Re: Re: FidoGazette Vol 14 no 17 Page: 2
By: Dan Clough to Janis Kracht on Mon May 04 2020 20:57:00
DC> "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the
DC> television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes
DC> of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" -Joe Biden,
DC> apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market
DC> crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at
DC> that time.
DC> ~Interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008
the funny thing is that these guys are faulted for saying these things when it
really mostly comes down to their PR and speech writer people not knowing
history and/or not fact checking the statements before they start training the
politician on saying it...
the there're those that go off-script all the time and continually eat their
feet with no backup/patsy to fault for feeding them the wrong information ;)
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