Dick Cavett?!
He's still alive???
-Dan
Posted on 09/03/2004 7:31:59 AM PDT by kattracks
Democratic hysteria over Sen. Zell Miller's Wednesday night keynote address to the GOP convention continues to escalate, with Kerry defenders now trying to label him "a Klansman.""Zell Miller looks like a Klansman," media has-been Dick Cavett groused to radio host Don Imus on Friday. When Imus objected to the characterization, Cavett joked, "You didn't think I meant the Ku Klux Klan, did you?." He then added in the next breath, "You would cast him as that in a movie."
Cavett was apparently picking up a riff first road tested on Thursday by pro-Kerry Republican David Gergen, who complained that Miller was a "man of hate," just like his long ago boss, Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox.
Of course, neither Cavett nor Gergen has ever had anything to say about the Senate's only genuine ex-Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd - apparently because he supports John Kerry.
Cavett, whose claim to sudden relevancy is based on the fact that he hosted a 1971 Vietnam debate between John Kerry and Swiftvet leader John O'Neill, could resist taking an ugly potshot at the man whose book, "Unfit for Command," has turned the presidential campaign on its ear.
Referring to the Swiftvet's appearance on his show, Cavett explained, "O'Neill had been groomed, entertained and fondled, for all I know, by Nixon and Haldeman."
I thought (hoped) Dick Cavett was already room temperature.
Me too. Irrelevant statement by a grossly irrelevant has-been.
< Zell Miller looks like a Klansman," media has-been Dick Cavett groused >
Betcha he won't say that within reach of Laura Ingram.
What a pathetic little man
Does anyone even listen to skeletor anymore? Problem with Dick is, he's still living in the 60's when everyone thought he was witty and urbane.
Isn't Cavett a Canuck? What would he know, and who cares?
I see some regional-bigotry here. Just because Zell is from the south and mad as hell that his party was overrun by socialists he must be racist?
Deadhead attacks free speach.
Whoomp - there it is!
I wonder if he made the same observation in '92. Of course not, I forgot Dick Cavett is a hypocrite
As his comments here show, he is.
He's apparently included in the official DNC talking points....Susan Estrogen made the Lester Maddox tie in also. This is not a coincidence.
Miller doesn't look a bit like Byrd to me.
"Dick Cavett: Zell 'Looks Like a Klansman'"
Well, most Klansmen were democrats.
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