From Politico:
September 23, 2008
Biden garbles Depression history
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,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
As Reason’s Jesse Walker footnotes it: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?’”
From Wiki’s entry on Farnsworth:
The New York World’s Fair showcased electronic television sets in April 1939, and soon afterward, RCA electronic televisions went on sale to the public.
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Philo didn’t make the first television only the first fully electric television. Others were around since 1927. Television was available, just not fully portable prior to Philo.
Editor’s note: I’m aware of that. However, the first regular transmissions originated in Germany in 1935. The point of the post is simple. There were no televisions for people to sit around and watch in 1929. Just another Biden gaffe.
Great that is what this county needs, and Empty Suit and an Idiot, vote Democrat!
That goes right up there with Al Gore inventing the Internet. What a putz.