Dennis' "I used to be a comedian and now I'm on FOX" Miller analyzes Chris Dodd's Factor experience
By John Amato Friday Aug 03, 2007 8:02pm
Need I say more? In a last ditch effort to save a career that started fast and furious, The "former comedian" has now fallen so deep into the abyss that he's become the Conservative jokester analyst for the FOX Opinion Channel to assure him a steady paycheck....Pathetic.
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After getting his butt kicked by Chris Dodd, BillO needed someone to come on and validate his point of view. The fact that Dodd knew about his Coit Tower and anti-San Francisco statements surprised him and so he tried to use the usual trick out of the Conservative handbook. He didn't deny his remarks, but tried to confuse the issue about where he said it originally.
Miller is just the "yes-man" for the job and actually said that Dodd sandbagged O'Reilly! I'm not making this up..Maybe he has regained his sense of humor after all....He had the nerve to call Dodd a hack and he said that Chris never read the Daily Kos....I guess he used the washed up comic's trusty crystal ball for that one. I met him once backstage in Santa Barbara after a show I played in '03 and he sucked up to the band, but seemed friendly enough at the time. Who knew he was destined for the loving arms of O'Reilly? (Bill's SF antics below the fold)
“If you want to ban military recruiting, fine. But I’m not going to give you another nickel of federal money,” O’Reilly said. “If I’m the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium and I say, ‘Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you’re not going to get another nickel in federal funds.’”
“If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it,” he continued. “We’re going to say, ‘look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.“
Those remarks haven’t gone unnoticed.
"Consider the source," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. “There are a lot of people that love their country, and embrace the military, but that doesn't mean…that people of San Francisco can't stand up and say ‘hey, there may be some issues, and we want to send a policy statement that raises awareness.’”
O’Reilly has attacked Newsom in the past, but this time the Mayor says he has taken things too far.
frist? that's a first..
Holy crap, Miller looks like he's drunk or hung over. He's talking slooooow and still trying to use his big vocabulary.. Iditarod? What a dork...
how do either of them keep employment?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMACzBomDK4
Dennis Miller is Leni Riefenstahl with a thesaurus
When Dennis Miller makes O'Reilly look like the reasonable one you know we left the no spin zone and entered the twilight zone.
the 'attaboy' is such projection - having miller on to try and save face. the 'hack' comment is additional projection.
thank goodness miller is so repugnant. if he was funny and/or thoughtful, no doubt he would be on the other side.
Miller looks like one of the DUI mugshots that haunt us....what the hell happened to him to make him gulp the Koolaid?
These guys just get more and more desperate.
How cozy. Will Dennis get an invitation to Bill's sex dungeon? If I were Geraldo, I'd be jealous. Mizrahi Bill. Mizrahi.
Miller
Bwaahaaa. hahahaaa. ROFL....uh, was that supposed to be a joke Dennis? Sorry. I'm just laughing at the convoluted connections you make and the way you look like they dragged you in from the floor of the bar next door. Just don't get too close to the camera when you blow.
Nothing like watching billo and dennie rubbing their pee pees together Jeezus that's a tough one to watch to the end
Was Miller EVER funny.. I never liked him.
I feel so bad for 'cha cha' . He's got a dart board somewhere with Maher's picture on it.
BillO's recent back-peddling shows that the Dodd had an after effect.
Dennis Miller always stunk. He stunk way back when...when he was on Saturday Night Live. They never put him in any skits, because he can't act. And he's never been funny. So, I guess it's natural that he would end up on FOX "news".
trixr4kids,
I'm with you. This shithead was never funny to begin with. I've always wondered who the hell thought he was funny, kinda like Andrew Dice Clay. Well, I could see Clay, he was a potty mouth blowhard. But, Miller was always just a shmuck who laughed at his own jokes.
Orally looks like he picked up a jewel in Dennis Miller to get Miller to support anything he says. The way Orally laughs at the jokes says "gosh, I'm really glad you're really my best friend, Dennis", while Dennis is probably just saying anything they make him say to get another twenty to go back to the bar for another round.
We just see an unhinged drunk dragged into Orally's studio whenever Orally feels alone in his perspective on things.
Dennis Miller was by far the WORST SNL anchor. I don't think they even show reruns of the SNL's where he was the anchor.
Ok. I couldn't get past Dennis Miller's blowing both O'Reeeeeeeeeeeallllly and FOX at the same time (looking for another gig, D? Fox is your kind of crapfest). I threw up, not just a little, in my mouth, but all down the front of me. Gad.
jesus christ i had pizza and now its splased all over my fucking floor, thanks a heap!
Big Dan @ 14:
Yeah, I never found him funny either. Now that he's retired, he's even less so. Perfect foil for O'Really... Lame and lamer. Lamer and lamest?
"Used to be a Comedian" implies he was ever funny.
That was all nervous laughter.
Actually, that was one of the funniest things I've seen all week.
Old, fake news anchors never die...
They just get regular gigs on FOX News
I also noticed that little "In what forum did I say that?" bit-It's obvious they all get together and come up with these pathetic strategies to side-track the argument when it doesn't go their way.
Ever since 9/11 happened Dennis has been scared to death of terrorists and all those unseen and unknown things in the world coming to get him. He ran as fast as could to Bush and the Neo-Cons because he was scared and needed protection and would do anything to feel safe. He is in a word a word a big p***y.
Was Miller ever funny? Yeah, there were times in the past where I laughed at his shtick, but that isn't the issue for me here. What is really disheartening is that Miller appears to be intelligent and has so very clearly turned to the dark side for financial gain. Sad to see that, whenever that occurs. To try to impress upon others that FOX news is anything but the propaganda arm of the most cynical and incompetent regime in U.S history, one has to be either achingly ignorant or painfully aware that one is selling out one's soul and country.
This is like when a guy gets his butt kicked, and after the guy who kicked his ass leaves, he starts talking about how he 'pulled his punches' or 'just didn't want to go back to jail'. It's so pathetic.
Hey Bill- if you get your ass kicked, just keep your mouth shut, and finish your beer, and try to exit the bar gracefully (read quietly).
Howard Stern flushed this turd about seven years ago. He is a nothing whore who actually got two national gigs in the last decade. ABC chose between him and Rush Limbaugh for Monday Night Football. Do you think major corporations want to propagandize even during football games?
That was rock bottom for Miller. I'm almost sorry I witnessed it.
Dennis Miller will have no success on right wing radio. His phony vocabulary is too big for the audience.
Let's see, Dodd is a hack but Miller is supposed to be a comedian but he's on Fox New and he's listed as a contributor? That's perfect he contributes to people being duped.
Check it out: they are papering the house at Fox:
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What was missing during this segment was a Monty Python style 16 ton weight dropping right on that smarmy hack Miller. What a looser.
He make me vomit.
You can't spell "analyst" without "anal".
brax @ 6:
Well, you will recall the remark that Rove made about people becoming ore educated.
mike @ 4:
You're mocking Dennis Miller, in the VOICE of Dennis Miller! That is just sooo post-modern, man. I grock your mouth music.
*snap snap*
:D
".. but [Miller] seemed friendly enough at the time".
A person can be friendly and an a**hole, too.
You know that perfectly well, Amato.
Just look at all the sunshine GW Bush has been spreading lately.
what's with this water carrying by miller? i used to think this guy thought for himself. that was embarrassing.
Hold on just a minute! Maybe we were wrong all along!
Dennis Miller is a comedian. He's on FOX News, which is owned by the same guy who owns FOX. Bill O'Reilly is a buffoon, as is Sean Hannity, and the rest of the FOX talking hand-jobs.
We've been taking FOX News seriously all this time, when they're really just a 24/7 Daily Show!
We've been getting angry, when we should have been laughing.
And I though Stephen Colbert was the Jedi master of satire!
I used to like Miller a lot. Never missed a show. Was always on the right side on issues and was very funny. Then along came Bush's first election campaign. Miller had a part of his show where he always made jokes about how stupid Bush was. I remember a scene where Bush was in a car in front of a huge corporate building, looking the wrong way and asking a passer by where the building was. Then like a light switch he totally went the other way and lost his audience and his show and has been the same ever sense. It sounds like he came into a be piece of cash from the right wing and this is the result. Another corrupted bought off jerk.
crybabies
Spelling isn't so good for some reason.
It really isn't all too surprising that Dennis Miller has descended into being a right wing 25%ER®. After all, his entire comedic styling was based on him being a coked-up @sshole. The inflection of his voice, the condescending tone, the thesaurus overkill...all a byproduct of snorting an 8-ball of coke.
Moon @ 30:
The typical O'Reilly viewers (and Orally himself) think Miller must be smart because they can't understand what the hell he's talking about.
But smarter people know Dennis is just plain a little bit schizophrenic, jumping around trying to make connections between the random thought processes that jump into his mind.
Even Orally had the foresight to warn viewers to stay away from Miller if they saw him in public. Considering people should stay away from Orally himself if they don't want to be next to someone who's about to blow, that's quite a warning.
Miller was never funny. He was a typical, 90's, Gen X comedian, arrogant, smug, condescending, pseudo-intellectual, all in the name of "irony", which wasn't really ironic.
He's the guy at the party that has memorized all the titles of great books without actually reading them.
I think Dennis went over the edge, in a Beautiful Mind sort of way. Except he doesn't have the beautiful mind. But he always thought he did, so that's got to count for something.
Moon @ 30:
He's going for the Branson Phd niche audience
I always thought the 1/2 hour news hour was canned laughter. Now we see that they pay people to be in the audience. I suppose if they aren't enthusiastic enough, they will be told not to come back.
Just surprised That we even SAW millers head and that it wasn't below O'reillys desk, so that between the slurping and sucking noises he could say, yes bill you are so right, slurp slurp slurp, as always bill you see the true angle mmmmmm mmm, slurp slurp, oh you are so smart bill, slurp slurp, may I say, slurp slurp, you are so perceptive.
Hell they have their heads so far up each others asses that if one of them tripped they would both roll away like a tire.
Its pretty obvious oreilly and dennis miller are "loofah buddies" -- not that there's anything wring with that! ;-)
You can tell when BOR has lost an argument when he has to have someone on to massage his little ego. Sorry, his BIG ego. He did that after he and Colbert had their exchange. It must still bug him: to be bested by someone who played Philip K. Sebben in Harvey Birdman (good show).
For fuck's sake Dennis how far up your ass did Billo get his arm?
Obviously far enough to control your big fat pie hole!
That was so pathetic! I don't think I've ever seen Miller try so
hard at being an asshole!
Bill O'Reilly: "You know, I'm always disappointed when people come on with propaganda like Senator Dodd did-- you know-- he obviously didn't know what I said about Al Qaeda and San Francisco- he didn't know what program I said it on..."
Here's the exchange he's so pathetically trying to say was a win for him:
Dodd: "Mr O'Reilly, there are thousands (of offensive posts) on your site as well every day."
O'Reilly: "No, there's not! There aren't any on mine!"
Dodd: "Talking about Al Qaeda attacking San Franciso-- blowing up San Francisco-- that's not offensive?"
O'Reilly: "When did I say that, Senator?!"
*note that Bill just essentially admitted to having said it. They *were* talking about posts, not O'Reilly's own comments.
Dodd: "You said it in 2005, I believe."
O'Reilly: Where?! When?! What forum?! When?!"
Dodd: "Right here, I believe on your own show."
O'Reilly: "No! You're wrong! I didn't say it HERE."
*note that Bill again essentially admits to having said it, just not on TV-- he said it on the radio. But he assumes his audience is too stupid to pick up on the sleight of hand there.
THAT'S the exchange that Bill O'Reilly thinks vindicated him. He's three parts stupid, two parts frothing.
SO . . . Bill's "mistake" was having Dodd on the show? Nice excuse, LOSER.
Conservatives simply are incapableof being funny.
Dennis Miller = Pod Person
Ah yes. Watch as B.O., realizing that his obsessive ranting against Kos has backfired, desperately tries any ploy possible to save face. First he leaves his own Freeper fan club out to dry and now he employs a used up hack like Miller to try and discredit Dodd.
But the best part is this hypocrite, fresh off sending his producer to mug the Jet Blue CEO, gets his sychophant, Dennis, to try and accuse Dodd of sandbagging Billo! Pure audacity. Standard wingnut playbook. Attack your adversaries for exactly the actions you yourself are most guilty of. Priceless.
Can DailyKos make picture showing BillO standing while Miller is on his knees? Instead of kneeling to his frontal parts it should show Miller kneeling to his rear. It would be appropiate. Question for anyone out there? Can anyone name a decent conservative comedian(that is talented)?
Next time anyone see's Miller on TV, take a look at his arms. They are extra short. I used to think it was just me or maybe his jackets, but then I saw him with just his shirt on one night....his arms are really short.
By the way, I never knew he was a comedian, I mean I saw him tell jokes once in a while but never realized he was actually a paid comedian.
Hmmm, guess that means he wasn't.
Talk about job security, doing damage control for Falafelman.
This was hard to watch. I lived in Santa Barbara for many years. An old friend used to serve Dennis Miller at Longboard’s Grill on Stearns Wharf. She held no political affiliation, and I don’t think Dennis was very political back then anyway, and she worked hard not to have to serve him. She felt he was condescending and rude. I didn’t think much about what my friend said about Dennis until I began to see him on these clips. I feel treating servers poorly tells more about a person than what Dennis does these days on Fox. I’m sorry to say, I truly don’t think Dennis has a very good life, especially when he gets home at night.
P.S. I also know Dennis would be in weekly at the Santa Barbara Circuit City to purchase the new release DVDs. As described by another friend, he wasn’t very friendly.
What's odd about the exchange is that Bill O'Reilly seems to turn to Dennis Miller to get debriefed
I shite on Miller shortly after Bill Hicks died and Miller decided he was going to take on Hicks ranting persona, of course Miller is a fourth-rate Bill Hicks (don't get me started on Denis Leary), and his popularity sank fairly quick. Now he's a FOX boot-lick.
Dennis got a taste of the bucks when he went semi-Nascar on "Monday Night Football." Then 9/11 gave him a place to focus his deep, deep anger AND appeal to the Wal-Mart customers instead of his old customers, who were the readers, writers, musicians and thinkers. This is ALL about a very very angry man who was only funny because his intelligence gave him a place to focus that anger.
Now his emotions and greed have taken over, and we're left with this microcosm of our ENTIRE COUNTRY.
Lesson:
DUMB DOWN, AMERICA, and GO FOR THE BUCKS AT ALL COSTS
how sad
Miller is crying as if someone plucked out all of his short hairs.
You pathetic baby! Your career is taking a nose dive and the funniest thing you can come up with is kicking a dead horse with your
favorite narcissist phalus buddy....Bildo.
And I thought Britt Hume was the least interesting person on tv.
Speaking of prostitutes, Miller would not even get a single laugh if he opened a convention for blue haired geriatric quilting grandmas
carrying colostomy bags and hoping to score with the janitors hydrocephalic twin brother Skippy.
DENNIS MILLER is one of the biggest SELLOUTS i have ever seen, it's downright fascinating! And BillOreally, how pathetic is it that he needs to get a fellow whore to put a bandaid on his bruised little falafel ego.
I know it takes effort to put these up, but I can't watch either one of these turds by themselves and you have a video of both p**s and s**t.
OH AND ANOTHER THING:
How IRONIC is it that this greedball is now forced to make a living in front of people WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT!
Go check his youtube "stand up" act....and notice that NOBODY IS LAUGHING!!!
My god if this wasn't so insane and sick, it would be a blast to watch.
I can just see Billy Bob asking his wife "WHO'S DORIAN GREY?" Go swivel, Dennis
Miller should have a laugh track to cue his moronic audience to chuckle.
The reason why Miller had undergone his metamorphosis was that he had said in the past that, mimicking the line that the administration is so fond of, 9/11 changed everything. The actor Ron Silver shares pretty much the same viewpoint as that of the pseudo intellectual Miller. Apparently just another example of how people are so easily manipulated by feelings of super patriotism and nationalism and that when that does happen, their brains are either put on hold or just stop functioning entirely. Contrast the behavior of these super patriots with someone like Lt. Ehren Watada, who has refused to be duped by the lies given by this administration.
Oh, Dennis, were you once the edgy tv host who enjoyed the company of comedian Bill Hicks.
And uh, Bill - you got your ass kicked.
Like Dennis said, your audience certainly did miss your point.
American Pundit Fighting @ 63:
Interesting choice of words.
Erroll @ 71:
Several years ago he claimed the reason why he left the Democratic Party is because they "left God". In a few year he'll disappear then reemerge as a "leftist" after the reich-winger becomes a permanent minority.
Tug @ 72:
Bill Hicks was brilliant. Miller is just a raving pseudo-intellectual.
I agree with Scott who said:
"Ever since 9/11 happened Dennis has been scared to death of terrorists and all those unseen and unknown things in the world coming to get him. He ran as fast as could to Bush and the Neo-Cons because he was scared and needed protection and would do anything to feel safe. He is in a word a big p***"
Shouldn't this fool stick with football?
What the f*** happened to Dennis Miller?
trixr4kids @ 12:
The only time Dennis Miller was ever funny was when Dana Carvey impersonated him on "Weekend Update."
Dennis Miller is now the Factors bum buddy!
O'Reilly's Fundraising for Dodd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5st91IxOYME
lol
Ah yes, Dennis Miller. The man whose career ended, around the same time his appearances on SNL's Weekend Update did.
Couldn't get work doing 1-900 phone line adverts, I guess.
I used to find Miller funny, but he started losing it somewhere during his tenure at HBO. He was phoning it in.
Still, that's an order of magnitude better than he was doing in this video. I get the impression he was pitched forward on a glass floor, and they were pointing the camera up at him.
Never heard of him.
He was a comedian? News to me. All I remember him doing was a lame, unfunny version of SNL Weekend Update. He was by far the worst at it, too.
Someone needs to tell Dennis that news is not comedy what a shmuck and to think that faux news labels him an analyst my how things have changed. Kronkite would be so happy.
Did Miller ever make a valid point without a "joke" thrown in.
Just a note...Chris Dodd has a DailyKos username...so much for the whole, "Dodd doesnt read DailyKos thing"...I wonder what else Miller said was an outright lie?
Pyphagorus @ 79:
So true, so sadly true...
Do I have the undertones of this segment correct? ? ?
1. Dailykos is putrid, vile, evil, etc.. etc... for having a picture posted of Lieberman "blowing" the president. I will assume O'reilly also believes DailyKos are not a serious source of news gathering as a result of the sites sometimes silly content. They are not as serious as ABC, NBC, FOX etc. etc. Therefor they are illegitimate?
2. But it is okay for FOXnews to run a segment smashing a U.S. Senator, with no relevant news attached to it. Is this not the equivalent of a 'blowjob' photo ? Where is the serious news gathering here ?
Miller sold his soul for what he thought would be Limbaugh type money. It hasn't worked out that way. His last gig in Las Vegaswas opening for Gary Pucket at the Orleans Hotel.