[Lakeshark]

My remembrance of the event was that a kid spelled it that way, Dan was a judge, and the card he had read spelled it that way. The media had the template of him as stupid and just ran with it.

Anyone remember that?

[Frantzie]

Yes. The liberal media is sh*t and Americans are slavees and serfs because of their power. The American public enpowers their overlords everytime they switch on the TV.

Cable TV gave them more power because every cable bill is divided up so you are sending CNN $1 a month and CNBC/MSNBC/NBC $1 a month whether you watch it or not. But idiots like “college ball” and other forms of mindless “entertainment.”

Oddly - Candice Bergen after her career was largely over - said Dan Quayle was right. Seems like a few s**the*ds here still are piling on the guy.

[Does so]

"...the card he had read spelled it that way..."

Do I correctly recall Quayle leaning over to the misspelled word and checking the card against it?

Maybe there's a YouTube of it. :-?

[DJ MacWoW]

Yes. Quayle was setup but don't tell Freepers that.

The press also accused Quayles wife of influencing policy by attending meetings but she wasn't even in town at the time. There was no internet to expose the setup and lies.

What surprises me is that Freepers are buying it.

[Computer Central]

The media ... just ran with it.

I heard that the reporters themselves were NOT sure about the correct spelling and that they were all running for the dictionaries to check the spelling.

Anyone remember that?

[GLDNGUN]

Anyone remember that?

Yes, I remember that. The press was way over the top on that. Of course, he said other things that weren't terribly brilliant. Overall, I think he's a decent guy, but even today he has a knack for saying things that make you want to cringe. I saw him on Fox's Huckabee show recently, and Mike H. asked him if he missed being VP. Quayle did not give a very mature response. It was something along the lines of "yeah, you do miss sitting with the President in the White House, running the world". I thought to myself, OMG, did he just say he missed "running the world"? Again, the press went way over board with him, but he did give them some ammo, and this would be a classic example if they were still after him. Of course, liberals, like Joe Biden say idiotic things constantly and never get lampooned by the MSM like they did with Quayle and are trying with Palin.