Don't know why but the older I get the more rage I experience at incidents of rewriting history.
A welcomed but rare act of fact checking by a MSM member, the Washington Post here
Dan Quayle's 'Potatoe' Incident – 1992
"Feeding Frenzy A minor slip-up by Vice President Dan Quayle hatched a frenzy and a long-running joke. Quayle led a spelling bee for sixth-grade students while visiting an elementary school in New Jersey in 1992. Working from an inaccurate flash card prepared by a teacher, he corrected William Figueroa, 12, when the child spelled "potato" on the blackboard – making the boy add an unnecessary 'e' at the word's end.
"Quayle would never hear the end of it. The media assault for this goof was truly relentless. The young Figueroa crystallized the effects of this incident on Quayle's public image when he said that it 'showed that the rumors about the vice president are true – that he's an idiot.'"
I recall the day it happened, the network news I watched reported his classroom visit ho-hum-like -- I don't recall that they even mentioned anything Quayle said. The "journalists" knew Quayle was using material prepared by the teacher -- or more likely they just were not paying that much attention.
Later I guess that comment by the student instantly spread among the elite "journalists" and the next day the story of the visit was revised and it became a sensation! The rest is history.
I remember that to, and it proves that even at that time the drive-by media was in the tank for the rat candidate