Buried way back on page 17A of yesterday's Dallas Morning News is a tiny one paragraph piece titled "Biden misspoke on Roosevelt, TV history."
Joe Biden said on the CBS Evening News that President Franklin Roosevelt went on TV in 1929 when the stock market crashed. In the first place, Herbert Hoover was the President in 1929. In the second place, we all know that every living room had a television in 1929 -- Not!
Let's suppose that instead of Joe Biden displaying this appalling ignorance of history, it had been Sarah Palin. The headline would have been front-page. She wouldn't have "misspoke." She would have exhibited a "lack of fundamental knowledge of history." Multiple paragraphs would have been required to report the reactions from every political pundit and foe.
And the jokes would have never stopped -- poor Dan Quayle is still known as the "potato guy." But there is no bias in the media!
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