Excellent, I haven't had a true Kool-Aid Drinker comment for a while. Thanks MB for be a perfect example of a liberal who has set aside all logical and rational thought.

MB thinks Biden was using the example of Governor Roosevelt, in the middle of our nation's worst financial crisis ever, going down to a new-fangled experimental television station to address tens of people...literally in1929 there were probably less than a dozen television sets that could receive the incredibly rough 48 line signal from the two New York stations which only broadcasted a few hours a day, a few days a week.

If it did happen, which it did not, Gov. Roosevelt's time would have been far better spent doing something about the crisis or communicating on the only real mass communication devise at the time, radio.

If Gov. Roosevelt did what MB says, it would have been similar to Bush on 9/11 going to MIT to be broadcast on a some new experimental 3D holographic projector to researchers at Stanford, Univ. of Chicago and Cambridge.

Either it didn't happen or it was a stupid thing for Gov. Roosevelt to waste his time on...either way, it's not something you should quote as an example of ideal behavior...unless you are a Kool-Aid drinker who will believe anything your liberal, hand-holding, come suckle at my tit, put away all personal responsibility, let the government take care of you, candidate says.

But, MB got me with the "do some research" so I've updated my post with even more information to show the ridiculousness of Biden's statement. I think it is you MB who needs to do more research about FDR and the candidates you foolishly support.

Isaac, you are correct. But, I stand by my comments. At the time of the stock market crash in 1929, the only televisions were in laboratories and there were no public broadcasts and no commercially available television sets. I think it is reasonably accurate to say that there were no televisions sets, as people commonly think of them, around at the time.

More importantly, for purposes of this post, Joe Biden was grossly WRONG unless you think the good Governor ran off to a lab somewhere to broadcast from one room of the lab to another about the stock market crash.

I don't plan on voting for Obama or McCain and when either one of them or their VP's, or aides says something considered stupid, I like to look into it and try to find the real facts. Biden did not actual say the stock market crash of 1929, although everyone assumes that is what he meant. The 1929 crash is considered the 4th worst crash according to the sites I have researched. The first worst crash occurred between March of 1930 through March of 1931. The second worst crash occurred between March of 1937 and March of 1938.

Hmmm, so there was a stock market crash well into the 1930's, when TV might have been broadcast in some areas on a limited basis. I wasn't around back then to know for sure. And I certainly don't mean to defend idiot Biden. His statements at least caused me to look into the history of stock market crash and find evidence that wasn't far off from the truth according to Biden.

Just food for thought.

Biden NEVER said 1929 OR president FDR, key word - president

FDR was governor of NY AND yes, 1929 Wall Street crash was extremely significant. Wall Street happens to be in NYC, NY. Thus a market crash would severely impact the state of NY! Loads of money (personal $) floating around the NY economy. Remember, US population was very concentrated then = wealth in large urban areas, not scattered about like today!

There also was huge secondary crash in 1932 - the year FDR was elected. There was an 86% drop in the already weak market. That'd be great fodder on the campaign trail (not unlike the current campaign)!!!

1932 At terramedia in the UK (& online) - there's a timeline, Chronomedia, by David Fisher. He does claim a TV broadcast of the Dem election campaign in NYC (not the convenition in Chicago).

1924 first radio broadcast from a convention (Republican, Cleveland OH).

1929: May 11, first regularly scheduled TV broadcasts 3 times/week. Yes, it was experimental, but so was HDTV in the 1980's. I saw my first HDTV at the Ontario Science Center, 1989 or 90.

Wealthy "folk" most certainly could afford the lastest inventions, not unlike the first HDTV's available for public sale in our recent history!

Is it possible he's wrong, maybe. BUT not being a media historian, I don't plan to dispute him.

Don, you know I'm a bleeding heart, yes? So I'll scotch the notion that all of us are looking to go to any ends to justify what our candidates say: Biden screwed up. Period. Won't remotely make me change my vote, of course, but yes, in this specific case, he was way the hell off.