Murphy Brown Is an Assault on Family Values

Limba: Rush is trying to physically separate his audience from mainstream American society. He justifies this by saying that Murphy Brown is an assault on family values, which he goes on to call functional values because families like the ones portrayed on Murphy Brown were in Limba's eyes non-functional. This is significant because Murphy Brown was a single mother. She was one of the first single mothers portrayed on American TV as being a successful person and a competent parent.