Posted on 12/10/2006 11:40:56 AM PST by lowbridge
Posted by Noel Sheppard on December 9, 2006 - 13:07.
Fox News correspondent and comedian Dennis Miller was at it again Friday night. In his “Real Free Speech” segment, Miller took on Iraq War defeatism, and wisely explained why winning over there is important for America’s future (video available here courtesy of our friend at Ms Underestimated). As always, this works best if you read along while watching or you will miss the marvelous sight gags:
Hey there, folks. Tonight I'm going to talk about defeatism about the war here on the home front. Ah, but what good would it do me to talk about defeatism? It's not like it's going to change anything. You see how whiney that tone sounds? You think our enemy loves hearing that? Of course they do.
Now the recurrent through line of the naysayers in this country is that this is our Vietnam. Well, if it truly is, just Google Dr. Hang Noor to remind yourself what happened after we split there.
Each week we place a different burr under our saddle to work ourselves into a negative lather. Last week, it was which media outlet would be the first to catch the civil war bouquet. Ernie Powell must be spinning in his grave like Earl Monroe in the lane.
This week, we'll use the leaked Rumsfeld memo, citing the need for a major adjustment in the Iraq. By the way, federal government employees leak more often than a frat pledge with a caper-sized bladder.
You know, I always thought the reason we went into Iraq was to look scary again. There's a reason people didn't want to go across the middle on Ronnie Lott, and a lot of had to do with rep. Ostensibly, we're in Iraq to reinvigorate our brand.
But here at home we're proving ourselves soft, and the enemy knows it.
What's wrong in Iraq, quite frankly, is that we're not brutal enough to the insurgents. Now, if a majority of Americans decide that they're willing to continue down that path, because as Billy Crystal's Fernando character reminded us...
BILLY CRYSTAL, COMEDIAN: It is better to look good than to feel good.
MILLER: If that's the approach we're going to use against an enemy that's quintessentially evil, well, so be it. Majority rule. I'll go along for the ride because you are my peeps, and I'm here all the way to the results show.
But you know, as well as I do, that if we don't fight back, it will be the end of us.
And I think it's hard to get your head around the fact that your country might have to destroy some folks. I know I found it unsettling when it first crept into my frontal lobes. And I was even late to the table. I know people who thought it was go-time after the attack on the Cole. Not me. I signed on after 9/11, which around half of you out there did.
If we choose defeatism, I assume that more of you will RSVP after the inevitable next incident. You know where to find the rest of us.
Until then, all I ask of my country is that we don't beat ourselves and that we remain a place where Gwyneth Paltrow refuses to live.
Back to you, Heckel and Jeckel.
I love the commentary of Dennis Miller. A debate between him and any of the idiots of hollywood would be almost unfair. I would love for him to skewer an idiot like Bill Maher.
What's wrong in Iraq, quite frankly, is that we're not brutal enough to the insurgents.
Really?
it is so great to watch someone that gets it!!!!!!
"...just Google Dr. Hang Noor to remind yourself what happened after we split there."
Really? Google actually lets the truth come through their never-ending Leftist filters? LOL!
I can take Dennis in small doses. He reminds me too much of my 'sarcastic-no-matter-what-the-occasion,' annoying EX-Husband, LOL!
That is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
I memorized his 'Gettysburg Address.' I would recite it to myself while running. After I ran through it twice with no mistakes, I could quit. :)
What office were you running for, Diana?
Was this Miller's Gettysburg Address? Is it in the phone book?
Or was it Lincoln's, which as you know he wrote while riding to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope?
(Sorry, that schoolboy answer always cracked me up.)
ping
I'm not a broadcast media consumer either, since I don't have a t.v. Perhaps that's why I find the visuals distracting.
you are right there!!
No TV ?
Hey, here's a thought. If Al Franken can be taken seriously in a Senate bid maybe we can get Dennis to run. Where is he based, anyway? He could move to New Jersey and take on the corpse, Frank Lautenberg, or he could move to Massachusetts and take on Lurch, Jon F'n Carry. Miller confronting Lautenberg might seem like cruelty to a "poor old man" and would be counter productive. But think of the sheer joy of Miller campaigning against Ketchup boy! And the debates!
Yo, Dennis? Doing anything for the next two years? How about the six after that?
Having lived in northern New Jersey for a while I have to believe that a Chernobyl style melt down would, on balance, help the environment.
One thing...if you're going to google him, it's Haing Ngor.
And Ernie Pyle.
Other than that, great rant.
Happy Monday! The first of six pings to Iraq topics, all related, all good news.
A fellow American after my own heart! I didn't have a TV throughout college nor the whole time I was young and single (that was a few years ago!!!!). I wouldn't have one now except that my husband and I use it to watch a video or DVD with dinner. We don't have cable -- just rabbit ears. The only broadcasts we watch are Fox News Sunday, and I am chagrined to admit that we got hooked on 24 (that Jack Bauer!). Other than that -- nada, unless it's a presidential speech or debate. Except my husband watches morning news on weekdays for 10 to 20 minutes with his first cup of coffee to get his blood boiling before he turns the TV off in disgust!
I am a radio person. I love the medium of radio. Not having a TV enriches one's life immensly, doesn't it?
See my post 37.
It may if one uses their time learning and enjoying other things.
Too many people claim an elitest moral high ground in admitting they don't watch or own a televsion...as if people who watch a lot of television are somehow lower in intellect and judgement....when it's simply a case that they can't afford one, or can't afford the cable bill.
And furthermore, if you had cable, you could enjoy the Discovery, History and a wealth of other educational channels.
... from the time I was 18 to the time I was in my mid-20s, I had no TV; had TV and cable during that brief marriage of less than 3 years, but when I left him, didn't bother to buy a TV for myself. Some friends just coudln't stand it -- they could not at all understand or support my "decision" to not own a TV! So they kindly gave me one, an old black-and-white, and I gave in to temptation (I have a real weakness for 50s television) and got cable. So many of my hours were taken up watching instead of participating in life! So after a month, I gave the cable box back to the cable company and gave the TV to Goodwill, and was much, much happier, more productive, more creative, and became better read and better educated.
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