It would have been news had the Vice President eaten a potatoe
For some reason, this story hasn’t garnered the coverage of a previous vice president orthographical error:
Copy editors and fact-checkers are in short supply these days, as newspapers and websites daily attest. Apparently, that’s true of Joe Biden’s office, too. The vice president’s staff recently circulated a press release that promotes Biden’s trip to “Road Island.”
“On Thursday, the Vice President will travel to Boston, Massachusetts, Manchester, New Hampshire and Providence, Road Island to attend campaign events,” the memo states.
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When I was young (yes I was young once) Before I actually read Rhodes scholar, I thought it was Rogue Scholar, because of how I heard it.
So yes, I’m saying the VP’s press department has the understanding of a 6 year old.
Comment by The Livewire — February 22, 2012 @ 7:53 am - February 22, 2012
I would appreciate it if someone told me what previous vice presidential orthographical error this post refers to. I’m guessing it had something to do with potatoes.
Comment by Rattlesnake — February 22, 2012 @ 3:33 pm - February 22, 2012
Rattlesnake, back in 1991 (or was it ’92) at some school spelling contest, then-Vice President Quayle participated and spelled potato with the extra “e”. And the media raised such a ruckus . . .
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — February 22, 2012 @ 4:42 pm - February 22, 2012
must be a slow day, eh? rather than write something about the progressive work for LGBT Equality done by the GOP (uh…is there any?) you instead insist that this should be news.
because if you’re not finding things to be angry at the Democrats and “Liberals” about you’ll have to face the reality that every time a gay suicide is reported, the parents of all of you guys on here shake their heads in shame and wish it was you.
yeah. i went there. cuz you know it’s true. every single one of you. keep complaining about liberals. won’t change the fact that your republican families would be greatly relieved if you all offed yourselves. truth.
Comment by Little_Kiwi — February 22, 2012 @ 8:18 pm - February 22, 2012
Dan, my recollection is slightly different. It wasn’t really Quayle that misspelled potato. He was sort of facilitating a spelling bee with students. He had a staffer with cue cards, and Quayle would ask the student to spell the word on the cue card. One cue card had “potatoe.” When the student spelled the word, and stopped at “o,” Quayle kind of encouraged the student to say the missing “e.” Yeah, Quayle should have realized the cue card was wrong, and yeah, a big deal was made out of it.
Comment by Pat — February 23, 2012 @ 7:05 am - February 23, 2012