Dennis Miller on the prowl....

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http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/issues/articleid.17708/article_detail.asp

TAE: How would Americans respond to Senator Clinton as a Presidential candidate?

MILLER: Forty percent of voters would probably support her. I’d like to think there’s 60 percent who wouldn’t. Most people know that the Clintons are just career politicians, but it’s amazing to me that some people really believe in them. Bill and Hillary’s marriage couldn’t have been any more about convenience than if they’d installed a Slim Jim rack and Slurpee machine at the base of their bed.


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TAE: Where do you see the danger in that?

MILLER: I always wondered how Hitler happened. I even went so far as to read William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I read all 1,200 pages and at the end of it I remember thinking, “Yeah, but how does Hitler happen?” Part of it has to do with the Left mislabeling people as Hitler. It’s like Pierce Brosnan at the end of the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. He dressed everybody up in the same Bowler cap and overcoat, and then he walks right through the middle of them without being noticed. The Left is so busy saying John Ashcroft is Hitler, and President Bush is Hitler, and Rudy Giuliani is Hitler that the only guy they wouldn’t call Hitler was the foreign guy with the mustache who was throwing people who disagreed with him into the wood-chipper.
 
Yeah, Dennis is pretty funny. Usually, he skewers both sides, but lately I read that he has become a shill for the Repubs. It is a pity, but he is still funny. One interesting thing I remember from a few years ago when he became the commentator on Monday Night Football (Rush Limbaugh was another candidate), is that a lot of people were screaming about how we let this LIBERAL be a commentator on the All-American Sport. I said then that they weren't paying attention to him.

I own four books of Miller's "Rants" and they are quite funny and pithy. However, I think it is important for us all to remember that Miller is first and foremost, a comedian. Being accurate is not nearly as important as being funny. The same can be said of Al Franken.
 
In this messed up world, I like seeing my President pray. I don’t think a person can get answers out of books anymore. This is an infinitely complex world and at some point one has to have faith in one’s religion. I find it endearing that President Bush prays to God and that he’s not an agnostic or an atheist. I’m glad there’s someone higher that he has to answer to.
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yeah, whatever. :rolleyes:
 
I also find Miller pretty funny. But something being funny doesn't necessarily mean the material has any basis in facts.

"Most people know that the Clintons are just career politicians,"

So what? Isn't it really about how they perform in their job? I don't like Bush's performance as president and will not vote for him because of that, not because of the fact that his accomplishments can be directly attributed to the sliver spoon he was born with. Trust me, if I approved of his politics, I would support him. That's exactly the way I felt about Clinton. I didn't like the decisions he made in his personal life, but I approved of enough of his politics to support him.
 
Upchurch said:
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Doesn't sound like the Dennis Miller I remember at all. When did he sell out?
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I don't know if he "sold out" as much as he "gave up." The passage quoted by kourama sounds like the words of someone who has thrown his hands up in the air and said "B*dl*ck it!! This is too hard to figure out." He's saying the world is too complex so we should believe in things with no proof. I've suspected a lot of religious belief comes from a combination of the fact that the world is very complex, and people can't stand not knowing. So religion allows easy and quick answers to these tough questions that are justified on faith, which allows that person to not admit there is very much about which he or she is clueless. I've never seen such a clear example of that concept before.
 
Tricky said:

Just recently.
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Pity. I've found Miller to be a very clever and well thought-out writer/orator. I hope he doesn't now limit himself to not crossing the party line.

But, after all, he's an entertainer first. He'll go where the money is.
 
Miller is a funny guy. Like other entertainers, I give a rat's ass (not!) for their political views and opinions.

Charlie (anyone care for my opinion?) Monoxide
 
Miller got lazy and irrelevant as a quasi-leftist. Now he gets to have free baby-skull brunch with George Will and Ann Coulter.

Or maybe his writers got converted to the dark side, since they wrote most of his bits.
 
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