Candice Bergen and Murphy Brown – Talking Left and Living Right
December 13, 2024
Vice President Dan Quayle was in the throes of a reelection campaign back on May 19, 1992, when he highlighted the importance of fathers and ignited a cultural firestorm while doing so.
In a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, Vice President Quayle stated:
Marriage is a moral issue that requires cultural consensus. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another “lifestyle choice.”
