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Shakespearean tragedy: MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell is left red-faced after wrongly fact-checking Ted Cruz
Daily Mail ^ | 2-11-2021 | HOLDEN WALTER-WARNER

Posted on 02/11/2021 8:35:04 AM PST by HogsBreath

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell was ridiculed online on Wednesday after she tried calling Sen. Ted Cruz out on a literary reference, only to get it wrong herself.

While speaking about the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump on America's Newsroom, Cruz referenced Shakespeare, saying 'It's reminiscent of Shakespeare [in] that it is full of sound and fury, and yet signifying nothing.'

The line is from Macbeth, one of the most famous plays William Shakespeare ever wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cruz; mitchell; msnbc
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To: HogsBreath

Oh, how rich!!! And the Twitter comments are genius.

Cruz is very smart, indeed.


21 posted on 02/11/2021 8:54:04 AM PST by hoe_cake (A Descendent of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: Red Badger

Ha!!! Very funny indeed. Here, in the midst of Shakespeare, we quote SLN! Good one.


22 posted on 02/11/2021 8:55:13 AM PST by hoe_cake (A Descendent of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: HogsBreath

I tried the link - that website is completely unusable at least on my iPhone


23 posted on 02/11/2021 8:55:37 AM PST by enumerated
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To: enumerated
I tried the link - that website is completely unusable at least on my iPhone.

I went there to see some ads, and bits of content kept getting in my way.

24 posted on 02/11/2021 9:00:05 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: HogsBreath

Cruz is a lot smarter than most of his media critics. I’d expect he’ll be permanently banned from Twitter and other social media soon enough, so he’d better enjoy making fools of them while it lasts.


25 posted on 02/11/2021 9:02:59 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ml/nj
No educated person should need to check this at all.

There are several generations of voters who know nothing about Shakespeare except that he's a dead white male who they should ignore.
26 posted on 02/11/2021 9:04:29 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: HogsBreath

The media people are generally dumb as boxes of rocks.


27 posted on 02/11/2021 9:05:23 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: HogsBreath
Cruz: "It's reminiscent of Melville in that Mitchell is 'spitting her last breath at thee.'"

Mitchell: "Actually, that's Kahn."

-PJ

28 posted on 02/11/2021 9:09:07 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Well, he obviously ripped off that LL Cool J movie:


29 posted on 02/11/2021 9:17:58 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: HogsBreath

Watching Andrea Mitchell cry the night Hillary lost the primaries to Obama in 2008 was very satisfying.


30 posted on 02/11/2021 9:18:21 AM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: HogsBreath

Andrea Mitchell thinks William Shakespeare is something you order at the bar how some talking heads get a job we will never know.


31 posted on 02/11/2021 9:21:24 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Sirius Lee

I don’t think Andrea paid much attention in English Literature class.

She was too busy looking for a rich older man to marry.


32 posted on 02/11/2021 9:24:50 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: HogsBreath

33 posted on 02/11/2021 9:25:55 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: HogsBreath

This is typical snarky, smugness emanating from the absolute sense of superiority of the new American priestly class.

I’m surpried they didn’t “memory hole” the quote from MacBeth to prove Faulkner said it first. (THose darn hard-copies in home libraries!)


34 posted on 02/11/2021 9:26:18 AM PST by TrumpetteNJ
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To: HogsBreath

If she didn’t know where the title of Faulkner’s novel came from, it’s a bit of a stretch for her to say she studied American Literature.


35 posted on 02/11/2021 9:26:48 AM PST by ALPAPilot
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.


36 posted on 02/11/2021 9:31:45 AM PST by seowulf
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To: HogsBreath

OK, Ted, now suggest that the hearings are leading into a Shakespearean Brave New World,

“How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world
That has such people in’t!”

ands wait for Andrea Mitchell to claim that was Aldous Huxley, not Shakespeare!


37 posted on 02/11/2021 9:33:38 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: HogsBreath

What should ANYONE expect from a fairly ugly woman who marries a really ugly man-= Alan Greenspan (guess it has to be luuuuv— or is that a quote from High Times?). What’s in a Name? (heh)— a Federal Reserve private bank banker whose name is translated from some Romanian language name which has no translation to it. Compare photos of the two-
she married her twin.

And the other plug ugly— the truly insane Jennifer Rubin. Certifiable and needs professional help.

If they had read Macbeth for content they might not have developed in to who they are... harpies.


38 posted on 02/11/2021 9:37:43 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Red Badger

Somebody must give a shiite. She makes big bucks for spouting propaganda.


39 posted on 02/11/2021 9:38:54 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

That is her only job, spouting propaganda.........................


40 posted on 02/11/2021 9:39:45 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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