FORMER V.P. QUAYLE PRAISES LESSONS IN 'OSBOURNES'

A decade after criticizing television's "Murphy Brown," former Vice
President Dan Quayle has found a sitcom star whose family values he can
applaud: Ozzy Osbourne.

"You have to get beyond the sort of dysfunctional aspect," Quayle said
Thursday in praising the MTV show built around the profanity-filled and
bizarre home life of heavy-metal rocker Osbourne, his wife and two children.

Noting that the offensive words are bleeped and the show features two
"loving parents," Quayle said, "I think there are some very good lessons
there that are being transmitted, of not doing drugs, of not doing alcohol."