"steve horan" <stevehoran2001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "The Sentinel" <Nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > "steve horan" <stevehoran2001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > 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?
Never. Including Dennis Miller's show.
> > > 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.
Ritter tried to claim Miller was dishonoring and disrespecting his miltary
service by criticising him on this. Miller insisted that he did respect
Ritter's service in the military, but he still felt that Ritter's comments
were disrespectful to those (and the loved ones of those) who've died in
Iraq.
> Despite Miller patronizingly referring to him as "Scottie
> Boy" when he wasn't berating him, Ritter admirably
> kept his cool and stayed on point.
I agree that calling him Scottie Boy was a little rude. Although I don't
believe he was being deliberately rude.
> > 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.
Dean's on record saying he'd send in more troops, just like Clark. I've
never heard either of them mutter the mantra used by Kucinich, Sharpton,
Moore and Ritter of "honoring the troops by bringing them home" (which is
pulling out).
> > > 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.
He wasn't yelling. He was criticizing his inflammatory choice of words.
Ritter seems to think he's some kind of hero for being direct and
confrontational, but like so many antiwar protesters he doesn't seem have
a
clue that the Michael Moore approach doesn't convince anybody who doesn't
already agree with them. Which is a shame, because I think there are some
valid points to be made, but they always get lost in accusations that
America is an imperialistic aggressor, etc. It doesn't do them, their
argument, or the troops they're concerned about any service.
> Comedians should make light of situations, not
> heavy.
So you think Miller was being really heavy when he told Ritter that if we
pull all the Poles out of Iraq, there'll be no one left to change the
light
bulbs?
from earlier:
>His closing shot was to castigate Ritter for his "alacrity with facts" or
something. Hello...
>that's a compliment!
No, his criticism was that he shouldn't be letting "legal-ese, ...and
alacrity with the facts get in the way of what's right and wrong".
> One should never let facts stand in the way of a good old-fa****oned
WWF-
> style right-wing tantrum.
He said on his very first show that he was going to take interviewees he
strongly disagreed with to task. You seem to be distorting things to make
him look bad because you disagree with his politics on defence issues.
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