FDR’s Television Appearence, By Way of Joe Biden’s Memory

Ben Smith:

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,”

Uhhh… Joe? 

Don’t you mean Radio?  Which of the Fireside chats he had was sent out on the television networks? Go ahead, Joe, Pick one:

1. On the Bank Crisis – Sunday, March 12, 1933
2. Outlining the New Deal Program – Sunday, May 7, 1933
3. On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program – Monday, July 24, 1933
4. On the Currency Situation – Sunday, October 22, 1933
5. Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress – Thursday, June 28, 1934
6. On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security – Sunday, September 30, 1934
7. On the Works Relief Program – Sunday, April 28, 1935
8. On Drought Conditions – Sunday, September 6, 1936
9. On the Reorganization of the Judiciary – Tuesday, March 9, 1937
10. On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress – Tuesday, October 12, 1937
11. On the Unemployment Census – Sunday, November 14, 1937
12. On Economic Conditions – Thursday, April 14, 1938
13. On Party Primaries – Friday, June 24, 1938
14. On the European War – Sunday, September 3, 1939
15. On National Defense – Sunday, May 26, 1940
16. On National Security – Sunday, December 29, 1940
17. Announcing Unlimited National Emergency – Tuesday, May 27, 1941 (the longest fireside chat)
18. On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas – Thursday, September 11, 1941
19. On the Declaration of War with Japan – Tuesday, December 9, 1941
20. On Progress of the War – Monday, February 23, 1942
21. On Our National Economic Policy – Tuesday, April 28, 1942
22. On Inflation and Progress of the War – Monday, September 7, 1942
23. Report on the Home Front – Monday, October 12, 1942
24. On the Coal Crisis – Sunday, May 2, 1943
25. On Progress of War and Plans for Peace – Wednesday, July 28, 1943
26. Opening Third War Loan Drive – Wednesday, September 8, 1943
27. On Tehran and Cairo Conferences – Friday, December 24, 1943
28. State of the Union Message to Congress – Tuesday, January 11, 1944
29. On the Fall of Rome – Monday, June 5, 1944
30. Opening Fifth War Loan Drive – Monday, June 12, 1944

Now… tell us…Who is it that’s out of touch again?

Good Lord… and we’re wondering if Sarah Palinis qualified to be Presdient? Why, when there’s so much more to worry about with this guy?

Face it, Barry. You made the wrong choice. It’s

Addendum (Bit):

Billy raises a point I’d thought of, but neglected to mention in my haste to get this posted and things done here at work too… and adds one I’d not thought of.

Let’s not even go into the whole “experimental TV set” thing, okay? I think that’s been done well enough. How long must we dwell on the fact that the crumb, Roosevelt, was over three years away from the White House “when the stock market crashed”? Not long, I think.

The thing that’s really important to understand here is the fact that creatures like this meld October 1929 and The Great Depression together as one monolithic edifice of history, and naturally with the savior FDR over-arching all.

Well, of course, Biden is going to invoke Democrat party Deity, and compare himself and the top of the ticket to said Democrat party Deity.  While a little frightening, it’s telling I think, that the truth had to be so badly mangled to be able to work the FDR mantra into the talking points.

Says Billy:

…the pious lie has murdered understanding…

Well, I dunno. Among some people… the Democrat party base, for example, perhaps. I suppose their understanding STARTED fouled up, though, so nothing lost there. We will always see this stuff coming back again until such time as people with actual braincells take over the conversation.  I think however, that the amount of attention being called to this by mere citizens such as ourselves, does aid us to that end, by aiding  the electorate’s understanding of what and whom we’re dealing with.

And sometimes, laughter is the best weapon against such nonsense.