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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox
Tough call, but I'd have to side with PennBF on this one.
The "obvious" answers were so easy that clearly one was required to put a little more thinking into it.
We'll never know if the three "correct" answers were the true originators, or if they themselves were paraphrasing something they'd heard, but it is interesting how we are quick to give famous people the credit for things which, often, they have "borrowed" from others.
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Arguably, in view of the fact that so many respondents gave incorrect answers, and named the famous individuals with whom the quotes were associated, ...... they were tricked; thus the questions were trick questions.
But, that aside.........it was an interesting exercise.
In that spirit,
who was behind the phrase "Nattering nabobs of negativism," referring variously to the news media and to political opponents of President Nixon?