Video: Dennis Miller talks some patriotism into the View gals
posted at 12:33 pm on March 1, 2007 by Ian
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Comedian and soon to be radio talk show host talked some sense and some patriotism into Rosie and the gals. Once again Miller is dead on, especially the part about supporting the Commander in Chief.
The money quote has been emphasized:
DENNIS MILLER: I swear to God Rosie, just research this so the next time we talk, I don’t think that statute [library history clause in Patriot Act] has been used once.
ROSIE O’DONNELL: The Patriot Act?
Miller: No, the looking into people’s library records.
[crosstalk]
Miller: Now, look. When Woodward and Bernstein looked into Howard Hunt’s library records it was thought to be one of the seminal moments of American democracy. It’s thought to be a benchmark moment of what this country’s about. So, listen. If we want to check Ramney al-Kaboom because he took 4 bomb cook books out in a month all of the sudden it’s wrong. We’ve got to stop the acrimony.
Rosie: If you sacrifice liberty for percieved security you don’t deserve either.
Miller: Listen, I’ll agree with you up to a point, but if you’re asking me if I don’t want to check phone calls between here and Saudi Arabia and Iraq just to be free and blown up, I don’t agree with you. I just don’t agree with you.
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Rosie pulled a Biden !
DoctorDentons on March 1, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Rosie O’D could quite possibly be the dumbest woman on the planet. Hats off to Miller for having the patience to deal with her.
SisterToldjah on March 1, 2007 at 12:36 PM
It was interesting to me that both the “Girls” and the audience would shut up and listen whenever Miller spoke…
but continuosly talked over the top of each other….
Actualy says a LOT about whose opinion is important to them.
Romeo13 on March 1, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Rosie must have been referencing her encyclopedia of “Shit Ben Franklin Said”.
SWLiP on March 1, 2007 at 12:41 PM
A sane and rational voice appears on that TV show. Rosie is spinning off cliches and talking points and Miller is talking frankly and realistically. I love his point that we are Americans and we have to support our country in Iraq and in the War on Terror. Unfortunately, the Donks see it as Bush’s war and are completely partisan. Those who wish Cheney was blown up are not on America’s side.
I also loved how he shut down Behar in the quote above. The “So, listen” was directed at her because she was trying to interrupt his thought.
Mallard T. Drake on March 1, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Of course Rosie gets in the last slur, “It’s un-American.” It’s a wonder she didn’t find a way for, “It’s Nazism,” or “Dennis, have you stopped beating your wife?”
Drum on March 1, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Ahh yes, finally something good on Allah’s and Ian’s favorite show (other than poor Elizabeth, of course).
Rick on March 1, 2007 at 12:46 PM
That’s what I call a slap down.
PRCalDude on March 1, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Prove to me Joy, that President Bush is “delusional”. However, can we same the same about you?
CrimsonFisted on March 1, 2007 at 12:47 PM
And not understanding a word of it.
CrimsonFisted on March 1, 2007 at 12:48 PM
My wife said there was something yesterday where Rosie said the only way she could keep her rage down was to consider Elizabeth to be a delusion young’n. Any video of that?
frankj on March 1, 2007 at 12:48 PM
What Rosie and her like don’t understand is that it is NOT an American’s responsibility to dissent…
Its a right… but with rights come responsibility. They seem to think that DISSENTING is your patriotic duty, and makes you MORE of an American… and then use that as an excuse for MORE dissent… even when asnine.
Romeo13 on March 1, 2007 at 12:49 PM
I heart Miller time.
fogw on March 1, 2007 at 12:50 PM
What is it about miss piggy that she needs to get the last word.. someone needs to airlock that pig..
Go get em Dennis..
Viper1 on March 1, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Rosie called the patriot act “Un-American” at the end… Uh, aren’t we not ever allowed to say that the lefties are Un-American? Don’t they flip out everytime they claim we question their patriotism, even though we haven’t despite having reason to, when they call the troops terrorists, compare them to Nazis, “slow bleed”, lie after lie after lie with assistance from the lying media… We point out the FACT that all of what they try to claim is simply “descent” is actually emboldening the enemy (politicizing the war they argued for for 13 years on the same intel, bashing troops, visiting with heads of enemy states, etc. etc.). We aren’t allowed to “question their patriotism” or call them “Un-American”… But Rosie fu**ing O’Donnell will get a pass for calling the Patriot Act “Un-American”
By the way, those civil liberties she’s complaining about…. Notice she doesn’t provide a single fu**ing example? This is infuriating. There are tens if not hundreds of millions of people who believe that “civil liberties” are under attack because of crap like this and because of soundbytes on TV… yet you can’t find someone to give an example. There’s a police state alright, but it’s not in the physical world… it’s in the marketplace of ideas. We’ve got a ridiculously stupid and uninformed public, though you can’t completely blame them all because most people can’t believe just how much they are being lied to by the media.
RightWinged on March 1, 2007 at 12:57 PM
“Ransey al-Kaboom” is freaking classic.
askheaves on March 1, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Ugh…those who pull out this Franklin quote always leave out the most important parts:
“Those who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security.”
You can differ as to what actually constitutes a non-essential liberty, but you can’t make the case that every single one of them is essential. We give up lots of liberties in order to live in a civilized society.
You can also argue about what constitutes temporary security in the context of this quote, because nothing is ever permanent except death. Sovereignty over our own nation, however, tends to qualify as non-temporary security.
I wish Dennis Miller had expanded further on how Rosie’s knee-jerk mangling of Franklin’s quote is intellectually bankrupt and entirely without merit.
James on March 1, 2007 at 1:00 PM
The problem with people like Rosie and Behar (and just about all of Hollowood) is that they are a bunch of uninformed morons with access to the masses. Not to mention that to them, there is a romantic quality to liberalism that conservatism doesn’t have.
Rick on March 1, 2007 at 1:01 PM
All freedoms and liberties have limits. Absolute freedom and absolute liberty is neither, its anarchy.
BohicaTwentyTwo on March 1, 2007 at 1:04 PM
Frankj, yeah I saw then when I was clipping the “murderers” and “liars” video. Apparently the age to know what you’re talking about is Rosie’s.
Ian on March 1, 2007 at 1:05 PM
Actually, it was from Stuff Thomas Jefferson Said, 5th Ed.. That is recommended reading over at ace’s site.
DaveS on March 1, 2007 at 1:07 PM
I wish I had known how cool Dennis Miller actually is during the time I spent hating him as a Monday Night Football color commentator.
World B. Free on March 1, 2007 at 1:08 PM
Miller deserves an award just for going on that moonbat mutual masturbation fest.
flipflop on March 1, 2007 at 1:08 PM
But he didn’t take Elizabeth with him when he left!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on March 1, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Me too.
Iblis on March 1, 2007 at 1:12 PM
It should have been
Me too.
Iblis on March 1, 2007 at 1:13 PM
Rosie has so many leaks in her reasoning, that there isn’t enough fingers in Holland to plug that dike.
right2bright on March 1, 2007 at 1:16 PM
I was most impressed with how Miller controlled the wacko audience. He makes a great point, crickets chirp. Then Rosie chimes in with her quote, and they all start to cheer, but Miller cuts them off and basically disagrees, not letting them get whipped into their normal daytime talk frenzy.
Ferris on March 1, 2007 at 1:17 PM
right2bright, that made me LOL. Nice play on words.
Ian on March 1, 2007 at 1:17 PM
Also — anyone else notice how Barbara just sits there, not responding to anything? I don’t know if she realized there was a conversation going on around her.
Ferris on March 1, 2007 at 1:20 PM
She cannot make a coherent case for her views once she has her bumper sticker arguments repudiated.
What a joke.
Also of note is the clapping that went on every time Mr. Miller made a point. And the lack of clapping every time Rosie stunk up the place with one of her arguments. What ’s going on at the view? Was it conservative (rational) crowd day?
mattshu on March 1, 2007 at 1:21 PM
Ben Franklin didn’t live in a world where 19 mad men could kill 3,000 people in a matter of moments with nothing more than razor blades.
Liberals never seem to understand that they are the primary targets of these zealots. Their practices, art and culture, are primarily what they want destroyed.
TheBigOldDog on March 1, 2007 at 1:25 PM
I thought the away team (Dennis Miller) garnered much louder and boisterous applause from the home crowd on this one. Sucks when your own fans turn on you, huh Rosie?
soulsirkus on March 1, 2007 at 1:30 PM
The way I heard it, the only time they clapped for him was when he made reference to supporting Hillary if she won. Look at when he makes the point about Ramney al-Kaboom — silence until Rosie chimes in.
Ferris on March 1, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Dennis should be our next president.
Griz on March 1, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Dennis gets my respect for being able to get a word in edge wise over the big, red sperm whale.
Bahbah Wahwah doesn’t look very happy.
Hening on March 1, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Raise your hands if your think the wrong ex-Saturday Night Live star is running for office in this country…
Ten minutes of Dennis Miller’s wit and delivery, used as a weapon of mass intelligence, is worth a month of bloated, scattershot blithering and in-fighting from Team View.
When Rosie was fending off the “Ching-Chong” Incident, she made reference to the fact that as a comedienne, she’s working without a script, off the top of her head…Points on that one; That’s a good answer when you screw up, but it helps display one big difference. The only thing on the top of her head is hair…while Dennis Miller works off of what’s INSIDE of his head, to considerable advantage, and every bit as fast.
52Ranger on March 1, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Very cute right2bright, very cute.
However, I will agree with her, conditionally, on one small aspect of what she was saying…
The Patriot Act’s wording is a little too broad and with what this country’s courts have done with the language of that great document, the Constitution, I am very scared of what they could do with the Patriot Act. It very well could be a tool for a totalitarian regime to take over.
However, as long as the people of this country are armed and educated on the essential principles of the Constitution, we will remain safe from such a regime.
What will really scare me is if Hillary gets in and tries taking all our guns away.
So, I do disagree with Dennis in his absolute deference to the Command-in-Chief. If Hillary is elected, she will be on a very short leash, not because she might do something I disagree with (which is why Bush is on a short leash with the Left-wing nuts), but because she might do something that fundamentally changes the nature of our government… kind of like Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Decoy256 on March 1, 2007 at 1:42 PM
DM is the man. Anybody who can be heard over the noise level of all the crosstalk with those nuts, deserves all our attention…
d1carter on March 1, 2007 at 1:44 PM
Steele / Miller in ‘08!!
Campaign slogan: “This country needs some serious humor.”
omnipotent on March 1, 2007 at 1:45 PM
So saith Rosie; the Un-American Expert. To bad for her that’s not true. If it were; then checking your credit rating when applying for a loan would be un-american, checking your ID when buying cigarettes would be un-american, checking your proof of insurance when licensing your car would be un-american. None of theres activities are considered un-american, even by the loony left, but checking the records of a PUBLIC library, if that check is performed by the federal government, is somehow un-american.
It’s not un-american if private companies or individuals or members of the press and the MSM do it, it’s only un-american if the federal Government does it. This is what passes for logic by the loony left.
RedinBlueCounty on March 1, 2007 at 1:54 PM
You should stop worry what the government COULD do with the Patriot act and start worrying about what the Jihadists did WITHOUT it.
As Miller points out, the Press violates privacy and destroys lives on s scale the government could scarcely imagine on a regular basis and Liberals tolerate it because 95% of it is directed at their perceived common enemy.
TheBigOldDog on March 1, 2007 at 1:55 PM
He was just putting to the View. I would hope that he is saying, when a president makes a decision we don’t throw him in the meat grinder. But it does not mean we unconditionally support everything they espouse.
right2bright on March 1, 2007 at 1:56 PM
Rosie o Pig wants to control her audience with force of voice. When miller made points that their audience NEVER hears, the fat pig got louder with the liberal moonbat talking points in order to drum the logic of it out of audience’s tiny bigoted little brains.
His appearence only served to expose how shrill and annoying that cow and her co-cow are. The view’s target audience are brain dead females that are waiting for someone to tickle their ears with fluffy talk that absolves them from having to engage their brains. The Rosie’s and Joy’s of the world think they are soooooo hip and progressive, but they are just as shallow as their 50’s counter parts were (whom they despise). Basically, just gossip mongering hens.
The difference is the 50’s mom’s actually accomplished something. They raised decent families.
csdeven on March 1, 2007 at 1:56 PM
WHAT A FRAKKIN’ PARROT! NO brains! There is a definate disconnect between Jabba odonnel’s ears and mouth.
LIAR!!! DAMN LIAR!!! Name an (R) the has supported!
Mazztek on March 1, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Well, as I mentioned in my post, the answer to the first is leave my guns alone.
The answer to the second is, interestingly enough, leave my guns alone.
Decoy256 on March 1, 2007 at 1:59 PM
Amen, Brother. Amen.
Decoy256 on March 1, 2007 at 2:01 PM
I hope that is what he was trying to say also. Unfortunately, that is not what he actually said. But yes, I would agree with your version of it.
Decoy256 on March 1, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Dennis Miller has a way of saying in one sentence what it would take me an hour to pound out. I envy that.
Matticus Finch on March 1, 2007 at 2:05 PM
This statement is so ignorant and self-serving. Rosie wants to protest, so she says Democracy demands that people protest. That way, she can feel more democratic when she pooh-poohs every decision the President makes.
Democracy doesn’t actually demand anything. It basically means that every person has equal weight in the decision making process. So, I could candidate A because I’ve spent months researching them and I think they are the best candidate. You could pick them because you ran into them downtown a year ago and they looked you in the eyes and you feel good about them. And another guy could pick them because they think that of all the candidates, candidate A has the best style. Democracy means that each vote, no matter the reason, is given equal weight.
Hasn’t Rosie ever heard of a meeting where the outcome was a unanimous vote? Was the meeting not democratic just because everyone decided on the same thing?
Democracy does not demand dissent, it allows for dissent. You are no more or less democractic (or American) for disagreeing with the people in power than I am for agreeing with them.
JadeNYU on March 1, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Loved that clip and I love Dennis Miller. Always have.
It doesn’t bother me a bit that the Government can see what I check out at the library. It pisses me off infinitely more that the doctor’s office has my social security number for no good reason. I pay them in cash and don’t file health insurance and yet they insist on having it “for their records” and so do any specialists I go to. Do you know how many individuals have access to it by working in those offices? Geez!
serpentineshel on March 1, 2007 at 2:24 PM
The only time the audience applauded something Miller said was when he said he would get behind Hillary! if she became President. The women who watch The View (and Oprah) are like the old hag version of The Daily Show’s audience.
forged rite on March 1, 2007 at 2:26 PM
Screw this. November 2008, I’m writing in Dennis Miller.
fusionaddict on March 1, 2007 at 2:43 PM
James hit the nail on the head: why does every liberal that quotes Franklin (who probably never said it, by the way – it was probably Richard Jackson) … why do they alway, always, ALWAYS skip the word “essential.” And “temporary” for that matter?
Why? It’s the critical word. It’s the key. By logical implication, it suggests that sometimes, in order to get NON-temporary security, it makes perfect sense to give up NON-essential liberty.
Although, ironically, you’re right in one respect, Rosie: giving up my essential 2nd Amendment rights are not warranted, for any reason. Good call, tubby.
But is the government allowed to eavesdrop on my phone calls if I start a company called Bombs R Us and start calling Achmed Imablowyouajod every 3 days? Sure. Calling Iran without being checked is not an essential liberty.
Why did you make me watch Rosie?
Although I just realized – that Behar (Bejar?) chick is worse than she is. Ugh.
Professor Blather on March 1, 2007 at 2:46 PM
I’ve got a question, sort of like Miller’s, but broader: after YEARS of squawking about the Patriotic Act, has there been one single claim made about an actual governmental action that actually infringed on someone’s rights?
I mean something that normal people would agree on?
When people start yipping about the Patriot Act, I wish they’d quit with the abstractions and toss out specific examples.
Anybody know of one worth mentioning?
With all the bile over it, there just has to be something. Right? Surely some poor innocents have been falsely arrested and accused of a crime that the evidence plainly shows they didn’t do … right?
Oh. Yeah. I mean *other* than the Duke Lacrosse players.
Somebody point me to an actual set of facts on this, that might actually be worth discussing.
Professor Blather on March 1, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Pwned
Mortis on March 1, 2007 at 2:52 PM
So, tell me, why is the supposedly smarter, older, wiser Barbara Walters not chiming in?
Because:
A. She is too heavily medicated.
B. She is just biding her time until the next break to get a fresh Depends.
C. She can’t believe that she created this horrible program and feels obligated to sit there just so she won’t feel too guilty about getting gobs of money for it.
D. She’s going “Cronkite” on us.
ej_pez on March 1, 2007 at 2:54 PM
I would so vote for Dennis Miller for anything he would choose to run for. He owned that show and the audience responded to his common sense.
Buzzy on March 1, 2007 at 3:06 PM
And yet, there is a line between dissent and disloyalty. Rosie o’ Hutt’s apparent understanding is to dissent just because… and because of her BDS.
Mazztek on March 1, 2007 at 3:10 PM
I was sick in bed yesterday and it didn’t occur to me that I might finally see this legendary program that you may be single-handedly keeping alive.
mymanpotsandpans on March 1, 2007 at 3:13 PM
The view debating Dennis Miller is like bringing a turd to a gunfight….
Once you peal back the bumper sticker sloganery of the lefts “ideals” its all hot air…..
liquidflorian on March 1, 2007 at 3:22 PM
Well, with FISA courts, we’ll never now whether or not there is any evidence or not. Secret Courts with Secret Judges issuing Secret Warrants, never publishing a single record or opinion and with absolutely zero transparency or oversight.
Yeah, that sounds like a government the Founding Fathers would approve of.
Decoy256 on March 1, 2007 at 3:29 PM
That was probably more common sense and intelligence in one sitting than the View audience has been exposed to in years. They must’ve all wet themselves in shock.
I think if Jesus Himself appeared on The View, Rosie O’Dipshit would try to talk over Him.
infidel4life on March 1, 2007 at 3:29 PM
Somebody point me to an actual set of facts on this, that might actually be worth discussing.
Now Professor, why do you have to spoil all of their fun and ask for facts? Hyperbole not good enough for you?
fogw on March 1, 2007 at 3:37 PM
Dennis Miller attempted to have a discussion with Rosie based on facts.
Rosie refused to have a discussion and only wanted to get in her liberal sound bites, as usual.
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Rosie doesn’t even realize how badly she had just been owned by Dennis Miller, because she obviously wasn’t even LISTENING to him and only wants to spew her sound bites.
angryamerican on March 1, 2007 at 3:48 PM
With all the bile over it, there just has to be something. Right? Surely some poor innocents have been falsely arrested and accused of a crime that the evidence plainly shows they didn’t do … rights?
Well, with FISA courts, we’ll never now whether or not there is any evidence or not. Secret Courts with Secret Judges issuing Secret Warrants, never publishing a single record or opinion and with absolutely zero transparency or oversight.
Yeah, that sounds like a government the Founding Fathers would approve of.
Decoy256 on March 1, 2007 at 3:29 PM
They may not be public, that does not make them secret. Even you know they exist and can point to the law that establishes them. Nor is the way the judges established or the criteria for warrants they issued clouded in secrecy. That you are not privilege to it , does not make it secret or dangerous. There is oversight by those that brought it into being.
MarkB on March 1, 2007 at 3:59 PM
Rosie’s probably wishing they invited Sinbad on the show instead of Miller.
BohicaTwentyTwo on March 1, 2007 at 4:04 PM
This is all I heard from that exchange…
Rosie: Blah Blah Crazy inane comment
Miller: Lucid, rational thought, intelligent comment.
Rosie: Blah Blah moooooo illogical thought
x95b10 on March 1, 2007 at 4:10 PM
That made my Day!! Miller to the rescue of our lone “survivor” Elizabeth
abinitioadinfinitum on March 1, 2007 at 4:12 PM
Dennis Miller did us proud taking on the lefty troglodytes of The View. If Rosie thinks the Patriot Act against terrorists undermines all our liberties, why isn’t she complaining about the RICOH act against the Mafia, which carries the same provisions? For Pete’s sake, some of the Sep 11 skyjackers made their final plane reservations on the Internet in a public library. Does Rosie the Idiot think it would be bad for the government to peek in on that transaction? I wonder if Muslim suicide bombers took over her studio like they did in Moscow, would Rosie be saying as they executed hostages, “Thank God they didn’t use the Patriot Act to intercept these guys calls!”
Tantor on March 1, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Rosie – al-Qaeda’s favo girl! Could she possibly help them out any better?
Halley on March 1, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Too bad Dennis is sweet on McCain.
Valiant on March 1, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Ya know… it does appear that Rosie really is too stupid to grasp the full implications of what Dennis is saying.
Lawrence on March 1, 2007 at 4:35 PM
LoL… Too funny.
Hey AllaP/Brian/Ian. We nominate x95b10 for post of the day!
Lawrence on March 1, 2007 at 4:38 PM
I have tried to avoid The View since Rosie came on, but I saw a little of the show the other day when Rosie and Joy B***slapped Elisabeth and I was just sick. I watched when they auditioned three young conservatives for the “young” spot years ago and it was obvious to us that all three had problems expressing themselves which seemed to be just what Joy and Star wanted because, God knows, they did not want to spar with someone who could show their ignorance. Poor Elisabeth (who I like) tries, but is not able to express a well thought out conservative argument…she hangs in there, though. Then again, ABC never wanted an articulate Conservative like Michelle Malkin or Laura Ingraham. At least Dennis Miller was able to take those dodos on and get some applause today.
deedledee on March 1, 2007 at 4:45 PM
She waffled and lied all within the same segment, the idiot.
Don’t care if its a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ behind the name, but because Miller leans right, he’s wrong? He’s UN AMERICAN because he said back the country no matter who is the president. Holland Ass is really losing it.
Or carry AK’s and Uzi’s, or email or call the other side of the world instantly to plan terror, nor did they have Hillary or rosie… Damn, I need a time machine.
And thx right2bright, THE DAMN DIKE HAS SPRUNG A LEAK!
shooter on March 1, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Rosie Big Mouth HAD to get the last word in, and CUT OFF the guest so he cannot respond!
Can you say “Self Centered?”
Can you say “Narcissist?”
Can someone give her some Benadril, or a Valium, or Demerol, or even an old Quaalude, please?
And the two “Shout-Ove-Others-Cuz-We-Must-Be-Heard-Cuz-We-Are-More-Important-Than You” screechers, Rosie and Joy, just HAD to keep trying to talk over Dennis Miller, and succeeded in keeping the very polite pretty blonde girl in her place, with her mouth shut, her voice silenced, in humble, respectful, submission to the Great Rosie and Joy, and to the Leftist, Liberal agenda!
Can someone get a horse tranqulizer for Rosie and Joy? They are just WAY to hyper and boisterous!
William
William2006 on March 1, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Miller is wrong about library records.
Miller also resurrects the canard that supporters of civil liberties and the Constitution don’t want any searches at all. No one has argued that. It’s about the legality of the searches. You can listen in to someone’s call from here to Saudi Arabia. Just get a warrant. The Constitution doesn’t disappear just because people would like to do us harm.
Miller is suggesting that we violate the Constitution to buy us some unspecified increase in safety (provided by our ever-benevolent parents, Daddy U.S. Government, of course). This doesn’t make him a patriot. It makes him a cowardly big government stooge, eager to pawn his freedom for a big fluffy shield. Temporarily, of course. The government will be sure to quickly and effortlessly reduce itself in size and scope once the specter of Islamic terrorism has been destroyed. Just like they did when they repealed the income tax and the draft. So glad those are gone now that we don’t need them anymore.
Mark Jaquith on March 1, 2007 at 4:58 PM
The Fat Slob repeated a quote which is claimed to have come from Franklin, however he never said anything at all like that.
What he said was:
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
The key phrase is “essential liberty” and NOT PRIVACY!
This is a classic example of the left regurgitating the same old Horse Shit over and over again.
Bob on March 1, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Miller didn’t put any common sense into them. But the audience did jive with his call for supporting our Comm in Chief.
budorob on March 1, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Rosie exists on that show to make inane sound bytes that get a reaction from what appears to be a predominantly liberal audience.
In a different forum, Miller probably would have taken her to task on her comments. As it stands, Rosie never debates a point in an environment where she will actually have to back up her statements with fact or weasel out for a commercial break.
First post on HotAir! Glad to be aboard!
MiB
ManInBlack on March 1, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Someone call the CDC. It seems that Mad Cow Disease has finally made the leap from cows to ….wait…..
Nevermind.
hillbillyjim on March 1, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Talking to Rosie and Joy is like talking to an adolescent monkey while it’s eating its own crap
Opinionnation on March 1, 2007 at 5:28 PM
That article you linked to was based solely on the word of the ACLU, which isn’t surprising since it was the San Fransisco chronicle. You need to show evidence that what the ACLU said is true because there’s no reason to take them at their word. And your slippery slope argument works the other way as well. The government will usually take a mile when given an inch, but so will the ACLU and other so-called civil libertarians. If you think the civil libertarians will stop at warrants is just naive.
forged rite on March 1, 2007 at 5:29 PM
Dennis kicked their butts good! Woo-hoo!
If Arnold has his “girly men,” then those “women” on the View are the “manly girls!”
Women-who-wanna-be-men meet a Real Man and come up short more than an X-chromosome!
Jen the Neocon on March 1, 2007 at 5:36 PM
It’s like someone let a wild horse loose in a cow barn. Dennis really loves the truth a lot. And good for him. I enjoy listening to him.
Coronagold on March 1, 2007 at 5:43 PM
Has Rosie O’Donnell ever had to climb out of her bedroom window and run for her life while the dictator’s police broke down her front door because she’d mouthed off against the head of state on local television?
Has she been ever been picked up for questioning about comments she’s made on air?
Has she ever been told she doesn’t have a job because her employer was leaned on by the government to fire her or risk having the station shut down?
The answer is NO.
Neither she nor her View cohorts nor that pampered, well-nourished and well-sheltered audience understand what genuine tyranny is. The reason they don’t know is because they’ve had ZERO experience with it in their lives. It’s nauseating watching these expensively dressed, fed, feted and perfumed ignorant bunch of women. They ought to be on their knees in thanks that they have it so good, not whinging and whining about imagined restraints on their opulant and selfish lives.
naliaka on March 1, 2007 at 5:51 PM
They only applauded when he said he would support Hillary if she became President. Everything else he said recieved very weak applause, or none at all.
forged rite on March 1, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Now thats good comedy. Thanks I needed that laugh.
Sammy316 on March 1, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Alright, I’m your huckleberry.
Let’s say 100 average (AVERAGE, I SAY!!!) Americans are surveyed on whether or not child molestation should be decriminalized. If 100 out of 100 people reacted with disgust at the very concept, does that mean the survey is invalid because no one had a dissenting opinion?
fusionaddict on March 1, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Mark Jaquith on March 1, 2007 at 4:58
Posting an article from SF based on info from the ACLU is not evidence that Mr. Miller is wrong in any way. There is not one shred of discussion about prosecution in the article — only the IDEA foisted by the ACLU that the government asking for records equals privacy invasions.
The foundation of your argument is shall I say without fact? What follows the initial paragraph is wasted fonts.
Shockman on March 1, 2007 at 6:40 PM
Wow, the last time I read that quote was in American Rifleman.
Whatcha reading Rosie?
TheSev on March 1, 2007 at 7:02 PM
If you don’t have security, you cannot truly enjoy liberty!
William
William2006 on March 1, 2007 at 7:09 PM
I hope too be the first to
Welcome you!!
RushBaby on March 1, 2007 at 7:09 PM
I agree with everything “he” said, And I’m referring to DM.
KCtheKat on March 1, 2007 at 7:49 PM
Let me shorten your non-answer for you:
Nope. After all those years of protests, we still can’t seem to find one good example of what we’re talking about. But, hey, we can’t see everything … so it’s probably hidden in that stuff we can’t see.
Mmm-kay.
Professor Blather on March 1, 2007 at 7:58 PM
I suppose it’s too much to ask you to point to where Dennis actually said anything close to that?
Nah. Scary strawmen are way, way more fun to knock down.
Professor Blather on March 1, 2007 at 8:01 PM
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