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06/27/2003 Archived Entry: "Dennis the Right-Wing Menace?"

CONSERVATIVE OR NOT, HE'S DAMNED FUNNY: Comedian Dennis Miller will make his first appearance tonight on Hannity and Colmes on the Fox News Channel as a weeky contributor.

Duncan Currie says that Miller isn't a conservative but he was never as liberal as liberals liked to believe. True enough, but he was always a man of principle. I still remember a stand up he did after Adm. James Stockdale was mocked by people when his hearing aid failed during the Vice Presidential Debate back in 1992. It was profanity laced, as most Miller rants are, but he essentially blasted Americans for mocking Stockdale -- who suffered punctured ear drums while being tortured by the North Vietnamese ("f------ animals" as Miller described them) at the Hoa Lo prison near Hanoi -- while they loved Bill Clinton who had ducked the Vietnam War. It was a moving defence of an American hero.

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