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Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet
Argentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.
“It seems like fiction, but it isn’t,” the left-leaning Buenos Aires newspaper Página 12 reported on Friday, claiming Milei had “copied, word for word, a monologue” by the television show’s fictional president, Josiah “Jed” Bartlet.
Suspicions over Milei’s address surfaced this week when the political columnist Carlos Pagni flagged the “extraordinary” similarities between part of the president’s speech and words uttered by Martin Sheen’s Bartlet 21 years earlier. “Didn’t anyone else notice?” Pagni wrote in the newspaper La Nación, before transcribing the words of both men.
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he’s arguably the shittiest world leader on the planet right now but god damn if he isn’t funny to watch from the other side of the planet
Libertad para plagiar Carajoo!!
Aaron Sorkin is rolling in his grave
Don’t worry, they do that for a bit sometimes
Okay but honestly Martin Sheen’s Spanish language speech comparing Ayn Rand and Eva Peron seemed pretty out of place during the show’s original run.
Of all the things to plagiarize…
At least
plagiarized another politico
libertarian schlock therapy
ctrl + 4 “west wing” and you will find the video in this article
