Yeah he bailed him out just like when Dan Quayle was in a room full of teachers and reporters. The all jumped in and told him how to spell potato. At least on the national six o’clock news.
Quayle had been handed a spelling card with the word potato spelled incorrectly. This little error (set up?) on the part of a teacher was never reported by the DBM. Most people still don't know it. Dan Quayle never said anything as ignorant as the USA's having fifty-seven states.