Video of Michelle Malkin discussing the similarity of an Obama speech with a 1984 Cuomo speech. Intellectual bankruptcy?
Ed Morrissey: “Michelle Malkin appeared on Fox and Friends .. to discuss the oddly similar speeches that Barack Obama gave [in a speech].. and [one] Mario Cuomo gave .. in 1984. Michelle doesn’t believe that the striking similarities go quite so far a plagiarism, but THAT THEY DEMONSTRATE SOMETHING WORSE — A BANKRUPTCY OF INTELLECT. HAVE DEMOCRATS COME UP WITH AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT IN THE PAST QUARTER-CENTURY?”
Morrissey: “Obama has run on themes of hope and change, and the only way he can express that is to recycle old Mario Cuomo speeches? That is the pinnacle of irony. Obama doesn’t represent the fresh and new, HE CONGLOMERATES THE OLD AND REJECTED FROM DECADES OF DEMOCRATIC RHETORIC. It’s the same old intellectual banckruptcy which lost that 1984 election, and won’t age any better in 2008.” — Ed Morrissey.