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Dennis Miller: "[W]omen on the left hate" Palin "because to me ... it appears that she has a great sex life"

November 13, 2008 6:54 pm ET

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SUMMARY: On The O'Reilly Factor, Dennis Miller stated of Gov. Sarah Palin: "[M]ostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a great sex life." He continued, "I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side, their husbands haven't been aroused since Mailer signed copy of The Executioner's Song at Rizzoli's back in the early '70s."

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As noted by Gawker.com, on the November 12 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, radio host Dennis Miller stated of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R): "I think the left hate her -- mostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a great sex life." He continued, "I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side, their husbands haven't been aroused since [Norman] Mailer signed copy of The Executioner's Song at Rizzoli's back in the early '70s." Miller also said in reference to the Palins, "[T]hat snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me, and that's why people are fascinated by it." Moments later, host Bill O'Reilly asked, "You think that because she looks like a happy, wedded mom with not so much neurosis, that these people are going, 'We have to hate her'?" Miller responded, in part: "It's like Tina Fey's movie Mean Girls. Women are mean to other women. They look at her, she looks happy, a lot of them aren't, and they're cranky about her."

Later in the discussion, after Miller said that President-elect Barack Obama "ought to flatten these punks at AIG [American International Group]," O'Reilly stated, "OK, and then arrest [Rep.] Barney Frank [D-MA], correct?" As the blog Think Progress noted, Miller replied, "Barney might want to be arrested." In response, O'Reilly said, "Oh, jeez. Ugh," and shuddered. He continued, "OK, Dennis Miller, everybody. I told you to hide the kids." Before going to a commercial break, O'Reilly added, "Next up, a viewer warning -- I'm sorry I didn't give you one before Miller."

From the November 12 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: Now, the Sarah Palin hysteria. I mean, can you believe she's getting more ink now than the president-elect is getting? Didn't she lose? It looks like she won.

MILLER: Listen, she's a great dame. People are fascinated by her because the left hate her. I think the left hate her -- mostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a great sex life. All right? I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side, their husbands haven't been aroused since Mailer signed copy of The Executioner's Song at Rizzoli's back in the early '70s.

So they look at her, and they hate her. I think that snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me, and that's why people are fascinated by it.

O'REILLY: So you think that -- cutting through all of the metaphors that even I don't even understand. Rizzoli's used to be a bookstore.

You think that because she looks like a happy, wedded mom with --

MILLER: Yeah.

O'REILLY: -- not so much neurosis, that these people are going, "We have to hate her"? It's -- what, it's schadenfreude? Is that -- how do you say that? German?

MILLER: It's called schadenfreude.

O'REILLY: Schadenfreude. [unintelligible]

MILLER: The Germans concocted it. It's one's vague pleasure in another's discomfort. Leave it to the Germans, by the way, to concoct an intricate glossary of pain terminology.

But I think people have -- I think people have schadenfreude about her. It's like Tina Fey's movie Mean Girls. Women are mean to other women. They look at her, she looks happy, a lot of them aren't, and they're cranky about her.

Plus, you know, she's still viable to me. Katie Couric is not going to be the interlocutor that turns me off Sarah Palin. For God's sakes, does anybody remember Katie Couric during her first month on the job? Bill Paley and Ed Murrow were turning over in their graves so fast that they resembled the twin screws on the Thunderball boat, the Disco Volante, when they threw it into hydrofoil mode.

O'REILLY: I guess that's a James Bond reference there?

MILLER: I don't even -- Billy, I have no idea. Help me. Help me, for God's sake.

O'REILLY: Miller, I hate to say this, but I think you may be beyond help. I think Bordello of Blood was it.

Now, you've been reassessing in the last -- in the last eight days the presidential vote. And what conclusions, Miller, have you come to?

MILLER: Well, two. I'm kind of happy now that it's over. Because when they showed Grant Park that night and I saw the looks on the face of some of the black elders looking up, who had been pushed aside to lunch counters and bathrooms, and I saw that catharsis, I thought, well, I intellectualized this would be good for the country in that way. I had no idea the depth of feeling. It pleases my heart. I'm happy for them.

Also, the guy looks so smart to me. I didn't believe anything he said when he was running. But now I know he's so smart that when two dim, mindless magpies like [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid [D-NV] and [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi [D-CA] trundle down there to sell their tired Willy Loman wares, he's going to pay them lip service. The moment they split, he's going to look at [incoming White House chief of staff] Rahm Emanuel and go, "Sharp elbows, dull intellects. We're not listening to those cats. Do you think I worked this hard to get to this point that I'm going to parrot what those two idiots say?" So I like the fact that he's really smart.

And you know something? He's my president now. And I am not going to do what the left did to Bush. I find it unbecoming. I hope that Barack Obama does so well that four years hence, I am salivating to vote for him. I want this all to work, because I love my country. At some point, I make Lee Greenwood look like the Rosenbergs. And I hope he does great.

But I will not turn my back on George Bush. Today, 2,619 days since a domestic terror attack on this soil. Thank you to my commander in chief, and thank you to the troops for providing us the safety to have an election like that.

O'REILLY: Absolutely. Now, how skeptical are you going to -- I think your sentiment is noble, by the way. And particularly in this dangerous economic time when people are really suffering, you've got to root for Obama to get the economy back on track and lessen suffering.

But how skeptical are you going to be? And how -- and what is my watchdog role? See, I'm setting myself up to watch Barack Obama. You know, and I'm going to be fair about it. There's no doubt I'll be fair. But I'm going to very -- you know, watch him closer than I watched Bush because I didn't watch Bush close enough. I didn't. I admit it. I should have.

So, how skeptical are you going to be about Obama? Are you going to bring a skepticism in from the beginning?

MILLER: I'm always skeptical about guys who want to be president, because it seems like its own form of madness to me. But I'll tell you, if he wants to earn my goodwill and the goodwill of a lot of people, he ought to flatten these punks at AIG who keep taking -- these guys party. They make Caligula look like a shut-in. Enough is enough. We just gave them $150 billion.

We've got to follow them around with hidden cameras. Take it all back, let them go away. It's economic Darwinism. If they want to spend like that, they should go under. Forget the parties, you guys. And I think that he ought to come down hard on them right now.

O'REILLY: OK, and then arrest Barney Frank, correct?

MILLER: Barney might want to be arrested.

O'REILLY: Oh, jeez. Ugh. [shudders] OK, Dennis Miller, everybody. I told you to hide the kids.

Next up, a viewer warning -- I'm sorry I didn't give you one before Miller.

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    • Author by neon desert (November 13, 2008 7:08 pm ET)
         

      Now THAT'S class...

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      • Author by therick (November 13, 2008 10:43 pm ET)
           

        I agree.  In fact, it resembles class similar to the 7th grade.

        Rick--the new township trustee--I WON ! ! !

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        • Author by therick (November 13, 2008 10:46 pm ET)
             

          Sorry about that, but I just had to toot my horn to all those Dems who were pulling for me.  I haven't been posting much for the last 6 months because I decided to quit sitting here and bichn about things and start doing something.  is 56% considered a landlslide in a heavy Repub area?

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          • Author by therick (November 13, 2008 10:52 pm ET)
               

            Is Tommy still around? I so loved kicking him around this site.  Geeez, I never thought I'd think back to the good old days and remember a web site. . .

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            • Author by eweston8542983 (November 14, 2008 12:56 am ET)
                 
              Tommy has some new sparing partners, but has put out the good post here and there. Congrates on the election. If it don't drive you mad, its good. Has Dennis's subcription to the national inquirer expired? He didn't mention her side interest's.
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          • Author by pearlene_scott1602 (November 13, 2008 10:59 pm ET)
               

            Congratulations Rick!

            56% is definitely a landslide. :-)

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          • Author by neon desert (November 14, 2008 1:07 am ET)
               

            Congrats, Rick, on your victory!

            Now that someone's actually doing something, the rest of us can sit around here and keep bichn' about things....

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            • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (November 14, 2008 1:45 am ET)
                 

              Nice work, Rick, and congrats! You're missed here, but you're excused for your higher calling.

              Did you wear a fabulous hat to your coronation?

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              • Author by therick (November 14, 2008 6:07 pm ET)
                   

                I'm thinking about it.  I just can't decide which fabulous hat to wear.  So many hats, so few coronations. . .

                The swearing in is Thursday at noon.  The Democratic group that got togeter swept every position, and the Republican's are so pssed that they won't allow the Superintendent (eqivolent of a City Manager) to have a transition meeting with us, and told him he'd be fired if he started getting us off on the right foot before they left office.

                Republican's--typical.

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          • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:30 pm ET)
               

            is 56% considered a landlslide in a heavy Repub area?

            If you're a Republican, then yes, in fact, if you're a Republican, 50.0000000001% is a landslide. If you're a Democrat, 56% means you probably stole the election and you had better govern from the center-right.

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        • Author by wzwriter (November 14, 2008 8:29 am ET)
             

          Rick--the new township trustee--I WON ! ! !

          Congratulations!!   WOO-HOO!!!!!

          :-)

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      • Author by carlileb5935 (November 13, 2008 10:45 pm ET)
           

        Let Miller be a warning to young people: if you don't take care of yourself and you think creepy thoughts and hang around idiots, that's what you'll end up looking like. A grizzled crank.

        Worse thing about him is that his humor is dated. Stale. Rizzoli jokes? That's the best he can do?

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        • Author by therick (November 13, 2008 10:49 pm ET)
             

          I can't remember when his humor was much more than mixing a huge vocabulary with verbal images of cartoon charicters.  He may be pompus, but he is immature.

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          • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:32 pm ET)
               

            I can. It's when Rick Overton was his head writer. When Overton quit, Miller's vile core had nothing to shield it from the public any more, and he became the idiot he always was except when parroting his writers' words.

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    • Author by shaggles (November 13, 2008 7:12 pm ET)
         

      I wonder if Miller and Geraldo get along now that they're both right wing ideologues?  I remember back in the '80's Geraldo didn't take too kindly to Miller mocking him on Saturday Night Live.  I remember one Evening News segment where Miller quoted Rivera saying he'd like to "joke Dennis Miller like a chicken."  To which he added something like "Geraldo there are some problems in life you can't solve by choking a chicken."  That's actually about the only thing I remember about Miller on SNL.

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      • Author by wzwriter (November 14, 2008 8:31 am ET)
           

        I wonder if Miller and Geraldo get along now that they're both right wing ideologues? 

        I'm sure they get together over with drinks at least once a week with that other good person turned bad, John Stossel.

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      • Author by nerzog (November 14, 2008 8:57 am ET)
           

        Yeah, what happened to Geraldo?  He was Bill Clinton's biggest defender on Cable Talk Shows during the Monica witch hunt.  Did he feel betrayed by Clinton?  A lot of Democrats felt betrayed, but didn't become Right Wing apologists.  

        Maybe he just sold his soul to FOX?   Sometimes, it's about the money... nothing more complicated than that.  For the kind of dough they pay these guys, I'd gladly say that President Numbnuts was a visionary leader, and never blink.

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    • Author by archfiend (November 13, 2008 7:18 pm ET)
         

      Am I the only one who finds it creepy that Dennis Miller is imaging Sarah and Todd having a great sex life?

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      • Author by MickD (November 13, 2008 7:31 pm ET)
           

        And also what is strange is by trying to insult the so-called frigid lefties, he reduces his favored candidate based on her sexuality. Both sides of the sword are sharp, cha-cha.

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        • Author by snoopy (November 13, 2008 8:06 pm ET)
             

          frigid lefties? How do a bunch of peace loving anything goes hippies all of a sudden become frigid sex starved jeleous haters?

          But I have to say, Palin must be a sexaholic. She screwed the entire republican party out of all three houses! ;)

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          • Author by princeofwheels (November 13, 2008 9:52 pm ET)
               

            SNOOPY, BRAVO...I will steal, I mean quote you on the three houses line. Not really, I will claim it as my own. But it will be out there.

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      • Author by wookie (November 14, 2008 5:08 am ET)
           

        I'm betting that he will end up hanging out in the park and saying things like "come here little boy and let me show you the Brothers Karamozov"

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    • Author by AB-001 (November 13, 2008 7:21 pm ET)
         

      Just for the record, The Executioner's Song was published in 1980.  One of my favorite books.  If Miller wants to make erudite obscure cultural references to show his verbal skills, the least he can do is get the dates right!

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      • Author by pete592 (November 13, 2008 8:02 pm ET)
           

        When there's an agenda to push, O'Reilly and Fox News in general are not interested in interviewing people who have a strong understanding of the subject at hand, nor the capacity to speak intelligently about it.  It's all about witticism and derogatories.

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        • Author by MickD (November 13, 2008 10:28 pm ET)
             

          Witicism is too strong a compliment. Miller lost his funny when his anger took over.

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          • Author by pete592 (November 14, 2008 11:04 am ET)
               

            You're right, that was a pretty generous term to describe a comic who has become so bitter and washed up.

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          • Author by historygeek001 (November 14, 2008 11:16 am ET)
               

            Miller lost his funny when he lost his writers.

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          • Author by mescal (November 15, 2008 3:24 am ET)
               

            It wasn't anger that took over Miller's mind, Mick... it was fear.

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      • Author by carlileb5935 (November 13, 2008 10:49 pm ET)
           

        erudite obscure cultural references..

        They're not. If only.

        And he works on that material, too. He writes this stuff down ahead of time. That's the sad part. It's called schtick, it's formulaic.

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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (November 13, 2008 7:36 pm ET)
         

      Personally, I thought it was great to see Dennis Miller being funny again.

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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:35 pm ET)
           

        Self-delusion is a wonderous thing.

        Miller has bombed so often I'm amazed he isn't on an anti-terrorost watch list.

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    • Author by DAWUSS (November 13, 2008 7:52 pm ET)
         

      Wasilla's Hockey Mom = Yesterday's news

      I seriously do not see her being anywhere near consideration for the GOP's White House bid in 2012.

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      • Author by snoopy (November 13, 2008 8:07 pm ET)
           

        I seriously do not see her being anywhere near consideration for the GOP's White House bid in 2012.

        Which is EXACTLY why they'll run her.

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        • Author by DAWUSS (November 13, 2008 9:14 pm ET)
             

          2012 could be a gray-area election. It's not like 2008 where they needed a sacrificial lamb like John McCain because they knew they had no chance after Bush and the Republican Party screwed over the American people. I say 2012 is a gray-area right now primarily because it's too soon to make accurate predictions. Obama (and the rest of the Democrat Party) will need to make significant accomplishments in straightening this country out. We saw what an all-Republican government did for 6 years, now we'll see if the Democrats can build on what they did following the reclamation of Congress. If they can do that, the Republican Party will probably run Sarah Palin because they know they're not going to win in 2012 and save their best candidate for 2016. Think of it like how the Democrat Party wasn't going to run Hillary until 2008 because by then George Bush wouldn't be the opponent.

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          • Author by nerzog (November 14, 2008 8:48 am ET)
               

            I tend to agree.  A lot can happen in four years.

            In any case, it would be interesting to watch Simple Sarah in a debate with seven or eight other Republicans, who would no longer have any reason to go easy on her.  I have a feeling she'll make an even bigger fool of herself, but given the rabid devotion of her base, she could still do well in the primaries.

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          • Author by SFnomad (November 14, 2008 3:45 pm ET)
               

            I'm sure you already know this, but there is no such thing as the "Democrat Party", it's the Democratic Party.  Since you did it twice in one post, I'm sure it was no accident.

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            • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:36 pm ET)
                 

              When the poster is DaWuss, every word is an accident.

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              • Author by SFnomad (November 14, 2008 6:29 pm ET)
                   

                I'm sure, it's just when Repugs call it the "Democrat Party" they sound so, well, illiterate.  I realize that's not really much of an issue with them, looking at their leader for the last 8 years and all.

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    • Author by ukobserver (November 13, 2008 8:13 pm ET)
         
      I thought that Liberal women were against Caribou Barbie because she was the polar opposite of them when it came to their political veiws, but what do l know, i'm just a man with a fuctioning brain!!!
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    • Author by mefirst (November 13, 2008 8:31 pm ET)
         

      this idiot's opinion and three dollars will get you coffee at starbucks.  she's "hated" for the reason she's  unfit for the office of vice president.  miller is as funny as foot fungus.  i read executioner's song back in the day, if miller could contribute anything a tenth as worthy to our culture he would be somewhere.   just more of this "i enjoy being stupid" mantra of the right.  the police song, "bring on the night", is supposed to be about gary gilmore's execution.  [love the police, one of the great groups.  saw "changeling", great movie, very intense.]

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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:37 pm ET)
           

        this idiot's opinion and three dollars will get you coffee at starbucks.

        Really? His opinion is worth two dollars?

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    • Author by dutch163 (November 13, 2008 8:59 pm ET)
         
      is he nuts? what the heck does her sex life have to do with this? I don't like her because she is undereducated on important information, doesn't learn fast enough but is arrogant enough to ignore that and just "plow through" she is also pompous and self righteous
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    • Author by matrixbio2014 (November 13, 2008 9:29 pm ET)
         

      Miller is so promiscuous - ideologically speaking.

      When he was doing comedy, he was a liberal (that is, when Clinton was President).  Then when Bush got appointed President, he became a "conservative" saying we needed someone "strong" to deal with terrorists.  Now, conservatism is quickly going out of fashion, and here he is ready to support Obama - "he's my President."  Aww, how warm-fuzzy of him.

      Bah, he is thinking about his career in a changing cultural climate.  His right-wing talk radio show may not survive the cultural change. 

      As for his views on Palin's sex life, I think it says more about his lack of one. 

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      • Author by OnceYouGoBarack (November 14, 2008 4:21 am ET)
           

        Actually, Miller was originally an independent.  I remember watching him on his ill-fated talk show pontificating on the virtues of Ross Perot.  I also remember him being dissolution when Perot pulled out of the race because he claimed his daughter was being threatened.  He had some political credibility in those days before he decided to stop being funny and carry water for the Bush Administration.

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    • Author by worrierking (November 13, 2008 9:42 pm ET)
         

      Mailer?

      Someone doesn't know his audience.

      Miller's references are usually too obscure for the average Foxite. Christ most of them go over the head of the average lefty.

      But then again, anything with "Executioner" in the title is like porn to the average righty.

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    • Author by jonesjax2374 (November 13, 2008 9:48 pm ET)
         

      I love Miller similes. No one really has that schtick. But I'm so confused. I am a liberal woman. I thought we were lacking morals and we  slept around and had all the abortions. And I thought I disliked Palin because she's not exactly a brain and embarrassed us by being nominated to pander to us, apparently now, sexless liberals. Hmmm. Gee everyone knows all women vote in a block. I say put her on the ticket next time. See how that flies. Then you can blame women again who aren't impressed. Sarah's as ambitious as Eve Harrington waiting in the alley of Margot Channing's run in AGED IN WOOD, Miller. We'll see, we'll see.

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      • Author by carlileb5935 (November 13, 2008 10:51 pm ET)
           

        I love Miller similes. No one really has that schtick.

        He's a lightweight. He just piles this stuff up. It's not hard to do.

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        • Author by neon desert (November 14, 2008 1:01 am ET)
             

          Not hard at all:

          By the way - Dennis Miller?  The guy's tune is older than Methuselah's jockstrap.  He hasn't had a fan since Acrisius locked Danae in the tower without the remote for the tv.  He sits in front of the camera like Wilhelm Piek wondering how he got there, watching the world swirl around him like smoke from his tsuge as he tries to remember how his life drifted away like a balangay on the Thames after a tsunami.  Stop me before my metaphorisis turns me into a butterfly...

          Sorry for the repost of one of my earlier comments.  But I did that one a while back, and found the experience so time-consuming yet utterly fruitless and unrewarding by the time I was done with it that the mere memory of it precludes me from writing any new ones.

          And even that feeling hardly approaches the disdain I felt from watching Miller completely ruin Weekend Update.

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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (November 14, 2008 1:48 am ET)
           

        By the way - Dennis Miller?  The guy's tune is older than Methuselah's jockstrap.  He hasn't had a fan since Acrisius locked Danae in the tower without the remote for the tv.  He sits in front of the camera like Wilhelm Piek wondering how he got there, watching the world swirl around him like smoke from his tsuge as he tries to remember how his life drifted away like a balangay on the Thames after a tsunami.  Stop me before my metaphorisis turns me into a butterfly...

        but some hack will probably rip off my pretentious post.

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        • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (November 14, 2008 1:56 am ET)
             

          Dang- that was supposed to show up before your post, Neon. I have failed.

          But I'll respond to ogg's post below, regarding the awe at virility that seems to not understand math or biology, and that I see only in real redneck-Americans and immigrants who are really "country". (and I work in construction in SoCal, so I see it).

          If you've been married for twenty years, and think you're superhuman because you've achieved pregnancy five times,then stop looking down on those who have had six abortions. They're like the catch & release, real sporting pros who are secure enough to  not  have to display every trophy they bag.

          I expect only admiration and kudos for that thought. 

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          • Author by neon desert (November 14, 2008 9:28 am ET)
               

            Kudos.  I admire that kind of thinking.

            Though, it could have been a little more "millerish" had you name-dropped obscurely such as referring to Kurt Gowdy or Roland Martin.  Even then, however, it would fail to achieve true Milleration, as the underlying thought was actually humorous.

            BTW, while your attempted prepost of my repost may have failed to stymie my pretentious hackuosity, it still works to reinforce the utter uselessness of Millerizing.

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          • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:41 pm ET)
               

            I expect only admiration and kudos for that thought.

            I am an iconoclast. You will accept my high-five and be happy with it.

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    • Author by ogg (November 14, 2008 12:01 am ET)
         

      Oh -- ick. Miller thinks that having a litter of fish kids translates to a good sex life.

      Now I know why he always gave me the screamin' creeps.

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      • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (November 14, 2008 12:06 am ET)
           

        Well, he's definitely outdone hisself...

        I've ordered an extra large, double capacity, high volume toilet, so Mr. Miller can stuff his fat head inside.

        Go Denny!!!

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    • Author by moe (November 14, 2008 6:39 am ET)
         

      Dear Mr. Miller, may I call you Denny, as in the all night diner, not that I think you two are related or anything.  Are you?

      My neighbors make a big stink-a-roo out the fact that we have a rusted out Ford pickup on blocks, a queen sized mattress, various and sundry electrical devices and seven dead cats in the yard but I rightly believe they put up a tall fence because me and the missus have a great sex life evidenced by our twelve children, two of which live in the pickup.  It’s what you call that schadenfreude thing.  They take a great deal of pleasure in our misery, which come to think of it don’t make no sense because we are rarely miserable due to our rabbit like sex life.

      Anyway, Katie Courics ambush questions of Sarah left me and the misses in such a tizzy that we didn’t have great sex for a week.  Mayor Palin did not rise to the presidency of the largest country in the United States of America by being stupid.  I mean seriously, who can name the newspapers they read, especially if they don’t read em? Let me just end by saying she is not nearly as stupid as she is made to look by the lefties and neither are you and Mr. Bill and that’s why we, particularly the missus, love you guys. 

      PS – the missus, who is preggers with 13 says hi and says you make her tingle.

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    • Author by nerzog (November 14, 2008 8:27 am ET)
         

      Just a biased observation, but it seems to me that the one thing lacking from most Right Wing humor is...... humor.

      Did anyone here bother to watch the short-lived "Half Hour News Hour"?  It was dreadful.  I haven't seen "An American Carol", but it got 97% negative ratings at Rotten Tomatoes.

      Maybe that tendency toward black and white thinking doesn't leave much room for jocularity.  After all, a lot of conservatives think Rush Limbaugh is.... funny(?).  Go figure.

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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (November 14, 2008 9:42 am ET)
           

        I'm really fascinated by right wing humor for it's constant lack of humor. The ones you mentioned, Mallard Fillmore, Redeye on Fox, all strangely lacking something that professional-type humor has.

        Much (not all) excellent humor & satire has a few things going on; some essential truth that it's built on, and often that "afflicting the comfortable" edge.Righty humor can NOT include these elements in most cases.

        Jokes about minorities, whether racial, sexual, or religious, and jokes built on ridiculous strawman foundations just don't work, except for those who are looking for BS to support their fears.

        I like to flip through the Slate.com cartoons when I have a chance, as they usually have a mix of different ideol;ogies represented.Depending on your own political leanings, you'll think some are funny, others not, but I think it's interesting how many of the conservative cartoons need to use something that's objectively untrue as their set-up.

        I was going

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        • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (November 14, 2008 9:43 am ET)
             

          I don't know where I was going.I must have had part of a thought there.

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        • Author by nerzog (November 14, 2008 11:08 am ET)
             

          Good points.  I watched the "Half Hour News Hour" once, and my impression was that they took Rush Limbaugh's stale anti-Liberal talking points and tried to make jokes out of them.  It was kind of sad, really.

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          • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:44 pm ET)
               

            Agreed. They didn't realize that they already were jokes when Rush said them.

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        • Author by Craig (November 14, 2008 1:17 pm ET)
             

          I enjoy Right Wing Cartoon Watch. Nice analysis of the good, the bad and the ugly of conservative political cartoons.

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          • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (November 15, 2008 12:47 pm ET)
               

            Thanks, Craig. I like the commentary, and put that site on my favorites.

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    • Author by wzwriter (November 14, 2008 9:37 am ET)
         
      Looking at that freeze-frame shot of Dennis Miller at the top of this story, it looks like he's preparing for his next visit to Roger Ailes' office......
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    • Author by aocasio463507 (November 14, 2008 9:42 am ET)
         

      What are these people smoking, I want some?

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    • Author by DorisRussell (November 14, 2008 9:58 am ET)
         
      I do not hate Governor Palin, I actually admire her she is a hardworking Mother of 5 kids. bless her. I felt she is unqualified to have been VP . Simple as that Miller you moron!
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    • Author by xxxxx (November 14, 2008 10:37 am ET)
         

      Not only was The Executioner's Song published in 1980, but the reference to "women on the Upper East Side" is pretty bizarre, given that the Upper East Side is the only conservative neighborhood in Manhattan. I have no idea what Rizzoli has to do with anything (or whether Mailer actually did sign books there), but, while O'Reilly helps out his viewers by explaining that it used to be a bookstore, it still is a bookstore, right there on 57th Street where it's always been. Interesting, too, that Miller equates pregnancy with satisfying sex--I guess he means it's satisfying for the guy. Miller's mouth flaps, and sounds come out, but that's about it.

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    • Author by bugsbonzai (November 14, 2008 10:47 am ET)
         

      See, the problem with this is:

      1. The subject isn't presented in a way that makes sense.
      2. It's mean-spirited.
      3. The inference that an entire cross section of tens of millions of women don't enjoy sex because of their political beliefs is blatantly misogynistic.
      4. The reference is nonsensical in terms of the subject matter.
      5. It isn't funny.

      Anyone could go to Wikipedia, do a little research, and memorize "lines" like Miller does. For instance:

      • The last time Miller was funny, The Menendez brothers were listing to Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth at a fundraiser for Tiny Tim's mayoral campaign.

      Wow, that was real hard, Dennis. Crawl back into your bunker now.

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    • Author by kilgore.trout4511165 (November 14, 2008 11:10 am ET)
         

      Sooo....why is this on MMFA?  This is obviously Miller cracking jokes and riffing on the Palin phenomenon.  Are they going to start posting Jon Stewart clips next?  It's really a stretch to consider this "news".

      By the way, he sounds kind of enebriated.  I listen to his radio show sometimes and he doesn't usually slur his speech or mangle his deliver, such as "their husbands haven't been aroused since Mailer signed copy..."  I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he has a cold and took some medication.  Also, I agree his one-note tune went stale some time before he got the ill-fated Monday Night Football gig.   He's a smart guy, he could still be funny if he tried.

      The Sarah Palin thing?  Duh, she's a gorgeous woman who's photogenic and has a rags-to-riches story.  The media love that sort of thing.  It has nothing to do with politics, she's a celebrity.

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      • Author by xxxxx (November 14, 2008 11:23 am ET)
           

        I noticed the slurring too--I said immediately when I heard it that it sounds as if he's had a stroke. Weird. I'm positive that's a recent phenomenon.

        But your question is disingenuous, as the "why is this here?" question almost always is. It's here because it's conservative misinformation, obviously.

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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:46 pm ET)
           

        This is obviously Miller cracking jokes and riffing on the Palin phenomenon.

        Actually, it isn't. Jokes, by definition, are funny.

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    • Author by greatjob (November 14, 2008 11:30 am ET)
         

      Funny or not, how is him stating an opinion (he says "to me") conservative misinformation?

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      • Author by OnceYouGoBarack (November 14, 2008 1:45 pm ET)
           

        OK.  Let's break this down.  It's

        A) Conservative

        B) Misinformation

        Any questions?

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    • Author by cpinva (November 14, 2008 11:58 am ET)
         
      the problem with the right-wing, is that they don't do comedy well. see: miller, dennis personally, i got the impression that ol' todd has to pry those legs apart. have you ever seen a pic of him? kinda creepy looking! of course, i find her kind of creepy too.
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    • Author by pithaughn (November 14, 2008 12:09 pm ET)
         

      Here's one a R winger actually spewed in public. Unbeknownst to the R winger, one of the listeners has 2 grandchildren of mixed race, so here it goes.

      Obama should pick Sylvester Stallone as his running mate, for VP.

      Uhmm, why?

      Then the ticket would be Sambo and Rambo!

      Get it? They rhyme!!

      Wow, what an awkward moment.

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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:48 pm ET)
           

        Here's one I just made up. Palin was afraid of the press, so the two VP candidates were Hidin' and Biden!

        Get it? They rhyme, too.

        I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip the veal.

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    • Author by donaldmaddog5642 (November 14, 2008 12:49 pm ET)
         

      Great duo!  A has-been on a never-was show.  This "meeting of minds" will keep Faux at the forefront of "main-stream?" news for a log time to come.  Miller's creepy comments on Sister Sarah's sex life are so numbing they defy analysis.  As for me, the thought of sex with the Marilyn Monroe of Mediocrity makes my skin crawl.  As to her "non-neurotic" sex life, how the hell would Miller know?  What does he know about neurosis?  I see a woman with an incessant insane grin who is thrilled to be noticed and worshiped by screaming fans for her gee-shucks and by-golly pronouncements of her "regular hockey-mom" mantle of "real America".  GAG!  Miller has never been funny; now he is merely pathetic.  

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    • Author by psmarc93 (November 14, 2008 1:29 pm ET)
         

      MAD MILLER LIB RESPONSE: Miller hasn't been funny since (obscure historical reference) was last asking him to (some vulgar but "trendy" activity).

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    • Author by anotheramerican (November 14, 2008 1:45 pm ET)
         

      I know it's a slow news day but hasn't MMFA jumped the shark with this one?

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      • Author by OnceYouGoBarack (November 14, 2008 1:45 pm ET)
           

        No

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      • Author by congero6189599 (November 14, 2008 2:59 pm ET)
           

        AA you have a response to your post to commonsenseliberal on the gay marriage thing and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, you gave only your religious beliefs in Support of Prop.8. Since we are all "equal" in the eyes of the law , and the courts and law are to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority, are you for repealing the 14th amendment of the constitution? 

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        • Author by foghornleghorn (November 14, 2008 3:22 pm ET)
             

          I don't think anotherunamerican realizes that just 40 years ago interracial marriages were illegal in 17 states.  He's a hypocrite blinded by his bible.  Equal protection means equal protection for EVERYBODY - gay, straight, agnostic, christianc.  anotherunamerican must not believe in the constitution and what it stands for.

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          • Author by anotheramerican (November 14, 2008 4:03 pm ET)
               

            fog,

            Your post is sophomoric name-calling, that is all.  It means nothing.

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            • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 14, 2008 4:49 pm ET)
                 

              Yours are, too, usually. They mean less than nothing.

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            • Author by foghornleghorn (November 14, 2008 6:06 pm ET)
                 

              It's not "name-calling" when its the truth.  If you don't believe in equal protection, then you don't believe in the constitution.  And if you don't believe in the constitution, then you are unamerican.  Pretty simple if you think about it.

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            • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (November 15, 2008 2:45 am ET)
                 

              Your post is sophomoric name-calling, that is all.  It means nothing.

              Actually, on this planet, Foghorn made very good points which exposed your comment as crap. Apparently that means nothing to you, and , in your mind, your comments are meaningful. That's because you're a moron AA.

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        • Author by anotheramerican (November 14, 2008 3:56 pm ET)
             

          conger,

          I replied in the other thread.

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    • Author by moondancer (November 14, 2008 5:53 pm ET)
         

      And Dennis you know this how?  Sniffing the laundry?  Peeking in the igloo?  Pathetic.

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    • Author by fantagor (November 14, 2008 6:12 pm ET)
         
      Dennis:

      You forgot the cardinal rule of comedy: go where the funny is. You are unmoored in rightwing ideologue land, a land where gay bashing is considered funny. Worse yet, your intended audience doesn't understand your arcane references to cultural touchstones of the past 3,000 years. You are shooting blanks at blank minds. Good luck with that.

      Randy
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    • Author by IKANT (November 14, 2008 6:49 pm ET)
         
      Dennis was a Pittsburgh guy who went Hollywood and then as his star began to set, found his new and perhaps last gig as defender of the neo-con world vision. His humor is now gaged to appeal directly to Fox news devotees .I find it ironic that a guy who's career was made going high brow with his quips has now resorted to pandering to the haters among us in the simplest form possible in order not to confuse them.
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    • Author by robrob (November 14, 2008 7:41 pm ET)
         

      1) Why is he talking about her sex life. Does he talk about Laura Bush that way?

      2) Liberal women are able to have a great non-neurotic sex life without pumping out a kid every other year as well.

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    • Author by jmmartin3402 (November 14, 2008 10:48 pm ET)
         

      What's so non-neurotic about every Friday night with the lights off in the missionary position?

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