Bill Murray slammed Bob Woodward’s 1986 book “Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi” as “completely inaccurate” to the point that he began to wonder if “they framed Nixon” during an interview with Joe Rogan published on Saturday.
In comments that begin around the 1:15 mark, Murray said that the alleged inaccuracies in the book had him half-convinced “they framed Nixon.” He said he read “five pages of ‘Wired’” and “all of a sudden, I went, ‘Oh my God, if this is what he writes about my friend that I’ve known, you know, for half my adult life, which is completely inaccurate, talking to the people of the outer, outer circle, getting the story — what the hell could they have done to Nixon?’”
Murry continued in this vein and added, “I just felt like if he did this to my friend like this, and I acknowledge I only read five pages, but the five pages I read, you know, made me want to, like, set fire to the whole thing, James. Five pages I went, ‘If they if he did this to Belushi, what he did in Nixon’s is probably soiled for me too’.”
“I can’t take it,” he continued. “And I know you say, ‘Well, you could have two sources and everything like that’. But the two sources that he had, if he had them for the ‘Wired’ book, were so far outside the inner circle that it was it was criminal, cruel, and the reasoning for it is that the most famous person ever to come from Wheaton, Illinois, is John Belushi.”
Murray later added that Belushi “made whole people’s careers possible,” including his own.
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