Dan Quayle: Difference between revisions

Dan Quayle was the otherwise forgettable vice president of the first President Bush, [[George H. W. Bush|George Herbert Walker Bush]]. Originally a senator from Indiana, he became well known after George Bush named him as his running mate. Most famous for essentially being a non-entity catapulted into the spotlight, and for making several [[Malaproper]] and/or misinformed remarks; the most common caricature of him is essentially as politics' [[The Simpsons (animation)|Ralph Wiggum]].

 

* He famously was judging a spelling bee and told a child who had gotten the answer correct that it was wrong, then proceeded to "correct" them to the wrong version. That this was a single incident in which Quayle was reading from an answer card prepared by a teacher was irrelevant - he quickly became forever known as the man who spelled it "potatoe".

* Quayle made a comment in which he claimed that the show ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' was disreputable because of its positive portrayal of a professional woman who chose to be a single mother. The show's producers [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|responded by airing an episode]] in which Murphy dealt with the criticism, featured several real-life single parents, and generally took the high road in dealing with the speech (both in terms of the fictional character and the show itself)... until the very end of the episode, when they showed a dump truck backing up to Quayle's official residence and dumping a load of the obvious vegetable.