Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20502760

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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    They’re currently running interference for treat printers, so blurring the acts of hacks stealing shit is just part of their jobs now.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Journalism is going to be the first field in the west completely replaced by AI. I should probably show some solidarity there, but they really are digging their own graves (and the graves of every other creative industry)

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        There’s an old folktale thing about how vampires can only come in if they’re invited in, and corpo journalism certainly invited them in.