remember last week when biden interupted all public air waves for the purpose of personally letting you know that israel totally did not just blow up a hospital in gaza

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  • edge [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in history

    That doesn't sound right, Biden alone has given 30 addresses to the nation like that. Unless they mean very particular circumstances.

    Even of the more major addresses I can think of there are more than 7

    (in no particular order)

    • Bush on 9/11
    • Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden
    • Trump on the killing of al-Baghdadi
    • Reagan firing all ATC workers
    • Bush on invading Afghanistan
    • Bush on Hurricane Katrina
    • Carter on the hostages in Iran
    • Nixon's resignation
    • Ford's pardoning of Nixon
    • LBJ on Kennedy's assassination