Let me tell you the story of Dan Quayle, VP candidate who got pilloried for WEEKS in the press because he did a photo-op of running a grade school spelling bee because the kid spelled it as P-O-T-A-T-O but the spelling on the card he was reading from was P-O-T-A-T-O-E and he said the kid was wrong.
DAN QUAYLE CRUSHES CHILDS DREAMS FOR SPELLING POTATO IN THE AMERICAN WAY!
And of course the related slew of SNL and late night jokes.
I remember that even though I was a child at the time. They also hated him for saying that showing the character Murphy Brown as an unwed mother was a mistake. I even remember in middle school talking about how common it was for people to put an E on potato.
You younglings...
Let me tell you the story of Dan Quayle, VP candidate who got pilloried for WEEKS in the press because he did a photo-op of running a grade school spelling bee because the kid spelled it as P-O-T-A-T-O but the spelling on the card he was reading from was P-O-T-A-T-O-E and he said the kid was wrong.
DAN QUAYLE CRUSHES CHILDS DREAMS FOR SPELLING POTATO IN THE AMERICAN WAY!
And of course the related slew of SNL and late night jokes.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/june-15-1992-dan-quayle-misspells-potato-48017343
I remember that even though I was a child at the time. They also hated him for saying that showing the character Murphy Brown as an unwed mother was a mistake. I even remember in middle school talking about how common it was for people to put an E on potato.