http://www.thetulsavoice.com/January-A-2017/The-Left-bores-me/
I think most people will read into this what they want. That it will confirm whatever world view they have of him. I admit it did for me. That he’s at heart a nice guy, someone just sick of the noise.
Nothing offensive there, but it’s remarkably content-free. The part that I found notable was this: “…but I always do these interviews and think ‘Christ, I wish they would have queried Hillary this hard when she was running, instead of a comedian who just didn’t wanna vote for her’.” Really, Dennis? You’ve made a multi-million dollar career out of conservative-oriented comedy, constantly wisecracking about liberals, but you’re uncomfortable answering the most mundane, basic questions about politics where you actually have to justify your views?
You literally cut off the first part of that quote, where he prefaces the rest by saying “That’s OK, I don’t mind doing it for a couple of questions,” – just so you could then ask whether he’s uncomfortable answering questions? You don’t need to ask whether the guy is uncomfortable answering questions; he’d already replied, in the same sentence, that, oh, hey, it’s okay, he sure doesn’t mind doing it.
And I stopped reading riiiiight there. Miller, like most hardline republican pundits, is apparently a fucking moron. No, you idiot, someone who makes one fairly insignificant mistake in a career that shows her to be an extremely detail-oriented policy wonk with tons of experience at state, national, and international politics is not somehow more incompetent than someone who couldn’t actually explain a single one of his policies. Similarly:
Moron. Utter moron. One of the candidates here absolutely broke the mold when it came to lying in politics. It wasn’t Clinton.
Yeah, “I don’t mind you asking me questions, as long as you only ask me one or two softball questions and then fuck off”. You literally ignored the first part of the interview before that – where Miller is asked about his constant refrain of “not Hillary, not Hillary” and now he ends up with Trump and how does he feel about that, and he immediately starts backing off and refusing to discuss it. Because of course there’s nothing rational a conservative pundit can really say about this embarrassment to all Republicans. Miller’s whole schtick as a right-wing pundit has basically always been “I’ll happily take your money to have you shut up and listen to me, but I’m not taking any questions”. He’s not really an intellectual heavyweight, to say the least.
Why do you paraphrase him as saying “I’m not taking any questions” when he actually took questions and indicated he’d take yet more questions?
I’m not ignoring the first part of the interview before that; you’re right that he gets asked how he feels about ending up with Trump after all the “not Hillary” stuff, and he answers readily: saying he wishes Trump well, and has roughly the same hope for the Trump administration that he had eight years ago for the Obama administration; and he adds that he wouldn’t have had the same hope for Hillary Clinton, as he doesn’t think she would’ve been a good president – but he thinks Trump represents a step up from her on competence, and gives a she’s-already-a-proven-quantity example after expressing his belief that she’s simply “not a good person”.
You can of course disagree with that answer, but I don’t see where he’s “backing off and refusing to discuss it”; he believes Hillary wouldn’t have been a good president, and that Trump might be a good president – and he doesn’t cap that by saying he wants no further questions on the matter; the interviewer does ask him another question on the matter, and Miller replies by again comparing Trump to Hillary.
And even then, he doesn’t go the no-further-questions route; near as I can tell, he’s glad to discuss the Trump-versus-Hillary topic further – because the interviewer, having done the after-what-you-said-about-Hillary-how-do-you-feel-about-Trump bit, then goes into a “Setting Hillary aside, though” change of pace.
Miller then gets asked about the CIA accusations, and says they don’t bother him at this point – and mentions at what point it would bother him – and then he says he’ll maybe take “a couple more” questions on the CIA accusations; the interviewer says that’s fair, and Miller adds that he doesn’t mind doing it for a couple of questions. Miller then adds that he sure wishes Hillary would’ve gotten queried just as hard.
For all I know, Miller would’ve gone on and on and on and on about the question you say he backed off from and refused to discuss: after what he’d said about Hillary, how does he feels about Trump? Miller seems to relish giving an answer that involves saying, hey, compared to Hillary, Trump is A and B and C but not X or Y or Z.
Dennis Miller? That guy’s [attribute] is more [modifier] than [name of famous person or historical figure]'s [object]. He makes [name of famous person or historical figure] look like [name of unrelated person or historical figure]!
Dennis Miller Mad Libs! I used to love doing those with my parents on road trips! Almost as much as George Eliot Mad Libs!
I still feel kinda sorry for the poor bastard, 9/11 drove him nuts. Turned him inside out and flayed his brain. Happened to a lot of folks, even some I know. Never was a big fan, but he was modestly amusing. Is he even working anywhere, any more? Who’s cutting him a check?
Oh, wait.
He doesn’t deserve this. For all his sins, not this!
Sorry - are you talking about O’Reilly or Miller here?
I think he means me.