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Ozzy Osbourne's Oddest Fan: Dan Quayle
The former Veep hated "Murphy Brown" for glamorizing single motherhood, but these days he's applauding the MTV show's "loving parents."
Originally posted Friday May 10, 2002 10:00 AM EDT
Now, no cracks about how the worm has turned. But 10 years after the Vice President of the United States (to then-President George Bush), Dan Quayle, was made the butt of jokes when he blamed the decline of America's family values on the fact that Candice Bergen gave birth to an illegitimate child on her CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown," the politico is singing the praises of MTV's "The Osbournes," reports the Associated Press. "You have to get beyond the sort of dysfunctional aspect," Quayle told the news service on Thursday about the reality sitcom starring heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his family, in which a lot of the dialogue is bleeped out by censors. However, Quayle, 55, applauding the show's "loving parents," said, "I think there are some very good lessons there that are being transmitted, of not doing drugs, of not doing alcohol . . . In a weird way, Ozzy is a great anti-drug promotion. Look at him and how fried his brains are from taking drugs all those years and everyone will say, 'I don't want to be like that.'" Quayle drew fire a decade ago when he said in a campaign speech that the plot turn on "Murphy Brown" was "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'" On Thursday's "Today" show, Katie Couric asked Quayle what he thought of the Rachel character (played by Jennifer Aniston) on "Friends," who is to be an unwed mother. Quayle reiterated his position that the best scenario for any child is to have two parents.
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