Original sentence: He was widely ridiculed in the media and by some of the general public as a  lightweight and was prone to verbal gaffes; as a result of this reputation, a great many apocryphal quotations are attributed to him.Quayle also made news for criticizing glamorization of single-parenting by singling out the Murphy Brown situation comedy, starring Candice Bergen.When this story is related, it is usually not mentioned that Quayle was relying on a spelling bee card on which the word had been misspelled by the teacher
Edited sentence: He was widely ridiculed in the media and by some of the general public as a mental lightweight and was prone to verbal gaffes; as a result of this reputation, a great many apocryphal quotations are attributed to him.Quayle also made news for criticizing single-parenting by singling out the Murphy Brown situation comedy, starring Candice Bergen.When this story is related, it is usually not mentioned that Quayle was relying on a spelling bee card on which the word had been misspelled by the teacher although admittedly Quayle should have picked that up