Hey, who’s that next to Scott Hennon?

This from Media Bistro:

Here is the memo from prez Mark Hoffman:

"I wanted to let you all know that we will be expanding our signature Business Day programming up to Primetime on the East Coast and will be adding an additional airing of "Mad Money with Jim Cramer" at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

We will be introducing a new Business Day program at 7 p.m. ET sometime in the Third Quarter. I will share additional details about this program in the coming weeks.

As the Business News Leader, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that our influential, out-of-home audience has access to our signature Business Day programming throughout their business day from coast to coast.

I have spoken with Dennis Miller about these plans and he has let me know that his strong preference is to leave his program immediately. Therefore, the final episode of "Dennis Miller" will air this Friday, May 13"
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Dennis Miller didn’t stop being funny because he got conservative. As long as no one tries to sell me on the ludicrous idea that the current New World Ordure Party now being fronted by The Horse Masturbator and The Amazing Mono-Colored Christettes have anything whatsoever to do with Original Republican Conservative values, hell, we can have a beer and talk. And if your thinking runs along those lines, and you're funny, shit, I'll laugh. I'll laugh and buy you another round, becase funny is funny.

No, Dennis Miller pulled the feeding tube on his sense of humor the day he stopped “sticking it to the man”. Or, rather, when he just decided “it” was his highly-marketable tongue and “the man” was The Unblinking Brown Eye of Dick Cheney.

He stopped being funny when the mad, post-9/11 tide swept him up on to a strange shore, populated by Falwells and Roberstons, Coulters and Hannitys, and he chose to stay long after he could have seen their True faces and real motives if he actually was the honest scrutinizer of and commentator on the Establishment that he always positioned himself to be.

He lost it when he forgot the basic truth of real humor: that the strong, the privileged, the Powerful beating up on the weak isn’t funny. Curb-stomping the fragile and laughing about it isn’t funny. Joining the same Media Thug Army where Rush Limbaugh made Brigadier General by whipping the poor, the lame and the halt is not something to be proud of.

Then again, that Karma Train does go the full 360 faster than we ever think it will, eh Chachi?

Turns out people who think that footage of a US Soldier blowing the head off a bleeding prisoner is just, plain ROTFLM funny, and pictures of Iraqi men being beaten and electrocuted are positively the Swiftean apex of humor may not have been the Optimal Target Market for the “Two Phenomenologists walk into a bar” stuff.