Shakespearean tragedy: MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell is left red-faced after wrongly fact-checking Ted Cruz

Daily Mail ^ | 2-11-2021 | HOLDEN WALTER-WARNER

[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.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.

[Cuttnhorse]

Never mind the English Lit degree, she’s in my age cohort which had MacBeth taught in high school.

Yep, remember it well!!

[odawg]

Shakespeare has been canceled, and anyone who quotes him is a white supremacist. So there. Mitchell cannot be help because she is too pure in her thinking.

[Fido969]

[DPMD]

The trouble with the news presenters is that they think they’ve become stars, and rush to exhibit themselves as learned and educated. In truth, I doubt that this individual ever even got close to a work by either Shakespeare of Faulkner.

[colorado tanker]

Quick, Twitter, ban Ted Cruz! He embarrassed the MSM! That’s incitement to riot!

[Fido969]

The trouble with the news presenters is that they think they’ve become stars, and rush to exhibit themselves as learned and educated.

[Jrabbit]

Ted Cruz should ban himself....two faced back stabber.
Go read his interview where he blames Trump for the “insurrection”
He’s a weasel 🤬

[Flash Bazbeaux]

In fact it is part of a larger passage, every line of which is memorable

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

[MikeHu]

She was there — helping Lincoln free the slaves.

Oh, that was Brian Williams.

[ridesthemiles]

IS she still married to Greenspan???

[1Old Pro]

You know you lost the media when they actually attack Republicans instead of reporting news.

[Albion Wilde]

Mitchell saw this as an opportunity to needle Cruz, tweeting '@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner.'
Mitchell was right in thinking that The Sound and Fury was a novel by William Faulkner, which came out in 1929. But Faulkner used the words from Macbeth, which predates Faulkner's novel by over 300 years.

Reminds me of that great moment in Saturday Night Fever (1977) when Stephanie goes out for coffee with Tony (John Travolta). She mentions “Romeo And Juliet.” He says, “I read that in high school. Shakespeare, right?”

She says, “No, Zeffirelli.” (director of the 1968 movie, Romeo and Juliet.)

[Getready]

This event epitomizes why our big media players should be boycotted and financially destroyed. They know nothing and deliver lies. To prove it to yourself...choose a topic you know a lot about....pull up mainstream media reports about the topic....look at the shaded narrative and the misapplication and misreporting they do.
That should be enough to realize how worthless they are.

[FamiliarFace]

I went to Catholic grade school, and I’m quite certain I’d learned several famous Shakespeare quotes in my 7th or 8th grade English classes. I remember one nun in particular had us read from many, many different authors.

[NWFree]

I can’t believe anyone is still stupid enough to watch that old leftist bag anymore she’s older than dirt and just as dumb.

[who knows what evil?]

Ye gads...she’s only 74???

[Timocrat]

Andrea Mitchell speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any woman in all Washington. Her reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.( With apologies to some hack writer from Stratford)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Charlotte Clymer saw the humor in it all, writing, 'The dunking on Andrea Mitchell for a silly goof referencing a novel that is far more famous for the words than the original phrase in which they were coined is peak Twitter.'

Clymer is, well, a Clymer.

Most people took Shakespeare in high school and the play they probably studied was Macbeth, a fine study in propaganda as entertainment although they probably did not learn about that part.

But they probably were required to memorize those lines.

Far more people know Shakespeare then read 'The Sound and the Fury' which is a boring and pretentious bunch of fluff. Sanctuary at least had a plot if a predictable one.

[MAAG]

One of the best episodes of Jeopardy.

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