We can always count on Stephen Colbert to speak truth to power about FDR’s record on the Great Depression. In this clip Colbert discusses Jonathan Chait’s article about the new conservative history on FDR – Wasting Away In Hooverville.
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March 17th, 2009
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Chait is the perfect mainstream liberal. Even when his “opponent” is actually on his side, he still bumbles.
Did he mention how WWII ended the depression and FDR and his boneheaded ideas created loads of entitlement mongers that prolonged the mess?
Just wondering.
Did he mention how WWII ended the depression and FDR and his boneheaded ideas created loads of entitlement mongers that prolonged the mess?
Why don’t you go ask your grandparents? They’re on social Security, right? And I’d bet they know a hell of a lot more about it than you do.
Did he mention how WWII ended the depression and FDR and his boneheaded ideas created loads of entitlement mongers that prolonged the mess?
Just wondering.
Did you click the link before you graced us with your rapier sharp rebuttal?
Not wondering at all.
Did he mention how WWII ended the depression
You mean that massive Public Works project? That WWII?
No, that “pork” we used for WWII. All those guns against the Nazis? Just “pork”.
Yo mama’s back! What a relief.
How was Galtland, Yo?
“I spent a week in Galt’s Gulch and all I got was this lousy t-shirt for which I grew and harvested the cotton fibers, spun the fabric and wove it myself.”
You guys can use that, if you want.
yo mama, did you return to produce so much awesome stuff like you were before you left? Is that why stocks went up today?
Parthenon & ed: I LOL’d
Yo mama’s back! What a relief.
I guess he didn’t find that infamous birth certificate during his time away.
Oh well….