Joe Biden's gaffes are beginning to compete with Saturday Night Live

Senator Joe Biden

Joe Biden recently told CBS Evening News, "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened!'"

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. FDR was elected three years later when Hoover failed to pick up a second term.

And as for television in 1929 …

This Joe Biden gaffe takes the blue ribbon! (Although Katie Couric should have picked up on it sooner than the next day.)