In his own words...

"The thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing this ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through the hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America, yelling about having 'a bottle of Scotch and watching lots of crotch.' . . . This is the same flag we pledge allegiance to, the same flag that is draped over the coffins of dead, young, uniformed warriors killed while protecting Kid Crock's bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of this country on a rail. Now, there's you a good reality show."   -- Sen. Zell Miller    Democrats exorcize Zell Miller

Hear Zell compare the Super Bowl halftime show to the lingering smell of a skunk:    rtsp://video.webcastcenter.com/srs_g2/miller021104.rm
 

FOX HANNITY & COLMES                            

October 29, 2003 

Interview With Zell Miller

[Note:  To appreciate this interview, one must see the video.  If you don’t want to spend $29.99 plus $9.50 shipping & handling  --https://secure.fdchemedia.com/secure/fox/forms/GetShowMedia.php3  -- and wait 3-6 days to actually see the video, just use your imagination and visualize Zell snarling and barking defensively like the yellow dog Democrat he once was in yonder years, with his face contorted into a perpetual sneer with eyes shooting snake-eyed lazers of contempt.  This was not an ordinary interview.  Zell’s ad hominen, "scortched earth attack" on the Democratic Presidential candidates and the Democratic Party was "disreputable, malicious and reprehensible."  I have highlighted some of their dastardly remarks and responded with commentary in red text, with cites from other sources in blue.]                                                                                      

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                (NEWSBREAK)

HALPIN:  Welcome back to HANNITY & COLMES.  I'm Pat Halpin, filling in for Alan Colmes.

Coming up, you'll witness an historical document of horror, exclusive video of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime at work. 

And we'll go back to Geraldo Rivera for a live update from the California wildfire situation. 

But first, earlier today, Sean had the opportunity to sit down with Democratic Senator Zell Miller, who's also the author of a new book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat." 

                (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

HANNITY:  Let's talk about, we're in the middle of an election season here.  You've seen a number of them in your life.  Yes, I guess I sense your discerning objectivity in your analysis of politics here. 

You have nine guys that want to be president.  They're out there regularly attacking the current president.  I brought some quotes along with me.  I'm going to read them to you, and I want to see if I'll get your response to it, if I can. 

First of all, Ted Kennedy, leader in the Senate, said going to war was a fraud that was made up in Texas to give Republicans a political boost. 

I'm told that Wesley Clark said that the president is responsible for the attacks on 9/11.  Or had a big part to play. 

Bob Graham, who just dropped out, wanted to be president, said George W. Bush is a candidate for impeachment.  He has intentionally misled the American people. 

We have John Kerry who said the president was negligent by pushing this war. 

Dick Gephardt saying the president needs to get help.  His performance in Iraq is an abomination; he's a miserable failure. 

He was called a gang leader, or compared to a gang leader by Al Sharpton. 

Fritz Hollings says, "I can tell you categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest government in my 50 years of public service." 

These are the leaders of your party with some of the harshest rhetoric I've ever heard about a sitting president.  How does that make you feel?  

[“Harshest rhetoric?” Sheesh he’s got to be kidding?  Is this selective commentary or was Hannity too busy yammering away on his radio show to have caught the flack on Clinton?]

MILLER:  It makes me ashamed.  It's a disgrace for anyone to talk about -- talk like that in a time of war.  And I don't question their patriotism, but I certainly question their judgment.

Because this, using this war for political advantage can only give hope to our enemies.  And when you do that, that's going to cost lives. 

You know, if some of these folks have been living back to that April night in 1775 when Paul Revere came riding through, saying the British are coming, British are coming.  If Howard Dean was living back then he would have yelled out the window, "Shut up I'm trying to get some sleep in here." 

It's a disgrace. 

HANNITY:  You comment about Howard Dean in your book and you have some of your harshest criticism for him.  And you say with whom you served as lieutenant governor and governor.  "Clever, glib, but deep this Vermont pond is not."  Looks like he's going to be your nominee.   

[And Zell is as about as clean as the Atlanta sewer and waterworks.]  

MILLER:  Well, he's eating high on the hog right now.  But he's only preaching to the amen corner.  That is that already converted, very small percent of the very small 32 percent Democratic base.  He's not really running for president.  He's running for the nomination. 

When he starts trying to build a consensus you're going to see that he's going to have a very, very hard time. 

HANNITY:  You referred to these nine guys running for president as the naive nine. 

MILLER:  They all really -- There's not much difference between them.  They're like birds on a wire.  One fly off in one direction and they all go off in the very same direction. 

Dean wear a blue button down shirt and roll up his sleeves, they all wear a blue button down shirt and roll up their sleeves. 

I would say there's not a dime's worth of difference between them, but unfortunately, there's millions of dollars worth of difference between them.  Some of them want to give you a $1 trillion tax increase.  The others only want to give you hundreds of billions of dollars in tax increases.  But they all want to increase our taxes in one way or another. 

They also don't want to stay the course in Iraq, in varying degrees.  Now, they say this and they say that, but in varying degrees.  It's pretty obvious that they want to cut and get out of there.
I cannot believe that they have taken the two worst features, the worst feature of the McGovern campaign in '72 and the worst feature of the Mondale campaign in '84 -- that is anti-war, raising taxes -- and put the two together.  It is unbelievable that they would make a mistake like this. 

[What? Is Zell crazy or simply losing his mind?  David Worley, immediate past chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party, in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today 10/31/2003 writes on Zell in a guest column Miller grows more like Maddox every day, “. . .worked with you on Walter Mondale's presidential campaign and was never prouder to be a Georgia Democrat than when you gave the keynote address at the national convention that nominated Bill Clinton.”  In addition, the AJC printed excerpts frpm Zell's book, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat , "National Democratic leaders are as nervous as a long-tailed cat around a rocking chair when they travel south or get out in rural America. They have no idea what to say or how to act. I once saw one try to eat a boiled shrimp without peeling it. Another one loudly gagged on the salty taste of country ham."  The National Democratic leader eating the crunchy shrimp was Walter Mondale.  And if you've ever eaten country ham at Aunt Fanny's Cabin, you would gag too.  It was too salty!  

Back to Zell:

MILLER:  You know, Einstein said when you do the same thing over and over and hope to get a different result, you're crazy.  Einstein said that, I didn't.  But that's what they're doing. 

[Actually, Albert Einstein said this, which can be used as a metaphor for Georgia voters electing Zell time after time:]

 “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”    

Einstein on War & Peace:

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." 
“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has
been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This
disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless
brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

"Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being
should assume in time of peace,
the solemn and unconditional obligation
not to participate in any war, for any reason
or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service."

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"Albert Einstein reportedly once said that someone who keeps doing the same thing over and over, thinking they will get a different result, is insane. Einstein said it, I didn't. But it sure applies to the Democratic Party of recent vintage . . .The biggest problem with the party leadership is that they know nothing about the modern South. They still see it as a land of magnolias and mint juleps, with the pointy-headed KKK lurking in the background, waiting to burn a cross or lynch blacks and Jews." 

[For more on the "pointy-headed in the South" Ref: http://cobbnow.org/kkksu.htm  & http://cobbnow.org/bitch.htm]

And if this isn't a pot calling kettlism..."Angry and red-faced, these doom-and-gloomers need to take some "calm-me-down" pills. Over the years I've learned to beware of candidates who yell and scream and jump up and down. Usually what they're saying has so little substance they have to make up for it with histrionics. But they should realize that their overheated rhetoric is dividing the country when they should be helping unite it." [they should contact Rush Limbaugh]

HANNITY:  Well, that's what -- you write about that in the book, which makes me laugh.  [Har!]

Well, that raises a very important political question, I guess, for you.  You are a Democrat, because you were born a Democrat and you married a Democrat.  But there's a race coming and you clearly have distinct philosophical differences with all of the guys that want to represent your party. 

MILLER:  Yes. 

HANNITY:  So there's going to be an election in '04, you're going to go into the voting booth.  Who is Zell Miller going to vote for?

MILLER:  I've given this a lot of thought.  I think that George Bush is the right man in the right place at the right time.  I've heard you say that, Sean.  And I believe that.  And the way I see it is, that these next five years are going to be crucial in determining kind of world my grandchildren and great-grandchildren live in.  And I don't entrust that to any of these folks that are running out there on the Democratic side.  [Thanks Zell, them is "Deep Matermouthed thoughts"' Why are they called the right-wing?  How about the wrong-wing or the country fried wing or the sanctimonious wing, or if pigs could fly wing?] 

I'm going to vote for George Bush.  I think he's a good man.  I once said that he reminded me somewhat of Churchill.  I think he's got some Churchill in him.  He understands the history of freedom.  He knows where it came from and he's not afraid to take an aside.  I loved it whenever he looked at the American people and said we're not leaving.  That's the kind of man I want in there as commander-in-chief. 

[Churchill & Bush. HarHarHarHarHar.  Now Zell is a comedian.  No he's a liar.  Zell heard this somewhere else, and is now and often laying claim to it.  Frank Gaffney and Peggy Noonan were first to make the "Churchillian" comparison.]

And so I'm not saying that I'm going to become a Republican, but in 2004 this, this Democrat is going to vote for George W. Bush for president.
    (END VIDEOTAPE)

Bush Meets the Press
Symposium on Bush’s first prime-time press conference.

Compiled by Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO Executive Editor.
October 12, 2001 8:00 a.m.

National Review Online  http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-symposium101201.shtml

Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
President of the Center for Security Policy

President Bush's prime-time news conference last night confirmed an impression indelibly made by his address to the Congress, the nation and the world on September 20th: Against many people's expectations — including, frankly my own — Mr. Bush is proving to be a Churchill for our time.

It is not simply that our president is, like Britain's great wartime leader, the public face of the forces of good in a life-and-death struggle with an unprecedented evil. While his words have yet to approach Sir Winston's soaring rhetoric, his articulation of the dangers we confront, the sacrifices required and his resolution to prevail are decidedly Churchillian. So were the touches of humanity and humor he injected to make a bit more bearable the difficult message he conveyed.

Most striking is that, unlike last month's speech before the Joint Session of Congress — powerfully delivered by Mr. Bush but crafted by professional communicators — last night it was him and him alone who addressed us. In response to penetrating questions from the White House press corps, he conveyed unmistakably a man authentically rising to the occasion. It falls to us now to do as Churchill's people did and prove worthy of our leader.

Then former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan got into the act before Zell, also on Hannity & Colmes, saying she was struck with how, like Churchill, Bush seened imbued with special destiny.  [Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, A fair and Balanced Look at the Right, by Al Franken, p. 83]

Winston Churchill wrote, "Don't be content with the way things are.  The earth is yours and the fullness thereof." from My Early Life