By the way...

Here's Miller's quote from the SNL episode in 1993:

"Now I know Stockdale's name has become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including our present President (Clinton), did not want to dirty their hands with. The reason he had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate is because those fucking animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television."

What more topical defense of Stockdale could be made that would "get through" to contemporary youth culture... I will never know.