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Original Post Date: 2002-10-02 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 10/2/2002 1:08:37 PM
Caesar Quote Hoax fools Barbara Streisand
[Note: This quote from Caesar has been doing the rounds across the Internet. According to Matt Drudge it is a hoax. This quote was used by people wanting to oppose George Bush. I wonder if this is an example of some cunning enemy propaganda… which may yet backfire? Jan]
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUES OCT 01, 2002 15:02:38 ET XXXXX
STREISAND ADMITS: I WAS DUPED BY SHAKESPEARE INTERNET HOAX
**Update**
You don’t bring me flowers
You don’t read me Shakespeare
You hardly check the spelling anymore
Before you fax Capitol Hill
At the end of the day…
Funny Girl ain’t laughing.
Today the woman who sang Second Hand Rose got burned by second hand prose.
Barbra Streisand now admits she was duped by an internet hoax — but not before she quoted phony Shakespeare passages extensively on stage, before thousands, at this weekend’s National Democratic Gala in Hollywood.
“It was just called to my attention, but it doesn’t detract from the fact that it is powerful and true and beautifully written,” Streisand tells the WASHINGTON POST on Tuesday. “Whoever wrote it is damn talented. I hope he’s writing his own play.”
Streisand received a standing ovation before walking onstage at the Kodak Theater Sunday night to help raise money for Democrats.
To make her case not to go to war against Iraq, Streisand quoted extensively from William Shakespeare — but the quotes were from a William Shakespeare hoax that has been circulating on the internet, a DRUDGE REPORT investigation later revealed.
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“We have the facts on our side, the truth on our side,” Streisand declared in an Alan and Marilyn Bergman-penned monologue, which include a rework of THE WAY WE WERE.
“I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening,” Streisand continued. “Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening… I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable – and very, very frightening…”
Streisand told the crowd: “You know, really good artists have a way of being relevant in their time but great artists are relevant at anytime. So, in the words of William Shakespeare, ‘Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mindAnd when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so.How do I know? For this is what I have done.And I am Caesar.'”
Streisand explained to the audience: “Imagine that was written over 400 years ago It’s amazing how history without consciousness is destined to repeat itself. Sofrom the words of William Shakespeare to the words of Irving Berlin”
But on the morning after the night before, Streisand has been caught up in a Shakespeare internet hoax.
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword…”
The passage may have fit the scene and storyline, but no record of this quote has been found prior to its appearance on the internet [in e-mails] last year.
The quote is NOT FOUND, IN ANY FORM, IN THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, OXFORD EDITION, AT BARTLEBY.COM.
Streisand plans to address the mess in a ‘truth alert’ on her Web site, barbrastreisand.com, later Tuesday.
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Filed By Matt Drudge
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(c)DRUDGE REPORT 2002