Dennis Miller is out to get us....trust no one...
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Yesterday, the far-right side of the blogosphere was delirious with joy over Dennis Miller’s two-minute diatribe on Fox News condemning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. At last count, I found over 400 conservative blogs praising the attack, characterizing it as the most devastating take-down in political monologue history.
You can watch the clip for yourself, but I have to admit, if this is the most insightful, stinging criticism the right can come up with, Reid should be fairly pleased. Miller’s rant had four basic parts to it:
1. Reid is physically unattractive.
2. Reid’s voice is “whinny” and unpleasant to listen to.
3. Reid’s rhetoric on the war has been “bleak.”
4. Reid is irrelevant (specifically, he has “delude
himself into thinking that he matters”).
I realize that Miller considers himself something of a comedian, but his harangue was a joke. For the right to embrace this as some kind of inspirational oratory is rather sad.
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and here's what is so interesting -- written by a poster:
On June 12th, 2007 at 10:51 am, Memekiller said:
Dennis Miller is an obvious attempt to create a “conservative” comedian
because the right recognizes a “comedy deficit” and the importance of
monologues in shaping public opinion. They are trying to do the same in
Hollywood — check out the history of the director of the ABC miniseries. He
was actually part of some organization designed to groom fundies to inject
rightwing talking points into scripts from the inside. Similar groups train
Christians who want to devote their lives to undermining the pro-homosexual
journalist agenda. One replaced me at PBS when I moved on to bigger and
better things.
As a sometime book reviewer, I got an advanced copy of this book by some
writer who claimed to be persecuted by Bush-loving Hollywood for his
conservative views, namely the need for torture. He claimed the only reason
his books weren’t option for movies was the liberal bias (I had another
explanation — he sucks). It was so transparently the standard bullying that
worked so well with journalism, I couldn’t believe it. I later found out
he’s the famed script advisor on “24″. Yippie!!!
The good news is conservatives aren’t funny. At least not the kind of humor
that springs from irony. They are of the “taboo” school of humor, that
arises from mockery and derision. You know, the kind of thing that makes the
bullies laugh when they’re picking on the retarded kid. Ann Coulter humor
doesn’t quite strike the same chord as Daily Show irreverence. Rather than
taking apart the pretensions of the elite, conservatives want to reinforce
them by mocking those-who-aren’t-like-us.
That will always have a very small audience.
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