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  • 2016-07-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Michelle Obama Plagiarized Her 2008 DNC Speech from Stephen R. Covey (en)
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  • During the brouhaha that erupted after Donald Trump's wife Melania delivered a speech at the July 2016 Republican National Convention in which it was pointed out that several phrases appeared to have been lifted almost verbatim from First Lady Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech of 2008, one of the defenses social media users floated on behalf of Melania Trump was the claim that Obama herself had borrowed similar wordings from author Stephen R. Covey: Covey, who died in 2012, was indeed the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit, The Third Alternative and other books of offering nuggets of inspirational wisdom for people to use in their business and personal lives. However, nowhere in 7 Habits, The 8th Habit or any of his other books were we able to find the passage quoted above, or even any of the central phrases comprising it. In fact, no part of the passage was publicly attributed to Stephen R. Covey before it began turning up on Facebook the day after Melania Trump's speech, 19 July 2016, which appears to be the date on which it was first published anywhere. (en)
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