The Fault, Yes, but the Answer, Also

I was driving home from work tonight when I heard the local radio station interviewing Bob Edwards (whom I'm going to see tomorrow night) about his new biography of Edward R. Morrow.

They played a quote of Morrow's from a special broadcast of his See It Now program in 1954 in which he spoke out against Senator Joe Mccarthy. I thought it just as relevant now, including the line from Caesar:

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men ... who feared ... to defend causes which were unpopular .... The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay ... and whose fault is that? Not really his; he didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it, and rather successfully. Cassius was right, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

That particular program won Murrow a Peabody. Must've taken some real intestinal fortitude to dedicate his whole show to the topic at the time. Apparently, it also heralded the end of the "Red Scare."