…For tricking me with such a gross set-up! I was watching Dennis Miller just now, and he was talking about ‘An award winning cake’ while the camera had an extreme close-up to something white.
The camera pans out…revealing a gigantic mangled up squid…DOESNT LOOK LIKE A CAKE TO ME!
I’m sorry, but when I’m thinking of ‘cake’, ‘giant manged up squid’ doesn’t come to mind. Urgh, I feel a little sick to my stomach now… :eek:
So your disgust had nothing to do with his eye-popping transformation from liberal jokester to George W. Bush backer?
Nope, sorry, it was the squid thing. I don’t really care who celebrities give political handjobs to.
Dennis Miller is a Bush backer? When did this happen?
He converted after 9/11.
I remember him specifically saying, as his new show debuted, that George W. Bush would get a free pass from him. I couldn’t believe it. The “old” Dennis gave no quarter in any direction.
Uhhg. 9/11 Republicans are the worst kind.
And here I always thought Miller was a pretty intelligent guy.
LOL.
Sorry, nothing else to add other than to say that Incubs’ attitude is spot on.
Oh, good. This is turning into a political thread. We need more of those.
Me too. Maybe that’s why he decided that the sanctimonious self-important whining ignorance that characterizes modern American liberalism wasn’t for him. Who could imagine such a thing? :rolleyes:
Hey, if he doesn’t want to be a liberal (or at least not characterized as one), that’s fine by me (though I’m not sure of what exactly you’re saying.)
There is, however, a lot of ground to cover between “not a liberal” and a 9/11 Republican.
Correct, and actually, this likely isn’t the place for it. I didn’t realize this was CS and not the pit.
I guess that’s possible, although it’s in contradiction to everything I’ve heard him say on the topic.
I read in another thread here that Miller was always a Republican, but he was overt about it after September 11 in a way he wasn’t before.
To try and keep this in CS (sort of) intelligence, semi-seriousness and whit have been a part of Miller’s act all thru his career. Compare this to, say, the very unserious, manic, man-child act of a Robin Williams. Or the one-trick-pony act of a Whoopie Goldberg.
Miller was pro-choice but he was never a whining, ignorant liberal. I think he’d be the person he is 9/11 or not.
And to be fair Miller did not say he would give GWB a free pass. What he said was that he was not going to allow people on his show to just spout the standard, venomous, totally unfounded “he’s an idiot” hatred. Miller has met Bush and while not agreeing with all his politics he believes he’s a completely competant, sincere individual. Which to me does display Miller’s intelligence…
No, he did. I typed in the phrase “Dennis Miller free pass” into Google and discovered:
http://www.xposed.com/entertainment/dennis_miller_to_give_bush_a_free_pass.aspx
Here’s the lead:
Okay, but I believe that if GWB did something that Miller really genuinely disagreed with he would still not hesitate to take him to task on it. He just feels (as I do) that because 99.9% of the media utterly despise Bush no matter what, he needs to go a little further to separate himself from the whining rabble…
I apologize. I thought I was in the pit too. Thread title threw me off.
Miller hasn’t been funny in years. I used to be a fan (esp. of the “rants”), but he started going downhill well before his political realignment.
So was it a giant mangled-up squid or a cake that was made to look like a giant mangled up squid?
'Cuz if it’s the latter, I want the recipe.