Posted on 03/03/2003 7:39:40 AM PST by presidio9
I have received several e-mails about Dennis Miller spewing hatred on The Tonight Show a few days ago. From what I’m told, he expressed great contempt for the French and total disdain for the well-being of innocents in Iraq. I believe the letters because I have seen him express similar Jurassic views on other programs. We thought he had bottomed out when he became the sportscasting equivalent of William Shatner/lounge singer, but it now appears he won’t be happy until he gets a show on the Fox News Channel.
I used to write for Miller in 1992, when he had a syndicated talk show. During the program’s one season, Miller went from endorsing Jerry Brown to becoming a big Ross Perot supporter. A political impulse-buyer, his ideological cannon was never lashed very securely to the deck. Over the years, the cannon somehow became lodged on the starboard side of the vessel. Each time Miller receives a paycheck, he seems to take it to a bank further to the right of the last one. And now, more than a decade since I wrote my last joke for the man, I can only watch in stupefaction as this once hip and inside comic completes his transformation into a lout whose act sounds as if it were ghostwritten by George Jessel. Actually, that’s not fair ... to George Jessel.
Dennis Miller was always decent to me. He gave me a chance, and I appreciated it, but he has become so obstinately wrong of late that I am left with no choice but to comment.
His attempt to style himself as a "Hollywood rebel" by completely sucking up to the ultimate "suits," which is to say the ones in Washington, is self-aggrandizing and pitiful. But then, tough as he speaks, Miller never met a powerful and/or connected guest he didn’t suck up to. So it’s predictable that he would court the braying repressionists who have seized control of the White House. Now we must listen to Miller blather insufferably as he refers with devotion to George W. Bush with the ever-possessive term "my president." After all, W. must be good if he belongs to that self-styled Hollywood rebel Dennis Miller! Right? Miller is so egotistical that he thinks that by referring to Bush again and again as "my president," he somehow legitimizes W.’s odious path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He believes his verbal consecration will make us forget that the little bastard stole the White House. To do otherwise would be to risk having Dennis Miller label us "un-hip." Heaven forfend!
No longer the youthful and sassy anchor of SNL’s "Weekend Update" of all those years ago, Miller has become a national father figure. And what a lousy dad he is. Listening to his act is no longer something we look forward to; it is more like getting stuck in the back seat of your pop’s station wagon while he lectures you on "Americanism" through 30 miles of heavy traffic. In front of your friends.
But give Miller credit; he has accomplished something that almost no one before him has ever been able to do. He has actually become so vile that he is not even suitable company in Hollywood. He can now make a game-show host shudder in revulsion. This works well for the self-involved Miller. Why waste time considering the true horror and long-term ramifications of the violence he so blindly supports when we could instead be focusing on the assault of cold shoulders he has sustained on Rodeo Drive? Yeah, Dennis, enough of this massacre-of-innocents stuff, let’s talk about you.
As cocksure as Miller is in his new political alliance, he’d better watch himself — he could be headed toward a 21st-century version of Hitler’s "Night of the Long Knives." So long as church-state integrationist John Ashcroft is the attorney general, a purge of the potty-mouthed Miller is never a distant possibility.
He has carved a place for himself on the Rushmore of wrong-headedness, and there he will stay for years to come, a glowering, reactionary oaf for the ages. He’s ready for his close-up, Mr. Murdoch.
Visit Barry Crimmins's website at www.barrycrimmins.com.
Author shows his colors here. He is a communist agitator with a hidden agenda. His delusion is that the comming revolution is inevitable. When the non-existant oppressed workers he champions rise up, those that he envies (read: Commedians who are smarter, more successful, and funier than he is) will be among those punished. What a loser. Go on writing for a marginal comic book that nobody reads. Leave it to the rest of us to continue thinking about bigger things.
That's all you need to know about this guy. He is awash in bitterness, frustration and hate. As many have said of late, the protests going on now are Anti-Bush. The war is just a convenient excuse.
By the way, has Barry been on the Leno show recently? Just wondering...
"I said thank you for helping me and always being nice to me, but now I think I am a big boy and can knife you in the back."
So9
Dennis Miller was always decent to me. He gave me a chance, and I appreciated it, but he has become so obstinately wrong of late that I am left with no choice but to comment.What's funny is that even lefties will admit that conservatives (by the standards of the industry) in entertainment make good bosses (Miller, Drew Carey, etc) but lefties like Streisand, Nader, and Michael Moore are known to be hell to work for.
-Eric
That comes from growing up in Pittsburgh.
On the other edge of the sword, every person spouting off about anything on television or even here on the internet leaves a lasting record of their brilliance or stupidity. On the other hand Mr. Crimmins, I really don't think John Ashcroft cares one iota about what Janeanne Garaffalo shouts about on Fox News. Maybe such things are a Reno tank driving offense when our liberal friends are in power, but we just find it comical.
Yet it is Dennis Miller, according to this cretin, who is spewing hatred?
Well, that's because liberals consist of those who believe they know better than everyone else and should tell everyone else how to live, and those who WANT to be told how to live. Anyone outside that vicious circle finds both types to very annoying.
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