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Chris Matthews misquotes Shakespeare, then attributes quote to Edward R Murrow.

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Sun, 04/09/2006 - 10:42am
SpinyNorman
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Chris Matthews ended his Sunday Show with the words, "The future lies not in our stars, but in ourselves" and attributed the quote to Edward R Murrow.  Wrong on 2 counts, Chris!  The quote is actually "The Fault, Dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings" and hails from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".

Sure - Murrow used the line, and I suspect that Matthew's source of the error was the 2005 Film "Good Night and Good Luck", in which the Murrow character climaxes a rant objurgating the Junior Senator from Wisconsin with "Cassius was right - The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves.  Good night, and good luck.", but c’mon Chris – Was this really the first time you had heard the line?

Question Chris – “Beware the Ides of March” – let me guess – Bo Brice?

Give a Liberal a thought and he'll repeat it mindlessly all day.  Teach a Liberal to think for himself and he'll vote Republican (or, preferably, Libertarian) for the rest of his life.

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