To: The Raven
I read somewhere that Quayle was actually reading that off a flash card that a teacher had prepared (he was visiting an elementary school at the time) and spelled it as written so as not to embarrass her (yet again, Reps show they have class - like W continuing to read “My Pet Goat” after getting the news of 9/11 so as not to scare the crap out of a bunch of eight-year-olds).
To: PhilosopherStone1000
Ah. A teacher...not a staffer. I stand corrected.
11 posted on
07/11/2011 10:07:27 AM PDT by
ScottinVA
(A poster on a White House wall on 20 Jan 2013: "Malice doesn't live here anymore")
To: PhilosopherStone1000
I read somewhere that Quayle was actually reading that off a flash card that a teacher had prepared (he was visiting an elementary school at the time) and spelled it as written so as not to embarrass her Here's the best account of what happened that I have found. He was handed a card. He questioned the card. He went with the program to avoid embarrassing them, and wound up getting skewered for it.
http://www.rightgrrl.com/carolyn/potatoe.html
25 posted on
07/11/2011 10:23:39 AM PDT by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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