# Dennis Miller makes me want to puke **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529 "2004-12-13T02:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/1 "2004-12-13T02:07:33Z")
…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: ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/2 "2004-12-13T02:22:25Z")
So your disgust had nothing to do with his eye-popping transformation from liberal jokester to George W. Bush backer? ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/3 "2004-12-13T02:23:45Z")
Nope, sorry, it was the squid thing. I don’t really care who celebrities give political handjobs to. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/4 "2004-12-13T02:40:34Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > So your disgust had nothing to do with his eye-popping transformation from liberal jokester to George W. Bush backer? Dennis Miller is a Bush backer? When did this happen? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/5 "2004-12-13T02:42:09Z")
He converted after 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/6 "2004-12-13T02:54:04Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Dennis Miller is a Bush backer? When did this happen? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/7 "2004-12-13T03:00:56Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > He converted after 9/11. Uhhg. 9/11 Republicans are the worst kind. And here I always thought Miller was a pretty intelligent guy. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/8 "2004-12-13T03:41:59Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > Nope, sorry, it was the squid thing. I don’t really care who celebrities give political handjobs to. LOL. Sorry, nothing else to add other than to say that Incubs’ attitude is spot on. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/9 "2004-12-13T05:07:12Z")
Oh, good. This is turning into a political thread. We need more of those. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/10 "2004-12-13T05:45:55Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > And here I always thought Miller was a pretty intelligent guy. 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: ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/11 "2004-12-13T05:56:59Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/12 "2004-12-13T06:02:32Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/13 "2004-12-13T06:09:52Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > 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: 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. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/14 "2004-12-13T06:30:10Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/15 "2004-12-13T07:01:39Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > And to be fair Miller did not say he would give GWB a free pass. 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](http://www.xposed.com/entertainment/dennis_miller_to_give_bush_a_free_pass.aspx) Here’s the lead: > [@](#): > > LOS ANGELES - Dennis Miller has usually been happy to spray his acerbic wit across the political spectrum, but things will be different on his new CNBC talk program. President Bush is in a mock-free zone. > > “I like him,” Miller explained. “I’m going to give him a pass. I take care of my friends.” ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/16 "2004-12-13T07:32:19Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/17 "2004-12-13T07:36:09Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Correct, and actually, this likely isn’t the place for it. I didn’t realize this was CS and not the pit. I apologize. I thought I was in the pit too. Thread title threw me off. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/18 "2004-12-13T07:55:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dennis-miller-makes-me-want-to-puke/279529/19 "2004-12-13T09:22:42Z")
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.