Miller Delivers Zingers Against Penn, the French & ACLU

MRC ^ | Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:56:23 AM | BrentBaker

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On Wednesday's Tonight Show on NBC Dennis Miller delivered some zingers against opponents of taking on Saddam Hussein militarily. Since 9-11 the actor/comedian has honed his shtick around mocking liberals opposed to President Bush's tough line against terrorism.

Some of his shots on the January 29 Tonight Show with Jay Leno:

-- "Sean Penn, for instance, is urging restraint. What could we possibly say to Sean to get him on board? If only Saddam Hussein was a paparazzi." (Penn once punched a photographer.)

-- "The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq."

-- "The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies."

He also took on liberals for opposing school vouchers when public schools are a disaster and offered this blast at the ACLU's priorities: "The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep."

Last November on the Tonight Show Miller praised Bush's anti- terrorism efforts, favored attacking Iraq and juxtaposed the "wocka-wocka porno guitar of the Clinton administration" with how Bush "makes me proud to be an American again. He's just a decent guy." See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021108.asp#6

In a June Tonight Show appearance Miller mocked liberal orthodoxy: "If you put the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison outside of Kabul it would be their Epcot." And: "I say we create a new airline, called the ACLA, the American Civil Liberties Airline where you don't check anybody, you don't ask any questions, and let those morons fly on that one." See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020620.asp#4

And in November of 2001, noting how reporters say "it's the public's need to know about our ground forces being in there," on the Tonight Show Dennis Miller led the audience in a reprimanding journalists: "We don't want to know!" Miller also called for oil drilling in Alaska and praised President Bush for ending "the ?70s porno guitar of the Clinton administration." See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20011107.asp#7

That last CyberAlert includes a picture of Miller whose stands are quite a contrast to those espoused by most in Hollywood who seem closer to the views of Susan Sarandon and Janeane Garofalo.

-- Brent Baker

[Man of the Right]

Maher is a guy who lacks any discernible talent, is never funny, and whose views are entirely left-conventional. Ask me Maher's view on any issue, and I can tell you Maher's position without knowing him. What makes him extraordinarily boring is that he thinks that it's provocative to parrot the Democrat 2000 platform. It doesn't make for very interesting TV. His one contribution to the left was to try to spin the term "politically correct" as eminating from the right.

[Howlin]

He has children now.

[Man of the Right]

Miller is another former leftist of the George Orwell-Christopher Hitchens school who is a conservative, but who hasn't figured it out yet. He doesn't possess Hitchens' IQ (he's bright enough), but he's figured out it's not in his interest to be "dirty bombed" by bin Laden, "sarined" by Saddam Hussein, car bombed by Hamas, hosed down with an assault rifle by the PLO, or knifed by a junkie. That's an epiphany. So is getting your tax bill after buying your first house. Real estate tax statements have created more conservatives than Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan combined.