and then there is

5. people who think that there could have and should been another way to disarm Iraq. unfortunatley most of them don't seem to understand that it would have required the *full* support of ALL of Iraq's neighbors and the security council, those states that now have an enormous responsibility for this war.

That's just flat out awesome. Thanks for posting it!!

Dennis Miller has a stand-up comedy event on HBO on April 12th. I'm really looking forward to it.

I have a lot of respect for Dennis Miller. I may not always agree with him, but you can rely on him to call it like he see it for either side of the political spectrum. When he criticizes politicians, he gives both parties equal time. He doesn't let party lines obscure all reason. He gets alot of flack for his intellectualism, but I find it refreshing to hear from a celebrity that actually has an education, unlike many of the other ones who call our leaders stupid when they didn't go past high school. While education doesn't necessarily equate intelligence, (and lack of education doesn't necessarily mean you aren't intelligent) you just don't get an MBA from *anywhere*, let along Harvard, by being stupid. Good for Dennis!

god bless dennis miller...

and i love it when we get the moron thing... look i know most people have to drop out of highschool/skip college to make it in hollywood (working at 18 ain't fun)

and if you're in acting classes you're pretty much guaranteed to be an idiot...

look, fresh prince is about the only person i know of in hollywood who i can respect intellectually... he got into mit... real degree rather than arts bs..

I've known Dennis for a long time, and he changed a lot when he got rich. Now he lives in a huge gated mansion in an exclusive wealthy community. No surprise there, in fact totally predictable. As long as I've known him, though, I just can't for the life of me remember when and where he served in the military. Can anybody fill in the blanks here? Where were you during the war, Dennis Miller?

What's your point, IServed, that you can only support the troops if you've been one yourself?

Think that one through very carefully, pal.

I loved everything Dennis said. I've grown up in Cali, around many a "big star", I respect very few of them when it comes to politics. I don't think anyone is pro war, but if you can't see the obvious need for what we're doing,you're lost. Too long have we had Clintonites cutting our secret service and military, undermining our own safety. I don't want war, but I'd rather fight it there then here, should have done this along time ago, of course it's too late now, but damage control has began and I will back the US the whole way. Join me as a "little guy" and do not buy French or German products. America first and foremost. If you feel differently ...please leave, I respect the right to opinions and all freedoms, but I will be damned if I'll let a bunch of overpayed actors and entertainers lead me into hell with thier ridiculous liberalisms. Bottom line is we have gotten fat on the land, spoiled with our freedoms and gutless when it comes to making a stand for righteousness. Yes, people will die, if you can't see that many , many more would have died in the long run then you are miopic.

I expected more from Dennis Miller, who I previously thought was an intelligent comedic commentator on the ridiculousness of humanity. Cheap shots and empty "patriotism" only go so far as to rile up the NASCAR buffoons for a few minutes. I wish he'd take his fear-based, racist, uninformed comments and blow them out HIS ass.

Who cares that the majority of the world's population is against the way we went about this war? Who cares that we've managed to turn Hitler-esk Saddam into a hero to even the majority of moderate Muslims of the middle east? Who cares that our children are still going to be paying for this war when they're adults? We're Americans! We're number one! No one can tell us our president is wrong! The French didn't have 9/11!! We were the ones attacked!! If we didn't go after Iraq we could have all been nuked in 6 months!!! Dennis Miller is a parasite living off of ignorant people's fears. Support the troops doing thier duty, but educate yourselves before you swallow the party line.

Relax Gotpoet. Dennis Miller isn't "living" off of anyone's fears, he is just stating his opinion. Are you implying that those who support the war effort are all "ignorant?" I think you'd be hard pressed to make that point.

And there are plenty of people who have no problem telling the US that we're wrong. Don't act like dissenters are somehow persecuted. Those who don't support the war are in the minority, but are certainly allowed to make the vast majority of the annoying noise.

And I still don't see what the cost of this war has to do with anything. Was World War II "worth it?" Was arms building during the cold war? We've never put a price on national security before, why are we doing it now? Last time I checked, protection of our livelihood is the number ONE function of government.

Oh - we also have a hell of a lot of young men still buried in France, yet some of the French have the nerve to draw swastikas on American Flags. Shit, I can't IMAGINE why anyone would be upset with the French's stance on the war. But guess who the French would call if they got attacked or occupied again? And you know what is even crazier? We'd bail their asses out again...guaranteed. Dennis is right on-

Clause,

Not only did we bail the French out at one time, but we also were once one of Saddam's biggest supporters.

Guess when we were playing global geopolitics and he was a useful pawn, it didn't matter that he was also a monster.

Jim,

Point taken, Jim. But what you call playing geopolitical politics, I would call looking out for American interests....sometimes as the world changes, policy proves to be faulty in hindsight. The United States is certainly not the only country guilty of this, just the most visible.

We, much more than any other nation, have helped to rebuild other countries financially and otherwise on countless occasions, but this quickly forgotten while our political misgivings remain front and center to the rest of the world.

Everything that 'man' said sickened me. He showed himself to be not only wrong, but also an extremely nasty piece of work and stupid (he doesn't know what a Fez or Al Jazeera are and none of his jokes actually made any sense, never mind being funny).

You were "sickened"? Cripes I'm glad we have laws in place to protect free speech if there are people who become sickened when somebody disagrees with their opinion.

Were you sickened when people in Iraq were "put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."? This isnt made up, its real, and its not american press its from United Press International. Read the whole thing: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030321-023627-5923r

Then go see the movie "the Pianist" and see how the Jews were treated by the Nazis. Hussein may not be cloned from Hitler's toenails but they're definitely in the same group.

I thought Dennis Miller did a fantastic job. Does anyone know where I can get his transcript from the Donahue show for February 12th? Ive looked everywhere on the net for it. thanks.

JOhn

PS and why does the whole world have to agree with us to make it right? if he's grinding people up while they're still alive so they get to hear their own screams before they die... do we really need a 2/3 majority vote to tell us its wrong?

just curious,
john

I know how awful Saddam Hussain's regime is (and hopefully soon was), but Dennis Miller was extremely horrible to lots of people for expressing their opinions. He just kept going on and on and on and on. He went too far, and I think came off as a really vile person (of course not as vile as a dictator or Hitler or anything, I'm not stupid). Maybe what I wrote could be misconstrued. Deplorable Humnan Rights abuses go on in many other countries in the world and we do nothing about it, which of course is terrible.

Everyone is entitled to free speech BUT the founder fathers (and later Supreme Court interpretations of our Constitution) have never said it is always without consequence--whether personally (killed as those in Iraq have been by Suddam), legally (yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater when there is none), financially (dixie chick embarrassed by our president) or politically (Kerry calling for a "regime change").

Sometimes there is also a right and wrong time and a right and wrong way to express your opinions. Some people are more or less articulate in expressing themselves, some are more or less intelligent in their expressions (not educationally as someone noted earlier), and some are more or less qualified/informed to even make a proper comment--fortunately we don't put people in jail for being ignorant! :)

Bottom line: Dennis Miller said some things I could agree with but may not have said them the way I would say them (or even have chosen to say at this time).

Dennis Miller always cuts through the crap and doesn't care that his opinion isn't "popular" in Hollywood. And we all know that opinion in Hollywood is driven by what IS "popular" amongst their fellow pseudo-intellectual Hollywoodenheads....where the myopic conventional wisdom dictates that anything a Republican administration does is intrinsically wrong. How very objective!! Kudos to the brilliant Dennis Miller and his always acerbic wit.

Thank you for posting Dnnis Miller's transcript. Truly a pubic service.

I have been searching the internet for a verbatim transcript of Miller on the Tonight Show. This one is okay, but misses some clever lines like the part about Pelosi reminding him of Cheri Oteri's Saturday Night Live cheerleader character. Can anybody help?