Did anyone see the Late Show with Jay Leno a few days ago with Dennis Miller on it? I didn't realize this till it was passed along to me but it seems Miller has feels a certain cohesion with the Bush admin. I thought Miller was a lefty? Jay Leno: “I’m fascinated to hear your take on the election. Because you always have a little different look at things than most Hollywood people.” Dennis Miller: “I want to congratulate my President. I think he had a great day. I think George Bush is a good man.” [applause] Leno: “Yeah? He did a fine job.” Miller: “I think, I think he’s a good man and I think he’s done a fine job in these last two years. I don’t think he’s a great man but I would prefer that our President would be a good man because great men tend to believe they're great men and then they end up not being great men any more. I like Bush because he seems like a regular decent guy. And you know what? He’s a big picture guy. Which just shocks me. Because when he first came into the office I think many of us thought that he was the sort of guy who watched television one pixel at a time. But uh, shockingly he’s proven himself to be a big picture guy. I like his sense of humor. At least I hope it’s his sense of humor. I uh, sometimes think it’s Norm Crosby’s sense of humor. But uh, I think the thing I like most about him is that he’s not Clinton. I just think he’s a decent guy. I mean, you know...” [applause] Miller: “I’m telling ya when I watch those, the videotape of the r****ded kids playing uh, tee-ball on the White House lawn, on the field that he built for them. Leno: “Yeah.” Miller: “And I juxtapose it with Clinton and the wocka-wocka porno guitar of the Clinton administration. I just like Bush, he makes me proud to be an American again. He’s just a decent guy.” Leno: “He is a decent guy. But do you-” Miller: “And you know what, what? Jay what, what are the Democrats really offering? You know I consider both sides in an election before I vote. I looked at what the Democrats are saying. They’re saying, 'Listen we want more of your money and we’re not really keen on preemptively protecting you from bad guys.' You know what folks? I don’t want the bad guys to have the next move. I don’t want to see two more big buildings blown up.” Miller soon explained: “Listen, I began to go off liberal America when they insisted to me that Rudy Giuliani was a bad guy. You remember that years ago? How they told us Rudy Giuliani, they always like tinged on the Nazi reference.” Leno: “Right, right, yeah right.” Miller: “'He’s a storm-trooper! He’s a bad guy!’ Every time I’d go to New York it was cleaner and safer and I’d think, 'Wait a second how bad a guy can this guy be?’ And now you don’t hearing anybody saying that because it’s been proven out that Rudy Giuliani is a good man....” After an ad break, he elaborated on Iraq: “It’s not a perfect world. Listen I think Bush’s old man could have ended this whole dilemma in the Middle East around 12 years ago. We were like two exits away on the Jersey Turnpike from croaking this toad and we back off because the coalition doesn’t want us to go up the road. Are you kidding me? The coalition? This better not happen again. You know Tony Blair is a cute kid and one of my favorite Martin Short characters in waiting, but the simple fact is we don’t consult the Brits on anything anymore. We haven’t listened to them since our boys dressed up like the Hakawi tribe and boosted all the Tetley tea in the Beantown Harbor around 200 years ago. I don’t want to ask the Brits what to do here. We gotta assassinate Saddam Hussein. Why have we taken assassination off the table as a viable political tool? And yet they’ll tell you the collateral damage of civilians is acceptable. But you’re not allowed to assassinate the main pain in the ass. My theory is if you have trouble with your conscience pretend you’re trying to kill the guy next to him and think of him as collateral damage, alright?! If that will allow you to get to bed at night.” [applause] Miller: “Listen. Negotiating with Saddam Hussein is about as practical as practicing aroma therapy on a French man. Okay? It’s not going to happen.” Miller: “You know I find our approach to the, the war on terrorism to be amazingly non-chalant. I mean the simple fact is we are not being protective enough of ourselves. I think that was a mandate yesterday saying, 'Listen! We don’t want these morons trying to croak us!’ You know when the Al-Qaeda made a big mistake? Is when they whiffed that dog on videotape? That got the liberals into it. Because they’re all sitting at home with their Marmaduke day-planner saying, 'Wait a second? They croaked a puppy? Now it’s on mother-[bleeped]!” Miller: “I think he ought to take Saddam Hussein up on this debate. I like that idea because we can't find the guy anyway. Maybe this is a way to flush him out.” Miller then proceeded to outline a Godfather-inspired scenario in which Cheney would leave a gun in a rest room for Bush to use to shoot Hussein. Miller: “The Nazi signs have got to stop. If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that 'Bush is Hitler,' forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler.” [applause] There were other jokes he made about France, Germany, Belgium and Russia but if I come across them I'll post them.
Dennis has always leaned to the liberal side, but not so much that he won't take some pot-shots at em. As he has gotten older, I see him leaning to the other side more often than not. Clinton really pushed him over also, he admitted to liking Clinton as a person, but he couldn't stand him as a president except for his great comedic value. Dennis still rules tho...one of my favorite "talk show" hosts.
I'm so moderate its silly, but that is some funny ****. In my mind politics is like religion. Everyone is always right.
On what Miller said, I remember hearing the most noise against Giuliani after the young black guy was shot 41 times when he pulled his wallet out. I know, I know, cops put their lives on the line and they weren't gonna take a chance, but 41 shots? Can you say overkill? Anyways, that event, for some people, became the symbol of the way Giuliani dealt with crime. Anyways, I like Guiliani, but if people on the right are ok with him despite the fact that he dumped his wife for a younger woman, I don't see why they can still act like they have something against Clinton for his morals. If somebody is gonna bring up the perjury thing, I already know. I'm talking about people who get on his case for infidelity.
Personally I could care less if Bush or Clinton both got hummers from Condelizza or Monica in the White House. I voted for both Willie and GWB and at no point did their sexuality fall into the equation. So Gullaini left his wife....big deal. He was still a good leader for the city of New York. Bruce Willis was weak last night. Almost as weak as Leno. However, if I had known that D Miller was going to be on Leno, I would have suffered through BigJaw to see the interview.
SHINGLED-OUT DAVE WILL BE EYE-OK By MICHAEL STARR New York Post -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 28, 2003 -- The mystery surrounding David Letterman's painful eye malady has been solved - he's got shingles. Letterman, who's been off the air since Tuesday night, was diagnosed with the painful nerve virus yesterday. He's expected to return to the air on March 10, when "Late Show with David Letterman" returns from a one-week break. "Tests have shown that Dave's eye infection is a result of shingles," said Letterman's physician, Dr. Louis Aronne. "It has been treated, and the area of inflammation has gone down significantly. "Dave is on his way to a full recovery." Letterman has been off the air since Tuesday, when he joked about his swollen eye and how much it was bothering him. Shingles is a viral infection that runs along the nerve endings. Bruce Willis subbed for Letterman on Wednesday, while John McEnroe pinch-hit last night. Letterman's pal Regis Philbin will host tonight (11:35 p.m./Channel 2). This is the only time Letterman has been forced to call in sick in his 20-year late-night career, barring his five-week recovery from emergency heart-bypass surgery in early 2000.
I agree. Although I feel law enforcement operates under very hazardous conditions and deals with the most unpredictable of characters 41 shots is ridiculous. I'm not high on Guiliani either. He does deserve some credit for making a conciliatory effort in cleaning up the streets of New York.(And for the record I'm not high on his successor Bloomberg.) But 9/11 tested his character and you did get the vibe that he was sincere in his love for New York. But again he does have some character issues and he's no better than Clinton in that regard.
