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.
Dude, the point is that anarchist and libertarian are the same word, and capitalists stole one and smeared the other.
Lol no.
It’s literally just history, and one of the founders of “anarcho-capitalism” has a direct quote in one of the most read “libertarian” books of all time bragging about how they stole the term from real libertarians, but feel free to be wrong about this one thing, it won’t hurt anything but your own understanding.