Recently there has been a controversy about a speech that Barack Obama gave that was "plagiarized". There was a clamor about his speech being lifted from a speech that was given by the Governor of Massachusetts. The coverage on this issue has ranged from non-existent to calling the Illinois senator lazy.
To be honest, I think it's all getting blown out of proportion. The speech in question contains about 30 seconds of material that Barack Obama borrows from friend Deval Patrick. The two more or less collaberoted over the material, according to Deval Patrick, and seems as though it could have easily have been Deval Patrick being made as the scapegoat had Barack given his speech first. Or more likely, it would have been a non-issue.
The coverage that I saw on the news last night did the two speeches more injustice than justice. From the two mini-clips, it appeared to me as though Barack Obama was mocking Deval Patrick. Obama delivered his speech with more passion than Patrick, if you ask me, and since both programs I watched last night played Deval Patrick's speech first, it gave it that appearance.
In reality, Barack Obama was answering Hillary Clinton's criticism that he was all words and rhetoric, implying that he had no substance.
It's just another example of how news organizations aren't careful on how they report their stores, and an example of people trying to bring others down.
So if I, a conservative, whom is supposed to be one of the ones that would leap on a story such as this, can write it off as a complete non-issue, do you think we can get the media to do the same and focus on important things such as issues, hmmm?
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