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Re: Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown. Where in the heck is our vice president coming from? Is he completely oblivious to the number of single-parent families in this country? And not by choice? Murphy ...
Left: Vice President Dan Quayle speaks during the vice presidential debate in 1992. Right: Candice Bergen plays Murphy Brown, holding her character's baby on the show.
Murphy Brown, especially, was never one to stand by and stay quiet. “She’s somebody who’s never going to be comfortable in retirement or being irrelevant,” English says.
JD Vance isn’t the first GOP vice presidential candidate to remark on women’s reproductive choices. We look back at when then-Vice President Dan Quayle rebuked the TV character Murphy Brown.
And in the annals of history, the battle between fictional character Murphy Brown and sitting Vice President Dan Quayle was decidedly definitively for the former. It’s all very ’90s, how this ...
What did Dan Quayle say about Candice Bergen’s character Murphy Brown? In a May 1992 speech on family values to the Commonwealth Club of California, then Vice President Dan Quayle ragged on the ...
At the 2024 Emmy Awards, the Murphy Brown star Candice Bergen made headlines with a sharp comment that seemingly referenced JD Vance, the 2024 Republican vice-presidential candidate. Bergen’s ...
Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle famously wasn’t a fan of the 1988-98 CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. But millions of viewers — and Emmy voters — were. In its 10 seasons and 247 episodes (not ...
JD Vance isn’t the first GOP vice presidential candidate to remark on women’s reproductive choices. We look back at when then-Vice President Dan Quayle rebuked the TV character Murphy Brown.