"The Sentinel" <Nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "steve horan" <stevehoran2001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I saw Dennis Miller's show tonight and, while
> > interviewing Scott Ritter, he had a meltdown
> > and started yelling at him.
>
> That's quite an exaggeration, unless they showed a different version on
the
> repeat, because I didn't see any meltdown.
Aside from on the Bill O'Reilly show, how often
do hosts lose control and start yelling at their
guests?
>
> > Ritter referred
> > to the war in Iraq as "illegitimate" and Miller
> > got on his high horse and had a cow - to mix my
> > barnyard metaphors. He got very self-righteous
>
> He was no more self-righteous than Ritter was, arguably less. Ritter
seems
> to take any disagreement with himself very personally.
Referring to our "boys and girls in uniform" who
were killed in Iraq in an attempt to shame Ritter
is demagoguery; it's emotionally manipulative.
It didn't work on Ritter because he's a veteran
himself and Miller quickly retreated. Despite
Miller patronizingly referring to him as "Scottie
Boy" when he wasn't berating him, Ritter admirably
kept his cool and stayed on point.
>
> > about the 530 "boys and girls in uniform" who
> > paid the ultimate price and seemed, IIRC, to be
> > trying to get Ritter to retract that one word:
> > "illegitimate". Ritter, to his credit, remained
> > calm and said that he was honoring the troops
> > by wanting to bring them home from an unjustified
> > war. His argument was calm and cogent and all
> > Miller could resort to was histrionics.
>
> Right, except you've got it backwards. Ritter doesn't seem to have a
clue
> that using the same inflammatory rhetoric as people like Michael Moore
and
> Al Sharpton doesn't help his argument at all.
Ritter substantiated his argument with fact while Miller
went hysterical. ......and I don't mean hysterically
funny! That's something that Miller hasn't been in
years, if ever.
> No matter what your opinion
> is on whether the war was justified in the first place, even Howard Dean
> understands that pulling the troops out at this point would be a
> catastrophic mistake that would make things even worse.
I think that Ritter favors getting the UN involved
as does Dean, if I'm not mistaken.
>
> > This guy used to be a comedian and now he's
> > hell bent on becoming another Bill O'Reilly.
> > So sad.
>
> Just because he doesn't agree with you?
Yelling at your guests is rude, uncivil behaviour.
Comedians should make light of situations, not
heavy.
Maher does a good job of mixing politics and
comedy because his political observations are
incisive and he's managed to stay funny. I'm
not sure if Miller was ever funny - he was too
hung up on being a Rat Packer three decades too
late - and his political observations are meatheaded,
jingoistic, Republican talking points.
Oh wow, I just checked groups. There's actually
an alt.fan.dennis-miller? Sorry Denny I just
call them as I see them. When you make your
living on the boob tube you gotta expect the
brickbats. That's life in the big titty babe.
....sure, you can use it.
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