....and the spinning for three gaffes from Plugs is furious:
shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-24-08 10:40 AM
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5. Seems I've seen Roosevelt giving an address
on the t.v. in that time period. t.v. was really new, but the president used it. That clip should be someplace in the archives. I don't know what he talked about though.
sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-24-08 10:47 AM
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9. There was a crash in 1937 too
And FDR did go on tv at other points in his Presidency. TV came out in 1939, so it isn't unreasonable for Joe to have thought there was TV in 1937 too.
sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-24-08 11:11 AM
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15. April 30, 1939
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 11:21 AM by sandnsea
He did a broadcast from the World's Fair. It doesn't have to have happened alot in order for Biden to believe FDR would have done it after the stock market crashed in 1937.
"The 700 reels of motion picture film contain professional and amateur footage, newsreels, movies by government agencies, television filmclips, and videotapes."
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/collec20.html
onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-24-08 12:03 PM
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22. FDR's 1939 World's Fair broadcast was historic: first time a president ever appeared on television
Biden misspoke. Its not a big deal. Concocting excuses for him that don't hold water doesn't really help. I guarantee BIden wasn't thinking about the 1937 crash. And if he knew anything about FDR appearing on TV, it would've been that his first appearance was in conjunction with the 39 World's Fair, not a stock market issue.
Again, its simply not a big deal.
Oh lord if Bush had said this there would be twenty threads.
sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-24-08 12:21 PM
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25. Sure he did, but we don't know how much
And no, I really just don't think he said FDR got on TV after the 1929 crash. If he says he was that confused, fine, but I just don't think he meant that.
Just confused or tired....or maybe being a gaffe machine is sign of sooooooooper genius. Just like sayin...stumbling in answering with err....ahh...I ....uhhh. have never.....I think...uhh.... Is also a sign that a man is really thinking aobout an answere not that he doesn't have one.
onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-24-08 12:38 PM
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26. My guess is that Biden was thinking about FDR's Fireside Chats, particularly this one:
http://www.mhrcc.org/fdr/chat1.html
FDR's first fireside chat, delivered via radio to the nation in eight days after he was inaugurated on March 4 1933, dealt with the "Bank Crisis".
Joe merely muddled up the date and the medium. No biggie.
Like the date, the event, the medium... but hey I think this fool would be great a heartbeat away from the presidency.
wvbygod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-24-08 11:36 AM
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19. This has been a good history lesson if nothing else
I really liked the animal house reference.
This whole campaign needs to lighten up a bit.
Only if it is the democrats making the gaffes.
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27. Don't understand all the fuss. It's a metaphorical anachronism...... Updated at 12:41 PM
Like Custer being out of his cell-phone range when all those Indians were surrounding him in their machine-gun mounted Toyotas.
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