This, from Ben Smith at Politico:

Biden garbles Depression history

Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

As Reason‘s Jesse Walker footnotes it: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?’”

Apparently, some other differences between our Earth and the Alternate Earth in which Senator Biden resides include Thomas Aquinas’ position on abortion as well as the Catholic Church’s position on the nature of unborn life. Jody Bottum has the details here. Although it is pure speculation on my part, it may be the case that Andrew Sullivan is a visitor from that alternate time-line as well. For it seems that most conservative Christians on his Earth are preparing to implement an impending theocracy engineered by dark forces that want to keep Bob-Jones-University-educated women barefoot and pregnant while home schooling their children in creationism so that they can grow up and shoot abortion doctors.