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 Im 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 wont 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 programs 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, thats 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 didnt suck up to. So its 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 SNLs "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 pops 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, lets talk about you.
As cocksure as Miller is in his new political alliance, hed better watch himself he could be headed toward a 21st-century version of Hitlers "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. Hes ready for his close-up, Mr. Murdoch.
Visit Barry Crimmins's website at www.barrycrimmins.com.
Keep it up loser, the Right is winning.
Memo to Barry: The same can be said for newspaper editorials.
As Miller tells it, he started to drift away from and reexamine the liberal mindset when they all rallied around Clinton in '98-99. Dennis Miller rightfully thought Clinton should have resigned or been removed from office and here were his friends defending the guy to the bitter end, and beyond. He questioned his political values at that point and found some of them lacking.
Unlike Crimmins, Miller is able to actually examine his political beliefs and admit the flaws. That Dennis Miller has moved to the right politically is great and as has been mentioned, must be a bit scary for the liberals who see their whole political structure slowly rotting from within and being abandoned by the people they thought they had locked in for life, like Dennis Miller. Ad hominum attacks are about all they have left now which will only alienate decent Americans even more. It's interesting to watch, even if it does get nasty at times but Dennis Miller can take care of himself and easily fend off the attacks of a Crimmins who is just a no-name Hollywood hack parroting the liberal line like a good boy, hoping for peer approval and maybe, another job.
The best thing that could ever happen to Crimmins would be for Miller to acknowlege this article and make a one sentence response the next time he is on TV. But, since Miller has had tons of writers over the years, if you informed him that Barry Crimmins attacked him in the Boston Phoenix, Miller's response would be "Who the heck is Barry Crimmins?"
Too bad more "pops" don't do this nowadays.
And yet, Jay Leno is rolling on the floor laughing and the audience is howling whenever Dennis Miller appears on the show...everytime!
They must all be laughing AT him, huh Barry.
They must all be laughing AT him, huh Barry.
I think he's a bit confused by the sight of howling laughter directed at a comedian. He's never had that reponse from one of his audiences. Seriously, when he does standup, there are a few fake gaffaws, but mostly polite clapping from the liberals in the audience.
If you keep repeating the hack "Ya know Dubya is SO stupid ("How stupid is he?")..." routine for long enough, even a bunch of embarassed liberals will eventually grow bored.
And that's what it's all about. They will never get over the fact that they lost -- plain and simple, fair and square, no one "stole" anything -- they just lost. I'm so sick of all their whining.
Who is it that is always getting caught not paying Social Security on their domestics? Liberals.
They care about "The Peeeople" in theory, but are so self centered and selfish they don't mind screwing over people they know, people around them.
Conservatives don't much care about taking care of "The Peeeeople" in general, but feel an obligation to take care of people they are associated with.
These days "Noblesse Oblige" is sneered at, but it sure beats Liberalism.
So9
I see this with frightening frequency on leftie sites. "We know what was said and who supported what and when we have trials of these people etc.".
...and that is what it really boils down to for little tyrants like Mr. Crimmins. He's not particularly interested in helping anyone so much as he is in punishing people, and types of people, that he has perceived to have slighted him in some way. Which is why he stopped doing drugs himself 20 years ago, but he is a strong advocate of legalized drugs. He really is a sick, twisted, very bad man.
Me too.
Do you suppose it has ever occured to these brilliant champions of peace and justice, who speak of our president with such disdain and disrespect, who would spit upon our troops, and who would sooner have faith in the motives of a proven untrustworthy tyrant such as Saddam Hussein than our own president, that were they to write their venomous little rants in a country like Iraq, under a ruler like Saddam, they would have been beheaded by now had they referred to him as a "little bastard?"
Who is it that is always getting caught not paying Social Security on their domestics? Liberals.It's applied collectivism, actually. They claim to care about "the people" as an aggregate but are contemptuous of individuals.They care about "The Peeeople" in theory, but are so self centered and selfish they don't mind screwing over people they know, people around them.
-Eric
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