Faux Ticked with Dennis MILLER Over Defection to CNBC

"I don't think he'll have as many viewers as he had on "Hannity & Colmes," but we'll figure out some way to fill those three minutes and move on." ----------Snarf snarf-------LOL!

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http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-p2kitman3536600nov12,0,5682258.column?coll=ny-features-print

.... Miller's abrupt departure from Fox News, where he had provided weekly essays for "Hannity & Colmes" also was a dangerous move - for Miller, that is. FNC has never been particularly shy about blasting defectors, and when Miller called late one afternoon last month to say he had accepted the CNBC offer, Fox executives were stunned. They quickly iced the last seven essays he was under contract to write (Miller says there were only three left), and neither party has spoken since.

"Frankly, when we deal with talent we usually have better conversations before someone leaves," says Kevin Magee, FNC's vice president of programming. "I don't think he'll have as many viewers as he had on "Hannity & Colmes," but we'll figure out some way to fill those three minutes and move on." Miller, too, is eager to move on and make up. He said he took the CNBC offer (which originated from NBC Entertainment chief Jeff Zucker) because he had "never heard" from Fox about whether the network wanted to keep him beyond this year. "I figured there was no interest there."

Of Fox News' famously feisty boss, Roger Ailes, he says: "I like Roger. He makes me laugh."
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Dennis heard the cash register!

Wonder what the going price on political whores is these days?

Well, really there are so many political whores these days, you can get them dirt cheap. They are really convienent, frankly.

Bryant
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do I detect a pattern here?! I actually have a quote of Dennis' on my office door: "Last week, President Bush proposed a budget that has large cuts in job training and highway improvement. Makes sense -- who needs roads when you don't have a job to go to?" I've kept it up as a reminder to all the repukes around here that Miller is just another sell-out.

for a right-wing whore when you are willing to make a "better offer" to steal away the "punditic stylings" of a Dennis Miller?

When I hear news like this it seems to me that the fascist wave must be hitting its crest. The "conservative commentary" fad is being pursued to an absurdity. Every outlet has to have its little Limbaugh or O'Reilly, just like every network had to have its stupid little "Friends" or "ER" rip-off six or seven years ago. We'd all know what happened to them... if we could remember their names.

Anybody remember the movie "Mac and Me"? The Dennis Miller of ET rip-offs. Mac even liked himself M&Ms or some other candy that looked just like Reese's Pieces, but wasn't.

It may be too early yet to tell, but perhaps the right-wing has finally managed to saturate public discourse to the point of surfeit. Ann Coulter seems to be much less in demand than formerly; I can't believe Limbaugh will pull the same audience he drew before, because I doubt the drug revelation won him any new listeners and I think at least a few of his former fans must have been put off at discovering that their fat aryan idol had no more self-control than that cadillac-driving food stamp queen that everyone's brother's cousin or whoever it was saw at the Acme (or the Giant Eagle, or the Piggly Wiggly) that one time.

In short, if the networks are now reduced to fighting with each other over the likes of Mr. "I'd never sell out and do commercials until my career was in the toilet and then I'd whore for the phone company and then after THEY fired me I'd do inane commentary for the NFL and then after THEY fired me I'd whore for the same right-wing I formerly claimed in my 'ultra-hip and super-referential' fashion to
despise" Dennis Miller, they must be desperate indeed.

Françoise

I accidentally flip through cnbc less than I do faux.