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06/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Miller Emerges as New Voice for Bush Re-Election"

AT $2000 I WAS PRICED OUT: Despite the fact that I spent the night in the company of three attractive women, I think I would have rather been in Los Angeles. Dennis Miller gave a stand up routine during a Bush fundraiser. Okay, I'm not so sure I'd rather have been in LA...

Bush remained offstage until after Miller's often caustic comic performance during the fund-raiser that drew in $3.5 million, most of it in $2,000 checks from 1,600 people.

For instance, he took aim at West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democratic elder statesmen who has questioned the Iraq war and its chaotic aftermath.

Even some in the crowd of Republican loyalists booed when Miller said of Byrd: "I think he must be burning the cross at both ends."

Responding to the boos, Miller said: "Well, he was in the (Ku Klux) Klan. Boo me, but he was in the Klan."

Who were these people that booed? Democrats who walked into the wrong room?

Read on.