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Two points:

In her prime, Candace Bergan was both talented and beautiful. I remember her role in The Sand Pebbles, one of my favorites.

In the first run of Murphy Brown, despite definite liberal slant, she and the other characters initially poked fun at all sides in D.C.

It was later in the show's run, when they unfairly used a Dan Quayle comment on a fictional character as an in-universe slur against the lead character, where they joined Hollywood's slow march off the political deep end.

I can't bring myself to watch it this go around.

[niteowl77]

It was later in the show's run, when they unfairly used a Dan Quayle comment on a fictional character as an in-universe slur against the lead character, where they joined Hollywood's slow march off the political deep end.

They'll recycle something similar for each episode.

Hollywood: where truth evaporates into thin air and originality goes to die.

[elcid1970]

“In the first run of Murphy Brown, despite definite liberal slant, she and the other characters initially poked fun at all sides in D.C.”

In one episode she squares off with a stereotypical `rightwing talk show host’, and by halfway through the two are holding hands.

No more. They are now playing culture war for keeps.