{"id":344,"date":"2004-01-15T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-06-11T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T15:44:03","slug":"i-have-a-psychic-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Rod Steiger&#8217;s <i>dream journal<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a psychic twin and his name is Dennis Miller.  Although I would never think to say something like, &#8220;To me Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger&#8217;s dream journal&#8221;.  <i>Rod Steiger&#8217;s dream journal<\/i>.  That is funny to me on such a deep level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/15\/arts\/television\/15MILL.html?ex=1074747600&#038;en=453ca59b13001290&#038;ei=5062&#038;partner=GOOGLE\">Great piece on Miller in the New York Times<\/a>, discussing his conservative transformation after September 11.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with all that he says &#8211; and better yet, I love what he says, because it is done with wit. I also would never ever ever think to call John Madden &#8220;the Pliny the Elder of football announcers&#8221;.  WHAT?? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People say I&#8217;ve slid to the right.  Well, can you blame me? One of the biggest malfeasances of the left right now is the mislabeling of Hitler. Quit saying this guy is Hitler.  Hitler is Hitler. That&#8217;s the quintessential evil in the history of the universe, and we&#8217;re throwing it around on MoveOn.org to win a contest. That&#8217;s grotesque to me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think abortion&#8217;s wrong, but it&#8217;s none of my business to tell somebody what&#8217;s wrong.  So I&#8217;m pro-choice. I want to keep my nose out of other people&#8217;s personal business. I guess I fall into conservative when it comes to protecting the United States in a world where a lot of people hate the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everybody should be in the protection business now.  I can&#8217;t imagine anybody not saying that. Well, I guess on the farthest end of the left they&#8217;d say, `That&#8217;s our fault.&#8217; And on the middle end they&#8217;d say, `Well, there&#8217;s another way to deal with it other than flat-out protecting ourselves.&#8217; I just don&#8217;t believe that. People say we&#8217;re the ones who make them hate us because of what we do. That&#8217;s garbage to me. I think they&#8217;re nuts. And you&#8217;ve got to protect yourself from nuts.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/15\/international\/middleeast\/15MIDE.html\">like NUTS<\/a>.  You don&#8217;t need to understand why NUTS hate you because they are not rational and they are NUTS.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Miller is my psychic twin and that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>But still &#8211; <i>Rod Steiger&#8217;s dream journal<\/i>??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a psychic twin and his name is Dennis Miller. Although I would never think to say something like, &#8220;To me Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger&#8217;s dream journal&#8221;. Rod Steiger&#8217;s dream journal. That is funny &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38529,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/38529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}