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.

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.

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.

Kevin Rice/AP via CNN Newsource Vice President Dan Quayle's reference to "Murphy Brown" was a casual aside in a speech about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. By CNN Newsource.

That vice president was Dan Quayle, and that fictional character was Murphy Brown, played on the series of the same name by Candice Bergen. The Murphy/Quayle dust-up over unwed motherhood will ...

Writers included Quayle's comments in the September 1992 Season 5 premiere episode, with Bergen as Murphy Brown saying to her co-worker Frank, “What planet is he on?” Advertisement ...

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 ...

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