Friday, January 19, 2007

Fox Unemployment Assistance Program

I haven't seen Dennis Miller in a while. But flipping through Fox News tonight I saw him ranting about the incident in San Francisco in which the Yale Baker's Dozen a capella all-male group got caught in unfortunate attack by some local males.

The Yale Herald says no one knows quite what happened, but since a parody of the National Anthem was sung Sean Hannity and Dennis Miller have decided that it was a San Francisco anti-patriotism beating.

While there are several versions of the story still swirling around, Dennis Miller's rants were neither funny nor satirical. Mostly, they were just sad and attempted to support Hannity's stand on the issue. Hannity's points are rarely based on reality and this one seems no different since the "National Anthem" ended with lines about beer drinking and was obviously meant as a joke. However by the end of the rant he'd been able to insult all of San Francisco and blame the whole thing on Nancy Pelosi.

Dennis adds nothing to the national discussion on this the newest act of violence in America. He neither breaks the tension with humor nor shows us insights with poignant jibes. It's just hate mongering and boorish at best.

Were it not for Fox News Dennis would be slumming at the nearest John Birch bar. Thank goodness for Roger Ailes and the Fox unemployment assistance program.

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