Psycho Miller: They Can't Seem to Face Up to the Facts
Qu'est-ce que c'est? He makes those Bush twins look good! And just as the Bushistas claim that Psycho Miller's speech wasn't approved by the GOP...
... it turns out that's not what Uncle Karl said Wednesday night!
by Tamara Baker

Sept. 3, 2004 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (apj.us) -- Andrew Sullivan -- that's right, Andrew the Barebacking Tory Moralist SULLIVAN -- says it better than I can:

Zell Miller's address will, I think, go down as a critical
moment in this campaign, and maybe in the history of the
Republican party. I kept thinking of the contrast with the
Democrats' keynote speaker, Barack Obama, a post-racial,
miling, expansive young American, speaking about national unity
and uplift. Then you see Zell Miller, his face rigid with
anger, his eyes blazing with years of frustration as his
Dixiecrat vision became slowly eclipsed among the Democrats.
Remember who this man is: once a proud supporter of racial
segregation, a man who lambasted LBJ for selling his soul to
the negroes. His speech tonight was in this vein, a classic
Dixiecrat speech, jammed with bald lies, straw men, and hateful
rhetoric. As an immigrant to this country and as someone who
has been to many Southern states and enjoyed astonishing
hospitality and warmth and sophistication, I long dismissed
some of the Northern stereotypes about the South. But Miller
did his best to revive them. The man's speech was not merely
crude; it added whole universes to the word crude.

Sullivan was not the only conservative pundit shaking his head over Miller's speech.

David Brooks and David Gergen were openly aghast, talking in stunned voices about how the GOP convention is not about the future, but the past, and how Miller's speech condensed everything about the convention -- and the desires of the Republicans -- into one ugly, hate-filled speech.

And this was before Miller challenged Hardball's Chris Matthews to a duel late Wednesday night.

No, I did not make that up.

Miller, after having the basic underpinnings of his speech debunked by media analysts, totally lost whatever self-restraint he had left and repeatedly challenged Chris Matthews to a duel (). The TV people were embarrassed for him, he was making such an ass of himself. He almost made the Bush twins look good -- and their appearance at the convention was considered its low point, up to now.

As Sullivan notes, the contrast between the hopeful and intelligent Barack Obama and the half-crazed-with-hate-and-fear Miller could not have been any plainer. The Republican leadership has given up trying to be "moderate" and is now in a desperate effort to use naked, brain-killing fear and senseless rage to sway voters. It's pure craziness.

And just when you thought it couldn't get any more bizarre -- or funny -- the Bushistas are now claiming that nobody in the Republican party authorized Zell "Psycho" Miller's crazed speech Wednesday night.

There's only one problem with this effort to distance themselves from their own keynote speaker: It's a lie!

Here's what Karl Rove said on PBS' NewsHouse Wednesday night -- the same night that Psycho Miller did his Cujo routine -- about the Republican National Convention:

JIM LEHRER: There's been much made, of course, not only this
convention but also with the Democrats in Boston about how ever
word uttered by everybody is pretty closely edited and monitored.
Do you do that? Does your office do that here?

KARL ROVE: No, there's official proceedings which reviews those.
That's not new, incidentally. I think that's been around since
the '60s.

They can't seem to face up to the facts... hmmmmm... is that a Tina Weymouth bass riff I hear?

Why, yes, yes it is.

He can't seem to face up to the facts.
He hates how Democrats are nice to blacks.
Can't speak 'cause his head's on fire --
DON'T touch him, he's a real bad liar!

Psycho Miller, que'est-ce que c'est?
Fa fa fa fa, fa fa fa fa FA fa better
Run run run, run run run awaaaay...