Dennis Miller Rips Newsweek and Tina Brown: 'Michele Bachmann Should Not Trust the Mean Girls on the Left'
Dennis Miller on Wednesday weighed in on Newsweek's disgraceful cover of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
Speaking with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, America's favorite conservative comedian said, "Tina Brown is a mean girl" and "Michele Bachmann should not trust the mean girls on the Left" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL O'REILLY, HOST: All right. Now Michele Bachmann, now there is a person who helped herself dramatically by the first debate and cover of "Newsweek," and what do you think?
DENNIS MILLER: Yes, Tina Brown helped her a lot this week. Because Tina Brown is a mean girl. And you know what? The liberals can't wade in. The liberal men can't wade in on Bachmann, because they eviscerated Palin already, with the mashed up bag of meat stuff. So it's going to have to be the mean girl liberals. And I think they helped her out putting that cover up.
O'REILLY: So do I.
MILLER: And you know something? Michele Bachmann should not trust the mean girls on the Left as her friends because of womanhood. At this point, she'd be better off building a time machine, going back into the 60s, falling in love and touring with Ike Turner than she would trusting those women.
For those missing the mean girl reference, "Mean Girls" was a 2004 film starring Lindsay Lohan about a group of really vicious high school teenagers that were always conspiring against others in the school including themselves.
Last October, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd got some heat by using this film to demonize conservative women such as Bachmann, Palin, et al.
It therefore is nice to see this term being applied to folks on the Left like Brown who really are American politics' mean girls.
On the other hand, O'Reilly and Miller were right about this incident having helped Bachmann. With the number of liberal outlets that have come to her defense while excoriating Brown and Newsweek, the Congresswoman has now become a sympathetic figure.
This could make it more difficult for media members to attack her in the future.
Almost three years of constant bashing by the press has yet to do that for Palin.
As odd as it may seem, given the collective outrage this cover has generated, depending on how far Bachmann goes in this campaign, history could look back on this incident as a seminal event in her political career.
Wouldn't that be a delicious instant karma?
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"because they eviscerated
Submitted by Onepersonsopinion on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:54am.
"because they eviscerated Palin already, with the mashed up bag of meat stuff."
Miller is wrong here. Keith Olbermann said that in reference to Michelle Malkin
Opo
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 11:16am.
You are correct in your comment but I think you get the idea that Miller is putting forth.
Yes I do get the idea. His
Submitted by Onepersonsopinion on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 11:21am.
Yes I do get the idea. His overall position point is valid. He just made a minor error.
He's a comic and brilliant.
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:00pm.
He's a comic and brilliant. O'reilly looks foolish when he tries the reparte with Miller.
Miller doesn't pretend to be a newsman like Jon Stewart
And yet
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:15pm.
he's far more savvy, educated, and on point than Liebowitz.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
@JPT
Submitted by Samshile on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 4:45pm.
I find them fun. You look Snide when you pretend to be a cirtic. Snide is for Liberal a*h**s. Take the high ground
Why is telling it like it is,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 5:05pm.
being snide?
JPT is correct; and taking the 'high ground' may bode well for firepower initially, but often ends up as purely a defensive operation.
Defense does not win battles all by itself.
Without being as 'offensive' with offensive operations as the other side, you are a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest.
You lose.
But, at least you will feel good about yourself while doing so.
And spelling assholes a*h**s may be polite, but it is also being snide.
MD
Agreed
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:01pm.
Agreed
True.. you are Spot on...
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 11:25am.
Though the LIBERAL MEN called Palin stupid, A pretty face,.....NOT ready for prime time..... there was the Charlie Gibson interview where he dismissed her with his gestures and facial expressions.. and Katies Courics interview where she used Gotcha questions to make Palin look bad. The MEAN GIRLS analogy is valid I add Tina Brown to Katie and the other LIBERAL WITCHES that INTENTIONALLY attempt to damage CONSERVATIVE WOMEN but heap praise on their fellow LIBERALS!
A typical LIBERAL NEWS CAST would go something like this..... Today Sarah Palin (Or Michelle Bachmann) saved two baby seals from certain death.... WHILE ALLOWING 100 MORE (200 miles away) TO DIE NEEDLESSLY........ Today Barbra ("Call me Senator") Feinstein ate 3 babies and toddler.... ISN'T THAT ADORABLE...............
LIBERAL MEAN BOI/GIRL MEDIA=HYPOCRITES!!!
The magazine of waiting rooms everywhere...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 11:57am.
...at the most has a million subscribers, mostly doctors and dentists offices.
No conservative or Republican should ever agree to an interview with Newsweek.
They do it....
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:17pm.
....out of allegience to Hillary Clinton. They want to select the first woman president because they think they represent women. Michele is far smarter, far more compassionate, better qualified and a lot easier on the eyes then Hillary Clinton could ever be, and I think Tina Brown and the rest of the mean girls klan know it and are pulling out all the stops to prevent it.
Tina Fey, the writer of Mean Girls,
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 6:07pm.
is probably getting a cease and desist over for using that movie as a reference.
Miller?
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 6:59am.
Comedian is a generous label. Miller hasn't been funny since 1986.
Miller is certainly an
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 10:38am.
Miller is certainly an acquired taste. I find him hilarious, I suppose, because I understand his references to history, literature and politics. I can follow his fast paced rants and enjoy the fact that I can laugh as hard at his style of humor as I do with with Larry the Cable Guy. I love that he loathes Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and he beats on those two zombies with unparalleled passion. I watch O’Reilly only to watch Miller, because part of the comedy is watching O’Reilly try to follow Miller. It’s like watching a rusty Studebaker trying to keep pace a Shelby Cobra…
JPT - Larry the Cable Guy?
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 1:35pm.
Larry the Cable guy? Come on that can't be true. Toilet humor at its most boring. He's not even a redneck. Laughing at Larry the Cable Guy is like "rooting" for WWE wrestlers. Doesn't get more fake than that. You do realize he's a fraud, right? Don't believe me? Check him out before he went redneck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqm-vKWEkoU
what's your point...
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 4:33pm.
What’s your point? Can you possibly get further off topic? You find Miller unfunny for reasons unstated; I don’t give a crap why you don’t find him hilarious, except it makes it more likely you don’t “get it”. As to Larry the Cable Guy, I don’t care if he was born to privileged parents with a trust fund and a platinum spoon up his ass. His routine is funny and he’s good at improv which means, he’s no fool. He found a legal niche, and made a fortune at it. You call that “fraudulent” – I call it being an entrepreneur. I admire the hell out innovation, invention and the capitalist sprit. Apparently you don’t. My point, which apparently you missed, was to illustrate contrasting styles e.g.: an intellectual who lays waste to political foils and who can make a reference to Dante’s Inferno and make it funny and, in contrast, redneck walkin’-farts humor. I like both if delivered well.
You don’t find Miller funny – yeah, so?
You think Larry is a fraud – yeah, so?
I’ll rate some “comedians”(libs)
Maher: Condescending and obnoxious. Thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and will remind you of that. His writing staff likely are a bunch of card carrying constipated athiest, who were hired on the spot not because they could write, but because they told Maher, they hated religion. Maher acts like a misogynist, and looks like a child molester in an 800 suit. Funny scale: 2% (the “even a blind squirrel” analogy). One of the few people who, if I met him again, I might put my fist through the back of his skull.
Jon Stewart: He too thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but employs good writers and delivers his lines well. Funny scale: 40%. His take on Rick Sanchez being a Ron Burgundy dope, was one of the funnies bits - ever.
Joy Behar: Is she a comedian or just funny looking like a misshapen jacko-lantern? Funny Scale: 0%
Robin Williams: I know…is he still alive? Usually funny and quick on his feet. Used to be great with the physical comedy. Funny scale: 60%
Woopi Goldberg: Not once I have I found anything that retard said, did or attempted, funny. Funny Scale 0%
David Letterman: The most overrated, pedantic ass on TV. His top 10 lists are the most obnoxious and consistently unfunny bits on late night. Why people laugh at them is a mystery to me. I think it may be a product of “If I don’t laugh people will think I didn’t get it”. Well "they" didn't actually "get it", because the bit is rarely funny (as fractions), and never in total. Funny Scale: 3% ( right above the blind squirrel gage).
In summary I think Miller is brilliant and hilarious. You don’t… so what – move on.