The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Dennis Miller is On The Air!
One thing that has been sorely missing from the center-right has been impact comedians. Dennis Miller is one of those Hollywood stars with a conscience: before 9/11 (OK...before Monica...) Miller was right out there with the rest of the lefties in Hollywood. But Miller definitely saw things differently after 9/11; in fact this is about the time when HBO executives began to frown at his comedy routines on The Dennis Miller Show. No, Miller didn't say that: it's just what I believe to be true. In any case Miller's long-running comedy show on HBO eventually got bumped...for Bill Maher. I guess HBO thought that America preferred an inability to reason to sound, but funny, common sense.
Too bad for them, better for us: Miller has now hit the radio airwaves with a talk show. It's on here in Dallas and I am already a Podcast subscriber. And the show is GREAT. Here is an excerpt of an interview with Miller about his new show.
Too bad for them, better for us: Miller has now hit the radio airwaves with a talk show. It's on here in Dallas and I am already a Podcast subscriber. And the show is GREAT. Here is an excerpt of an interview with Miller about his new show.
Q: In a sense, does your career mirror Winston Churchill's notion that if you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain?Miller has already had interviews with such notables as Mark Steyn and Charles Krauthammer, and he even parries with a lefty now and again. Miller's biting wit, incredible vocabulary, and encyclopedic knowledge of history and popular culture combine to give the "good guys" another big name power player. No, he's not an ultra-right, take no prisoners Michael Savage ideologue: He will throw out a centrist viewpoint quite frequently and supports Gulianni. But the bottom line about Dennis Miller is: he just happens to make a hell of a lot of sense most of the time. Joe Bob says "check it out."
A: That's exactly the process I've gone through. I'm 53, and I'm a pragmatist. We watched punks blow up our buildings and, what, I'm now supposed to sit around and think about how we wronged the punks? Things get cut and dried as you get older. And what about the people who never, ever change the way they think about things? Those are the people I slide away from at cocktail parties.
Q: You've taken shots at Barbra Streisand for her liberal activism. Why?
A: Barbra Streisand is an ungodly talent, but she went into the (show business) bubble at 16. And she reflects that in all the shallow, typical ways. She has the political beliefs of a sixth-grader.
Labels: Hearts and Minds, Talk Radio
