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During the early years of his HBO program, moreover, Miller often saved his most acerbic barbs for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, sarcastically comparing him to Hitler and claiming he was “further to the right than the part in Sam Donaldson’s hair.” Later, in May 1998, he characterized Gingrich’s ’94 Republican class as a “band of fascist elves...
Fast-forward to Dennis Miller in the post-Sept. 11 era. He has advocated ethnic profiling at airports, contended (albeit half-jokingly) that America should test a nuclear bomb “just to let [the terrorists] know we’re sitting on a nice hold card,” declared his support for military action to topple Saddam Hussein and, in recent months, disclosed that he is a “Bush fan.” What happened...
Well, without sounding too trite, Sept. 11 happened. The cynical, derisive attitude that Miller had cultivated on his show seemed to have a place during the Clinton-Gingrich years. But after 3,000 people were slaughtered on American soil by genocidal terrorists, skepticism for the sake of skepticism was no longer chic. Indeed, it seemed drastically inappropriate...
...well after the cancellation of his HBO show in August. Following the mid-term elections last November, he told Jay Leno that he wanted to “congratulate my President. I think he had a great day. I think George Bush is a good man.” Miller noted that the president had “done a fine job in these last two years.” More importantly, he explained to the “Tonight Show” host his disillusionment with the Democrats. “You know I consider both sides...
...appearance on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, he revealed that he had been a “lifelong Democrat” until very recently. When asked why he had become such an ardent supporter of President Bush’s war strategy, Miller gave a most rational, and un-Hollywood, answer. If he had to put his faith in George Bush or Saddam Hussein, Miller said, he’d choose Bush. This gets to the crux, really, of the problem that anti-war celebrities have encountered on the Iraq issue: They seem to trust...