Glen -
IMO the very best rants do end in a [sigh]. As with Dennis Miller
back in the day when he started with "Don't let me get off on a rant
here" and ended with
"Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong."
OT: I used to love Dennis Miller. I'm not sure what happened, but all
of a sudden, he started sounding like a right-wing wacko to me.
Yes.. me too... and In response to my own response I went and found some
of his (more) recent rants and while they do have some lacing of this,
he is entirely recognizable.
http://www.igorn.com/dmiller.htm
Listening (reading) to him rip GW and his cronies (even though he
apparently loathed the Clintons as well) felt like his old familiar self.
I knew he'd started up with the Fox channel which is a pretty strong
indicator in itself, but when I saw it was in the context of Hannity and
then O'Reilly I gave up on even the thought that he hadn't turned into
Mel Gibson (what happened to *him*?)
I see some references to him apparently pissing Hannity and O'Reilly off
somewhere along the way, but he wouldn't be Dennis if he wasn't doing
that. I did a quick scan of some of what has been written on him by
former Colleagues (.e.g. Al Franken..) and other critical sources such
as Slate.com and I no longer am asking "what happened to him?" but
rather recognizing that perhaps he hasn't changed, that watershed issues
(such as the Iraq War and the WOT) are what divide us. My wife and I
(and she is a cynic with no bounds who used to love him and now hates
him) discussed this a bit and she still hates him even though she got
very nostalgic reading some of the rants above. His PodCast exposes
what sounds like a somewhat tired version of Dennis in the 90's... go
figure, it is nigh on20 years later and I suspect he's off the Cocaine.
I'll just put "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" on repeat and fall
into a memoizetic reverie.
- Steve
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