Miller Time With Leno

Media Research Center - Cyber Alert ^ | 11/08/02 | Geoffry Dickens

[Nephi]

MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens took down much of what Miller,who was a commentator on ABC's Monday Night Football last season and who has had a weekly half-hour comedy show on HBO, observed using his wry wit on the November 6 Tonight Show on NBC:

Jay Leno: "I'm fascinated to hear your take on the election. Because you always have a little different look at things than most Hollywood people."

Dennis Miller: "I want to congratulate my President. I think he had a great day. I think George Bush is a good man." [applause]

Leno: "Yeah? He did a fine job."

Miller: "I think, I think he's a good man and I think he's done a fine job in these last two years. I don't think he's a great man but I would prefer that our President would be a good man because great men tend to believe they're great men and then they end up not being great men any more. I like Bush because he seems like a regular decent guy. And you know what? He's a big picture guy. Which just shocks me. Because when he first came into the office I think many of us thought that he was the sort of guy who watched television one pixel at a time. But uh, shockingly he's proven himself to be a big picture guy. I like his sense of humor. At least I hope it's his sense of humor. I uh, sometimes think it's Norm Crosby's sense of humor. But uh, I think the thing I like most about him is that he's not Clinton. I just think he's a decent guy. I mean, you know..." [applause]

Miller: "I'm telling ya when I watch those, the videotape of the retarded kids playing uh, tee-ball on the White House lawn, on the field that he built for them.

Leno: "Yeah."

Miller: "And I juxtapose it with Clinton and the wocka-wocka porno guitar of the Clinton administration. I just like Bush, he makes me proud to be an American again. He's just a decent guy."

Leno: "He is a decent guy. But do you-"

Miller: "And you know what, what? Jay what, what are the Democrats really offering? You know I consider both sides in an election before I vote. I looked at what the Democrats are saying. They're saying, 'Listen we want more of your money and we're not really keen on preemptively protecting you from bad guys.' You know what folks? I don't want the bad guys to have the next move. I don't want to see two more big buildings blown up."

Miller soon explained: "Listen, I began to go off liberal America when they insisted to me that Rudy Giuliani was a bad guy. You remember that years ago? How they told us Rudy Giuliani, they always like tinged on the Nazi reference."

Leno: "Right, right, yeah right."

Miller: "'He's a storm-trooper! He's a bad guy!' Every time I'd go to New York it was cleaner and safer and I'd think, 'Wait a second how bad a guy can this guy be?' And now you don't hearing anybody saying that because it's been proven out that Rudy Giuliani is a good man...."

After an ad break, he elaborated on Iraq: "It's not a perfect world. Listen I think Bush's old man could have ended this whole dilemma in the Middle East around 12 years ago. We were like two exits away on the Jersey Turnpike from croaking this toad and we back off because the coalition doesn't want us to go up the road. Are you kidding me? The coalition? This better not happen again. You know Tony Blair is a cute kid and one of my favorite Martin Short characters in waiting, but the simple fact is we don't consult the Brits on anything anymore. We haven't listened to them since our boys dressed up like the Hakawi tribe and boosted all the Tetley tea in the Beantown Harbor around 200 years ago. I don't want to ask the Brits what to do here. We gotta assassinate Saddam Hussein. Why have we taken assassination off the table as a viable political tool? And yet they'll tell you the collateral damage of civilians is acceptable. But you're not allowed to assassinate the main pain in the ass. My theory is if you have trouble with your conscience pretend you're trying to kill the guy next to him and think of him as collateral damage, alright?! If that will allow you to get to bed at night." [applause]

Miller: "Listen. Negotiating with Saddam Hussein is about as practical as practicing aroma therapy on a French man. Okay? It's not going to happen."

Miller took on liberal wimpiness: "You know I find our approach to the, the war on terrorism to be amazingly non-chalant. I mean the simple fact is we are not being protective enough of ourselves. I think that was a mandate yesterday saying, 'Listen! We don't want these morons trying to croak us!' You know when the Al-Qaeda made a big mistake? Is when they whiffed that dog on videotape? That got the liberals into it. Because they're all sitting at home with their Marmaduke day-planner saying, 'Wait a second? They croaked a puppy? Now it's on mother-[bleeped]!" [applause]

For more on previous Tonight Show appearances by Miller:

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020620.asp#4

And with a RealPlayer clip of Miller when he scolded journalists:

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20011107.asp#7

[Nephi]

Nothing like having Miller's vitriolic, virulent wit directed at liberals!

[Blueflag]

An "I am simply amazed at his words" bump.

[Blueflag]

Actually, if Dennis Miller is saying this, then I understand why the Republicans won the election despite likely record levels of Democratic vote fraud.

[phasma proeliator]

I knew I liked Dennis - I just didn't know how much.

[SunStar]

Dennis Miller has been quite conservative in his views since the end of the Clinton Administration.

[RicocheT]

This sentence needs repeating,

Miller: "Listen. Negotiating with Saddam Hussein is about as practical as practicing aroma therapy on a French man. Okay? It's not going to happen."

[Paradox]

I watched that particular exchange. And while I knew that Miller was something of a conservative (compared to the rest of hollywood), his pro-Bush stance astonished me. In a good way of course.

[PLK]

Well, O.K., I think it's time to state that not only is Miller a funny guy, he is also incredibly courageous to come out with pro-Bush/conservative rhetoric that is sure to infuriate the Hollyweird liberals!!!

[Cicero]

Sweet.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[coramdeo]

Recently my son and I were doing research for a debate on the Middle East, and we ran across the transcript of a bit by Miller on Israel and the Palestinians. It was hilarious, and very pro-Israel, but more importantly it showed a depth of understanding of the history of the region and conflict that most big-time media reporters lack. I have never been a big fan, but that may be changing if he keeps this up.

[Cogadh na Sith]

That essay was by Larry Miller, the writer, not Dennis Miller.

[NorCoGOP]

"You know when the Al-Qaeda made a big mistake? Is when they whiffed that dog on videotape? That got the liberals into it. Because they're all sitting at home with their Marmaduke day-planner saying, 'Wait a second? They croaked a puppy? Now it's on mother-[bleeped]!"

I've always liked his dry humor...

Now I absolutely LOVE it...

[coramdeo]

I stand corrected. That's what I get from relying too heavily on my memory. I take back some, but not all, of the nice words about Dennis Miller - he stunk on MNF, but I do like the comments above.

[SternTrek]

I am blown away by these comments. I guess I can take his name off of the "do no watch" list (at least temporarily).

[7thson]

During one moment of watching MNF with Miller on it - a Redskin game - just before the game, Miller stated that this was the something hundred sellout in Washington, if you don't count Trent Lott. I first I did not get it until days later when I read up on the book SELLOUT.

Another funny line by Miller when talking about an offensive lineman and his knee surgerys was "this guy's been scoped more times than a redneck abducted by aliens."

[Damocles]

"My theory is if you have trouble with your conscience pretend you're trying to kill the guy next to him and think of him [Saddam] as collateral damage, alright?! If that will allow you to get to bed at night."

God, this is hillarious!

[strider44]

The key is "since the Clinto Administration". I don't dislike Miller, he can be pretty funny. But I was mad for a long time when he was on stage after Clinton won the presidency the first time, it was one of those post- election Clinton-Hollywood I love you fests...He said something to the effect; "Finally we have someone we want running the show"...then he introduced Clinton. Anyone else remember that?

[gcruse]

 "Finally we have someone we want running the show"...then he introduced Clinton.

I learned to hate Miller from the SNL news update stuff.  Based
on his remarks above, I'll move him from hate to ignore. If I
read where he is attacking the Barbras and Alecs, I'll re-evaluate.

[Vigilant1]

The reason this story is so important is that Hollywood has an unspoken black-list against any performers with conservative views. That's why you see very popular, but publically conservative money-makers like Tom Selleck relegated to cable networks and movies from small studios, and why movies like Red Dawn are so very rare.

I think the DemoRATs have disgusted a lot of 'moderates' with their arrogance, lack of vision, attack tactics and failure to grasp the seriousness of the terrorism threat. Dennis Miller has a lot of fans, and he may well be the catylist that gets people to think, to start to change their minds. He could be the greatest threat to the liberal death-grip on media and entertainment, as he might just make it hip to be kinda conservative. He may also be the one to crack the blacklist in Hollywood, and make conservative views and actors acceptable there for the first time in four decades. If this happens, the liberals' greatest propaganda weapons against conservative values may be taken from them.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into to this, but I'm hoping that a liberal like Jay Leno allowing this anti-DemoRAT speech to air on his show may be a sign of things to come. We can hope....