Posted on 05/09/2003 7:51:08 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Just two nights after appearing on NBC's Tonight Show, comedian Dennis Miller managed to deliver some fresh zingers Thursday night on FNC's Hannity & Colmes. Plus, Thursday's Washington Times featured a profile of Miller headlined, "As Miller sees it, patriotism gets the last laugh."
On FNC, Miller blasted Senator Robert Byrd for his attacks on President Bush over landing on the aircraft carrier: "He's a moron, he's an old man. If your uncle started talking like that at Thanksgiving dinner, you know, you'd all have a talk when he left the room about how you have to keep an eye on Uncle Bobby."
Miller suggested that "anybody who doesn't believe" Iraq had chemical weapons "should have to go over and take a sip out of the Tigris River."
As for no evidence of a link "between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda! Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?"
MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth took down some of Miller's remarks and here are those above in full as uttered during Miller's appearance, via satellite from his home in Santa Barbara, on the May 8 Hannity & Colmes during which he did some sparring with Alan Colmes:
-- Sean Hannity: "You know, I got to think, because you see everything, you know, from the comedic standpoint, vantage point, and here, you know, here you have a former Klansman who was the head of the Democratic Party in the United States Senate, segregationist Robert Byrd, and hear his attack against the President for landing on an aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, after a big military victory. I got think that-"
Miller: "Yeah, but Sean, you can't just, guys like Robert Byrd cannot rev you up that much. They're just, he's a moron, he's an old man. If your uncle started talking like that at Thanksgiving dinner, you know, you'd all have a talk when he left the room about how you have to keep an eye on Uncle Bobby, and that's just the truth."
-- More Miller on Byrd: "If he wants to go down this road where he really questions President Bush and says that him landing on that aircraft carrier was a big problem, well, for God's sakes, two years from now it's going to be a bloodbath as far as the elections go, because that's what America is getting sick of, stuff like that, where they go, for God's sakes, it was just the President flying out to meet, to meet the troops as they reentered the port. It's, listen, most of us are sitting at home proud of that."
-- Miller: "You know, anybody who doesn't believe they have chemical weapons over there should have to go over and take a sip out of the Tigris River in the first place."
-- Miller, imitating Colmes: "And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?"
Thursday's Washington Times featured a profile of Miller headlined, "As Miller sees it, patriotism gets the last laugh." An excerpt from the May 8 story by Jennifer Harper:
Dennis Miller may have the most muscular patriotism on the planet -- and he's not afraid to use it.
The comedian has emerged as an unabashed advocate for America, the Bush administration and the military.
He has struck a robust blow for flag and country in antiwar Hollywood, where home-front unity is at a premium.
"I am portrayed as the big anomaly in the community. But if you can't get behind your country at a time like this, what are you thinking? War in Iraq has only increased my patriotism," Mr. Miller said in an interview yesterday.
Mr. Miller was not in stand-up mode at the time, though his one-liners and rants had proved effective weapons in recent months.
"I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum," he told Jay Leno on NBC's Tonight Show in February, after France refused to give its blessings to the war in Iraq.
"If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign that says Bush is Hitler, forget the peace thing for a second and beat his [posterior], because he is not Hitler," he added some time later.
Mr. Miller's public ferocity has been fomenting off and on since the September 11 attacks, punctuated by TV appearances that criticize liberals, prissy journalists and fellow celebrities for reviling the White House in wartime....
Mr. Miller has bashed the press for years, aiming piquant criticism on journalists who would violate the security of American troops for the sake of their stories.
"It's on constant slip-up patrol now. It used to be the five W's ? who, what, when, all that. Now it's the 5 W's and 'gotcha.' " he noted.
Mr. Miller carefully charted the course of the great Dixie Chicks debacle, which revealed much about the American mind-set in recent weeks. The country music trio suffered nationwide boycotts and ridicule after lead singer Natalie Maines assured a London audience in March that she was "ashamed" Mr. Bush was from Texas.
"What happened to the Dixie Chicks is exactly what should have happened. Natalie Maines was overseas and thought she could get away with her remark. That was naive," Mr. Miller said.
"Then the NASCAR audience got a hold of it through the Drudge Report, and Matt Drudge, by the way, is a latter-day Walter Winchell," he said, referring to the legendary newspaper columnist during the 1940s. "So people got mad for a while, and it scared the girls a bunch. But time passes, and they had a sold-out concert last week. It was a whole life cycle. It ended the way it should have ended."...
As for politics, Mr. Miller is in boxing stance as the 2004 presidential election rattles to life. He already has targeted his initial opponent.
"John Edwards has the most potential as a target for me," Mr. Miller said, referring to the Democratic senator from North Carolina. "He looks like a sketchily drawn John Grisham character. He's the one I'm going to watch."
Mr. Miller, who once described himself as a "lifelong Democrat," became a Bush stalwart.
"I didn't know what to make of Bush in the beginning. I liked his father, but I didn't know the son," Mr. Miller said. "Then President Bush got the whole September 11 thing in his lap, and Iraq. And he's dispatched it all beautifully."
He added: "Do I think he led a frivolous life in previous years? Yes. Do I think he saved himself? Yes. He's become a great commander in chief. He's stayed on message -- and I admire him."
END of Excerpt
For the article in full: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030508-91242661.htm
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He added: "Do I think he led a frivolous life in previous years? Yes. Do I think he saved himself? Yes. He's become a great commander in chief. He's stayed on message -- and I admire him."Indeed.
That is rich. Miller 's observantional comedy is among the best.
"John Edwards has the most potential as a target for me," Mr. Miller said, referring to the Democratic senator from North Carolina. "He looks like a sketchily drawn John Grisham character. He's the one I'm going to watch."
I was thinking that I'd like to see Miller stand in for Ari Fleisher (sp?) every now and then.
Great Stuff. Liking Miller more all the time!
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