April 07, 2003
Perhaps my feelings are best described by the great Buddy Cole while lamenting the existence of a few of his peers: ..."I still refuse to believe that Liberace's a fag...him and Ray Cohn! I just don't want them to be. It's like finding out Satan's a fag."
I intended to rant about Miller's "Ten Point" explanation of the war floating around the net, the one that's imputed to make all of us anti-war, Gen-x, pacifist loser types cringe with ignominy; but 'ranting' would be too much like an homage, and therefore, unthinkable. Anyway, it probably wasn't written by him to begin with. Not that it couldn't have been, or that it matters.
Either way it makes me sad. I liked the guy, okay? I really liked him. Admitting someone I once admired is actually a capitalistic scum-sucking conservative butt-wad is like the feeling you have when you find out your lover has been having an affair...for the past two years. You feel so stupid for not knowing, and then realize you did; you just didn't want to.
The thing that really burns my buns? Since outing himself as a conservative, the conservative media is more interested than ever as positing him as a LIBERAL, he's now suddenly a poster boy for the right's little "Na, na, na na, na" fests directed at the stinking unwashed liberal masses. We are supposed to be ashamed that we think the way we do when even the BRILLIANT LIBERALS OF OUR TIME have seen the light and switched sides. Can't he see he's being used more than the only port-a-potty at a light beer festival? (Sorry, had to throw one in there, ya know, for told time's sake.)
I admit it, I liked the guy, and I'm sad that he's crossed over to the Dark Side. But I'm more disgusted at the way someone whose banter could have been written by Pat Robertson is still being associated with the liberal agenda. And like the lover scorned, I'm just now beginning to feel the hurt and anger... God Dammit Dennis... can't you see we had a good thing, baby? Why'd ya have to go and throw it all away? And don't think I'm taking you back when Ashcroft dumps you! Oh no sucker, you're on your own!
Posted by Antigeist at April 7, 2003 11:54 PMDennis Miller has been a conservative for a long time, and unfunny for longer than that. He's the worst kind of conservative, too- the kind that likes to paint himself as some sort of renegade as he fearlessly goes to bat for the establishment. Wow, he has the courage to speak up for rich white folk!
I got sick of watching him squint to read the next line of his "stream-of-references" rants off the teleprompter around the time Nancy Kerrigan was getting sick of having her shins bashed in. Dennis, you're about as spontaneous as Bob Hope doing a Texaco ad at his own funeral, "babe".
And somebody should tell him it's in bad form to laugh harder at your own jokes than anybody else is. "Babe".
But that's just my opinion. Let's here what you think, America.
Well said. And unlike Mr. Miller...funny!
I've never pretended to be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I thought he was spewing all that right wing nonsense for effect, initially. I thought, based on the previous content of his material, this his new schtick was simply designed to shock, I kept thinking, "this is a bit, right?" the intellectual doppelganger to the Sledge-O-Matic. But now that it's clear he's in earnest, I'm left feeling a little embarassed I ever enjoyed his work in the first place.
One might wonder...why the hell do I care so much? Because he's smart, famous, and people listen to him. If he were stupid I could care less. Smart conservative enigmatic people are dangerous in my opinion. It's like the difference between some dolt with three teeth in his head spewing racist comments, versus let's say a David Duke, or a Tom Metzger. The former, because he's powerless, can be ignored. Just another uneducated hateful idiot whose opinion isn't worth a pile of beans...whereas the latter two? They are the scary ones. They're well-read, educated, they know how to downplay their real agenda, and they get attention. They are the kind of men who can convince a group that their self-serving agenda is right, is as it should be, and that you're a moron if you and your bleeding-heart peers continue to support the idealistic shenanigans that are ruining this country.
I only put Miller with these monsters because of their shared public visibility, and the sickness I feel knowing there are millions at home listening to the diatribes of these kinds of men thinking, "Hey, that fella's got a point..."