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♪ got cat style ♪ ♪ don't cross my path ♪ >> stephanie: 23 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. jim, this just in from george slaughter, our friend, the producer of laugh-in on presidential comedy. now, it is totally unprecedented, unpresidential for a president to do a comedy show. >> there was something on thirty rock. >> stephanie: eric boehlert in the sidecar. allison on fox and friends. >> presidential election is shaping up to be a battle between a vision of freedom some would say and a vision of entitlement. >> it is going to be a clear

choice come november, isn't it? >> what? what the hell! >> freedom versus entitlement? >> you mean freedom versus a safety net? >> we were all laughing. i guarantee you some say refers to someone who said it on fox 40 minutes earlier. >> someone who wrote it on the page of the post. >> i think this clip was from "straight news story." news segment on fox news. media matters has documented this endlessly. on the news segments, they refer to some people are saying something awful about obama and something refers to the opinion shows on fox news. it is a very closed and loud loop they run over there. >> stephanie: exactly. michelle on the fox news. >> i judge him on his record because it is not just the republican base that has come to realize that barack obama is far

from a nice man. people who have nothing to do with partisan politics who have seen the viciousness and the brutality of this administration. in crushing both its political opponents and otherwise. >> stephanie: he was brutal. >> i think that was the same show where she refused to say anything nice about him. i think neil cavuto said say something nice about the president as a man and she was brutal. if he weren't so brutally crushing, maybe she should find something nice to say. >> he was brutal to osama bin laden. >> stephanie: yes, that's true. eric, i was once pressed on that during the bush years. i was able to say he was very, very good for the effigy business. [ applause ] somebody -- they made effigies of the george w. bush that needed to be burned.

>> good example of how we talk about the obama derangement syndrome. yes, people hated bush. he launched an awful war. but this is beyond -- they take it so personally. they internalize everything that there's nothing she can say about president obama as a man that would be nice because she thinks -- she can't think of anything. he's a human being. there's nothing he does. >> not even that he's a good father. >> no. >> probably accuses -- >> stephanie: good singer. come on, give it up. eric boehlert, see you next week honey. thank you. there he goes. [ applause ] you know why they have to do this? >> why? >> stephanie: because their candidate is a douche. mitt romney. etchy sketchy as we call him. ♪ ♪ they were afraid to come out and support him ♪ ♪ they were ashamed of their new candidate ♪ ♪ they were reluct apt to vote for a mormon ♪

♪ the one they had to nominate ♪ ♪ who's the one they love to hate ♪ ♪ it was that etchy sketchy wishy-washy flippy floppy mitt romney the one they have today ♪ ♪ richy richy mitt ♪ [ applause ] >> stephanie: our good friend in asheville north carolina. hi! >> caller: good morning, everyone. >> who is wearing an itsy-bitsy polka do the bikini. >> later on. >> you have once again inspired me to get back in action -- i wouldn't normally take. i'm having a meet the candidate party at my house a local progressive show. i'm an elderly set in much like

yourself. >> stephanie: owner of the elitist restaurant. >> i have disturbing news also. >> stephanie: okay. >> speaking of snobby and elite. the dollar horse that i rescued. >> stephanie: yes. >> my riding instructor, i have one because i did not want to kill myself or him. >> stephanie: yes. >> came over with beginning dressage. >> oh, no! >> now you're really an elitist. >> it was like he was holding a coiled snipe. but today i hope he's successful. thanks again for your inspiration to all of us, especially all of us here in rural north carolina. >> stephanie: well, i'm happy as a dancing horse. >> i like that. [ applause ] >> stephanie: 25 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show."

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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. [phone ringing] >> hello. just a minute. dick, are you in? >> i'm always in for dick. >> that's not what i hear. >> stephanie: that's an old drop. this is "the stephanie miller show." 34 minutes. that was from my radio show in the '80s. 1-800-steph-12 toll free from anywhere. mel in los angeles, hey, mel welcome. >> caller: hi, steph. first time caller. long-time listener. >> stephanie: yes. >> caller: i just wanted to point out it seems like the media is not mentioning anything about great britain being in a double dip recession. like the paul ryan plan.

>> stephanie: their austerity plan. >> caller: it is mind boggling to me and how over there but yet fox wanted to point out that spain is on the precipice of going over you know because they're socialists. >> stephanie: yeah exactly. exactly. brenda in california. >> shock doctrine. >> stephanie: hello brenda. hi brenda. brenda. >> caller: hi. >> stephanie: there you are. clear, go ahead. >> caller: hi, stephanie. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: hi. i want to talk about the economy. for the past three years of the republican congress has stalled and just blocked everything that the president has put forth as far as healthcare and for jobs. now during an election year, they're yelling about ooh, look at the economy. look at the economy. it is lousy. don't they know the american people have seen through the

past three years what they have done. i don't understand where they're coming from with this. >> stephanie: exactly. the boehner, i love this. boehner attacks obama then denies it. he listed the ways obama is diminishing the presidency. he buffett rule that most americans, the vast majority of americans are for. manipulation in the oil markets without one shred of evidence. then they pick the student loan fight. where there is no fight. he didn't pick a fight. he wants the loan rates you know, to not double and mitt romney supports it and then they have to turn around. >> and backtrack. >> stephanie: that was the president picking a fight? okay. all right. let's see. candy crowley asked how many days does boehner wonder if he wanted the job. >> i think she called him boehner. >> stephanie: probably.

he probably wishes he could -- >> the tavern. >> stephanie: did you see jimmy kimmel's joke on the feud between boehner and kantor. they couldn't agree on the wording of a ransom note. more from jimmy kimmel. >> president obama wanted to move the dinner to the kennedy center but the republicans wanted to keep it here at the hilton so they compromised and here we are at the hilton. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: let's go to maria in chicago. hi maria welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. how are you? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i want to make a point about how the republicans always say we need to give tax cuts to the job creators is a they'll create jobs. when we had the collapse of the -- the financial collapse in 2008, didn't the job -- some of the job creators get like $790 billion? >> stephanie: you're talking about lehman brothers.

>> caller: didn't wall street get like $16 trillion they defrauded allegedly out of the country? >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: so how many jobs were created the month after that, the six months after that. let's take six months. oh wait, weren't we losing jobs? >> stephanie: thank you. good points. let's go to elizabeth in chicago. hi elizabeth. welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. congratulations on your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: well, i'm actually calling to say how hilarious our president was at the correspondents dinner. and to point out that lindsay lohan was the guest of greta van van sist ern. >> at the same table as kim kardashian. >> drag down the i.q. of that table tremendously. >> scary stuff. >> stephanie: let's go to sandy in pennsylvania. >> caller: hi, steph, hi everybody. love your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i would like to be your keystone connection from pennsylvania.

>> stephanie: all right. >> caller: unfortunately, i live in the state of governor close your eyes corporate. now, my 85-year-old mother who has voted in every election get her photo i.d. she does not have a raised seal birth certificate so now i have to drive her to harrisburg, get her a birth certificate. 13-week waiting period for her to vote. >> stephanie: huh. it is almost like they're trying to make it harder! >> caller: i live near the amish country. their religion forbids photo i.d.s and they mostly vote republicans. >> nah nah nah nah nah. >> stephanie: suddenly like they found out that that most people are going to get i.d.s would vote republican, suddenly, they would be like what? >> stephanie: wayne in dallas, welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: i'm a first-time

caller. i enjoy your show. i really do. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: it is good and refreshing to have a liberal show like yours on television. actually get the truth out. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: my comment real quick is in regard to fox news and michele bachmann. they're from another planet. you know. don't be surprised whatever they said because they're desperate people. they're here just because we've got -- in my opinion the thirdest cool president we ever had. i'm a vietnam veteran disabled. my opinion about the republicans is we don't have that much time. keep up the good work. >> stephanie: thank you, honey. >> caller: keep exposing these republicans for what they are. >> stephanie: democrat on tv on the karl rove going thanks, that's a great ad. yes! he is really cool. >> yes, he is really cool. >> the president think he's cool and everyone else does, too. i think that might have been

paul on real time this weekend. >> stephanie: i missed that. joe in long beach. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi joe. >> caller: hey, i'm watching the news last week and of course, boehner is on the florida house just blasting the -- is on the floor of the house just blasting the president. what does jim think of his impression of sylvester the cat? it was spot on the entire time then he got to the word pathetic. i was on the ground. i mean what could be better than listening to boehner or tom brokaw trying to pronounce the name of sofia vergara. >> that's despicable. >> that's -- you're despicable. >> stephanie: sorry. >> you're despicable. >> stephanie: wendy in illinois, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi. i'm downstate illinois so i'm -- so refreshing to have your show. i have five quick ones.

i wanted to get back, i've been wanting for some time, somehow to get the message out that -- go back to the point someone mentioned about what made liberal such a bad word. i think it goes back to gingrich when he was in. i'm not positive. i think what's wrong with kansas, i think thomas frank or someone wrote that book. it goes into some of that. but conservative -- i looked in the dictionary and thesaurus we're talking narrow focus changing, die hard preserving status quo and oppose change and liberal is tolerant, open-minded, not narrow in opinion or judgment. >> stephanie: wendy, that's what -- >> caller: we as all of us liberals need to drop an education or dictionary bomb because i think so many people -- >> stephanie: wendy, that's exactly why we called it the sexy liberal show. it referred to the audience.

it is sexy to be liberal. you're open-minded empathetic. >> caller: they're not stupid. a lot of people are ignorant. you hear things enough, you believe it. they've destroyed that word. we need to take it back. another thing they go on about the religion thing. mormon and all of this. nobody ever mentions that nixon was a quaker. i don't understand why they don't ever bring that up. probably because they're not too hot with the watergate thing. >> stephanie: wendy, i remember once going on -- you remember when i went on hannity's show and he was like are you a liberal? and i was like yes. couldn't be prouder. he didn't know what to do. you're supposed to kring in terror -- you're supposed to cri nge in terror. >> caller: you all have a great show. i wanted to ask a question, i wonder how the republicans in the house and the senate can do

their job which part of their job is to appropriate funds but they have signed a pledge with global saying they'll never raise taxes. so how can they do their job when they have already pledged themselves to someone else rather than to the constitution of the united states. >> stephanie: i don't know if you heard the interview with ron reagan. skied him what his dad would have done with the norcross pledge. i think my version is he would have wiped his ass with it. what he would have said to grover norton. who are you? why are you in my office and get out. oh, the president has a new -- we have a new campaign slogan. >> okay. >> stephanie: video. forward. republicans, regressive. put it in reverse. put it in r. back to the '50s or whatever. the president who is handsome and romantic and a good singer said the choice between going backward and moving forward has never been so clear. he told several hundred women.

>> i've heard. >> stephanie: as long as i'm president, we're going to keep moving forward. you don't have to take my word for it. you have my signature for it referring to the lilly ledbetter act. he said because something like standing up for the principle of equal pay for equal work is not something i have to get back to you on which is what romney said. it is first law i signed. we have governors in legislatures across the river and virginia and up the road in pennsylvania saying women can't be trusted to make your own decision. they're pushing and passing bills forcing women to get ultrasounds. if you don't like it, the governor of pennsylvania said you can close your eyes. it is appalling, out of touch. the fight over contraception was illuminating for republican's views on women. it was like being in a time machine back to the '50s or earlier. >> more like the '20s. >> stephanie: so far the quinnipiac poll shows him 10 points above romney. obama used the speech to utter

the same broken promises to women. uh, no! he said women are not an interest group. women shouldn't be treated this way. he told the cheering crowd. [ cheering ] ♪ i'm so in love with you ♪ >> stephanie: squee. 46 minutes after the hour. >> mitt romney. eh. >> stephanie: right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> are you thinking what i'm thinking? >> all the time, bitch. >> good! >> it's "the stephanie miller show." jennifer granholm is politically direct on current tv. >>the dominoes are starting to fall. (vo) granholm is live in the war room.

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>> that's the ass cam the most valuable cam. >> stephanie: you're back. good. don't turn your back to me. 1-800-steph-12. phone number, toll free. >> get me something. >> a sedative maybe. >> stephanie: anthony in d.c., you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi anthony. >> caller: hi, stephanie. how you doing? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: people said mitt romney has been running for president for seven years. actually it has been 11 years. when he became governor of massachusetts, he ran for one term. who runs to be governor for one term? no one. unless he's very calculated and his whole purpose was to get response and tell people -- because if he really wanted to run for governor, wanted to be governor, he should be governor of -- detroit. i'm sorry. what's the state? >> stephanie: right. >> caller: the reason why he didn't, because that state has

plenty of problems. michigan has plenty of problems. he was not going to be govern of michigan because he knows he could not have done that for one term. >> stephanie: absolutely. let's go to james in cincinnati. you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: yes, ma'am. how you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i love the show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i gotta say this, i used to watch fox. >> stephanie: ugh! >> caller: as an alternative to nbc, cbs, because i found they are becoming more polarized toward republicans and then -- but less -- you know, less fox. then i watch fox as an enemy. in other words, those are the people who are trying to destroy me and my people. and the united states, in fact. but anyway, what i want to get at is this... how many times in history has a republican gotten into office

and ruined things for us and then when they elect a democrat, how things change. and we get better. and then we elect a republican and then things go back. >> stephanie: then we go backwards. exactly. we're moving forward! [ applause ] >> they might need to punch that up a little bit i think. >> stephanie: andrew in madison, you're on "the stephanie miller show." welcome. >> caller: guy from wisconsin. the wisconsin state motto. >> stephanie: perfect for the 99% movement and for this year's election. >> you betcha. >> stephanie: they have angered the honey badger in wisconsin. let me tell you what. [ applause ] all right. hey, pope benedict, welcome to the war on women. come on down! as an ex-catholic girl gone wild, i need to defend my nuns.

please take the organ out for me chris. oh, look, i brought an actual new york times in today because i didn't have time to order you around to send it to me on the computer. >> you ordered me to your house on friday. >> that was for tech support. i tried to make it seem like it was show-related, jim and i made him do a bunch of stuff on my computer. >> tricky that way. >> stephanie: see what i did? i got you to be the entertainment for free for my party friday night. jim brought amps and electronic guitars and harmonicas. >> you totally tom sawyered both of us this weekend. >> stephanie: want to come over to my house because we're friends. look what's wrong with my computer? i have a budge of friends that play guitar but everybody is a sucky singer so i trick jim into coming. andy plays harmonica. i don't know if you've heard about this. it really is incredible. morning dowd writes even as republicans tried to wrestle women back into chastity belts.

they think it is cool to bully nuns. a few younger women are willing to make sacrifices for a church determined to bring women to heal. pope benedict basically, let me -- we're all nuns. i love this piece. nick krisoff. they're among the bravest toughest people. i've seen nuns defy warlords and bandits. even cover up the rape of children. nuns have redeemed it with their humble work. pope benedict, you're crazy to mess with nuns. stinging reprimand of american nuns this month, i hadn't heard about this until this weekend. in order for a bishop to oversee a makeover the organization, the vatican accused the nuns of worrying too much about the poor and not enough about abortion and gave marriage. >> wow. >> stephanie: what bible did that come from? it never explicitly mentions abortion or homosexuality. >> the movement has told us this

many times. awful. >> stephanie: if you look at who has more closely emulated jesus life, it is the nun hands down. since the papal crackdown on nuns, they have received -- have received an outpouring of support. nick chrisoff writes i have a soft spot for nuns. the sacrifice -- how they sacrifice ego, safety and comfort to help some of the neediest people on earth. remember the video? about the arrive can warlord one of the few heroes was a nun. sister -- i can't pronounce her name. rainfall. >> kony's army kidnapped 139 students. sister rachel hiked through the jungle in pursuit of the men. eventually, she caught up with the gunmen and demanded they release the girls.

somehow she browbeat the warlord and released a great majority of the girls. >> she probably hit him with a ruler on the knuckles. >> stephanie: my nuns had the board of education. >> she's nunchucks. >> stephanie: what's with you and the nun jokes? really? you two. really. yeah. go nuns. it's your birthday. it's your birthday. >> all right. must stop all of this compassion. what is wrong with you? >> stephanie: 578 minutes after the hour -- 58 minutes after the hour. coming up, van jones. squee! on "the stephanie miller show."

♪ >> stephanie: hello! current it fans. we're about to enter hour three which means i've just refreshed my vodka. because guess who's coming up. van jones! ahh! squee. he's dreamy and also environmental advocate. named "time" magazine named him one of the most influential people in the world. >> inferential? >> i was named one of the most insequential people in the world by "time" magazine. >> stephanie: he has a new book out called "rebuild the dream."

we'll talk to him in a couple of minutes. we'll continue make fun of the boehner and his appearance on "meet the press" and how hilariously funny the president was. it doesn't matter, it wasn't on current, it doesn't matter. unless jacki schechner says it, it's not news. now, here's jacki schechner in the current news center metroplex. >> good morning, stephanie. good morning everyone. a new report out this morning detailed by reuters talks about the obesity epidemic in america and shows us that it is costing us more than just our health. 34% of americans are now considered obese. that's a number that's tripled since 1960. obesity costs employers $6.4 billion a year in sick days and $30 billion a year in lowered productivity. as a nation, we spend $190 billion more than we should on medical care, that's a fifth of our healthcare expenditures overall. this translates into higher taxes for programs like medicaid

and higher health insurance preme premiums for those of us who pay private health insurance premiums. the campaign to end obesity hopes highlighting the soaring costs in these reports will help spur policy changes on capitol hill. for their part, congress has done very little this past year. they call pizza a vegetable so they didn't have to alter nutrition standards for school lunches and they killed a plan that would have reduced sugar fat and salt in foods marketed to children. in other news, mitt romney is on the campaign trail in new hampshire this hour, appearing with what may be a vice presidential pick for him. senator kelly aiott besides her law & order credit essentials has the obvious which is a freshman senator in new hampshire and she's appearing with him today at the port smith fish pier. he has test driven other candidates including marco rubio. we're in chat as always,

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and dick cheney is the man. >> you could mix it up. >> stephanie: two of my coworkers have ron paul bumper stickers on their cars. i'm so glad you exist. i worship the alter of sm. i hope you return to portland with sexy liberal. speaking of sexy liberals, kids, minneapolis, almost sold out. only 12 v.i.p. tickets left for the big mother's day weekend show. pantages is 70% capacity for july. hurry there. v.i.p. already sold out. >> the sexy liberal tour, one of their first stops on their world tour. minnesota. stephanie and her sexy liberal players are coming back to the twin cities since the first time with those minnesota nights. >> they call me minnesota nights. >> on may 12th. the state theatre will host the

triumphant return of the sexy liberal comedy tour featuring john and cohost of the talk, aisha tyler and mama herself stephanie miller. >> you're darn tootin'! >> get your tickets online at ticketmaster.com or by calling ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. minneapolis, minnesota join the stephanie miller sexy liberal show and go for another brilliant helping of sexy liberal sassiness. >> stephanie miller. >> stephanie: all right. speaking of sexy liberals, eke. i know he was named one of the most 100 influential people in the world in 2009. he joins us now. van jones. i had you on the radio show before. i'm sorry to say this but i've seen you since on tv and you are smoking hot if you don't mind my

saying. [ laughter ] >> i grew up -- i had a thing for radio. >> stephanie: all of the times i've had guests then i'm like oh, my god that's van jones. >> you were expecting van johnson. >> stephanie: because you have a new book out called "rebuild the dream." you're known as a civil rights activist, an attorney. tell us about the new book. >> i was a grassroots outsider for about 15 years working in some of the toughest neighborhoods in the country. richland california, san francisco. and was really focused on getting kids out of jail and into jobs. especially green jobs and then i wound up being a white house insider for about six months and then an outsider again. i've had a 360 degree view of the progressive movement, especially during the obama era where the white house got it

wrong, where the grassroots missed opportunities. i thought it was important especially as we're with going into this new election season to try to share my experience. a lot of people who have my background in activism never get into that white house environment. get behind the curtain and see how things actually work. a lot of people are behind that curtain, have no idea how grassroots politics and movements work and i thought i could put a book out there that would help both sides. so we can get more done in the next term than we got in the last term. >> stephanie: van, as rick santorum would call you, you're a snobby, elitist yale-educated attorney. but you obviously like -- this is -- the way you describe it, it is a bottom-up people-powered way to help fix the u.s. economy. you're known as an innovator. talk about what that means. >> i think what it means is fist of all -- first of all, the vote and hope strategy has to change. i think for a lot of progressive are really confused. we know we don't want a tea party president. we also know the last -- just

getting him in there didn't get us everything we wanted. what i'm arguing for is a return to the basic strategy progressives have always had when things work. lbj, the war aside, he signed more civil rights laws than any president but he didn't lead the civil rights movement. that was baker and dr. king who led the movement who created a crisis in selma, who created a context within which that president could respond. under george bush, we had a great movement for peace. we had the wrong president. under obama, we had arguably the right president but we had an awful movement, the tea party. now, it is time for us to re-elect the president so he can have arguably the right president but re-energize the movement so you have the right moofnlt at the same time. this book is a blue precipitation for how it is that we can get a real movement that is up and running to get the best out of this president.

it is not about vote and hope. but if you don't vote at all then you know, you haven't learned anything from 2010. we learned in 2009, just voting will not get you everything you want. but we learned in 2010, if you don't vote, you can lose everything you have. so, you've gotta both vote and march and demonstrate and put pressure in the right places and all of those things. that's why i rebuild the dream.com, the organization i helped to found after i left the white house, we have now 650,000 members from every congressional district online. we're fighting to cut mortgages to cut student loans but also to build a force alongside other forces to make sure we don't just re-elect the president but re-energize the movement. >> stephanie: it is about getting an economy that works for the 100%, not just the top 1%. this really is going to be, i think, the year of the 99% movement, don't you? >> i think so. certainly, the themes of the 99% movement and the themes that

occupy wall street brought into global consciousness economic inequality, wall street running amok, those are more salient and relevant now and will be going forward than they were even last year in the fall when they first came out. but the challenge that we have is that you know, if the occupy movement is sort of like the student on violent coordinating committee of the 1960s those folks occupied the lunch counters. they occupied the segregated buses and the freedom rides. they also helped the mississippians occupy the voting booth. right now, we're in a situation where we don't have that broad movement that can both protest and deal with the lectorral system. that's the next stage. my book is the post-hope democrats and independents. we're not hopeless. we're post-hope. we know we've gotta be able to both vote smart but also keep the pressure on the system to give us the changes we with

voted for. >> stephanie: i've said it over and over again van. you've gotta give this president -- you mentioned 2010, you have to give this president a congress he can work with. we keep throwing out terms like unprecedented obstructionism. it is. you can look at any chart of filibusters and look what happened when we brought these tea party republicans in. you're absolutely right. i say over and over, this president, i think has accomplished an enormous amount against unbelievable obstructionism. so, you're exactly right. it is almost like we can still have hope but we have to be more realistic about what can happen if we don't vote. >> i think that's right. the thing about it is the tea party movement was able to achieve something where they were inside and outside the republican party during the primary season, they were able to assert their ideas and then during the general election, they were able to you know, help the republicans. kind of learned the lesson from ross perot in the 1990s a

person they backed back then. elected bill clinton twice. there is a way to have a moofnlt on our side. both inside and outside democrat party. >> stephanie: you're the perfect person to talk about. you mentioned your time as greens job advisor. you mentioned the brevity of it. we can talk about why. thank you glenn beck. because you know, obviously you're globally recognized pioneer in the green energy economy. you were doing such good work but this is where our politics are today. i don't know if you saw this recent story. i thought you were the perfect perp to ask. this black congresswoman was threatened after glenn beck posted an out of context video just like he did with shirley sherrod. representative clark. she was making some comments about the tea party and he edited it in a way that then she started getting death threats. this is the kind of era of politics that we're in. right? >> sure. i have experience with that exact strategy on his part and had the same outcomes.

we have -- part of what we have to recognize is that there is a false view that has become the conventional wisdom that we have too much partisanship in the country. that is not true. frankly, the democrats probably could be a little bit more partisan in terms of sticking up for stuff we actually believe in and not compromising so quickly. it is a problem of right wing extremism. and the republican party being pulled so far to the right and they have to deny science. they have to make up a fact. they are now -- it has become business as usual. alan west saying there are 84 members of the communist party in congress. it is bad enough he said it but where was the republican leadership to say hold on a second. absolute silence. when you have that kind of dynamic where the elected officials and their biggest spokespersons distort and lie as a matter of routine it doesn't

mean we have to participate more not less. there is a dangerous that progressive gets so frustrated with what's going on that we actually participate less. we have to participate more. >> stephanie: well and that's so powerful, van for you to say that as a victim of these gotcha politics that they played. in your case, it was something that wasn't even true. >> i mean, playing politics is a contact sport. i'm not a politician. i wasn't somebody who had a big aspiration to go work in the white house. they asked me to be a special advisor. i was proud to go there when i was asked. but you know, once they start trying to make up stuff or take stuff out of context so much, look, i was proud to admit i was on the left side of pluto when i was younger. i was a radical activist. distinguishable in the bay area. you have to work hard to be known as a radical and an activist even in the bay area. those are my young years.

i have nothing to apologize for on that. i wish more people were idealistic in their young years. but you know, then they take that out of context. they make the hay with it that they make. i had a job before i went to the white house. i have a job now. there are a lot of people who can't say that. and we still have so many people who are out of work, whose mortgages are underwater. who are graduating off a cliff with a ton of debt and no jobs. and washington, d.c. is not working for them. it is has been hijacked by corporate cash or right wing extremism. my book, "rebuild the dream" is about a blueprint to begin to get us back to where we were in 2008 where we have a big energize movement but now a little bit more realistic about what it will take to both fix the political system and get the economy to work for the 100%. >> stephanie: i agree with "time" magazine, are you incredibly influential. i have been influenced just in the course of this interview. the book is "rebuild the dream" and you still remain smoking

hot. >> i can hear him blushing through the phone lines. >> stephanie: i think i'll see you in an event in l.a. i saw something you're going to be at live and hello, i'm there. >> sexy liberals unite. >> stephanie: yeah baby. van, thanks so much. appreciate it. there he goes. "rebuild the dream". [ applause ] squee. >> stephanie: i don't know what's happening. >> see if he comes back after that fawning. >> stephanie: some political fund-raiser. come meet van jones! yes! he is handsome and romantic. 20 minutes after the hour. we're back on "the stephanie miller show." >> see we're having a nice time. it is "the stephanie miller show." >> you know it. >> wee!

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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ on this perfect day ♪ ♪ nothing standing in my way ♪ ♪ perfect day ♪ >> stephanie: yee-ha! it is "the stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 26 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12. wesley in virginia. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hey, wes. >> caller: hey, steph. how you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i like to piggyback off the president. fist of all. and for you -- ♪ i'm -- ♪ i'm so in love with you ♪ >> stephanie: thank you, wes. >> caller: secondly, i would very much like to say that when

those republican strategists or elected members ask about the president and whether or not he should brag about or boast about getting bin laden they always seem to pin it back and want to talk about the economy. the american people are concerned about the economy. >> look over there. look over there. >> stephanie: exactly. look over there. don't look here. >> huge accomplishment. >> stephanie: that's just rude. not polite to bring up your accomplishments. gosh, jim, every now and again a headline catches your attention. man sues bmw for 20-month erection after bike ride. hello! >> wait a minute. >> stephanie: that's a lot longer than four hours. >> do bmws give you an erection? >> bmw bikes. >> stephanie: there was a guy and his wife, i told you -- >> bike shorts and no underwear underneath. >> stephanie: no, he had regular shorts on.

it gave him -- bike riding gave him -- it was one of those things you tried not to look at. like stop look. you're like wow he really likes bike riding. wow! >> you don't like that sort of thing. >> stephanie: we discussed that. it was impressive. doesn't matter what your persuasion is. hard not to look at. is his seat made of cialis? what is happening? really excited about this bike trip. in this case, it is a motorcycle. california man has sued bmw. motorcycle seat maker claiming the four hour trip on his ridge side seat -- i think only ruffles should have ridges. it lasted 20 months and counting. >> ordering those bmw bikes. >> no prescription needed!

have a room, have vr ox om! >> stephanie: hello, robert. >> caller: they had a guy on there, his name was dick. they steal. they had a young lady that went up against them. had to find out how evil he was. her favorite song on her walkman was walking on sunshine. then it comes to find out at the end they said she didn't like me. and she was a lesbian. >> stephanie: that's my shtick. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show."

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none. >> they're getting ready for watermelon season. >> stephanie: every season is peanut butter season people! okay. so few things in my life. please, please, just let me have them. my dippin' dots and my peanut butter. >> what are dippin' dots? i've never heard of them. >> they're little pellets. frozen with nitrogen. >> they used to advertise it in the '80s as the ice cream of the future. they've gone bankrupt. >> stephanie: they make my brain go crazy. i can be having a deep political discussion then dippin' dots drug. >> they haven't gone out of business. they've just declared bankruptcy so you can still get your dippin' dots. they're trying to re-organize into something that can make money. something without dippin' dots. [ laughter ] >> going into production.

>> crack flavored. >> stephanie: all right. robert writes dear steph chris and jim, when you left radio in the bay area. >> we didn't leave. they moved us to evening to accommodate glenn beck so they could lose 90% of the ratings. >> i couldn't bear it. i started collecting shopping carts so i would have someone to talk to at night. one night, an angel named current appeared to me. now i'm back in a luxury house with bootlegged cable. >> you can get current all over the bay area. [ applause ] >> stephanie: den fridays santa fe writes did you know people cannot get current tv if they subscribe to the spanish instead of the english directv? why should they be prevented from seeing your beauty, charm and elegance. friggin' a. >>i'm not willing to give up my 200 spanish channels but i might

switch to a different company. all directv has to do a flip a switch. a question -- >> did you talk to your help like that? hi, pam in seattle. >> caller: i'm with you. i run to see van jones every chance i get. starting five years ago when he spoke at the american solar energy society meeting. old folks as that. old white folks. a lot of academics. he got a standing ovation. everybody talked about him through the whole conference. >> stephanie: he's brilliant. the eye candy aspect was new to me. >> i found a documentary where he introduces us to these work crews he's doing in oakland putting solar on people's homes. and meet his dad who is this sweet middle school principal who's worked with the kids in

oakland. very, very touching when he introduces, this is my role model. this is the man who out to me everything i know and oh my god, it is fabulous. carbon nation. everybody get it. show your kids. inspirational film. >> awesome. all right. nick in seattle. >> hi, stephanie. >> i had to google van jones when you said he was so yummy and i agree. totally. so, the other lovely web sites you find when you google him though are -- one of them is called the right perspective. black nationalist and communist. first exposed as a marxist. >> did ellen west write that? >> caller: on the talk show host glenn beck. >> stephanie: yeah. right. telling him the story of this black congresswoman. they did to shirley sherrod.

glenn beck's web site. they edited her things to make it sound like she was saying things -- >> complete character assassination fabricated with lies. >> stephanie: talk among yourselves. while i dumpster dive. her spokesman said was edited down. what people were taking away from it was the congresswoman was saying all tea party members are crazy and tea party individuals showed the ugly side of america. she got a death threat. she think we're crazy. that bitch has not seen nothing yet. >> that's proof that you're crazy. >> if you're issuing death threats to people. >> the grammar was horrible. that bitch has not seen nothing yet.

>> man, there are a lot of morons in this world. >> by the way current tv is espanol. >> gracias. >> si. >> eva in tennessee, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi eva. >> hi. >> iva. sorry. >> that's all right. i'm tickled to death you're going to be on at 6:00 p.m. in the evening in our area in the east. >> stephanie: starting today they're re-airing the least crappie area of our show at 6:00 p.m. eastern 3:00 p.m. pacific. >> you're never crappie. you're hilarious. >> i just want withed to show, jacki schechner was talking about it in her news brief there real quick. it just blipped by.

test driving for v.p. a woman and where is she from and did she have a cooler substance or is she as intelligent as michele bachmann and sarah palin? >> stephanie: oh, is that his -- is he trying to fight back on the war on women. >> whatever. >> stephanie: mike in bloomington writes mitt romney is so proud of the american capitalist system, he moves it offshore to avoid paying taxes on it. thank you, mike. good point. >> new hampshire. kelly ayotte. >> ay-ay-ay. >> stephanie: kevin says mittens is against the unfairness of union members being forced to contribute to politicians. by the same token isn't it fair that individual shareholders be able to veto corporate competitions to the campaign of the rombot 2000. another good point. dade in north carolina, steph, you have no idea how much i wish

i have a mobile version of your box. >> stephanie: it is when i go on the sexy liberal tour. >> sure i would be annoying to my friends and family but i would be annoying. [flat lent noises] >> stephanie miller. >> stephanie: my box is fun. thank you. >> stephanie: gary, hi, steph love the show. this is gary from virginia. i love to be the official branch of the stephanie miller [ bleep ] for obama. [ applause ] okay. let's go to vivian in virginia. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi viv. >> hi, steph hi. i have two quick comments. first is the right wing media. on "meet the press," david

gregory -- la, la, la. never correct and honest. if romney loves america why does he send so much money overseas? >> stephanie: thank you. why does he ship so many jobs overseas and into the caymans. >> i love switzerland. i mean america. of course i do. they're too tall in switzerland. >> stephanie: tony in north carolina. hi, tony. >> caller: how you doing stephanie? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: he never questioned a guy about 9-11. john mccain ran against obama. so i think democrat party -- with george w. bush and the republican party and fox news are talking about for eight years. we need to say this president deserves credit for killing bin laden. >> stephanie: i hear you. all right. we have more crunchy audience

goodness from the white house correspondents dinner. jimmy kimmel last night. >> i also want to thank mr. mills, my tenth grade high school history teacher who said i would never amount to anything. i'm about to high-five the president of the united states. [ laughter ] >> and he did. that's awesome. >> the president hilarious saturday night. president obama at the white house correspondents dinner as well. >> any way, it is great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificent hilton ballroom or what mitt romney would call a little fixer-upper. [ laughter ] >> he was hilarious. hard to pick a favorite. >> take mitt romney. he and i actually have a lot in common. we also both have degrees from harvard. i have one. he has two. what a snob. >> stephanie: rock star cheers. >> did i hear someone count down

five seconds? someone said five seconds. >> stephanie: to the president? >> i heard it. i don't know who they were talking to. five seconds. go! >> stephanie: i've got as long as i want. i'll send a drone in. i'm the fing president. >> going to play you off. >> 35 minutes after the hour. back with the remaining moments of "the stephanie miller show". >> announcer: she's your happy human pill. it is "the stephanie miller show."

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the facts. that's a lie. >> stephanie: you know why he has to lie. because he has an etchy sketchy flippy floppy candidate. ♪ they were afraid to come out and support him ♪ note they were ashamed of their new candidate ♪ ♪ they were reluctant to vote for a mormon ♪ ♪ the one they had to nominate ♪ ♪ who's the one they love to hate ♪ ♪ it was that etchy sketchy wishy-washy flippy flopny mittny romney, the one they all love to hate ♪ ♪ that almost witty richy richy mitt ♪ >> wee. >> i like it. >> rockin' it! rockin' it. >> that's now posted up on your facebook page. >> stephanie: wow, wow wow. did you see -- first of all the president getting a rock star

cheers. see their faces. this literally looked like a hostage crisis video. kids arranged behind him while he lectured them. they looked like they lost the will to live. >> from the death march. >> stephanie: the headline is romney stakes stimulus at school that took stimulus funds. >> romney's advice is borrow money from your parents. >> go to a cheaper college. >> if you're young, he has advice, borrow money from your parents. at a lecture to students. in ohio, he said his friend jimmy john started a business -- >> friend named jimmy john? >> apparently mittens do by borrowing $20,000 from his parents at a low interest rate. anyone in the audience could do the same, he suggested. >> yeah. >> nation of parents slap their heads into their hands.

what? mittens, not everybody has $20,000 laying around. >> my dad was making $40,000 a year when i was in high school. >> dad, can i have half your salary for this year? awesome. by the way, one of his rumors, vice presidential picks rubio oh, dear, fined for receiving improper donations during the 2010 senate race. >> sounds like a culture of corruption. >> he might be somewhere else during the campaign. in prison. he has been fined for saving hundreds of o thousands in improper donations during his senate race two years ago. not only did they find he received the improper donations from individuals his campaign accepted illegal corporate contributions and thousands of dollars for his primary race even after the primary was over. >> he didn't get a $500 haircut. he's not on trial for anything. >> he accepted $210,000 in improper contributions.

fined him $8,000 which complains why they do it. okay. well, we'll pay the fine. >> yet john edwards -- will be going to the galloless for the same thing. >> stephanie: looky here. julia -- eric kantor is raising cash for his women up program. a cutting plan to do research and launch media blitz to get the chick vote. perhaps they can hand out souvenir plastic vaginal probes. i hear the ladies love these chachkies. >> you know the sorority dots in college. >> daily coast has a great piece. mysterious breed of voters. big, strong republican men unable to get mitt romney's chief advisor on stuff that ladies care about aka mrs. romney on the phone they're studying us. the new project w -- it stands

for young guns women up. the u is silent, i guess. they can't even name an organization for god's sakes. >> that's insane. >> stephanie: six figure investment for launch and a target in the mid seven figures. the group is launching a four prong strategy. a focus group building an online committee. get it? economic analysis and issue advocacy with the goal of understanding aboutert what language and standpoints appeal to women. how about being a human? who has lived in the world. >> what language do we need to use to talk to women? >> neighbor is your policies that are the problem. >> stephanie: yeah. daily coast writing it sure is an exciting time to be a lady voter. all of the men fighting over us trying to figure out what makes us tick even forming focus groups. >> maybe esperanto. they would understand that. >> shut up you stupid girls. it is an effective campaign slogan. the lady voters of america look forward to hearing what you

learn about us. [ applause ] >> how is that coming? >> stephanie: it is so predictable. you saw the latest. the white house said friday president veto a measure because it takes money from healthcare fund that benefits women. >> yes but how do we talk to them? what language do we use? any language that doesn't point out your policies. >> stephanie: how about you make a policy of not taking money from the women's health fund. >> morons. >> they'red no good at governing or running. >> that was a good joke the president told. jimmy kimmel got his start on the man show. that's a congressional hearing on women's health on the hill. >> oh, monica crowley has apologized for her homophobic tweet. >> monica crowley has apologized

although you know what? her apology to her credit did sound sincere and complete. >> stephanie: now it is. in case you hadn't heard she apologized to sandra for a tweet, just got engaged she had tweeteddics -- she had tweeted... to a man? >> she's a hypersexual heterosexual whore and clearly a lesbian. >> she finally tweeted an apology. >> get your insults straight. >> she said it was homophobic. >> only the right wing uses that like it is a smear. >> she doesn't happen to be gave but only they think -- to be gay. >> she said i certainly and unequivocally apologize for sandra and other oversensitive dikes i may have offended. >> she didn't say that part. >> i'm improvising. >> this just in. >> sounds complete and sincere.

>> i'll give her that. >> stephanie: overly sensitive look monica crowley. marriage equality could boost maryland's economy by $90 million a year. now she likes it. it could boost -- they just did a study, by $90 million a year. >> why didn't you say so? >> tomorrow on the big show, zack -- >> stephanie: remember this kid's speech. he's written a new book called my two moms. he gave this amazing speech for marriage equality in iowa. he's amazing. he has a new book out. we'll talk to him tomorrow. chris la voy for tech support at my house, thank you and various other choring's. jim ward on harmonica electric guitar. we'll see you tomorrow on "the stephanie miller show."