb 2019 #8
This little Nazi: dalton99a Feb 2019 #9
Yet he mocked Poppy BUSH/NOONAN's "thousand points of light"!1 UTUSN Feb 2019 #11
Nate Silver said it sounded like bad writing from high school composition class Awsi Dooger Feb 2019 #12
I was waiting for the patriotic music to start and flags unfurling from the ceiling dhol82 Feb 2019 #13

C_U_L8R

(44,997 posts)
4. Cut and paste
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 11:33 PM
Feb 2019

There were clearly different writers and the pieces certainly didn't fit together. That fluffed up ending was just absurd.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
5. I bet Stephen Miller
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 11:33 PM
Feb 2019

It has the “Ted Bundy pretending to be a nice guy” with over the top platitudes.

Oneironaut

(5,491 posts)
8. That was the entire speech, pretty much.
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 11:33 PM
Feb 2019

Here's a list of soundbites that will create applause! I will now read them off for an hour and a half.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
12. Nate Silver said it sounded like bad writing from high school composition class
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 12:02 AM
Feb 2019

I didn't watch but I just read the 538 live blogging transcript. Near the end Nate was fixated on the awful caliber of writing, then the 538 panel debated whether writing mattered in a situation like this.

dhol82

(9,352 posts)
13. I was waiting for the patriotic music to start and flags unfurling from the ceiling
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 12:10 AM
Feb 2019

It was done in the finest fascist style.
Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud.

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