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|Pushes far-left viewpoints with the main character Murphy Brown, who became a single mother after giving a birth to a baby out of wedlock in later seasons. Was rather infamous for a spat on family values with then-Vice President Dan Quayle in 1992 in response to the latter's denouncement of the character mocking fatherhood.<ref name="forerunner">[http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0406_Quayles_Murphy_Brown.html Excerpts from Dan Quayle's speech], at Forerunner.com</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Murphy Brown; Get Ready, America: Murphy Responds |work= New York Times|date=September 4, 1992|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/04/us/the-1992-campaign-murphy-brown-get-ready-america-murphy-responds.html?scp=10&sq=murphy%20brown&st=cse|accessdate=August 10, 2010 | first=Andrew | last=Rosenthal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Back Talk From 'Murphy Brown' to Dan Quayle|work= New York Times|date=July 20, 1992 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/20/arts/back-talk-from-murphy-brown-to-dan-quayle.html |accessdate=August 10, 2010 | first=Bill | last=Carter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown|work= New York Times|date=June 1, 1992|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975627,00.html|accessdate=August 15, 2010}}</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/e!s-101/reasons-the-90s-ruled-101---81/episode/315325/summary.html</ref> Got a revival in 2018, with the star, Candice Bergen, and the show's creator, Diane English, making clear they revived it specifically to attack Donald Trump for winning the 2016 elections.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2018/09/26/murphy-brown-2016-if-hillary-had-won-we-would-be-dancing-streets</ref><ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jacob-comello/2018/09/26/murphy-brown-revival-specifically-made-provoke-trump</ref> One episode of the reboot even had Hillary Clinton have a guest appearance as a prospective secretary, with the writers barely even trying to disguise her name.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2018/09/28/original-nasty-woman-murphy-brown-reboot</ref> Predictably, the season premiere was a bust on ratings, only gathering at best 1.1 million viewers on its first night and was beaten out by the revival of the Greatest Conservative TV Show ''Last Man Standing'' on FOX.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/annie-piper/2018/09/28/last-man-standing-celebrates-return-thanks-loyal-kick-ss-fans</ref> Another episode mocks Steve Bannon and denounces white Conservative men as "dinosaurs", the clear implication being that they are to die out soon.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2018/10/19/murphy-brown-conservative-white-male-you-and-your-friends</ref>

|Pushes far-left viewpoints with the main character Murphy Brown, who became a single mother after giving a birth to a baby out of wedlock in later seasons. Was rather infamous for a spat on family values with then-Vice President Dan Quayle in 1992 in response to the latter's denouncement of the character mocking fatherhood.<ref name="forerunner">[http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0406_Quayles_Murphy_Brown.html Excerpts from Dan Quayle's speech], at Forerunner.com</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Murphy Brown; Get Ready, America: Murphy Responds |work= New York Times|date=September 4, 1992|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/04/us/the-1992-campaign-murphy-brown-get-ready-america-murphy-responds.html?scp=10&sq=murphy%20brown&st=cse|accessdate=August 10, 2010 | first=Andrew | last=Rosenthal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Back Talk From 'Murphy Brown' to Dan Quayle|work= New York Times|date=July 20, 1992 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/20/arts/back-talk-from-murphy-brown-to-dan-quayle.html |accessdate=August 10, 2010 | first=Bill | last=Carter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown|work= New York Times|date=June 1, 1992|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975627,00.html|accessdate=August 15, 2010}}</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/e!s-101/reasons-the-90s-ruled-101---81/episode/315325/summary.html</ref> Got a revival in 2018, with the star, Candice Bergen, and the show's creator, Diane English, making clear they revived it specifically to attack Donald Trump for winning the 2016 elections.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2018/09/26/murphy-brown-2016-if-hillary-had-won-we-would-be-dancing-streets</ref><ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jacob-comello/2018/09/26/murphy-brown-revival-specifically-made-provoke-trump</ref> One episode of the reboot even had Hillary Clinton have a guest appearance as a prospective secretary, with the writers barely even trying to disguise her name.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2018/09/28/original-nasty-woman-murphy-brown-reboot</ref> Predictably, the season premiere was a bust on ratings, only gathering at best 1.1 million viewers on its first night and was beaten out by the revival of the Greatest Conservative TV Show ''Last Man Standing'' on FOX.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/annie-piper/2018/09/28/last-man-standing-celebrates-return-thanks-loyal-kick-ss-fans</ref> Another episode mocks Steve Bannon and denounces white Conservative men as "dinosaurs", the clear implication being that they are to die out soon - despite the fact that Murphy, who hypocritically called Ed Shannon (the Steven Bannon character) a "dinosaur", is over two decades older than Shannon is and is herself white.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2018/10/19/murphy-brown-conservative-white-male-you-and-your-friends</ref>

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