When did Dennis Miller become a Fascist?

[othermeans]

I was watching MSNBC and he said it would be a good idea if they evacuated the Iraqi cities and then carpet bombed them to rubble!

Wouldn't allow anybody with a differing view to really get off a good response to any of his questions. I just could not believe it.

He said it was just a weird Maplethorpe photograph.

I guess he subscribes to the its good clean Amerikan fun torturing prisoners. Then using the death of the four mercenaries to bolster an argument about prisoner abuse.

What about the way Jessica Lynch was cared for? Hammil the truck driver? I don't see any torture pictures of them. Can't anybody stand up to this crap.

What is happening to America?

[Doctor_J]

1. when his career was in the toilet

the surest way to get lots of tv time is to be a * whore.

[Bleacher Creature]

17. Can't say it any better than that.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Maybe he hooked up with Rush

because drugs are about the only explanation I can come up with.

[LowerManhattanite]

13. Cornered rats like Miller and his GOP cronies...

...are lashing out for dear life as the tide turns, the numbers mount and the crowd's smiles turn upside-down. Funny how these timeline hung-up dolts (during the Clinton/Monica BS) suddenly forget about timelines when dealing with Iraq.

i.e.THE ABU GHARAIB DEBASEMENTS, TORTURES, ABUSE AND MURDERS HAPPENED MONTHS BEFORE THE FOUR "CONTRACTORS" WERE KILLED IN FALLUJAH!

Amazing how these haughty fools have now turned into shrill, near-hysterical promoters of genocide over the people they said would toss rose petals at our feet, eh?

I await the opening of Miller's dinner theater/coin-op laundromat in Branson someday soon.

[Parrcrow]

3. When they showed him the paycheque

he got on his knees and said step right up.

[taxidriver]

6. miller...

became this way when he couldnt even function as football announcer.

[UnAmericanJoe]

4. I'm not sure

but standing next to that bearded buffoon Dan Fouts for 2 whole seasons of MNF couldn't have helped his sanity.

[submerged99]

5. another reason

I think he turned when he realized that he was getting old. He can't stop the march of time and he's bitter about it. Now, I think, Miller fears old age, irrelevance and ultimately death. It's hard to be funny when you can't accept the cycle of life. Miller seems like a fearful, cranky old guy who wishes he had more control over things.

[FarmerOak]

7. Miller...

... like a lot of people, overreacted to the events of 9/11.

It's easier than thinking and responding appropriately.

[Philostopher]

8. Seriously?

He started getting seriously bent somewhere around the time of the Starr Report, from what I recall. He'd been making fun of everybody, up to that point -- he was as hard on one side as the other. Personally, I think the Clenis got to him. He couldn't understand why everybody didn't hate Bill Clinton after that, so he decided to become a one-man vitriol squad. It's been downhill for him intellectually ever since, although from what I hear the handy-dandy thesaurus module they installed in his brain when he drank the Republican Kool-Aid is still functional.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. evacuated the Iraqi cities and then carpet bombed them

Hey, looks like he is showing some real conservative compassion here.
I am impressed that he would recommend evacuating the cities first.

Miller is an unfunny whiner who ran out of string as an "iconoclast" and now has stooped so low as to make fun of progressive and liberal causes that are essentially in the best interest working people. He really ought to be ashamed of selling his soul.

[PretzelWarrior]

10. the guy was mockable even when still on SNL

the only thing he was able to do okay was stream of consciousness rants. even then he only batted .500

now he's an angry repuke who wants to protect his money and will agree with anything these pigs put out there if it gives him a few more shekels.

He even LOOKS like he's turned into a diseased puss bag

[Parrcrow]

11. For a worn out comedian...

bigotry is the easiest way to get a laugh.

[Career Prole]

12. He became a craven coward after 9/11.

He turned into a squawling baby hiding behind bush*. He strikes me as someone scared shitless of terrorism, and all his bluster is equivalent to whistling past the graveyard for him. He backs bush* because he wants bush* to kill the monster under his bed.

[parasim]

14. "Can't anybody stand up to this crap."

Of course they can. They just don't. As far as I'm concerned the majority of the media thinks just like he does, otherwise more people would call people like Miller on their hatespeech.

[raysr]

15. When he was

supporting Ross Perot.

[LowerManhattanite]

16. Something just occurred to me...

...The company that has deigned to not distribute Michael Moore's new film (ABC/Cap Cities/Disney/ESPN) apparently had NO problem with hiring retrograde bigots and knee-jerk fascists for their sports telecasts. (Miller for Monday Night Football and Big Pharma for the ESPN football telecasts).

This isn't something that makes one go "Hmmmmm". YOu just sort of go, "aaaannd?"

[Birthmark]

18. He's been a fascist for a bit now.

I understand that his brain fell into a wheat thresher and he hasn't been the same since. I liked the funny, smart, obscure Dennis Miller. This frightened little right-wing weasel is neither funny nor smart, but he is MSNBC so he's still obscure.

[TheWebHead]

19. when he got his hair plugs

there was complications during the surgery... his ratings are down to .1 though, not enough to pay off his paid studio audience. His time is short.

[vajraroshana]

20. I think the cracks are showing

I haven't been able to watch him for very long, even before Clenis and 9/11.

He once could offer some poignant irony and well thought out insight couched in his obscure-referencing-multihyphenated-passing-as-deep-and-thoroughly-entrenched-in-pop-culture-and-beyond style, but his schtick got old. And so did he.

I've seen some instances where the old persona comes back in. He seems to be self-consciously trying to squash that, but it comes back anyway.

I'm guessing we'll see, and probably not too long from now, him hemming and hawing his way back into his old self. He'll probably declare himself an independent. But there will be confessions of his disaffection with the right. And sound and sure denunciations of the left.

But it'll probably be too late unless he does a more thorough turnaround. I hope I'm wrong. I'd like to see him grow and still retain some integrity. At his best he could be genuinely funny and insightful. And being able to laugh at yourself is a good thing.

But as I've already said as much tonight, he's a feckless little celebrity-craving media whore. Ouch, that's maybe too harsh. I still have some affection for him. He's provided me with many laughs. I hope he isn't too ossified to be able to do that again.

[Neshanic]

21. When he got the custom made knee pads...kooky (head shake)

[symbolman]

22. He's also

developed some kind of wierd face olympics twitch thing.. like he's spazzing out..

he's at war with himself if you watch him, like Jekll and Hyde..

still an asshole, scared to death if you ask me..

[scarface2004]

23. right after..

bush screwed him in the ass!

[union_maid]

24. He's just being himself

I'm glad he's clarified himself. Over the years it sort of became clear that behind his rants there was an asshole lurking. Now he's let the asshole have total control, is all.

[terrya]

25. Dennis Miller is in love with George W. Bush.

And it's sickening to watch. I can't stomach it.