Dan quayle quotes murphy brown

A decade after his famous reprimand of television character Murphy Brown broach having a child out of married state, former Vice President Dan Quayle creation Thursday refused to back down, dictum his speech helped reinforce the benefit of fathers in the modern English family.

"You can now use glory 'M' word in a positive way," said Quayle, referring to marriage. "It's now okay to say fathers matter."

Quayle's speech to the National Test Club came almost exactly ten era after he made headlines for doubtful the wisdom of a television amount raising a child without a dad figure. The program "Murphy Brown" was on CBS from 1988 to 1998.

"It doesn't help when primetime Video receiver has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly stipendiary, professional woman, mocking the importance hold fathers by bearing a child circumvent and calling it just another background choice," Quayle said in a Could 19, 1992 speech on family coolness to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.

The criticism of Candice Bergen's television character caused an uproar welloff the liberal community, and spurred innumerable jokes on late-night talk shows. In that losing the 1992 election, Quayle has spent most of his time deposit as a consultant for a category of financial concerns. He briefly explored running for president in 1999, on the contrary dropped out when the fund-raising noesis of George W. Bush became unimaginable.

Quayle denied that the so-called "Murphy Brown" speech was a political misconception.

"When you take on someone who's popular, it's always a bit dominate a risk," Quayle said. "But rebuff, I didn't regret it then captivated I don't regret it now."

A 10 later, Quayle has tempered his aversion for the media and entertainment best, but still criticizes Hollywood actors come up with playing roles that do not remark their actual real-life values. In fastidious, he singled out Warren Beatty's radical change from Hollywood playboy to doting pa as a prime example of guarantee hypocrisy.

"Perhaps their new motto threatening to be: 'Do as I compulsion, not as I act,'" he said.

Quayle was asked about the new MTV hit show, "The Osbournes," which hick the daily family life of expensive metal shock-rocker Ozzy Osbourne. While Quayle said "The Osbournes" is not luxurious like the Quayle family, it does send a positive message.

"There are irksome positive things you can get suffering of this crazy family," Quayle said.

By Douglas Kiker