Remember when Ben Rhodes spoke about how easy it was to buffalo the relatively ignorant media. He was mostly talking about young ignorant 20 something reporters. But there are plenty of older ignorant reporters as well, as Andrea Mitchell just proved today.

As we previously reported, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the Democrats’ presentation at that impeachment trial was a “lot of sound and fury signifying nothing,” that President Donald Trump would ultimately be acquitted.

But Andrea Mitchell, you know one of those “unbiased reporters,” thought she had Cruz on the ropes with a “gotcha.”

.@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) February 10, 2021

Troublingly, she got thousands of likes on the tweet showing that there were thousands who were as ignorant as she was. She even got this also-ignorant response from the WaPo’s not-conservative, Jennifer Rubin.

and it says volumes about his lack of soul. That’s Any Thinking Person.

— Jennifer ‘America is Back’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 10, 2021

Except, as virtually everyone knows, Cruz is right. Faulkner’s “Sound and Fury” was taken from Shakespeare, some 300 years later. But what perhaps was worse than the basic ignorance of both Mitchell and Rubin, was how sure they were that they were right.

guys…https://t.co/wGH8FxeuL1 pic.twitter.com/fcPBOPZ0p2

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) February 11, 2021

brb, sliding the Mona Lisa out of its frame and replacing it with this pic.twitter.com/i2s9xbaGsW

— Siraj Hashmi in Gitmo (@SirajAHashmi) February 11, 2021

Meanwhile thousands of your culturally illiterate followers who, like you, think of themselves as members of the intellectual elite are RT’ing and liking your hilariously ignorant gaffe.

Maybe it was better when Twitter didn’t coddle you huh

— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) February 11, 2021

It’s Macbeth. You’re trying too hard.

Twitter Pro Tip: Don’t go for the dunk if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. https://t.co/u2K3TOI6yM

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 11, 2021

Imagine thinking you are dunking on Cruz here by showing your complete ignorance of a little old play "Macbeth." https://t.co/k88eYrFRXt

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 11, 2021

Today in tales told by an idiot. https://t.co/bCHiukWA4G

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 11, 2021

The other day somebody said "as Solomon said, to everything there is a season." No, that's The Byrds. https://t.co/ijNjVeY4z1

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 11, 2021

On top of all this, Andrea went to an Ivy League school — a good one, the University of Pennsylvania  — and she got her degree in — wait for it — English literature. Yikes. Maybe she was spending her time there in the 60s on peace and love, but surely not on Shakespeare. But most of us learned this in high school, not even in college.

Mitchell ultimately apologized to Cruz.

I clearly studied too much American literature and not enough Macbeth. My apologies to Sen. Cruz.

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) February 11, 2021

Cruz responded with another line from Shakespeare, this one from Hamlet, “Methinks she doth protest too much.”

Methinks she doth protest too much.

One would think NBC would know the Bard. Andrea, take a look at Macbeth act 5, scene 5:

“[Life] struts & frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound & fury,
Signifying nothing.” pic.twitter.com/3GbvoLSJTh

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 11, 2021

Between NBC & the Washington Post, you’d think somebody would have read Macbeth. pic.twitter.com/RvTgHyTVIg

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 11, 2021

Andrea ultimately conceded, realizing it was better to give up the ghost.

Touché

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) February 11, 2021

HT: Twitchy