Sampling
How is everyone having sampled "fired up and ready to go" (Obama first, then Clinton and McCain) different than Obama sampling Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's "just words" riff? There's nothing to get into here. It's small. The desperation of the Clinton team is sad. Obama and Clinton are now in a statistical dead heat in Texas and they're scared.
What I'm about to say I say as an effete white guy who's owned exactly two hip-hop albums in his life (Dr. Dre's The Chronic and Wu Tang Clan Forever), but there's a reason that sampling -- the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an element of a new recording -- became a common music industry practice in the '90s without this or that performer freaking out and yelling "plagiarism!" like Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson did yesterday.
Obama wasn't stealing from Gov. Patrick by taking his words -- he was reusing them as an element in an Obama speech. (He said the words a bit differently than Patrick, employing that special Obama pizazz.) You can't expect the Hillary whitebreads to understand this, but this is basically why Obama said earlier today it's "no big deal." I also think he could have observed the rules and attributed the quote to Patrick, but to have done so would have interfered with the rhythm, and for a gifted orator rhythm is more than half the game. So that was another factor.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 18, 2008 at 2:44 PM
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D.Z.
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I wonder which voters Billary will screw over this time. I'm betting on the Latinos.
Posted by D.Z.
at February 18, 2008 3:25 PM
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dangovich
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Amen.
Posted by dangovich
at February 18, 2008 4:05 PM
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DarthCorleone
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I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any stump speech in the history of politics that doesn't recycle at least one inspirational platitude
Posted by DarthCorleone
at February 18, 2008 4:18 PM
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Arran
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/children_childrens_children_stop
Posted by Arran
at February 18, 2008 4:28 PM
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americanrat
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I have written speeches for CEOs, mayors, council members, state commissioners and governors, everything from a few words at a ribbon cutting to major policy statements. This type of thing happens all the time. For Hillary Inc. to get so worked up about shows how pathetic and desperate they are.
She's unfit to be commander in chief. She thinks it's stressful now . . .
Posted by americanrat
at February 18, 2008 4:28 PM
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thegreatmags
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heh, "effete". Yeah I don't really think this is an issue.
Posted by thegreatmags
at February 18, 2008 4:29 PM
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AJW
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"the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an element of a new recording -- became a common music industry practice in the '90s without this or that performer freaking out and yelling 'plagiarism!'"
Are you serious? Does Barack sing his dings?
Posted by AJW
at February 18, 2008 4:33 PM
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AJW
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Also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_biden#1988
Posted by AJW
at February 18, 2008 4:35 PM
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D.Z.
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"there's a reason that sampling -- the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an element of a new recording -- became a common music industry practice in the '90s without this or that performer freaking out and yelling "plagiarism!" like Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson did yesterday."
Sean Combs is the exception.
Posted by D.Z.
at February 18, 2008 4:45 PM
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bishopprice
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The funniest thing to come out of all this so far is listening to Lou Dobbs completely miss the point and context of Obama's borrowed line. Dobbs commented that regardless if it turns out to be plagiarism or not, Obama and Deval have some explaining to do about "I have a dream" and "We hold these truths..." being "just words". Incredible.
Posted by bishopprice
at February 18, 2008 4:48 PM
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D.Z.
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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/moviepresidentsday.html
Posted by D.Z.
at February 18, 2008 4:48 PM
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BurmaShave
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If Obama is supposed to be stealing from Deval Patrick's responses to Kerry Healey, how is Hillary not stealing from her when she says "my opponent makes a good speech, etc." This is getting retarded.
Posted by BurmaShave
at February 18, 2008 6:04 PM
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Wrecktum
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I'm stealing from my father when I say "fuck these fuckers."
Posted by Wrecktum
at February 18, 2008 6:13 PM
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DarthCorleone
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Wrecktum>> I think your dad stole that from my dad! :- )
Posted by DarthCorleone
at February 18, 2008 7:11 PM
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K. Bowen
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I have a more important topic .... why do Democratic nominees always seem to have such wheels-off wives?
Posted by K. Bowen
at February 18, 2008 9:47 PM
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Wrecktum
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Because they're independent women. Not Stepford sheeple.
Posted by Wrecktum
at February 18, 2008 10:38 PM
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christian
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Yup, men all over the world and in this country, are still scared to death of women.
And btw, if you want to terrify Muslim terrorists, a woman in charge is just the thing. Right DH?
Posted by christian
at February 19, 2008 7:50 AM
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truefaith
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So Obama and Hillary are "statistically" in a dead heat in Texas. Isn't that similar to what they said in California?
Posted by truefaith
at February 19, 2008 10:37 AM
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BurmaShave
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The people of Wisconsin and Hawaii didn't seem to give a fuck about any of this. Nice try Hillary. I believe the words I'm looking for, not my own, are "Booyah".
Posted by BurmaShave
at February 20, 2008 2:11 AM