CNN revists Dan Quayle. the man who kept us safe from Murphy Brown

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/08/cnn25.tan.quayle/

As vice president, Quayle headed the Council of Competitiveness, was chairman of the National Space Council, worked on deregulation and touted the importance of "family values."

His remarks on the latter generated the most controversy when he criticized the TV sitcom "Murphy Brown" in 1992. Quayle accused the popular program of glamorizing single motherhood when the title character, played by Candice Bergen, had a child out of wedlock.

"It doesn't help matters when prime-time 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," Quayle said then.

The comments set off a media firestorm, but a decade later Quayle said that he wouldn't change a thing. "I don't think I'd rephrase it," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in 2002. "You've got to realize that the <"Murphy Brown"> speech was about a 35- to 40-minute speech. ... The subject was the poverty of values, the breakdown in the family. I was trying to put out as a challenge to families and to all people: stay in school, get married, wait until you're after 20 to start having children, you have less than a 5 percent chance of living in poverty."

[jeff30997]

1. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that...

This idiot is the illegitimate brother of Chimpy.

[Spinzonner]

2. Dan Quayle, the Idiot from Indiana who looks like a genius

next to the Moron from Texas.

[H2O Man]

3. Dan set the standard high.

To be honest, JFK never dared to take on Murphy Brown. Lincoln didn't. Jefferson refused. When Quayle put it all on the line, it opened up the possibility of the George W. Bush presidency.

[Jamastiene]

4. You mean junior's real dad?

I mean, that's just a hunch of mine. He must be somehow related with those low IQ points they both share.

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. my boss called me the other day

from his car to tell me about the bumper sticker he had just seen:

"George W. Bush - the President Quayle we Never Had" :rofl:

[Darth_Kitten]

6. That's a good one!

:rofl: