> Vid segment of Alterman on Miller's rapidly sinking show:
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> <http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/iMovieTheater127.html>
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> If you thought Miller was an asshole before, wait till you see this.
What puzzles me is why anybody thinks that Miller is funny or entertaining. He certainly was never funny on Saturday Night Live. Can you all remember *any* funny character(s) that he created? Probably not. All he did was a halfway funny reading of their fake news.
Alterman was very composed considering Miller's adolescent behavior. Miller's sschtick probably plays well to a small audience of hard core Republican Bush-lovers, but anybody else who watches that episode will have more sympathy for Alterman. It's also interesting that the right-wing talk shows are letting anti-war and anti-Bush views get aired. Normally political demogogues are very obsessed with controlling discourse over issues they hold dear. I have to imagine that hearing these views on shows like Dennis Miller combined with all the anti-war views now appearing in the rest of the media is causing a bit of cognitive dissonance for more and more conservatives.
But I really think that many of these right-wingers are living in a bubble. They may hear all the news questioning the Bush regime, but they just tune it out. And I think this denial will just bite them hard on the ass later this year. I really think that everybody underestimates how mad independent voters are about the dishonest reasons for invading Iraq.
Chuck0