Question: When did Dennis Miller turn into such an asshole?

[Zenmaster]

Wasn't he a bit more liberal 10-15 years ago? I know he thinks himself a Libertarian, but I didn't think he shared any of the GOPs social views. I've been suprised to hear him so in love with Sarah Palin. I thought he'd be the type of conservative that she'd really scare off.

[1corona4u]

1. When the earth cooled...

[kenny blankenship]

2. Cocaine is a terrible, terrible drug

[timber84]

28. LOL

I can just picture Rick James.

[Rambis]

3. If he sobers up

he might go back to being a democrat but don't hold yer breath.

[gatorboy]

4. 9/11. It brought out the fearful conservative in him.

[JimGinPA]

5. 9/12/01

He used to be a funny asshole - now he's just an asshole.

[Shakespeare]

10. That's about right.

He realized he could turn the trend of jingoism into a bigger paycheck, so off he went.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. Once he stopped being poor, probably.

Funny how that happens.

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. He's the original...

...conservative + dope + porn = 'libertarian' kind of libertarian.

At least P.J. O'Rourke is funny -- occasionally.

[juno jones]

29. PJ's also right...twice a day

like the proverbial broken clock. Dennis is merely tedious, impressing the unwashed by his verbal harangues which don't really make much sense to we nutters with a vocabulary.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. The second terrorists attacked America.

He became a Security Republican, buying into the line the Democrats are weak in that regard. :eyes:

[Occam Bandage]

9. He would have hated her on 9/10/01.

[southpaw]

11. He used 9-11

as an excuse to become a vile neo-conservative.

His popularity was fading and, with repubs in charge of congress and the White House, Miller probably thought that he would get on the side that was winning.

Problem is, regardless of his politics, people were just plain tired of his smug bullshit.

[msallied]

12. It was definitely after 9/11. He was one of the biggest Iraq War proponents too.

[renie408]

13. When people started making more money spouting for the GOP.

Sadly, he has shot himself in the foot. I used to love him about ten years ago. Today, I wouldn't spit on him if he were on fire.

[tularetom]

14. November 3, 1953

According to Wikipedia that's when he was born.

[City Lights]

38. LOL! I have to agree!

:rofl:

[MarjorieG]

15. Jumped on the GOP more-lucrative bandwagon of 2004. Been stuck there ever since.

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. When he lost his liberal writer in 98

he didn't write his funny stuff.

[Jackinbox]

22. That could be.

I remember he came out bashing Clinton during the whole Ken Starr drama. However, I remember him sitting on Arsenio's couch in 92 saying "I think we need to go with Clinton." when asked who he was voting for.

Somewhere in there he lost his mind.

[Johonny]

36. pretty much

lost his writers. Now resorts to look at Harry Reid, He looks really funny jokes. His last TDS was painful.

[billyoc]

17. He's a 9/11 NeoCon. New York City is FULL of them.

It sucks.

[PA Democrat]

18. I remember seeing him at a local comedy club years ago when no one had ever heard of him.

He didn't do political jokes back then and he even managed to be pretty funny.

[WeDidIt]

19. He went totally nuts on 9/11

He hasn't been the same since.

[BlueIdaho]

20. When he discovered how much money there is in fascist talk radio. nm.

[RichGirl]

21. Actually....

I noticed a change after 9/11. Everyone (Stewart, Letterman, etc.) was shocked and saddened, so they went easy on Bush even being supportive and kind to him. They eventually came back to the real world, except Dennis. He never made it back. I don't know, maybe the shock of it caused brain damage.

[Lucinda]

It started about the time he got all tingly when junior hit the deck on Mission Accomplished Day

I remember him going a little nutty about how cool junior looked in his flight suit that day. :eyes: After that, he really jumped on the bandwagon and never had the cojones to say he'd been fooled. So he's just stuck with it, becoming more strident as time passes.


Very sad.

[butterfly77]

23. He always has been,,

his problem is that he is afraid of the terrorists so he believes that we need to bomb any country anywhere because he is afraid..

[truthisfreedom]

24. Small hands complex. Take a look at 'em... they're sized for a man half his height.

Little bitty mitten hands.

[chitty]

25. The funny thing is...........................

his type of humor goes right over the heads of the idiocratic knuckle draggers he plays to.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

50. Liberals can't stand him. Freepers can't understand him. nt

[anneboleyn]

26. He seems to have forgotten McCain completely too. But yeah, post 9/11 he became the new Rush

[smoochpooch]

27. It was 9/11 but the sad thing is he refuses to admit he was wrong

about Iraq, the War on Terror, all of it. Lots of people who supported the war have since regretted it but not Miller. Like Bush, he thinks that if he's stubborn long enough, eventually he'll be proven right.

[seemunkee]

30. Puberty

[DebbieCDC]

31. He went nuts several years ago

Supposedly because of 911? Whatever. He's an asshole now and has been for a long time

[Ian David]

32. Don't get me started. n/t

[tilsammans]

33. I heard Janeane Garafalo (sp?) say on Air America . . .

. . . that Dennis Miller always was a jerk.

[Cha]

34. I gotta go with

Janeane!

[DefenseLawyer]

54. I think it was caused by his agent and his accountant.

His agent told him he had no job and his accountant told him he had no money. I'm sure he was always a right wing jerk but he became the "right wing comic" in order to feed himself.

[Dr Fate]

35. Some of his "elitist" cultural references were funny back in '86.

Maybe he just cut his hair, got old (at heart) and bitter once his finite creativity dried up.

[TheCowsCameHome]

37. He's a washed up jerk - a great match-up for the GOP

He fits the mold.

[GrizzlyMan]

39. He became a coward on 9-11

Like so many others.

[bkcc]

40. He's been a jerk for at least the past 10 years.

My hunch is that it started happening when he was working on Monday Night Football with Al Michaels, who is very conservative. Spending all that time together gave Miller some bad ideas that he's since run with.

[Yavin4]

41. When His Syndicated Late Night Talk Show Failed Miserably

You say, "What Syndicated Late Night Talk Show"? Exactly.

[Better Believe It]

42. He's Been Working At It For Years: "Mission Accomplished!"

[elkston]

43. I used to get him and Dennis Leary mixed up. They are worlds apart now. (eom)

[JBoy]

44. When he stopped being funny. He decided to become the funny fish in the unfunny RW pond.

[davepc]

45. He had a pretty passionate defense of Admiral Stockdale after his VP debate in '92

[H2O Man]

46. Conception or birth?

[spanone]

47. years ago

[blue_onyx]

48. I haven't heard about him much lately...

does he still attempt to do comedy? I use to see him on the Tonight Show once in a while but I haven't really watched that show in a few years. He's probably the least funny comedian I've ever heard. He probably takes the conservative position to stand out....his horrible jokes sure won't make him stand out on their own.

[TheKentuckian]

49. Think nouin, verb, and ____/______

[Stop Cornyn]

51. I think he's probably always been an asshole; it's just apparent now because he's no longer funny.

Rob Lowe, on the other hand, was once a decent human before he became an asshole.

[rvablue]

52. Just like Rudy he has tried to profit off of 9/11

It just so happens he says he changed camps after 9/11, oh just about the same time his comedy career was totally tanking and he needed to make a buck appearing on O'Reilly.

[crazy_vanilla]

53. to me, he's always been an a$$hole

[stuntcat]

56. thank you

:headbang: Exactly.

[LynneSin]

55. You're assuming that at one time he wasn't?

:rofl:

[Doremus]

57. On 9/11 he turned into a quivering bowl of jello. Terra! Terra! Terra!

Just DO NOT say boo when he's in the room --- unless he has his diapers on.