Miller Time No More

Digby:

I knew it was over when Bush's fawning sycophant, Dennis Miller, tried to pass himself off as a libertarian on Jon Stewart's show a couple of weeks ago. In fact, I found that little moment quite uplifting. There is nobody more trendy, more "finger in the wind," more faddish than the Rant man himself. If he's climbing off the conservative bun-boy train, then the zeitgeist has definitely shifted.

And his show's finally been put out of its misery, too.

Ha.

Dennis Miller represents the worst of America trend-voters. His whole outlook changed after 9/11, he claimed. In other words, he pissed his pants because he’s an unstable hyperreactionary and then convinced himself that anyone who was “smart” did the same thing. So he threw his weight behind Bush and his band of warmongering psychos who were all too happy to confirm the self-justifying hypothesis that abject fear was rational. Now he sees that he (or, more accurately, his vote) was used not to better protect and secure America, but to rape its land and its citizens for every ounce of resource possible, while the reprobates running the show lined their pockets with the spoils and laughed all the way to a bank in the Caymans. Oops.

So now he’s a libertarian. Bullshit. He’s a regretful sissy who didn’t bother to inform himself of the facts, preferring instead to let President Daddy take care of everything. Well, fuck you, Dennis Miller, and all the idiots like you, for being lazy and scared and complacent. There was an opportunity for each of us to be heroes after 9/11, by refusing to succumb to panic, by refusing to be terrorized, by either the plane-into-buildings sort of terrorist or the new domestic breed we find at the head of our State, who seek to inflame our worst fears and turn our cowering into their gain. You blew your chance to be smart and strong, and you mocked those of us who were. Now you’re trying to distance yourself from the Pres, but try all you might, you’re inextricably linked to him forever, and to every bit of damage he does to our country, because it was your misplacement of faith in him when you should have dug deep to find faith in yourself to not be afraid, it was your vote, that consented and empowered his darkest motives, and so the dreadful results are your responsibility, too.