John Oliver Needles Joe Biden Over Record Player Gaffe

John Oliver got a flashback hit out of last Thursday nights debate when he needled Joe Biden about the Democrats latest head-scratching (and vinyl scratching?) verbal misadventure.

The host of Last Week Tonight was clearly amused by the quirky “record player” comment made by Biden in Houston when the candidate was asked about the responsibility of contemporary Americans to “repair the legacy of slavery” in our country.

Bidens response started slow and meandered in the middle but it went straight-up anachronistic at the end: “We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. Its not that they dont want to help. They dont know what—They dont know what quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the — the — make sure that kids hear words.”

Oliver painted the time-warp response as a generation gap between the candidaRead More – Source