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Line 48: − The media played up Quayle's error while ignoring Senator [[Al Gore]]'s monumentous gaffes as Bill Clinton's running mate in the 1992 election: Gore referred to a zebra changing its "spots" and misquoted the U.S. national motto as "Out of one, many" (actually it's "Out of many, one").<ref>http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html</ref>
→Controversies: Gore made those statements a decade later, confine them to Gore's page
The incorrectly spelled word ''potatoe'' on a list handed him by an aide led to a humiliating gaffe. <ref>http://capitalcentury.com/1992.html</ref>
The incorrectly spelled word ''potatoe'' on a list handed him by an aide led to a humiliating gaffe. <ref>http://capitalcentury.com/1992.html</ref>
This treatment of Quayle was looked upon with something of shocked dismay by politicians of the time, who thought they were a refinement in the attack methods honed by the media on [[Spiro Agnew]] who served as [[Richard M. Nixon]]'s first Vice President, and a harbinger of things to come. Many conservatives see the heavy handed attacks on [[Clarence Thomas]] as a continuation of this same press strategy.
This treatment of Quayle was looked upon with something of shocked dismay by politicians of the time, who thought they were a refinement in the attack methods honed by the media on [[Spiro Agnew]] who served as [[Richard M. Nixon]]'s first Vice President, and a harbinger of things to come. Many conservatives see the heavy handed attacks on [[Clarence Thomas]] as a continuation of this same press strategy.