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Johnny Carson poked fun at Biden plagiarism claims in 1980s: video

2020-09-19

[FOXNEWS] How much of a problem did Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
have in 1987 when news hounds started noticing that some of his speeches sounded a little too familiar?

It reached a point where even late-night host Johnny Carson took a jab at Biden, who at the time was a U.S. senator from Delaware and running his first bid for the White House, seeking the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

"On the political scene, one of the Democratic candidates, a Senator Joseph Biden — have you seen the problem he’s been having?" Carson asked his audience at the start of the "Tonight Show" one evening.

"He went around and made a speech and apparently he quoted a -- I think it was a British politician, took his speech and kind of paraphrased it as his own.

"And then the press got on him. And then he was charged also with taking part of Bobby Kennedy’s speeches.

"And Biden says, not to worry. He reassured his staff, he said, ’We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’"

Joe Biden's been around so long, Johnny Carson was hammering him for plagiarism way back in 1987. pic.twitter.com/Q105lQpJzT
— Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) September 17, 2020

Posted by:Fred

#5 Classic Johnny Carson.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-19 17:51

#4 The guy has been running for President for what? 33 *years* now?

Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-09-19 17:43

#3 "hammering him for plagiarism way back in 1987"

This was when he still remembered the lines he stole.

Posted by: European Conservative 2020-09-19 17:23

#2 Stopped watching late night "comedy" after Leno (Carson's successor). These current chumps can't/won't keep politics (read: Dems good, GOPers bad) out of their routines. Honest to goodness political jokes and satire is long gone.

Posted by: Clem 2020-09-19 10:08

#1 Joke from that era:

Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Teddy Kennedy and Biden are sitting together on the deck of an ocean liner when they hear the announcement that the ship has taken on water and is sinking.

Jimmy says, "As good Christians, we must let the women and children fill the lifeboats first."

Nixon growls, "Fuck the women!"

Kennedy says, "Do we have time?"

Biden says, "Do we have time?"

Posted by: Butch Grineng1012 2020-09-19 06:29

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