Thoughts on the Tapper - Miller interview?

[brainpanhandler]

Why is Miller wearing an earpiece? I don't watch enough network news interviews to know whether that is standard or not for an on set, in person interview.

I have seen Miller before and thought his demeanor was awkward and untrained at best or indicative of a severe sociopathy at worst, but this interview is 'grotesque', to borrow a term from Miller. I'm less interested in the content and more interested in his halting, unnatural speech patterns, facial expressions (contortions), nervous ticks, repetitions, strange eye movements and all around Bizaro-world-Steven-Wrightness.

[82_28]

Nice to see you bph.

Well, since I have spent almost half of a year being somewhat disabled and trapped on a bed or couch, I have had more than my fill of television news and thousands of on show appearances, I am an involuntary expert. So, as to the earpiece, no I have never seen a one. You see them understandably on the hosts of course but never on the guest. The guest comes to speak as an insider for whatever topic. Thus, he was being monitored much like the head ref in an NFL game is now being monitored in realtime by his bosses in NY via headset.

CNN should not only reveal any footage the cameras may have captured of Miller eventually getting "escorted" out by security, but the conditions of the interview in the first place. Such as, "Miller must be wearing an earpiece". And if so, was it just jacked into a cellphone or were there white house "handlers" in the wings watching intently prodding him to act as he did? Or maybe, just maybe, Tapper and everyone else knew exactly what the earpiece meant and agreed to it because of which. Which could be exactly why Tapper said that his audience was one person and he knew exactly who it was.

“You’re being obsequious, you’re being a factotum in order to please [Trump].”

Thus, that earpiece could have been straight to trump and trump alone and wasn't so much a dig at the overall public secret hidden in plain sight.

[Elvis]

I find myself asking, "What drug is he on?" He's a little heavy-lidded there...prescription opioids?


To add: A somewhat "disappointng" performance from Miller, overall. Which is a good thing.

[brainpanhandler]

...that earpiece could have been straight to trump...

I think that is plausible. I think in Trump's tiny little brain it is always best to be on the offense, so he dispatched one of his most servile minions to go on the attack, but his ego required him to control the message and so he wanted to be able to direct Miller's talking points in real time. Can you imagine trying to coherently respond in an interview with Trump babbling in your ear?

Regardless, clearly the earpiece was there to assist Miller. It seems to me that the earpiece could have been wireless and so small that it would not have been noticeable. Why make it so clear and obvious he was wired? Was that a condition CNN insisted on in order for him to use it?

[Jerky]

The Secret Service probably denied Trump's request to use their best miniaturized stuff for such a media enterprise, so Trump and friends had to go with the top of the line "wireless" (from transmitter to receiver anyway) device from The Spy Store, which comes with a wired-in ear-bud.

Or maybe Miller just likes looking like a Secret Agent Man.

Boy, he sure had his ass handed to him though. Massive consensus on Twitter (discounting Russian bots) was that he got slaughtered. I'm also noticing a LOT more anti-Trump replies appearing in Trump's tweets these days. The astroturf bots and True Believers are getting drowned out by a grassroots uprising.

J

[brainpanhandler]

I find myself asking, "What drug is he on?" He's a little heavy-lidded there...prescription opioids?

Indeed. I did a cursory search for videos of Miller speaking to see if he has always been this way and it does seem that he has a drugged sort of way of being. Possibly opioids. Possibly a sedative mixed with an upper; a benzodiazepine/amphetamine speedball of some sort.

To add: A somewhat "disappointng" performance from Miller, overall. Which is a good thing.

He's a thoroughly unsympathetic persona... wooden and awkward. I should think even hardcore Trump supporters would be put off by this weirdness, even if only subconsciously. But this is apparently the best the administration can do.

Almost makes me want to believe in reptilian shapeshifters.

[brainpanhandler]

Boy, he sure had his ass handed to him though.

Who will even be willing to do this for the Trump admin anymore? I mean it takes a strange combination of characteristics to do this and be even as minimally "successful" as Miller was in this interview.

[stillrobertpaulsen]

I'm less interested in the content and more interested in his halting, unnatural speech patterns, facial expressions (contortions), nervous ticks, repetitions, strange eye movements and all around Bizaro-world-Steven-Wrightness.

How does a kid from Santa Monica learn to pronounce the word dynasty "dinn-asty"? The Bush Dinn-asty? The Clinton Dinn-asty? How cosmopolitan is that?

Loved how Tapper said in a soft voice, "calm down...calm down." Got Miller to unclench that coke-jaw just a bit.

[Elvis]

How does a kid from Santa Monica learn to pronounce the word dynasty "dinn-asty"? The Bush Dinn-asty? The Clinton Dinn-asty? How cosmopolitan is that?

Interesting catch, there. Maybe he's been watching old episodes of "House of Cards" or somesuch.

coke-jaw

That nails it. Cocaine is another possibility.

[norton ash]

Miller seemed like a robot sent forward to defuse a bomb. It just had to recite the data being fed into its ear, reject interruption, and then get remote-controlled back out of the danger zone with its mission unaccomplished.

[Burnt Hill]

I think that as as post/pubescent 8th grader Miller was unable to cope with feeling of love for his hispanic friend.
Those unrequited feelings were transferred/channeled into his nationalist politcal drive -
which served to literally protect him from his feelings of male hispanic love.- and rewarded him with attention.
Considering this man will probably never have some basic human needs met,
and he has access to some power - he could be considered seriously dangerous.

[Jerky]

Wow. Good catch. Said "love" needn't even be of the sexual variety to be consequential.

Looking at Miller, one DEFINITELY gets a sense of emotionally turbulent distortion.

J

I think that as as post/pubescent 8th grader Miller was unable to cope with feeling of love for his hispanic friend.
Those unrequited feelings were transferred/channeled into his nationalist politcal drive -
which served to literally protect him from his feelings of male hispanic love.- and rewarded him with attention.
Considering this man will probably never have some basic human needs met,
and he has access to some power - he could be considered seriously dangerous.

[stillrobertpaulsen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9udOgvVwcE

[Belligerent Savant]

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The OP clip showcases two actors performing on an entertainment network.
Any 'psychoanalysis' or interpretation of said performance is the equivalent of dissecting a movie scene between two actors.

There is nothing of substance to extract here.

[stillrobertpaulsen]

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The OP clip showcases two actors performing on an entertainment network.
Any 'psychoanalysis' or interpretation of said performance is the equivalent of dissecting a movie scene between two actors.

There is nothing of substance to extract here.

That would explain why Pauly Shore found it so attractive.