>>Does anyone remember Humphrey's Quayle-like public presence. My favorite Humphrey quote was, "No sane man likes the war in Vietnam and neither does President Johnson." Even Dan Quayle couldn't top that one!
I remember when, in 1980, Jimmy Carter gave his Dem convention acceptance speech. He built up to what was supposed to be a cathartic tribute line to Hubert Horatio Humphrey, but Carter instead yelled his tribute to Hubert Heratio Hornblower!!!
The Media tried to gloss over that very telling gaff by ignoring it - just as they now do with AlGore's non-stop gaffs. Of course, had a Republican made the same mistake it would have been media fodder for days, if not weeks.
A good recent example of the latter is when Sen. J. Rockefeller introduced to the media a "good friend" of his at a news conference. The obviously blue collar "good friend" was there to showcase some alleged perfidy by Republicans. Too bad this "good friend" had his arm exposed - for it displayed a large swastika!
Guess what - no media coverage - despite the fact that everyone there noticed the swastika! That is, until the Washington Post's media critic, Howard Kurtz, used that "coverup" as a glaring example of Media bias, correctly driving home the point that any Republican, especially a conservative one, would have been crucified by relentless media coverage.
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