Inaccurate statements made by US politicians: Elected officials are among our best and brightest, chosen by the people to represent their interests in government and lead them through smooth and rough times. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. Sometimes, instead of leading with wisdom and reason, they struggle with basic facts.
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Here are 10 instances where US politicians have made perplexingly inaccurate claims, five from each side of the aisle.
10 Joe Biden
September 2008 was a rough time for the US economy, providing an endless supply of talking points and ammunition for that year’s presidential campaign. In a September 22 interview on CBS Evening News, vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was discussing political leadership during harsh economic times. Referring back to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Biden said:
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the televisionand didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed.”
That’s not what happened during Black Tuesday. First off, FDR was not the president in 1929; Herbert Hoover was. Even if Hoover had decided to try to address the nation via television, very few people would have seen him.
Several early forms of television did exist before 1929. Electronic television, the most direct precursor to television as most people think of it, was first successfully transmitted in 1927. However, regular television broadcasts didn’t begin until 1939.
FDR was the first US president to appear on TV, at the very least.
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