If you read the New York Times, you know all about Dan Quayle's inability to spell "potato." Indeed, a search for articles containing the words "Quayle" and "potatoe" brings up 24 articles on the Times site.
So, when Obama said that he had been in "fifty-seven states, I think one left to go . . . . Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to", precedent would suggest that the Times should have reported on this regularly and often.
Of course they didn't. As far as I can tell, they haven't mentioned it at all. When I searched for articles containing the words "Obama" and "fifty-seven" on the Times' site, I did find three articles. But none of them mentioned the gaffe.
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