Presumably he meant Michael Jordan. Not every Gore gaffe is funny, of course. Lucky for Gore, his every gaffe and blunder hasn't been endlessly rehashed. As Quayle's experience shows, nobody's reputation can survive that kind of piling-on. It would be well if between now and November 2000, no candidate's goofs and rhetorical stumbles were used as an excuse for cruel mockery and humiliation.
Gentle jabs are OK, though.