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<text id=92TT2041>
<title>
Sep. 14, 1992: TV's Luminaries Leap All Over the Veep
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Sep. 14, 1992 The Hillary Factor
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 20
SOCIETY
TV's Luminaries Leap All Over the Veep
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<p>After weeks of criticism, they use the Emmy show to flail Quayle
</p>
<p> "Dan Quayle is like the assistant on the old Vegas TV show:
you let him answer the phone, but he does not drive the T-bird."
Thus spake Emmy emcee Dennis Miller in Pasadena, California,
during TV's annual orgy of self-congratulation. Miller was one
of the milder critics of the Vice President, Savonarola of the
small screen ever since he denounced the "cultural elite" of
Hollywood. In Quayle's eyes, the sins of that group are best
exemplified by its embrace of single parenthood in the CBS
sitcom Murphy Brown--and now the Emmys as well, where stars
reveled in striking back at Indiana's favorite son.
</p>
<p> Comedian Richard Lewis observed in his
stream-of-anxiousness style, "I have this recurring dream.
Quayle is President, and he's doing Brinkley and he's panicked,
and he's saying, `Does Sweden have a king or a maitre d'?'" A
Johnny Carson tribute included puckish Robin Williams'
suggestion that the Vice President was "one taco short of a
combination plate." But the heaviest hits came from Murphy
Brown's heavies: actress Candice Bergen ("I would like to thank
our writers for not only writing these great words but spelling
them correctly") and creator Diane English ("As Murphy herself
said, `I couldn't possibly do a worse job raising my kid alone
than the Reagans did with theirs'").
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<p> Quayle insisted that he never disparaged single mothers
and that anyone who said otherwise was lying. But his slam of
Murphy Brown as a promoter of such a choice remains a matter of
record.
</p>
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