To my mind, Dan Quayle’s gaffe was pure media antagonism. As I understand it, it was the teacher who handed Mr. Quayle cards with the ‘correct’ spelling, but it became a case of Mark Twain’s axiom of the rumor going around the world while truth was just lacing its shoes! Putting myself in the VP’s shoes, what would I do, the very same thing, otherwise I am disregarding the teacher.
Of course the same thing happened to his boss, GHWB, at the demonstration of the grocery store scanner. OH, President Bush is so rich he has never shopped where there was a scanner, FALSE! New tech scanner that could read even messed up scan codes and the like. Pure Media Spin, and oh were they ever apologetic about it? Not hardly!
I WONDER if someone became rich for supplying to Quayle a card, AT THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE, with potato spelled with an E on the end?
Does ANYONE believe that was an innocent mistake, or was it a calculated attempt to make a Republican look foolish?
What? No Gerald Ford tripping on AF1?
No G HW Bush puking on the Prime Minister of Japan?