Some old "Dennis Miller rant on Bush" quotes

[gatorboy]

And on Monday, movers went to the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas to transfer Bush's belongings to Washington. The move itself took very little time once workers discovered that Bush had nothing upstairs.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but as a comedian, with George W.Bush coming into office, I feel like the owner of a hardware store before ahurricane. I hate to see it coming but I have to admit it's good for business.

I'll take my shots at Dubya, but I actually have high hopes for the next four years. I see George W. Bush working hard to keep the ambitions of big business and the military in check, and ensure that even the lowest job pays a dignified wage. I believe he'll erase the animus that has divided Washington, and bring both sides of the aisle together. I also happen to believe dogs can talk if you touch them in the right spot, and everyone watching me is happy with their
body.

National Security Advisor nominee Condoleezza Rice has often been described as W.'s "foreign policy tutor". Oh, yeah, I love the sound of that. It's nice to know we're signing our nuclear arsenal over to a man who needs after-school help. Don't you think the fact that he needs a tutor ought to be raising more eyebrows than Eminem teaching kindergarten on the planet Vulcan?

For Secretary of State, Bush chose Colin Powell. Okay, no complaints there. Nice to see that Bush picked a minority. After all, a minority picked him.




So what happened? When did this guy become such a right wing warhawk?

[NWHarkness]

1. A bad case of 911 freakout

[coloradodem2005]

2. Dennis Miller said thest things?

That is insane.

[sandnsea]

3. He always leaned

Dennis has never been a straight-up liberal. He was more of a who gives a shit about what people do in their bedrooms as long as the streets are safe and I can make lots of money kind of guy.

[gatorboy]

4. Yes, he was never a true liberal,

but at least he had a more center stance on things not that long ago. I just can't comprehend going so far over... I used to like this guy as much as I enjoy Jon Stewart now. It just amazes me how far right he went.

Two more quotes:

Bush had the foresight to surround himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. W.'s team of handlers has him so well trained, they're thinking of entering him in the Westminster Kennel Club show as a short-attention-spaniel.

Hey, let's face it. He got into college by the skin of his teeth and into the Air National Guard the same way. He won the presidential election by a margin narrower than John Ashcroft's mind. Really, Bush's greatest achievement in his life up to this point has been to lower our expectations of him so that practically anything he accomplishes in the Oval Office is bound to impress us. So much so that, if he can just finish out his term without stickin' a Roman
candle up his ass on a dare from brother Jeb, he's probably gonna end up on Mount Rushmore.

[sandnsea]

5. Monday Night Football

Al, what's his name? That's when I think he turned and I think it was the money. Stocks first, then 9/11. Somebody gave him permission to be the selfish shit he wanted to be and he's just gone hog-wild with it.

It is amazing though, I used to like him almost as much as George Carlin.

[doodleysquat]

6. It would be great

to see Jon go head-to-head with him for about 30 minutes on a variety of topics. There'd be enough one-liners to fill taglines for the next millenium! ;)

[jpgray]

7. They were pretty friendly, actually

Jon treated him like a comedian rather than like a political spokesperson--just provided the setups for his bits like any other talk show host. Stewart would be able to shut down most if not all of his 'war on terror' bullshit, which Miller understandably kept to a minimum on Stewart's show.

[checks-n-balances]

8. Talk about your post 9/11 flip-floppers - him and his cousin, Zell

BTW, did you get those quotes from a special website about this or what? Just curious if anyone has commented in print about Miller's "transformation".

[gatorboy]

9. Actually they were just quotes someone had put up on his closing rants

He would give at the end of his HBO show.

There has been talk about this over at the Jump the Shark webpage though, where several posters saw an extreme attitude change after 9/11. It's sad, really. He was so funny at one time. Now I hear, he had to pay his audience to sit through his new show cause they couldn't get enough people to show up...