Progressives and the "dumb" factor Vice President Quayle’s misspelling of “potato” becomes the basis for countless late-night jokes and an entire episode of a popular sitcom and, to this day, is the one thing for which he is best known, while President Obama’s repeated pronunciation of “corpsman” as corpse-man goes unmentioned.  https://capitalresearch.org/article/progressives-and-the-dumb-factor/