Biden (pictured) complained to Couric, “I know the Republicans are going to take anything I say, no matter what it would be or anybody, and take it out of context.”
About the rocky week on Wall Street, Biden had this to say:“Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people ... this is how we can fix this,” Biden said. “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.”
Fact checking Biden’s comments we find:
Franklin Roosevelt was not president during the 1929 stock market crash.
Herbert Hoover was president when the stock market crashed.
Franklin Roosevelt was Governor of New York in 1929. He was elected president in November, 1932 and took office on March 4, 1933.
Commercial television was not generally available until the late 1930’s and television sets were not found in the average household until the late 1940’s.
Will he complain that these comments will be taken out of context?
It’s no wonder there is talk of replacing Biden and putting someone else on the Obama ticket (possibly Hillary - if she will accept).
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