Fox News Hack Claims Obama Plagiarized George Bush

[meegbear]

Marc Thiessen really is perfect for Fox News. First he tries to pump up his elderly and uninformed viewers ahead of the State of the Union address by telling them that Obama will lie to them, and then afterwards, informs those same Fox viewers that Obama stole his 2007 SOTU written for George W. Bush.

Only in Thiessen's fevered imagination did this happen:

"It was eerily familiar. There were lines like 'Our job is to help Americans build a future of hope and opportunity, a future of hope and opportunity begins with a growing economy, a future of hope and opportunity requires that all citizens have affordable and available healthcare, extending opportunity and hope depends on a stable supply of energy,' all of that came from the 2007 State of the Union from George W. Bush," Thiessen said.

Yeah, not so much. You can read the text of Dubya's 2007 speech here, but you just won't find anything in Obama's speech that matches Dubya's.

Furthermore, the line Thiessen claims was in Obama's speech simply wasn't there. At all. Still, that didn't stop him from making the full-throated claim that Obama plagiarized.

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Fucking douchebag

[hobbit709]

1. No one at Faux News would recognize truth even if it bit them repeatedly on the ass.

They're like what Truman said about Nixon.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. As if any of Bush's speeches are worthy of stealing

[tanyev]

3. So....Thiessen liked the speech?

[Gothmog]

4. According to Dave Wiegel at Slate, this claim is false

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/01/29/bush_speechwriter_accuses_obama_of_plagiarism_for_speech_that_didn_t_copy.html

[RC]

5. Sure, tell them Obama Plagiarized from George Bush, then tell them Obama lied.

Besides being wrong altogether, Marc Thiessen is by extension, saying george bu$h lied also, which we all know he did. These idiots can't understand reality, even when they look up the definition in the dictionary.

re·al·i·ty ( r¶-²l“¹-t¶) n. pl. re·al·i·ties 1. The quality or state of being actual or true.
2. One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual: " the weight of history and political realities " Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
3. The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.
4. That which exists objectively and in fact: Your observations do not seem to be about reality.
5. Philosophy That which has necessary existence and not contingent existence.

Idioms: in reality 1. In fact; actually.

[jmondine]

6. Uh oh... Did Obama say that we need to put food on our family?