Candice Bergen criticized JD Vance Child's comments at the 2024 Emmys

Candice Bergen specifically attacked vice presidential candidate JD Vance at the 2024 Emmy Awards.

Bergen presented the award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. In her short speech before the winner was announced, she recalled her own time as a lead actress in the comedy series “Murphy Brown,” in which she played the title character.

Murphy Brown ran from 1988 to 1998 and was revived for one season in 2018. One of the more notable storylines featured Murphy playing a single mother, a decision that earned her criticism from Vice President Dan Quayle at the time.

“I was surrounded by brilliant and funny actors, had the best scripts to work with and, in a classic moment, my character was attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother,” Bergen said.

As The New York Times reported, Quayle criticized the show in May 1992, saying Brown’s character “mocks the importance of fathers.” He was mocked back in the fifth-season premiere of “Murphy Brown,” the Times reported, with Murphy directly responding to his remarks on the show.

“Oh, how far we’ve come,” Bergen said at the Emmys. “Today, a Republican vice presidential candidate would never attack a woman for having children. So, as they say, my work here is done.”

JD Vance, former President Trump’s vice presidential nominee, has made remarks about childless people that have drawn criticism. In September, Vance suggested that parents could reduce child care costs by asking relatives, including the child’s grandparents, to help out and “take some of the pressure off.” He later clarified his remarks in an X-post, saying that federal and state policies should support alternative family models.

Vance is also haunted by this 2021 remark on Fox News: “We are de facto governed in this country by the Democrats, by our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they have made and therefore want to make the rest of the country unhappy too.”

Vance defended these comments on the “Megyn Kelly Show” in July, saying his intention was not to criticize childless adults, but rather “the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.”

Bergen also delivered one final jab against this infamous remark.

“Meow,” she said.