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“A Republican candidate for vice president would never attack a woman for having kids," Bergen joked, referencing her famous 'Murphy Brown' interaction with former vice president Dan Quayle
Vice President Dan Quayle's reference to "Murphy Brown" was a casual aside in a speech about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. - Kevin Rice/AP.
While presenting the award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series, the "Murphy Brown" star connected a 1992 controversy involving Vice President Dan Quayle to more recent comments made by ...
Murphy Brown is an American television sitcom created by Diane English that premiered on November 14, 1988, on CBS.The series stars Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television newsmagazine, and later for Murphy in the Morning, a cable morning news show.
Dan Quayle at IMDb; Campaign contributions made by Dan Quayle "Reflections on Urban America" speech to the Commonwealth Club of California ("Murphy Brown speech"): Transcript, Audio Archived September 28, 2019, at the Wayback Machine; List of Quayle quotations Archived June 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
During a speech in May 1992 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Quayle discussed the high costs of the breakdown of the two-parent family and mentioned the sitcom television series Murphy Brown. He asserted that its plot-line was injurious to family values. [67]
How did “Murphy Brown” writers respond to Dan Quayle’s attack on the lead character? Show creator and producer Diane English responded, “If the Vice President thinks it’s disgraceful for ...
Around 2008, the show came the closest to being brought back to the air following Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican vice-presidential nominee with comparisons being drawn between her and former Murphy Brown critic Dan Quayle.