Jimmy Durante’s Ode to Roosevelt and the National Recovery Administration

 •  Monday, October 27, 2008

This short promo from 1933 combines unquestioning hero worship of a politician and unexceled ignorance about economic basics. Lest you think that this is a relic of a simpler time, compare and contrast with the YouTube of the notorious pro-Obama children’s choir.

David T. Beito is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, retired professor of history at the University of Alabama, and author of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.
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