Fox News Laughability Index - High
Late last night, flipping around. I run into what I thought was MadTV. It was not, being FOX News. They must be trying something other than doom and gloom, with a MadTV twist. They delivered their lines with slapstick gestures and vocal exagerations. Then they cut to Dennis Miller, and nope, it was the same old FOX. What a bucket of piss and vinegar, that guy.
Not that FOX didn't cease being a news outlet, say, since inception, but this laughable high marks a new low.
Miller ranted about the Iraq war in his mock serious trademark whine, and I still had to consider if this was a joke? On Memorial day weekend? No, worse, a political attack, using US soldiers as the foil with which to belittle Democrats. Par for the course with those jokers at FOX. He conflated the multi-faced Iraqi insurgents with worldwide Islamic terrorists, when everyone can see it's more complicated than that description allows. Ignoring that nontrivial distortion, Miller goes on to use this ruse to lampoon the 'Congressional Democrats' as signing off on a date to end the war in Iraq, intimating they didn't understand the conflict that was, in his eyes, a monumental conflict of good versus evil; and further suggesting Congress's desire to end the Iraq War is somehow mockable in it's method - the only method Bush will heed, as he has certainly ignored the will of the people to date. Millers sophistry aside, his willingness to serve as an administration stooge is damnable.
I'm not sure what to make of this, but his bit was short on logical, and long on ideological, leaps of faith. I think it's safe to say Dennis Miller should stay where he is, on FOX making someone (not me) laugh. His use as a tool of the right to blend and blur the narrative on Iraq as it suits is sad and discouraging. That he would appear on Memorial Day to make inane conmments on such a weighty matter is downright gross.