Joe Biden's penchant for gaffes is treated gently by the media, "that's just Joe," but his shouting out to an audience 50 per cent black that Republicans "want to put you back in chains" has maybe overstepped the line even for him. Just suppose a Republican had made a similar mistake while speaking. Remember Dan Quayle?
Candidates for vice president are utilized in some silly ways and Quayle was called on to call out words in a spelling bee. When a youngster spelled potato Quayle, with a cue sheet with the word spelled potatoe, asked the student for the final letter. The news media, unfair as usual, treated this as a major failing of intellect and kept this going unfairly even today..
Potato was spelled potatoe for years and can be found in publications as late as June 1992. There have been 64 variant spellings of potato.
While the campaign goes on and many speeches are made, there will be many misspeaks and gaffes. They should not be given a lot of importance unless a harmful remark is deliberately made.
Candidates for vice president are utilized in some silly ways and Quayle was called on to call out words in a spelling bee. When a youngster spelled potato Quayle, with a cue sheet with the word spelled potatoe, asked the student for the final letter. The news media, unfair as usual, treated this as a major failing of intellect and kept this going unfairly even today..
Potato was spelled potatoe for years and can be found in publications as late as June 1992. There have been 64 variant spellings of potato.
While the campaign goes on and many speeches are made, there will be many misspeaks and gaffes. They should not be given a lot of importance unless a harmful remark is deliberately made.
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