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Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 2:41amSanction this postReply
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I'm not surprized Miller is familiar with this famous phrase, and it's context.

Miller used to be an unbearable cynic to me, but he's gotten much more serious over the years.



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Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 6:58amSanction this postReply
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Here's his exact quote:

"There’s a great moment in the Fountainhead when the art critic approaches Howard Roark near the building that he could have built if he had given in, and the guy said, 'I’m the one who stopped you from getting that building Mr. Roark, what do you think of me?' And he said, you know, 'I don’t think of you'.”


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Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 7:40amSanction this postReply
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Dennis Miller is a Rand fan but he is an even bigger fan of Jebus.

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Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 8:04amSanction this postReply
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Who's Jebus? Jesus? Miller seems fairly socially liberal, which is probably why he backs Giuliani.

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Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 3:50pmSanction this postReply
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Wow, I thought Miller was Jewish! 

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Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 7:02pmSanction this postReply
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Jebus

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Monday, October 8, 2007 - 5:16pmSanction this postReply
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I heard Miller’s comment on O’Reilly, and I suspect it may indicate that his actual views are much closer to Objectivism than those he explicitly endorses on his radio show.  I recently heard him agree with a caller who was spewing that noxious bromide about how God (or the fear of same) is necessary for people to behave morally.  I question whether Miller would be familiar with the Fountainhead quote if he had not engaged in some significant study of Ayn Rand’s ideas.  The likelihood that Roark’s remark made that strong an impression on him while reading the novel seems remote.  The man obviously has a keen intellect.  I have a hunch that either he agrees with Voltaire (“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”), or else he is concealing his actual (Objectivist-leaning) views to avoid being stigmatized. 


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