I’m tired of hearing about plagiarism. I don’t give a crap about it and 99% of the time it’s some narrow academic definition of plagiarism that means nothing to anyone not in academia.
OH NOES he plagiarized his own work! She doinked some boring speech that was itself a rehashing of a billion other crappy speeches! It’s the end of the world!
In a hundred years, this era’s obession with originality and plagiarism will seem positively bizarre after culture changes again.
Interesting topic for further research: how and why plagiarism of the minutest variety came be to be such an obsessional topic for so many, when through much of human history the concept as we define it wouldn’t even have made sense to anyone.
She did not choose the best speech to perform for her political theater. It was inappropriate to her emotional range, command of English and the candidate she is promoting. She does not have enough command of irony to pull off meta-satire-in-persona.
Grade: Meh.