If you think that when Murphy Brown has a child out of wedlock, it’s wrong to paint her as a saint, as Dan Quayle pointed out – if you say that Murphy Brown pushed the lie that there are no real negative life consequences for having a baby without a husband -- , you are castigated as being a thickheaded bigot, as Quayle was. Now, twenty years later, Candice Bergen, who played Murphy Brown, admitted Quayle was right – but at the time, Quayle was running for re-election, and so he had to be wrong. The left no longer makes arguments about policies’ effectiveness. Their only argument is character
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