Once, the renowned late-night television host Johnny Carson brought attention to a scandal that would surround then-Senator Joseph Biden for many years. the subject of his speech? Democratic candidate Senator Joseph Biden is mired in controversy.
“One of the Democratic candidates is Senator Joseph Biden. Have you seen the problem he’s been having?” Carson began.
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“He went around and made a speech. And apparently, he quoted, 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.”
Biden reassured his staff with those words, but Carson delivered a sharp punchline, deftly mixing controversy with a well-known Franklin D. Roosevelt quote: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
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The incident that Carson mentioned concerned Biden’s alleged misappropriation of parts of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, as well as claims that he had borrowed from speeches by Bobby Kennedy.
