Hollywood star Candice Bergen got political at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards when she took a swipe at Republican Vice President candidate J.D. Vance.
On Sunday during the ABC broadcast at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the 78-year-old actress recalled playing news anchor “Murphy Brown” on the popular show and a moment during her career when her character became pregnant but was unmarried.
“In one classic moment, my character was attacked by [Republican] Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother,” Bergen told the room of stars. “Oh how far we’ve come.”
“Today a Republican candidate for Vice President would never attack a woman for having kids,” she added sarcastically. “So as they say, my work here is done. Meow”
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The comment was part of an ongoing attack by the left against former President Donald Trump’s running mate — over something Vance said during an interview in 2021 that has been completely taken out of context.
“We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too,” Vance said. “That is a basic fact. Look at Kamala Harris, AOC, and the like; the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t have a direct stake in it?”
Bergen’s comment wasn’t the only one of the night that mentioned the upcoming election. Actress Liza Colon-Zayas for “The Bear” was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. During her acceptance speech she thanked supporters and then just said “Vote.”
“All the Latinas who are looking at me, keep believing and VOTE,” Colon-Zayas said. “Vote for your rights,” without explaining further what she meant by that last comment.
“Only In The Murders Building” stars opened the evening’s show with actress Selena Gomez attempting to take a swipe at Vance when she labeled her co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short “childless cat ladies.”
She didn’t get the bit right and said that Martin and Short were “this far away from being childless cat ladies” instead of “this close…” as Page Six noted.
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