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.
“Suspicious were raised early when President Milei departed from his typical Spanish and began speaking not only in perfect English, but with a slight New Hampshire accent. Further concerns were raised at the end of the speech where he told waiting reports to refer any questions to his press secretary CJ Cregg.” /s
I ate your onion and was about to quibble about the New Hampshire accent.
“Okay, what’s next?”
What it it with right wingers and stupid hair?
The image they project is all a part of the grift. All style, no substance.
They need to look like cartoon characters to hold short bursts of attention from their fans.
The West Wing was great - I’d take a President Bartlett over our present options any day.
Literally two weeks ago at the White House for the 25th anniversary of the show… what an insane orator.
Yall… “libertarian” isn’t necessarily right or left.
It is important to notice that political labels mean different things in different parts of the world and at different points of time.
In contemporary US politics libertarian is usually used to describe a set of political values that advocate liberal social policies with conservative economic policies. This means they don’t fit neatly on a left/right spectrum because they (mostly) align with Democrats on social issues and Republicans on economic issues.
Libertarians can be seen as left of the right and right of the left.
He’s a right wing extremist. Like all libertarians.
That’s inaccurate, there’s no such thing as a right wing libertarian, just a fascist who wants corporations to absorb the state instead.
Yeah, we’re saying the same thing. I’ve never met a libertarian that wasn’t in favor of Corporate Feudalism.
Not quite.
I’m saying they aren’t libertarians.
Then there are no libertarians.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Might want to read the first couple of paragraphs
Yup that reads like they let a libertarian write it. But none of those individual freedoms mean a damn when they go after the government protecting them. Ergo, they are either supporters of Corporate Feudalism or useful idiots for the would-be Aristocracy.
But… there are libertarians, this is an objective fact… Some folks are so extremely left that any other political opinion is to the right of them. You may need to come back a little towards the center.
Edit: In contemporary US politics libertarian is usually used to describe a set of political values that advocate liberal social policies with conservative economic policies. This means they don’t fit neatly on a left/right spectrum because they (mostly) align with Democrats on social issues and Republicans on economic issues.
This is just objectively wrong…
