Tuesday, September 23, 2008

WHY, JOE WHY?

Joe Biden's Daily Gaffe....

Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"


As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "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?'"

well if you know a little history, he would know that the great depression started in 1929, and president Hoover was in office then, only in 1933 Roosevelt was sworn in as President.

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