Biden Bias
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 by Jacob TomawWhen the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘look, here’s what happened.’
Joe Biden told Katie Couric this yesterday as part of a longer interview. In case the two big errors are not obvious for you let me quote Jesse (not the weather man BTW) Walker’s reaction:
And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, “Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?”
I don’t think a big deal should be made of this. It is an honest mistake and people make mistakes all the time. Unfortunately we have some to the point where we expect politicians to never make mistakes, especially Presidents. Also, Republican’s know how the liberal voices in the media would react if Pres Bush, VP Quayle, or any other Republican had made the same mistake.
In case you think I am exaggerating and surly this is being covered a lot. Here is a Google News search for the term “Franklin Roosevelt got on the television”. There are only 2 non-duplicate references. One is the CBS story linked to above, which does not call out the errors; all of the duplicates or of this. The other is the story Kristoffer, my brother-n-law, sent me.
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