I wouldn't say they were isolated and came and went
by DBCooper (2024-02-09 13:53:26)

In reply to: Not in the same way.  posted by Kali4niaND


The Murphy Brown speech was pretty important. As historian Stephanie Coontz stated, it "kicked off more than a decade of outcries against the "collapse of the family."

both that speech and the potato spelling error occurred when Bush/Quayle were working on their reelection. But, the jokes about Quayle were around way before that.

This SNL skit came out a year before the Murphy Brown and potato gaffe