# If anyone is interested, Dennis Miller interview. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 12, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946 "2017-01-12T04:44:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/1 "2017-01-12T04:44:30Z")
[http://www.thetulsavoice.com/January-A-2017/The-Left-bores-me/](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. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/2 "2017-01-12T05:10:13Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/3 "2017-01-12T06:13:46Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/4 "2017-01-12T06:25:17Z")
> [@](#): > > TTV: I agree that calling Trump “Hitler” is counter-productive. But I’m personally concerned about Trump, starting on the level of just basic competence— > > DM: Listen, if he just doesn’t use a private server located in a bathroom, he’s already a competent step up. I mean I know people are going to say, “Oh, Hillary is genius.” I find it weird that she did that—I find it weird that she deliberately got rid of 33,000 emails, I do. So do I think he can be as competent as the great Hillary Clinton? Yeah, I do. I think that’s an easy one. I didn’t find her as competent as everyone else did. 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: > [@](#): > > So I wish Trump well. I don’t think Hillary would’ve been a good president. She had so many lies in the air, like a juggler. I knew it was going to get ugly and a lot of the balls were gonna fall. So that’s where I stand right now. Moron. Utter moron. One of the candidates here absolutely broke the mold when it came to lying in politics. It wasn’t Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/5 "2017-01-12T06:41:34Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/6 "2017-01-12T12:37:14Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > 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”. 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. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/7 "2017-01-12T15:09:14Z")
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_]! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/8 "2017-01-12T16:16:58Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/9 "2017-01-12T16:26:09Z")
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. > [@](#): > > …Now, he’s going on a cross-country comedy tour with Bill O’Reilly, dubbed “The Spin Stops Here.” … He doesn’t deserve this. For all his sins, not _this_! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/10 "2017-01-12T16:30:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > He doesn’t deserve this. For all his sins, not _this_! Sorry - are you talking about O’Reilly or Miller here? ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-is-interested-dennis-miller-interview/776946/11 "2017-01-12T16:39:00Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Sorry - are you talking about O’Reilly or Miller here? I think he means me.