My comments about Biden in another thread regarding his apparently historic lisp led me (out of curiosity) to go looking for youtube clips of him as a younger politician to see how noticeable any speech impediment might have been back in his early days. Not that it makes much of a difference, but I think his age has certainly made it more pronounced.
What I came across was a video of Biden on a television program from the early 70's watergate era called 'The Advocates' when he was a 29 year old Senator. I became much more interested in the format of the program and the well versed and issue driven questions that were being lobbed at him from opposing sides, both of whom were represented by seemingly knowledgeable men. I was very interested in the style, of basically putting the interviewee on the stand and having them examined and cross examined.... like the people in the audience were the jury. It's like a higher brow version of crossfire where there's less outright speculation by those doing the questioning and more genuine questions about issues instead. I would LOVE to see this type of program come back in a more modern media format.
I'm sure some of the older people on this board were probably aware of this PBS program from that political era, but I as a youngster am certainly intrigued.
What I came across was a video of Biden on a television program from the early 70's watergate era called 'The Advocates' when he was a 29 year old Senator. I became much more interested in the format of the program and the well versed and issue driven questions that were being lobbed at him from opposing sides, both of whom were represented by seemingly knowledgeable men. I was very interested in the style, of basically putting the interviewee on the stand and having them examined and cross examined.... like the people in the audience were the jury. It's like a higher brow version of crossfire where there's less outright speculation by those doing the questioning and more genuine questions about issues instead. I would LOVE to see this type of program come back in a more modern media format.
I'm sure some of the older people on this board were probably aware of this PBS program from that political era, but I as a youngster am certainly intrigued.
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