While discussing the terms of the vice-presidential debate, Quayle's aide
suggested that "props" be allowed, mainly because the Vice-President
wanted to read directly from Al Gore's book on the environment,
"Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit." Gore's people agreed,
saying that the Senator would then use a potato as a prop. Quayle quickly
abandoned the proposal.
-- reported in The NY Times, 10/6/92
Hollywood is the stronghold of the adversary culture. It is on the other
side of the cultural divide from Huntington, and they don't like it when
someone from Huntington, with Midwestern values, challenges their
so-called moral authority....