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By: Jon H

Jon H — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:16:50 +0000

“Miller’s show has been renewed into 2005.”

Well, that just means CNBC calculated that his show would be marginally more profitable than an infomercial with Pat Boone shilling questionable gold investments.

By: Jesse Walker

Jesse Walker — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:30:14 +0000

I used to stick up for Miller. The man always had a law-and-order populist streak, so I wasn’t surprised to see him backing the president on the war. “I disagree with him,” I’d tell people, “but he’s still smart and funny.”

I don’t say that now that he’s taken to repeating Republican talking points. This guy used to hate cant; now he deals in it.

The funniest part of the episode Nick was on was the “interview” with Robert Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy hijacked it completely. For those of you who missed it, it went roughly like this:

MILLER: Asks opening question.

KENNEDY: Makes gesture towards answering question, fakes left, and ends up speaking for half the length of the interview on the topics he’d rather discuss.

MILLER: Starts to ask a second question.

KENNEDY: Breaks in to say, “Let me make one more point.” Makes that point, then makes several more, with a speech that may well be longer than the first one.

MILLER: We’re out of time, but I’d just like to say how much I admired your father.

KENNEDY: Thank you.

By: John J. Coupal

John J. Coupal — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:35:36 +0000

Here’s some news.

Miller’s show has been renewed into 2005.

By: Joe Sims

Joe Sims — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:27:37 +0000

Miller went from the penthouse (HBO) to the ghetto (CNBC? MSNBC? Hell, I dunno, I never watch either) of cable, largely due IMO to his becoming such a shrill tool for the right. And his interviews… whew, I never thought I’d see someone so quick to fellate his favored guests like that since Arsenio faded into obscurity.

Miller used to be topical and relevant; now he’s too afraid to rail against the status quo to even be humorous…

By: Michael Williams -- Master of None

Michael Williams -- Master of None — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:54:21 +0000

Dissing Dennis

Radley Balko thinks Dennis Miller has become nothing but a shill for the President, and based on the few times I’ve seen his show, well, Mr. Balko may be correct. One of his commenters thinks Mr. Miller’s new image was…

By: Scotty B

Scotty B — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:15:54 +0000

* I think Miller’s a pretty funny guy, or is capable of that. I can’t see the audience not being sharp enough to get Gillespie, but knowing what Miller’s trying to say with his esoteric bullshit.
* As far as antiwar Hollywood, I have yet to hear one cogent criticism of the war from anyone in Hollywood, a town that is shamed by the average IQ of a marsupial. Most of their arguments boil down to “war is icky” without giving credible alternatives. Yes, no WMDs have been found, but I don’t think a nuke would have wooed Susan Sarandon and intellectual powerhouses like Rob Reiner to hop on the Dubya bandwagon.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:50:21 +0000

But /is/ miller hawkish GWB, or is he simply anti-Kerry?

By: DC Mike

DC Mike — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:13:12 +0000

Political satarits lose cred when they bow to authority. The juxtaposition takes away from the edgy biting nature of the humor. He has morphed into Ann Coulter I can only hear so many jokes about Democrats and how they are giant Franch loving pansies. ALSO sad but true is that the same thing happened to Bill Mahr; he moved way left. I know this because when I have tuned into Miller I find myself arguing against him, when I watch Maher I find myself wanting to argue his points. Although I agree with more of Maher’s politics he lets the lefties off the hook wayyyyyy easier then he used to. The one recent time I tuned in and Michael Moore(yes that one) begging Nader not to run… It was awful just awful. Maher is now to the dems what Miller is to the Republicans. The fact is if you want political satire from the main stream media you are forced to go blue or red…

Do we have to start campaigning for third party humorists????

By: Evan Williams

Evan Williams — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:06:11 +0000

VAMark,

Let’s be honest here. Dennis Miller’s career was at a pretty slow point. Turning into a hawkish GWB minion was a career move, without a doubt. Now he’s got his own little show. You think he’d have that same show if he was just another sensible, sane, antiwar hollywood actor (not that all antiwar actors are sensible and/or sane)? Of course not.

By: VAMark

VAMark — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:33:57 +0000

What happened to him? Apparently reduced to a puddle of daddy-seeking fear by 9/11. I can sort of understand that reaction, but how anyone can latch on to GWB as the protective father figure is beyond me.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:05:36 +0000

Agreed, Miller was horrible

By: Libertas Infinitus

Libertas Infinitus — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:37:38 +0000

Damn right, Miller’s also the most horrible interviewer/debater. For a guy as seemingly smart as Miller, I’ve seen lefties just tear him to shreds over easily argued issues on his show.

By: Pete Guither

Pete Guither — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:00:12 +0000

I used to love Dennis’ rants against government bureaucracy and stupidity. That’s when he’d really get rolling. You’re absolutely right — it was when he railed against power that he was strongest, using his intellectual wit to whittle them down to size.

I miss that Dennis. I wonder what happened to him?