Hilarious But True: Top 10 Bidenisms

 9. Incorrectly stated FDR’s years in office and said there were household TV’s in the 20’s.

No one can know everything about every field, but when you’re going to be in the history books, it helps to remember when what happened in them. For instance, Joe Biden said that FDR addressed the nation on television in 1929 when the stock market crashed. Televisions were only experimental at the time, but it’s understandable to not know exactly when the television became widely available. However, he did not recall correctly who addressed the America during the crash. In fact Herbert Hoover was president in 1929 when the stock market crashed, not FDR as Biden claimed:

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.”

What’s even more ironic is that earlier in the conversation he was saying how important is was for people to know what they’re talking about.