Dennis Miller on the Tonight Show

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Some excerpts:

Pride in conduct of the war:
“I cannot tell you how proud watching that war coverage makes me. I know a lot of people are saying that they think that it's, that you know what we're doing is imperialistic. I watch the way we handle ourselves over there and I've never felt more patriotic in my life.”

-- Denouncing anti-war protesters, Miller described how he puts them into four categories, the second one made up of those who call everyone but Hussein a Hitler:
“The second type you have at these parades seems to be the people who want to mislabel Hitler. Everybody in the world is Hitler. Bush is Hitler, Ashcroft is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only guy who isn't Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache dropping people who disagree with him into the wood chipper. He's not Hitler.”

-- On the up side of war protesters:
“I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ***.”

-- On the Dixie Chicks:
“Surprisingly, making fun of the President on foreign land in a time of war doesn't seem to play with the NASCAR crowd!”

-- On Peter Arnett:
“How am I supposed to trust the honesty of a reporter that has that bad of a comb-over on top of his head? He's got four hairs left and he's swirling them around...This guy is dangerously close to pulling hair over from another guy's head. Hey guess what Pete? We know you're bald, okay? The outside of your skull is as empty as the inside.”

-- On Michael Moore:
“He's going to wake up every day for the rest of his life, and he's going to tell us how he hates everything about this country except his right to hate it. And then we say that we love it and he's going to tell us what naive sheep we are and that he's the true patriot because he hates it and he sees all the problems in it. Yeah, right, Mike. You know something, if my yawn got any bigger they'd have to assign it a hurricane name, okay?
“Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong.”

-- On justification for the war:
“It is stupid for anybody in the world to say they're for war. But I am for this war because, you know, we've got to protect ourselves now. And we've got to remind the world that there is a point that we will not be pushed past before the [bleep]hammer comes down. Now, the simple fact is, do I think Saddam Hussein can bury the nuclear jumper from the top of the key? No, I don't. He's a putz. But I do think he can distribute the ball going down the lane and I think we've got to smack him around. It's time to circle the SUVs!
“The simple fact is, you've got to view this war like we've been on a long family car ride. Bush is the father and he's been screaming [gestures with arm as if a driver scolding kids in back seat] 'don't make me come back there!' for around 200 miles now and it just reached the point where we had to pull the car over and the bad kid is going to get the spanking of his life.”

-- On those whining about the length of the war:
“And now we've got people whining about how long the war is taking. For God's sakes it's been two weeks. You know, it took Joe Millionaire eight weeks to pick Zora (sp?).”

-- On global warming:
“There's a lot of differing data, but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference.”

-- Advise to soldiers in Iraq:
“I would encourage the boys though not to rip down all those big wall portraits of Hussein because you got to remember, pretty soon we're going to need a headstone for my main man's grave and you might want to save one for him.”

-- Praising the troops:
“God knows that we've got things we've got to perfect in this country. But there's enough people downplaying it right now. I want to go so far against that. I want to thank the President. I want to thank the troops and say God bless you for doing the tough job which allows us to sit here and do the easy jobs, like be on the Tonight Show.”
 
Thanks for posting that! Bravo for Mr. Miller!!
 
Thanks, Bet, I really enjoyed that...especially this:
And now we've got people whining about how long the war is taking. For God's sakes it's been two weeks. You know, it took Joe Millionaire eight weeks to pick Zora
:p
 

“And now we've got people whining about how long the war is taking. For God's sakes it's been two weeks. You know, it took Joe Millionaire eight weeks to pick Zora (sp?).”

Really puts things into perspective doesn't it?

I am not a Dennis Miller fan but I loved all of these comments!
 
Too funny! I love Dennis Miller; he always cuts right through the BS and to the heart of things.
 
I LOVE Dennis Miller. His humor is over the top sometimes, but he is just too funny. He holds no punches. Thanks for sharing.
 
Dennis Miller is cleverly funny and uses words, puns and language well. He will be having an HBO special in the next few days or week. Hope he addresses these issues - he is a very good political satirist!

Thank you for posting his comments. Love the Michael Moore commentary......!:)
 
Thanks for posting this, Bet. I really enjoyed it, and I agree with Dennis Miller. He gets right to the heart of the matter, doesn't he?

Marie
 
I missed seeing that program. Thanks for posting this Bet, it made my husband laugh out loud. :)
 
Originally posted by kdibattista
I have a new found respect for him. :D

The only exposure I had to him, until recently, was on Monday Night Football. I thought he was just plain silly in that role (I take my football pretty seriously, LOL!)
 
thanks for posting, I had missed the show. I really wish the HBO show was still on, I would love a weekly dose of Dennis Millers view of the war.
 
I would have liked to have seen the show. What was the audience reaction to his comments?
 
More greats pearls of wisdom from Dennis Miller, I'd like to put the Michael Moore bit into my sig :) I sure do wish The Dennis Miller show was still on HBO, those Friday nights were classic. I can't wait for his HBO special.
 
Originally posted by Krisu
I would have liked to have seen the show. What was the audience reaction to his comments?

Very positive to put it lightly. He received a lot of cheering and applause.
I'm very glad to hear celebrties speaking in support of our troups, not that I put more merit in what they say, but it is refreshing to hear a celebrity say something positive.
 
DH told me about DM's comments the next day (since I fell asleep) and it's not what we expected from him. We're definitely fans of his & were pleasantly surprised at his comments.
 


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