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Dennis Miller Endorses Herman Cain: ‘Can I Tell You How Jazzed I Am About This Cat?’

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Conservative talk show host and SNL alum Dennis Miller officially endorsed Herman Cain today on his radio program.

“Can I tell you how jazzed I am about this cat? How proud I am of him hanging in there?” Miller gushed in regards to the former Godfather Pizza CEO. “This guy’s the one who makes sense to me, he’s a sweet man, he’s not self-aggrandizing. When the results (of the Florida Straw Poll) came in, I was over the moon.”

Miller suggested an idea for Herman Cain’s next bumper sticker: “Cain Versus Not Able.”

“I’d like to thank (Dennis Miller) for his support,” Cain said on his official Twitter feed. “I look forward to working with him as we continue our journey to the White House!”

Cain has been on a roll since his strong debate performance last Thursday and his victory in the Florida Straw Poll. Miller’s endorsement is sure to add more spring to the former pizza king’s step.

Listen to Miller’s endorsement, via his radio show, below:

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  • Anonymous

    McCain to just Cain… not a bad idea

  • Hypocrisyjoe

    Remember when Dennis Miller’s thoughts were funny and relevant? Neither do I.

  • Anonymous

    A washed up hack supports Uncle Ruckus. BFD!!!

  • koolmoedee

    Republicans love to have black people run … Democrats actually make them the nominee and President

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

  • Colonel Lingus

    Holy cow, Miller’s more jazzed than he used to be on “free coke” night at Club 54 back in the 70s.

  • Michelle

    “Cain Versus Not Able.”

    HAHA love it!

  • Anonymous

    Since when – Once in the history of all mankind?   What party was the first to put a black female one of the two most senior positions of the cabinet?

  • Anonymous

    Just like Palin having the highest approval rating of any governor in the country until she dared to join a ticket running against your messiah Miller dominated SNL news segment  and had sold out concerts and tons of HBO specials and was one of the most successful comics in the country – until he dared to disagree   with the far left.  Ron Silver was a great and successful actor and was well respected, until he dared to not support Al Bore. Kelsey Gramer used to be a favorite on TV until his politics became known. Relevance is relative. To a far left hater, anyone who doesn’t bow down to their ideology is evil and should be shunned.

    Your user name is spot on.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ON4HHDYPEEDF3USYEBHZ7CJBCU potvin

    Washed up hack? Don’t cha be hatin’ on Obama again.

  • Jcrabb

    lame

  • Anonymous

    Momentum is everything, in sports, and politics.

  • Politixisadisease

    Miller… A dork leftover from snl trying to be relevant on am radio like all the other rats.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    teccec is 1000% right.  Most artistic people are liberal! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    My Friend!  Great one!  And laughing at your jokes before we have the opportunity to laugh at you – love it!

  • Michelle

    Um it wasn’t my joke, Dimwit.  Try reading the actual article.

  • Anonymous

    Dennis Miller’s endorsement could be a turning point……Maybe Miller and Cain can do a comedy special although Cain seems to be funnier than Miller…..LOL

  • Anonymous

    Condy Rice?  A woman who made a career out of agreeing with the Bush family…..you’ve got to be kidding…

  • Anonymous

    ,.. awesomee ..
    I just got a $827.89 Samsung Galaxy Tab for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HTV for only $251.92, they are both coming tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prîces at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ HTV to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for.
    I use http://alturl.com/uhcru

  • Anonymous

    ….and intolerant to other viewpoints.

  • Anonymous

    Two major cabinet positions–Colin Powell and Condi Rice. Prior to that, the democrats only named blacks to window-dressing positions, like Sec’y of Commerce

  • bubba

    that photo of dennis is from over a decade and a half ago. he’s a complete troll now. 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Dennis Miller who?? Wasn’t that the idiot who sucked on SNL and Monday Night Football?? Why does that turd thinks anyone cares what he has to say??

  • Michelle

    So if she doesn’t think like other blacks, it doesn’t count?

  • Anonymous

    On the one hand props for even knowing who the hell Ron Silver is. On the other hand after he dared lend his celebrity endorsement to Bush, he was punished by…being cast in small TV roles just like he had been for the past twenty years?

    Dennis Miller? He was the SNL news guy, a pretty good one, but still he was hardly the star of the show. His career went downhill like a lot of the SNL guys did. Ever watch that talk show of his on HBO? I don’t care what your politics were, it was bad. Still he’s made more out of it than most of them.

    Kelsy Gramer was a star on a sitcom. He got typecast into that role, again happens all the time. Name the last thing anyone from Sienfeld did other than yelling racist things in a comedy club.

    Its not a liberal conspiracy, its show business. That’s just how it works. Besides, I thought celebrities were supposed to stay the hell out of politics anyway because it wasn’t their business.

  • Anonymous

    Jeaneane Garafolo’s New Comedy CD Drops Tomorrow !!

  • L_Salazar

    James Crugnale is one lucky man…he gets to listen to Dennis Miller, then report on it.

    Miller has a great show and I catch it when ever I can.

    ls

  • L_Salazar

    No, it is someone who calls themself Leedog that we don’t care about or what they think about anything!

    Miller is at the top of his game with his radio show.

  • Colonel Lingus

    That’s great news Thelma.  This proves the economy’s improving and they’re still not giving Obama credit for it.  Oh, and I like that you got over on your boss too.

  • Glutton

    I have to admit, Herman Cain is a lot funnier than Dennis Miller.

  • Colonel Lingus

    So do Amos and Andy if you can still catch them.

  • Teabaggers are funny

    You’re happy about Dennis Miller endorsing you, really? your campaign must really be a joke.

  • Mrprogreso

    Teabaggers are teabaggers.  You, however, are a teabagee.  Logically, you are the one w/ someone’s nuts in your mouth.  Now that’s funny!

  • Anonymous

    It actually is a conspiracy.  You should read Ben Shaprio’s book, or even just listen to the interviews he recorded when all the Hollywood bigshots he was talking to thought he was a Liberal:

    http://www.amazon.com/Primetime-Propaganda-True-Hollywood-Story/dp/0061934771

    To deny it is just silly. 

    I do think that people like Miller (who says he does not want to act anymore), Silver, Willis, or Grammer are relativley safe due to the fact that they are established.  They are protected by reputation like college professors with tenure.

    The real blacklist goes on with less famous and younger talent who do not toe the Hollywood liberal line.  Shapiro recounts just such a thing when he was brought in to help write a TV show (I think Blue Bloods), got an agent, and then was dropped when the agent did some background research and found out Shapiro wrote conservative op/ed columns.   Other actors have talked about hiding their political feelings knowing if they do not hide the (R) that their careers will be greatly damaged.   Adam Baldwin (not one of the crazy ones, the cool one who played Jane in Firefly) talked about this type of stuff as well.

  • Upton

    The endorsement of a coked-out jackass like Miller means nothing! LOL

  • DMA

    What black man ran under the Republican party?

  • http://twitter.com/maggiefanelli Maggie Fanelli

    Wow, Uncle Ruckus? In reference to Uncle Remus? Congrats, Mayhem. That might be the most racist thing I’ve ever read in the comments section of this site.

  • Darladoon

    dennis miller is not funny

    comedians, by nature, cannot be republicans

  • Darladoon

    “how jazzed i am about this cat”?

    dennis, you’re white

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Top of his game? wow. 

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    You appear to be a horrible shrew. Is that true?

  • Anonymous

    I think LBJ making Thurgood Marshall Solicitor General (represents the Federal Government in cases before the Supreme Court) in 1965 wasn’t a window dressing appointment, which, of course, led to LBJ making Marshall the first black Supreme Court Justice in 1967.

  • Sidneycarton1

    “how jazzed I am about this cat” Man, I wonder if the super-hip, super-cool Dennis Miller would use the same language to provide his oh-so-valuable endorsement (this will SURELY get Cain the nomination) to Jon Huntsman or Newt Gingrich? Somehow I doubt it. Even his endorsement reveals so much about Miller. BTW, hasn’t Miller’s “sell by date” long since passed?

  • http://billschmalfeldt.com/ Parky Bill

    I suppose the thing that amuses me the most about this whole Herman Cain debate is the rank hypocrisy it shows among the Tea Party racists and the conservative punditry.  Yesterday, Cain used a barnyard epithet to describe Obama’s economic policies.  All the Tea Party blogs were AWASH in comments congratulating Cain for using straight talk to describe his comment.  Rewind to June 2010 when Obama was talking about “knowing whose ass to kick” in the BP Oil Spill debacle. The Tea Party bloggers and the conservative punditry collectively clutched their pearls and tried to direct themselves to the nearest fainting couch with a serious case of “the vapors” over the fact that this crude “street thug gangster” would USE language like that.  It’s like the Tea Party racists and the conservative punditry FORGOT we have this thing we call “the Internet” and we can SEARCH and LOOK UP the things they said before and COMPARE them to the things they say now!

    http://www.billschmalfeldt.com/?p=665

    (And hey, does this sudden Tea Party and conservative punditry embrace of a black candidate remind anyone ELSE of the old racist denial tactic of saying, “I can’t POSSIBLY be racist.   I know this guy at work.  A black guy?  NICEST guy you’d ever want to meet!”)

  • L_Salazar

    I see the liberal “Penny a Post” crowd is up this morning working at their computers.

    Hey at least you have a job, this president and his administration has put millions out of work and hasn’t a clue as to what to do to get them back working.

    Unemployment Rate:  9.1% and holding
    Black Unemployment Rate: 16.&% (Highest in 27 Years)

    Mr. President and the CBC – you are doing a lousy job.

  • Latin2

    Just like you sucked, literally, over at TVnewser….lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TSTC3MYVPLB2H3QCPSBEOZM2RE Mean Dean

    obama =  More Spending More Taxes Less Jobs Less Liberty’

    Herman Cain is the only one running smart enough to call out obama’s bullshit’

  • Tim Tebow

    To be critical is not to be intolerant.

    PRAISE THE GOOD LORD ABOVE!!!

    i say unto thee.

  • Anonymous

    Hate to risk busting your liberal fantasy bubble, but the Tea Party started as a collection of concerned citizens and speakers at rallys.  From the beginning there were black speakers at the events and they’d be cheered as much as anyone else – because, and I know it hurts you to hear this; the color of ones skin makes no friggin difference.  Its a person’s actions and their positions on public policies.  

  • Tim Tebow

    To create one tries to move forward, advance, dare i say it…progress? The province of art.

    To ‘conserve’ is to try to keep what is slipping away, to preserve what once was. It is the domain of the Church and others afraid of the future. ‘Control’ happened in the past–LIBeration is the future; a future open, and not hemmed in by some mythic past.

    ‘Pizza’ is not the future, and Miller is clearly in the past.

  • Ben Dover

    Obviously you have done very little reading here.

  • Ben Dover

    Mr. Miller has been losing his grasp of reality for a long time.  He has gone from funny, relevant, and cranky young comedian to irrelevant cranky old…..guy.  
    If you order the pizza…..it will come!

  • Ben Dover

    Well, if they are getting a Penny a Post and your are working for free, which one is smarter?

    Revising your version of history to suit your own personal views only changes the facts in your head.  That is something Donald Rumsfeld taught us.  In the end, the facts will remain static.

  • Hypocrisyjoe

    Your point is well taken. A shame it took so long to get there and was laced with such anger when it finally did. On a side note, there are classes that handle both of those issues.

  • SammyC

    Dennis Miller – Worst MNF HIRE EVER!

  • Pablo

    Right. It’s the intolerance that’s intolerant. That’s why conservative people in the entertainment industry are often closeted. You can put your genitals where another man evacuates his bowels all you like, but God help you if you believe in the free market.

  • Pablo

    Yup. He was too hip for the room.

  • Jerry Baustian

    The real story is that the GOP race is not just between Romney and Perry… that a significant percentage of Republicans were not and are not happy with that choice… and that Herman Cain is getting a serious consideration.

    A little bit of Dennis Miller goes a long way….

  • L_Salazar

    Ben

    You are out now.  I put a lot of people in jail who shared your cell.

  • TruDat

    You’re right; Democrats are the joke.

  • Guest

    Did the classes help you?

  • SammyC

    Too hip? He was too clueless when it came to football.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll be honest, I’m not going to read the book. My reading time and budget is stretched to the edge as it is. I did read through some interviews and reviews of the book and I ran across this extremely well written counterpoint(in the amazon review section of all places, this guy should really do something with his writing skills)

    http://www.amazon.com/review/R2MOIPAHOZVB5W/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0061934771&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=#wasThisHelpful

    The one thing that stuck me from an interview was his belief that the ad money was skewed towards a younger demographic because of a leftist conspiracy. It’s true older people have more money, but the reason advertiser want the young audience is because of disposable income. A person in their twenties might not make as much, but they usually spend every penny they make and are way more likely to buy based on impulse or trends. The older you get and the closer to retirement and kids heading to college the more you start saving.
    Advertising is a multi billion dollar industry. The idea that there could be a cabal of liberals running the whole thing and skewing decades of market research is out there in tin foil hat territory.
    That said yea, there is a liberal majority in Hollywood, no one would deny that. Would some of them refuse to hire a vocal conservative? Probably. But that kind of thing happens everywhere with every different group of people. It’s the act of an individual not a grand conspiracy.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a laugh riot-considering the man negatively tied to Enron, flip-flops as to whether or not he would hire Muslims to his Cabinet, supports the wars, AND the Patriot Act. Why on God’s earth anyone considers anything Dennis Miller says as rule is beyond me. What has this person done worthwhile besides being a sarcastic failed actor?

  • Anonymous

    Let us not forget that turd Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood-which was his best performance yet.

  • Jerry Baustian

    “Can I tell you how jazzed I am about this cat?”
    Miller continues to channel his inner Sammy.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Dennis Miller only got the part because Pauly Shore had prior commitments!!  =)

  • Anonymous

    Ah another in a long line of, “the great left wing conspiracy” whines.  What you seem to miss is that once Miller became a cranky, snarky commentator, he ceased to be funny, a comedian, which is what people watched.  Don’t blame the viewers if he ceased being relevant anymore.   Your threadbare conspiracy theory about the left blacklisting “entertainers” is a cop-out. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes, unlike those open-armed, inclusive righties.  Well, unless you are gay, or gay in the service of our country, or black with a viewpoint, or an educated black, or a labor person, or a teacher, or a writer, or an entertainer, or a Muslim, or a Hispanic, or………

  • Tim Tebow

    Pablo, darling…

    I refuse to inquire if it’s acceptable for you to penetrate your wife’s anus (that would be tactless), but how often does the church tolerate dissent?

    Both Hollywood (a hybrid of art and business called ‘entertainment’ that seems quite tolerant of the ‘market’) and the Church, any church, (all of which are businesses) are insular, but Hollywood is more open than your church.

    Bless you!

  • Hypocrisyjoe

    Absolutely the classes helped. I have a healthy respect for educators despite their not being “job creators”. That and education overall being at the root of many tea bag problems.

  • Pablo

    I hate to break this to you, Tim, but I’m not married and I don’t go to church. Perhaps you’re referring to yours?

  • Pablo

    What party appointed the first black Secretary of State? And the second?

  • Pablo

    I thought she made a career out of being the Provost at Stanford.

    She’s fake black, right? Because she’s not Hawaii prep school black, or Indonesia black, or Harvard black or Alinsky black or white Mama black. Like real black people.

  • Anonymous

    She was a token who never spoke up wen it would hurt her career,,,,, even after she left office she would never say what an incompetent idiot Gerorge Bush was or how he lied to start a war…..At least General Powell had the guts to admit he was duped….

  • Anonymous

    I think you’ve been watching too much Fox News…..It’s harmful to your mental health….LOL

  • Pablo

    What makes you think that? Is there something in my comment you’d like to argue with? Or are you just another pinhead who’s got the tired ass Fox News talking point down pat?

  • Anonymous

    Old news.  Someone took the wiring out of Miller’s head long ago.

  • Jerry Baustian

    Too bad Colin Powell didn’t have the guts to admit that it was his deputy, Richard Armitage, who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame. He knew long before Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed as a special prosecutor, but never said a word to the president.

    Condaleeza Rice, at least, had the temperament to be a diplomat. Powell only knew the art of self-promotion. He was Bush 43′s worst appointment, even worse than Paul O’Neill.

  • Bob

    Love ya Dennis, but a do a little research before we start stroking a guy who worked for the fed, supported tarp, and endorsed Romney in 2008.

  • Jerry Baustian

    Bob, you might want to do a bit of research yourself about the regional Federal Reserve Banks, whose board members are elected by the regional bankers and not nominated by the president. Currently there is a move underfoot to do away with the regional Feds or to give the president the power to choose their members or their regional presidents.

    As for endorsing Romney in 2008, who would you have preferred that Cain endorsed? John McCain? Give me a break! Fred Thompson? Rudy Giuliani?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BX6ROP3X36W6OQV7EQ5VGNFOFE RCL

    What a lame drone you are.  Wired to the Matrix.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BX6ROP3X36W6OQV7EQ5VGNFOFE RCL

    Art is a function of the culture not vice versa.  Art in our time is almost pure Bullshit as befits a culture which is driven by consumption and dissipation instead of inspiration and production.
    Like most “artists” you’re probably just a spoiled, ignorant brat. Far from being avantgarde “artists” today are all too common.  You may be feeling the rush of movement but you aren’t heading into the future, you’re spinning around the bowl of the moral toilet you live in.  You’re being flushed bozo.

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