In The Surest Sign of the Apocalypse, Candice Bergen Admits Dan Quayle Was Right Okay, he was wrong about some things, maybe a lot of things, but that was one time he was right. Ten years ago, then-Vice President Quayle criticized Bergen's "Murphy Brown" TV character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another `lifestyle choice.'" "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless," Bergen said Tuesday. "But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did." Article Here