Murphy Brown Forecasts Today's Political Scene

I never watched Murphy Brown, but here (h/t Driftglass) is a clip from that program showing a cowardly congressman, Stuart Brown, appearing on Brown's news program where he feels terrible but nevertheless reads from an outrageous script prepared by his right-wing backers. At the time, it was just a good joke; today, it turns out, it was a pretty accurate prediction of the bought-and-paid-for government of Citizens United and McCutcheon: