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1-800-steph-12, toll free from anywhere. speaking of squee really excited. she already has her tivo set. deb in california. >> caller: you are just so fine. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: you're so fine, that my husband doesn't want to leave for work in the morning. he used to leave at 6:00, no problems. then he hears katrina and the waves -- uh-oh my doggy is barking because she knows i'm on the phobe with you. -- on the phone with you. >> she's spicy girl. >> stephanie: spicy girl! okay. >> caller: two points if i may. >> stephanie: husband with me. he can't get out of bed. is that what you're saying? >> caller: i'm getting an infearity complex. because it isn't me keeping him here. >> hi, john. >> he wants to stay in bed with

me and spicy girl. >> caller: the reason why republicans have to cut off all forms of funding for education of any kind at all including honest information from your doctor is in order -- for women anyway, is in order to ensure that people are disinformed enough to vote republican. >> stephanie: all right, deb. you have your tivo set. today is our first day of replay. they'll replay our least crappie hour. >> i pressed the red dot. we're in. we're on. >> stephanie: thank you. ding ding, ding. 6:00 p.m. eastern they'll be replaying our least crappie hour which is kind of subjective. we found the quote. go ahead. john f. kennedy. >> after the acceptance of the new york liberal party nomination. if by a liberal you need someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions

someone who cares about the welfare of the people, their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties, someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad. if that is what they mean by a liberal, then i'm proud to say i am a liberal. [ cheering ] >> stephanie: yea! >> minneapolis almost sold out. 12 v.i.p. tickets left. what a mother's day gift. it is mother's day weekend with aisha tyler and john and i. in l.a. not until july 28th. we're nearing 70% sold out at the pantages. v.i.p. tickets already sold out. other seats available. hurry, it, fast! [ applause ] because you know, l.a., everybody waits until last minute and then asks for comps. no. i'm telling you no right now. our friend eric boehlert is here. let's go right to eric boehlert

from media matters for america doing the lord's work as usual. ♪ hurts so good ♪ ♪ come on, baby ♪ ♪ eric boehlert ♪ hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: right into the right wing world. eric boehlert from media matters. good morning, eric boehlert. >> good morning. >> stephanie: all i need for a fabulous weekend is a nice glass of card nay and some eric boehlert tweets. -- of chardonnay and some eric boehlert tweets. whining about fallon isn't going to win you any votes. you're a helper. >> well, i do my best. but i mean it's so -- everything is so predictable the right wing media. so, obama shows up on jimmy fallon. he does this great clip on slow jamming the news. you can set your timer. >> stephanie: outrage. >> outrage. you know he's disgracing the

office and all of this stuff. and of course, you know, when george bush appeared on the jumbotron during deal or no deal, he was president. none of these people were particularly concerned. but that led into this whole debate on how you know, karl rowe, you know, put out this ad how obama is too cool, you know. and particularly targeting young voters because apparently young voters don't like people who are cool. as i tweeted over the weekend what's next from karl rove, an ad about how obama is too good-looking or too charming or too fit. it doesn't make any sense this road they're going down. they're beside themselves and when they see him succeed even in doing late night of freak out. >> stephanie: as you also tweeted, this is how g.o.p. courts the youth vote by attacking jimmy fallon's show and attacking the reduction of college loan rates. as i was saying, the picture of

romney talking to a college kids, it looks like a hostage crisis. and then you say look for a second week in a row gas prices fall. sorry, your dream of $4 a gallon gas seems to be dashed. >> i think they had banners they were going to drop when the national average hit $4. they were so excited all winter long $4 gas is going to ruin the economy, it is going to ruin obama's re-election. meanwhile, polls were showing it was having almost no effect on people's spending and more importantly, the majority of americans didn't blame obama for gas prices. they realize these things go up and down. they've been buying gas for decades in this country and they realize you know, the president doesn't set the price at the pump. but they had been so excited and this -- you know, finally something was going to -- this was going to be the hurdle that was going to cause obama to stumble. it was supposed to peak in may. last year it peaked in may.

if you look at the statistics, it is going down. this is another example of how fox news roots against the u.s. economy and they root against the -- you know, obviously against obama and they're actually sort of waiting for people to say more money for gas. just like they want to have more people unemployed. it is really -- >> stephanie: it is a tough position to be rooting against america, isn't it? >> it is not fun. especially for a patriotic supposedly patriotic political movement. >> stephanie: let's dive into the right wing world. see what's doing. cal thomas on the fox news watch. >> clinton was running for president, barack obama is president. i agree with dana perino and some of the former white house secretary who is a commentator on this network and a cohost of the five. can we plug that. there is a certain decorum about the presidency, i think. when you take it on that level i think office. >> like when george bush was screwing around looking for the weapons of mass destruction?

>> stephanie: as you just said eric, he was on deal or no deal. when he was president. >> a game show. look presidents are supposed to be able to be self-deprecating and make jokes. they're too serious and you know -- critics attack them. so when they do -- are willing to do comedy or are self-deprecating, they yell at them. should presidents be on late night talk shows who knows. might prefer in the scheme of things, probably not. this has been happening for 20 years. >> went on laugh in and got a pie in the face. >> stephanie: much more dignified. this is why your we're not invited on fox news. your thoughts? [crickets chirping] >> don't attack family. i think most people pull back and don't actually want to engage the president's family. >> sure. >> but you know, if they're spending a half a million dollars to go on vacation with no point in the middle of the

recession -- >> i'll agree. >> stephanie: yeah because for the fist time -- the first time a presidential family has ever gone on vacation. >> they've never left the white house or gone overseas. this is now three years into this ridiculous charge about they're spending too much money on vacation. they're so spoiled et cetera et cetera. >> bush was on vacation for his whole presidency. >> 967 days bush was on vacation, i believe the official tally was. by the way the secret service protects the first family every day no matter where they are. it's not like if they're not on vacation, the secret service stays home. there is cost to protecting the fist family. take a couple of steps back. the real creepy thing, this is the sort of underlying criticism is secret service spends way too much time and money protecting the is the allegation -- that's the charge. >> stephanie: exactly. sean hannity had a caller on the radio. >> i don't call people names.

>> you bet you do. you're not as nasty as a lot of them but you do -- >> he's a criminal. >> that's an adjective. hello? >> this is the president of the united states. >> he's acting like a crybaby sometimes. >> wait a minute. he's going to be a crybaby and blame, blame blame blame but i'm going to call him out on it. my job is to tell the truth. >> i don't call him names. >> crybaby. >> stephanie: it is an adjective. >> in calling the president a socialist and a crybaby, what did he say last week? he told the president to man up? he got all macho on the president. this is sean hannity who once claimed he was going to be water boarded to show it was no big deal. i think the clock is now -- three or five years running on that. >> stephanie: listen, i have to defend him on that. there's a lot of mousse in that hair.

you don't want to mess with that. rush limbaugh -- >> i got a new car. i'm getting a new car after the program. 8 miles to the gallon. i can't wait to get in this thing and find a prius and give them an anal exam with my front butcher. bumper. >> that's serving that's wrong with america right there. >> right in one little -- >> so many worthy people don't have a job and that guy is making millions of dollars doing that. >> does that define creepy or what? i don't think a week goes by where rush limbaugh doesn't talk about anal. if you are -- media matters, it comes up every week! >> doing in the dominican republic? >> stephanie: maybe he just said he had and an anal cyst to

get more attention in that area. >> it is in this weird context. it is totally bizarre. >> i wish freud were alive. >> stephanie: the difference between bill maher and rush limbaugh is the people watching bill maher now he's a -- >> eric boehlert remains in the sidecar. in the meantime, we welcome our new sponsor big commerce. if you have a business and you're not selling your sales online, sign up with big commerce today. it will not only help you build your online success but make it successful generating revenue for your company. as you know, i buy everything online. >> i saw that on friday when you called me over to fix your computer. >> stephanie: we even talked about your tech support. big commerce is your easy one-stop shop for ecommerce. web design, advanced marketing tools through social networking sites and more. sign up for big commerce today to harness the power of online

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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." very, very excited about that and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. >>liberal and proud of it.

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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." ♪

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>> it turned its back to us. >> stephanie: camera three why so distant. >> 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."

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