1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, while visiting an elementary school in Trenton, N.J., instructed a student to spell potato as "potatoe" during a spelling bee.
Every paper covered it then, Dan Quayle = can't spell = dumb = inept to lead as V.P.
Who covered "New Jobs for Tommorrow"? Only a few. 'Oh, it's some staffer who made the banner, it's not Hillary that can't spell.' A media bias? hmmmmm....
(In case you're not as smart as a 5th grader, it's "tom - or- row".)
P.S. Happy Birthday Mike Holmgren, also June 15th.
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I did at: http://bloggerbeer.blogspot.com/2007/06/payback.html
Also, FYI LMS you are on my blogroll!
You've stumbled into the story of Rupert Murdoch's spin on the news. His conservative views are pushing down on to the news writers of the newspapers he buys and controls.
If Hillary had made the artwork behind the podium, yes, it would've been just as Hillary-a-rious and just as relevant as Quayle's mistake. But she didn't make it. She obviously didn't. She was probably half-way across the country when it was made. Yet Murdoch's paper titles the news story "Clinton's Hillarious spelling gaffe". So where's the bias? It's not present in the original news story referenced on the bottom of the Telegraph's page.
The Telegraph's story says "However, Ms. Clinton clearly failed to impress upon them that she was the high-quality grammatical candidate." Note that grammar is not the same as spelling.
I see you've already got yourself your first troll!
If we are to hold Hillary responsible for the misspelling of the banner hanging behind her, who should we hold responsible for the incorrect message of the banner hanging behind President Bush on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in 2003?
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