(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
Reciting some of the commentary/jokes he's told on his HBO
show Dennis Miller Live, the comedian who has been doing color
commentary on ABC's Monday Night Football put the security and
safety of Americans ahead of the civil rights concerns of
the ACLU. Some of the politically-charged humorous observations he
recounted on the June 18 Tonight Show with Jay Leno:
• “Of course we have to profile people. We live in some weird
time now where we're all trying to convince each other that we
shouldn't profile people. When 19 out of 20 people are from a
certain country, and they blow up the two biggest buildings in
your country, if you don't start looking at people who are
visiting here from that country, you're not being open-minded.
You're being dead. Okay?”
• “We have got to get it together and understand that this
country, people say it's not the American way to infringe on civil
liberties. Well it's not the American way to rollover for punks
either. We've got to start [defending ourselves against] these people because
they don't care about us. They live for one reason and one reason
alone and that is to kill you and I. There's no half way in the al
Qaeda. There's no al-Kindas, okay. These people just care about
our demise.”
• “And you know something, the American Civil Liberties
Union, when they come out and say you never profile anybody who
gets on an airplane… I say we create a new airline, called the
ACLA, the American Civil Liberties Airline, where you don't check
anybody, you don't ask any questions, and let those morons fly on
that one, okay? The rest of us want to be protected.”
• “Guantanamo Bay, are these people being treated fairly?
Let's be serious folks. Guantanamo Bay is about as far as our
Western sensibilities will allow us to descend as far as putting a
prison together. No, you know, it's no joy ride, but, you know,
that being said, if you put the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison
outside of Kabul it would be their Epcot.”
