♪ [ theme music ] ♪ well good morning, current tv fans. happy pants-free friday. we're currently having jim depants by a bunch of pranksters. by the way -- i apologize for any pranks or high jinks i may pull on you today. >> thank you. >> somebody froze my bra and i am really uncomfortable this

morning. >> i don't have much hair to cut -- >> that was my vicious hack job from yesterday. >> was it? >> perhaps a drive-by hair dressing. >> yes. >> i intend to read the whole "washington post" story. all week i feel like we have been bullying jacki schechner. and she deserves more dignity than that. and more dignity that the squirrel dancing to walking on sunshine. hi, jacki. >> good morning, stephanie. i'm a better woman for it. president obama's campaign is $15 million richer. 150 guests paid $40,000 to have president with the president.

some big name attends includes robert downey, jr., barbara streisand. the president gave a speech and joked that while people like him, they love george clooney. there is a new video out today showing that scott walker had strong intentions when it came to targeting organized labor. >> any chance we'll ever get to be a completely red state? >> we're going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employees. >> he introduced a legislation to destroy collective bargaining and now faces a recall election. michele bachmann's duel citizenship lasted all of about two days.

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[ laughter ] >> another mitt romney prank. >> yeah. >> 6 minutes after the hour. >> mr. president with his fancy movie stars -- who does he think he is anyway. >> i had a party last weekend, as you know and i didn't get one thin dime. >> you got guacamole. >> i'm not doing this party thing right. how do you raise $15 million. >> you have the secret service guarding the president at your house. >> i did get a water-skiing squirrelling for mother's day. ♪ >> that's fantastic. >> because i'm a mom to max and fred. so i got a mother's day card there steve in indianapolis. [ applause ] >> sexy liberal tomorrow night.

minneapolis is almost sold out. [ screaming ] >> that's roleland. [ screaming ] >> sounds like he has a hole in the head. >> already has that. by the way don't laugh at his haircut -- >> it looks like a mitt romney prank. >> there are only six, six vip tickets left. [ screaming ] >> that's about it and then some scattered seats, but don't be afraid of getting those singles. students with a student id starting at 12 noon tomorrow there be a student rush for $20. [ screaming ] >> we opened up part of the mezzanine we weren't using. again, 12::00 noon. [ applause ]

>> very excited. >> if you do hack off roleland's hair it would probably -- >> yeah. it would be a love prank. >> that's assault. that's an assault. >> i have not gotten through the whole story said so i didn't want to talk about it out of my ass like i usually do. >> i can't remember doing it but i know he wasn't gay, that's not why i did it -- >> he used the word homosexual. >> yeah. gay sounds too fun. homosexual sounds clinical. >> we haven't have those in the

60s. >> oh, my. all of these guys remembered it, it was so vivid including the guy it happened to. really? you magically had no memory of it. however, first of all -- like his spokesperson said it seems exaggerated but he doesn't remember -- >> yeah, he remembered that he didn't think the guy was gay or homosexual. i don't know they tell me it happened -- >> when i first heard about it i was like in high school? but when you read it -- first of all writing a discrimination into our constitution is bullying. saying gay people should not be allowed to have civil unions is bullying. if you read the village voice article about what he did at

bain. it's bullying >> yeah on a huge scale. >> if you read the whole "washington post" article the main through you got was what a huge douche nozzle. because some kids were on scholarships and not of the same mean, and there was a guy who's father was a teacher, and he said there was a theme. mitt romney doesn't like anyone that isn't just like him. >> right. >> does it pass the smell test? i don't know what decade you grew up in to not know this kid is gay. whatever words -- >> yeah. >> that's right. >> and that's what bullying is. exactly. do they know for a fact did they ever see him with another

guy? no, but he was the one they targeted, and probably gay. and if you have been to school anywhere, you know which kid that is, and the thing was always gay. >> uh-huh. >> ourer are was fem, do you remember that? >> no. >> it was brought on jenny cream ail. >> and niagara ice wine. >> no lake niagara wine. >> great. >> it still had toenails in it. [ laughter ] >> oh. >> all right. >> but now -- you know -- that's why probably 99% of gym memberships are gay guys. you have something to say to me pal. >> i will [ censor bleep ] you up. >> i like your hair just the way it is, hah hah. i don't like firing people, i just made it up.

ha ha. i got to go. >> yeah how brave would he be with his quote unposzsy behind him. >> and then as people really thought this was awful then it gets more serious. [ laughter ] ♪ oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of gay -- grain ♪ >> he sang in the choir with that voice? and he was a cheerleader like george bush -- ♪ above the fruited plane ♪ >> he sings like a 45 without the spindle -- >> the thing in the middle. >> spindle gismo. >> right. mittens yet. >> i played a lot of pranks in high school, and they describe some that -- well, you just say to yourself, that back in high school, you know, i did some dumb things and if anybody was

hurt by that or offended by it obviously i apologize. >> if anybody was -- there you go passive -- >> if you were stupid enough to be offended -- >> if some fem with dyed hair was offended that i held him down and chopped his hair off -- even the guys who did feel bad. one of them apologized years later -- >> and if someone is coming at you with scissors. >> i know. >> that's frightening. and did you see the romney campaign is trying to get ahold of all of these people to get a statement of support for mitt romney? and they were like no. this was wonderful. >> yeah, that's what i mean. everybody involved corroborated. >> i certainly don't believe that i -- i can't speak for other people of course -- but the fellow that was homosexual

that was the further thing from our minds back in the 1960s. >> it the 60s, it was like iran we department have those. >> what? >> what? >> but how stark it is on the day after the president makes his announcement. >> yes. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> this job is entirely about character. but like i'm saying policies all the way up until today. >> that's right. >> now this stuff is starting to come out boston globe stuff from back when he was running -- first of all flip flopping, he pledged to make equalities for gays and lesbian a main stream concern. eight years later he took a

similarly progressive position. remember the thing he slipped and said yesterday, well i have always had that position as long as i have been you know, running for office. i'm running for office for peek's sake. >> i can't have opinions. >> and then you see what a bully he was in high school. and he said at-a-girl at this boy that was also perceived to be day, and how about walking a blind teacher into a door. that is hilarious. [ laughter ] >> look he broke his nose. >> more evidence of him praying on people perceived weaker than him. >> prior to romney -- you got to pick which state you will get beat up in. just pick a good state. >> you are in the wrong state my friend. >> prior to his unsuccessful

senor toal run, he told a audience of mormon church people, he said he found homosexually perverse. a fourth person said he started going up about being upset about this war and i remember him calling it a sickness and a perversion. >> how does he feel about blindness. >> if you are a bully, it doesn't get better. [ whacky comedy music ] >> i think we want to do a doesn't get better video for old homophobes. >> all the gay guys -- like

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first. >> okay. [ recorded show playing in the background ] >> what is the name of the [ inaudible ]? >> oh, god, um . . . cranbrook school. >> why do you ask? [ inaudible ] ♪ ♪ everybody --

>> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ -- stephanie miller ♪ >> wang chung. >> yeah. do it. it is the "stephanie miller show" -- what? >> wh-what. >> it's friday, and i am -- >> drunk. >> yes. what did geraldo say? >> he said he went to a tsa guy and the guy got off on him. >> let's joint out, you are geraldo, nobody is [ censor bleep ] you. any way, i forgot the name of the -- >> the cranbrook school. >> doesn't that sound like where richie rich went.

>> i think you are confusing worlds here. >> all right. welcome to cranbrook -- >> and then aquaman said -- >> no that's a different comic strip. and then captain america -- what. knox knox >> mitt romney offered a qualified apology, if somebody was offended by my homophobic bullying, he did pranks, and what else did he call them? >> high jinks. >> yeah. >> i think they are more assault. >> yeah. >> steve you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> it's no doubt he is a bully and a liar and that article also talked about him dressing like a cop -- >> oh yeah. >> and pulling over some friends. i thought immating a cop was against the law. >> yeah, you would think. >> if obama had done that.

can you imagine? >> yeah. and the other part of that that was another story where the girl was terrified and crying. >> this is why i hate prank humor. >> yeah. >> here is a gun to your head hah hah, you don't know if it's loaded. >> hah hah, see why that is funny? >> yeah. >> these are people who are not capable of any higher form of humor -- >> well, they are incapable of empathy. >> yeah, you go does he really not remember this? is he that -- sociopathic or something -- >> yeah, he did it so often that this particular incident may have, you know escaped him because it is in amongst a whole bunch of others. >> although it seemed horrifying to the other humans involved. >> it wasn't a problem to him. >> yeah, just tuesday to him.

and it doesn't matter what era it is in, it is whoever is perceived different. like some people who got pushed into the bushes -- [ somber music ] . >> -- in fifth grade. people get bullied for the perception of being gay or different in any way. >> sure. >> and you grow up and form a little island of misfits like this show. [ laughter ] >> hi, steph you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hey, guys it's cold in illinois, got to wear pants today, sorry. >> oh! >> [ inaudible ]. do they get punished for?

it seems like whatever he did, maybe daddy's money got him out of being punished -- >> yeah, steph, that's the other thing. it's the typical rich kid gets away with it story, even one of his friends said -- i didn't talk to him about it and then he is like, yeah, no nothing happened. >> yeah, because daddy is the governor. it's like that saturday night sketch when the secret service is beating up the other classmates of amy carter. >> yeah. >> deb you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> good morning, it's warm enough not to wear pants here. >> awesome! >> there's people who want to give romney a pass because who wants to be held responsible for what you did in high school, and it would be the same thing for blaming the president what happened when he was six. there's a big difference between

being six and 18. >> yeah. well, and the other thing is his policies are homo phobic bullying, and it is also is about character. >> yeah, big time. but what was the time line to right after he got out of high school when he went to france on his mormon mission that he is supposed to being a good christian person? >> uh-huh. how do you do what you do at 18 and then go over to france and proclaim yourself some sort of holy roller person that needs to be kept out of the vietnam war. >> yeah. i look at that. that's just wrong. that's awful. >> what? someone else's haircut? >> that's just appalling. >> yes. >> 29 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show" ♪

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way. >> you should know your place. >> certainly not at cranbrook. >> good heavens. >> sharon is miami. >> hello i was calling because i'm extremely proud of my daughter, we had dinner last night with my kids and parents, and i said did you hear the president came out in favor of same-sex marriage, and she looked at me like this is a non-issue for her. and my mom and i were trying to explain, you know, why -- >> yeah, you know what sharon isn't that the biggest deal is we have to explain why it's a big deal. i look forward to us becoming older and more crotchedy. >> that's driving republicans crazy, that there is lack of

outrage amongst the youngsters -- >> crank up the fake outrage! >> you have to hate these people! not those people, these people! >> you kids and your rock and roll 8-track tapes. >> yeah. god forbid romney gets president, and he tells the union they are going to have to take a haircut. [ screaming ] >> yeah. >> his original apology to -- brian kilmeade. >> first thank they arrange this would be bad, let's call brian kilmeade. these are not pranks, or high jinks -- >> they are assault. >> it's assault. >> yeah. >> even the people involved that helped him said this was vicious, this was horrifying --

>> the high school classmates told nbc news that he considers that particular prank assault and battery. >> the battery part comes from the fact that they actually hacked off pieces of his hair. >> and that could have easily gone awry. >> yeah. >> scissors and a bunch of guys wrestling around trying to hold him down. >> yeah, a mob. >> five classmates described the incident. according to the account -- i just -- even in the beginning of this romney mocked the students long blond hair recalling that he said he can't look like that. that's wrong. just look at him. seriously? >> wow. >> yeah, before chasing him, pinning him to the ground cutting his hair while he screamed for help. you know when it doesn't matter

what era you are talking about he is just full of bull [ censor bleep ]. >> yeah. >> nothing he says passes the smell test. homosexuals, we had no idea about those in the 60s -- >> that's bull crap right there. >> yeah. other students who were involved told the post they had been haunted by the abuse decades after the fact. romney said i don't remember that incident. >> but i do remember i don't think he was gay at the time. >> my friend trish is like he said what? [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> he didn't get his lies straight. i do remember he couldn't have been gay bashing because i know he wasn't gay. but i don't remember. his spoken person said romney had no recollection of the event in question, which seem

exaggerated. >> the "washington post" talked to three different people who were involved in the incident and they got the exact same story from all three of them independently. >> yeah. >> so that incident did occur as reported. >> yeah. yeah. i don't recall. >> i don't recall when i did that, but when i did if i did, then -- >> yeah, jay in sacramento. hello, jay. >> hey stephanie i love your show! >> i love you back. >> i just have a suggestion since mr. romney has a selective memory loss how about we get about ten log cabin republicans to show up wearing that same haircut. >> yes, there you go. >> and just standing there, and we can all watch on tv while mitt romney has an meltdown. >> yeah, there you go.

>> how about that? >> yeah, there you go. the other thing is it wouldn't be as relevant if their policies weren't also bullying. writing discrimination into our constitution, really? that's not bullying? and of course the house, what do they do immediately reacting to the president coming out for equality, cutting off funding for doma -- >> and they confirmed their support for the defensive marriage act. >> yeah. >> absolutely shameful. >> yeah. mark in boston. welcome. >> hey, steph, i love ya. >> i love you too. >> i just want to say this is like bad campaign management. why hasn't someone in his campaign said to him this is how you handle this, mitt you say, wow, i do remember that that

was really bad. i did some bad things in my life, but through my religion i have learned that that is the wrong thing to do. his campaign people are either stupid or trying to send a subtle message of it's okay to bully. >> right. you know, mark i think that's a really good point to. and the way they reacted to this -- it surely must be true. this obviously -- they knew this was a damming story and rather than as he just suggested say, that happened and i have really grown and changed since then, whatever -- but this is how he responds to everything he lies, equivocates. >> and then lies about the lie he just told. >> yes. >> and comes up with a third version of what he just said. >> margo in raleigh. >> hey, stephanie, i just love

your show. i just found you and it is great. >> thank you. >> yesterday on hannity he was saying in obama's book the first one he wrote about something he did to a girl that he dated -- it was a pushing kind of thing, and therefore -- >> oh god, here we go. >> -- he is being hypocritical. what they don't get is as an adult he remembered doing it, and he wanted to confession and show it was something wrong -- >> yeah, and first of all he wrote about himself. >> romney doesn't remember this because he has no conscious. >> right. >> and that's the thing, here they go again, the false equivalence game they play every single time. >> yeah. i also want to say i think one of the reasons that we lost the election here so badly is because they did it in a primary election, and they did that on purpose, because people

who -- if they were there to vote for something and saw the amendment would vote against it, but didn't care enough to actually get themselves out to go vote, they did that on purpose. >> i had heard that is it will activate the people that were really active about that issue. >> right. i know of three baptist churches in my area that have been marrying gays for 20 years, so there are many churches who support gay marriage gay rights, and welcome gays. >> i think those churches need haircut. >> yeah, and margo, you are right, had it been the same turnout that turned out for president obama in the last presidential election, i think you are right, the results may well have been different. >> yeah, most definitely. >> yeah. all right. yeah. >> and that's why this is also very savvy politically because

the youth votes really don't give a damn -- >> oh yeah, primaries. maybe they have awoken the sleeping giant. [ laughter ] >> i'm to tired to do my regular evil laugh. [ evil laugh ] >> thank you. hi, gene. >> morning steph. i have so much to say, first of all if you can, chris would load up the video clip where he said don't you have something significant to talk about? because he looks so rageful. this is a rageful man, and he looks like he is going to lunge at that woman. and then at the very end he looks like he is trying to compos himself, but he is still reaching out and trying to grab at her. >> yeah, no. it's what we saw in some of the

debates when he started to get angry -- first of all the core nation is taking entirely too long. when you say it's my turn, our ann romney say it's our turn. you get this sense of entitlement since he was yay high, right? >> yeah, and two other things. when i was in grade school in the 60s, in oklahoma the worst thing you could do is call a kid a fag or a queer and when he said you don't talk about things like that back then he is a liar. >> we all recognize bullying % and obviously now it has gone into social media and on line, as generations have evolved. but bullying is bullying is bullying, and we all recognize it no matter when we grew up. >> yes, and i have a young person in my life who is 18

years old, he is mormon he lives in utah, and accompanied a friend to the prom who is gay so the kid wouldn't get bullied. there are kids who get the difference between their own religious beliefs and how you treat other human being. >> every one else said this is the kid -- and romney is like oh, i don't remember -- >> yes. he has no character. >> and this job is entirely about character, have i mentioned that. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> this job is entirely about character. >> and sand. >> i'm andrew sheperd and i'm running for -- >> and leadership. and sand. >> it's always about sand. >> no. >> 46 minutes after the hour. >> inconceivable. >> it's a friday show on the

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sherwin williams. ask sherwin williams won't you. all right. there is another rich mitt romney douche show -- [ knocking ] >> he said does it bug you that you are portrayed as not hip that you can't sing? >> he said i can sing. i'll do a singoff with the president. he said i don't think i'll play a round of golf him but i'll take him to a boating trip. >> wow. hi, denny, you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hey stephanie. it's a good thing that romney isn't amish, because there is an amish gang in jail for

haircutting right now. >> oh that's right. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> the romney camp has approached one of romney's closest high school friends and asked him to give supporting remarks. the friend said he is still deciding whether he would help the campaign. he was not present at the specific incident. first of all it would be of limited value, right, jim. it would be like this is what mittens told me. hi, jan you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> chris if you could look up in the last couple of weeks, romney was interviewed by one of the major networks and the person asked him -- he and his wife well, would you -- going to the dog situation, that abuse, that's animal abuse -- >> right. >> but they asked him, well looking back would -- would you have done the same thing?

something to that effect. and he looked at him and did the jim ward laugh -- well given all of the controversy it has caused, i guess not! >> i had even brought that up. you are right, the dog incident same thing. it's animal bullying. >> yeah, and he not only was abusing animals as a child -- and don't overlook it, you guys stay on the case because kids who get away with abusing animals as kids, they grow up to be slashers as adults. >> yeah. >> chris wallace pointed out that was technically illegal in the state of massachusetts at the time. >> people can go this incident or that incident but when you have a string of these it does go to character. and don't talk to chris, he is

having a technical meltdown. >> i was just hooking up with madison, but john fugelsang will be on the phone with us. >> please if you are on the phone, please try not to bark orders at chris. he is very stressed out. not only starting from high school the dog incident, if you look at a time line bullyingbullying bullying -- bullying -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> -- this an adult bullying. he will push for an constitutional amendment to take away the state's rights to -- that's a flip flop saying it will be up to the states. >> got to keep the states from doing that. i hate the states. >> yeah, romney has played up

his pro discrimination stance throughout his campaign. he dug up an obscure 1913 law intended to limit interracial couples to keep couples from marrying. and then in in the boston globe about his homo phobic comments in front of a mormon congregation. and he denied it back then, people in the church -- >> congregation -- >> congregation at the time confirmed it. and he just denied denied. >> no, i didn't. >> did you see boner dodged several questions -- >> i think he's a rich douche too -- >> america cares more about bourbon. >> there is not enough bourbon in the world to get through this

presidential process. romney said they are going to make marriage a gay issue. do you agree with that? i want to stay focused on jobs -- >> focus on jobs and bourbon. >> and by staying focused on jobs, he means blocking all of president obama's -- [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> yeah, that's what he means. and then the house republican bullies, proving once again there is no day so historic it cannot be flawed bipartisan [ censor bleep ] fully they refused to let the tweets settle before moving on to ensure that the justice department could not prevent the amendment act. really? this -- you pick an historic day like this, and now we can't have nice things, you see.

>> yeah. >> let's go to mark in san francisco. welcome. >> hi, stephanie. >> hi. >> oh, gosh so many things. first of all thing you very much for holding mitt romney up to the ridicule that he so richly deserves, and i really do appreciate that -- >> it's easy -- >> i deserve to be rich. [ laughter ] >> about 30 seconds, mark, go ahead. >> all right. real quick just call me mr. mark that's my official roady name some day i'll call back and tell you a bunch of different things about roady life. >> ten seconds left. >> so we'll talk again, and one more thing, the definition of perfect pitch, that's when you throw an accordion in the dumpster and it runs right on the banjo. [ laughter ] >> little zinger from mark. all right. john fugelsang will join us

right after the break on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ [ theme music ] ♪ hello welcome to pants-free prank day here in the current -- >> news-plexo center. >> yeah. >> jim was miming shimming out of his pants. he is a prankster. >> i really don't have pants on. >> really? >> yeah. >> awesome. is there significant shrinkage -- >> everything is fine. >> all right. john fugelsang joining us for

the next two hours live in madison and then he joins us tomorrow night for the sexy liberal almost sold out, get it. have we run out of voices to introduce jacki schechner in. how about tom brokaw -- >> life from the news-plexo center is jacki schechner. >> it sounds like a drunk tom brokaw. good morning, stephanie, good morning, everyone. super pacs are own the verge of having spent a hundred million dollars this season. and the conservative outside groups have spent $91 million, while liberal outside groups have only spent $7 million. the pro romney super pac has spent $44 million so far. the contentious republican primary is responsible for the bulk of that spending about

$86 million as they push for one candidate or another. that would be the five top super pacs that were responsible for $86 million. open secret says there are 534 super pacs, and only 78 have spent a dime. the rnc is out with a new video where they are criticizing the president because he has forgotten the recession. >> the most destructive worse crisis that we have seen since the great depression. and sometimes people forget the magnitude of it. and sometimes i forget. >> they should have paid a little closer attention, because the president didn't say he forgot the recession, he said he forgets the depths sometimes. we lost 3 million jobs at the end of 2008 and how his administration has added 4

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there will be a student rush for $20. we're opening up some part of the mezzanine -- >> it has never been used before. not since the 1970s when ted nugent played there. >> this is going to be a great show. >> a lot of student requests. >> so again at 12:00 tomorrow. and there are a few, tiny little scattered tickets. don't be afraid to go alone. >> and it's me with stephanie and aisha, come watch me strikeout with both of my cohosts. >> you know there are a lot of steph heads -- >> yeah i think it's the fluoride in the water. >> yeah. i believe there will be steph head shirts available. >> oh, really? >> yeah. part of -- the sexy liberal

family, ray and bonnie in chicago, bonnie -- you remember bonnie and ray came to the chicago show and bonnie passed away last week -- >> oh, no. >> and this is how magical our friends '5 family are. ray said my daughter and her family will be at the show they have vip tickets and will interviews themselves. [ applause ] >> that's great. it was really special from our first show in madison, really the tour didn't turn into a monster until we got to minneapolis. that was just an amazing, amazing show. and just a little bit of news this week we can talk about. >> really? what has happened? by the way, here is a guess the quote who said while this may seem to an innocented prank by

some, it was an act of torment, all students should be afforded the right to learn and grow free of fear. who said that. >> willard romney? >> no that was a really bad guess. judy sheperd, mother of matthew sheperd. >> close, jim. >> this is not pranks or antics this is assault. >> yeah, and we have to stop using the world bullying. when you are talking about criminal harassment so severe it drives a kid to suicide -- not in this case, thank god -- but i don't think any of us should be judged by though worst things we did in high school. teenagers are mean. it happens. i'm more concerned about how much mitt romney hates gay people now. >> that's what i said. >> i love firing people. >> but you bring up a point, did

you read that whole "washington post" piece? this kid had a pretty sad life. and he talked about being scarred by this -- that's not all, but this wasn't the only incident in which he was bullied. >> you are exactly right. and this is mitt romney who wrote in that letter to log cabin, we seek to establish full equality for america's gay and lesbian citizens. >> yeah exactly. by the way could you make your organ out. john fugelsang this one for you -- i got to tell you, this is quite serious, people usually call dr. laura for bad advice in this case -- >> when you want the most spiritually unsound advise possible call the "stephanie miller show" when i'm around. >> wow. >> i will send you my bad advice. >> this is serious. this is from nor ma in arizona. stephanie you took my call wednesday i was overjoyed then

my president made me so proud and then my world fell apart. my fiance and i have been living together for 17 years and then he found jesus. the church said we were moving in sin, so he moved into the office. last night he came home sfr bible study and asked if i i heard what the president said and i said yes, couldn't be prouder. now the marriage is in jeopardy. not only have i love your show loved this man since i met him, i'm also disabled and 100% financially dependent on him. he doesn't vote and we really don't discuss it. i'm trying to decide whether being married to him is worth changing or hiding my bebeliefs.

>> listen, please -- you know send me your email address, because i want to send her videos i have done on this very topic, but jesus never said a thing about gay people. and you have got to use leviticus. i have talked about that a lot on your show. >> yeah. >> in roman st. paul is not talking about consental same-sex relationships. and jesus was never opposed to it. if your fiance is true he'll understand it's getting along with people. andy have to say this is how i feel and my opinions of loving our gay brothers and sisters are based on the teachings of christ. your opinions have nothing to do with the teachings on christ. this is really, really a sad story, and i don't want to see this end because this guy found a form of programming spiritually that works for him.

but you can't justify discrimination unless you follow leviticus, and if you follow leviticus, you have to stone your children to death for being bratty to their parents. we'll see a lot of this happening now. all week we have been dealing with a lot of people on the left saying welcome to the party. and i have on be the radio a lot -- >> a couple of people said why now? >> exactly. >> you can't do that -- >> and it's not liberal either, steph -- >> everybody has their own timing i would be the worst possible person to ask for relationship device. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> i'm staying quiet. >> john fugelsang is the person to ask. >> and the biggest piece of advice i can give is if he is

going this route because of christianity, even if he believes that being gay is a sin, as a christian it's not your job to judge. no marry couple agrees on everything. but you can live together, disagree on things and still grow in love and -- in faith, and have a strong relationship. >> that's theoretical for me, but i will take your word for it. >> me too. but one last thing on all of the lefties coming down on the president. maybe he was backed into a corner with a wedge and all of the republicans are boasting that he just lost to the election, and i don't think that's true. >> yeah you can see the difference in character when president obama and mitt romney.

this is what real character says, and cory booker who is awesome -- jim had an ex-topic pregnancy one day, and cory booker took care of that -- >> one time i needed bone marrow, and he took of it. he brought down the berlin wall. he did it with within fist. >> he said i think it puts the light on many people but haven't had the courage to come forward and say it. he said i respect the fact that he struggled with his conscious, and i don't see a political advantage in this i see a guy who was wrestling with his heart and though totally of his personal experiences finally brought him over the line. >> can i respond to that. i think he was wrestling with political reality.

>> exactly. >> a lot of people don't realize by opposing gay marriage barack obama was helping people. if bill clinton signed the act, everyone said he was awful. politic is compromise, and it sucks. it's a drag. but whether obama loses the election, and i don't think he will. black folks are getting behind him on this issue -- >> that's what a leader does, all right. john -- >> by saying this announcement the president saved lives. >> yeah. can you imagine john i cried with a lot of other people yesterday, there is a sitting president of the united states of america telling that kid sitting in kansas saying he is never going to have a good life serve his country or marry the person he loves. >> but also i think obama is going to get back the youth

vote. >> yeah, that youth vote is now reignited. folks it's going to be as much about marriage equality as the economy. >> and now the kids in the immortal words of robert dee anywhere row has, you know enthusiasm -- >> i get nowhere if the team doesn't win. >> all right. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: call the "stephanie miller show" now, 1-800-steph-1-2. >> we're still live. >> all right. enthusiasm. [ groaning ] [ laughter ] >> always get those movie references, little bit. >> little bit. [ belches ] >> that was on the mic. >> uh-huh ho.

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>> not really. >> not so much. ♪ if you're not into -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> this is my favorite song about two adults who are finding each other and they are already married. >> oh, i love andy barrowitz. the democrats tried to seize on this incident as evidence i don't like gays. i didn't go out of my way to pick on gay kids i was also a total -- to rich dids. who among was hasn't shoved a cripple kid down the stairs. >> or a blind guy into a door. >> you know mitt loves you when he straps you to the top of a car for ten hours. >> john fugelsang.

>> -- he serves the credit for the revival of the u.s. auto industry. how do you respond to that? >> well, you know, i think this is one of his etch moments. i don't think anybody takes that seriously. people remember his position which was let's let detroit go bankrupt, so had we followed his advise at that time gm and chrysler would have gone under and we would have lost probably a million jobs across the midwest. >> it was eric fernstrom, i'm getting a lot of credit for his speaking. >> yeah. >> last week i was doing guilded phoenix, and i was asked to sign three etch-a-sketches. it's so funny. >> again, lie, lie, lie. whether it's an a bullying incident, there are no private sector loans available to keep the companies afloat given the

disastrous stated of the finance world at the time romney played up his differences with obama much more during the republican primary and now it is his idea? what? >> he comes off like a sleazy used car sales man, and that's the only connection he has to the auto industry. >> and as we were saying -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> -- it's bush only worse. he wants to increase military spending compared to the pentagon's current budget, his budget would lead to $2.1 trillion in additional spending, and he plans on expanding the bush tax cut, and also has not said how he would pay for those. >> yes. he wants the rich to pay even less taxes, he wants the paul ryan budget, which is nothing but deficits for as far as the

eye can see. when you look at romney's platform it looks like he stands for two things. deregulating wall street even more and cutting taxes for the rich even more. it's bush economics all over again. >> and continuing to bully gays. >> it's the only kind -- >> even bush believes in civil unions. >> yeah, and romney used to. he used to. in that letter he wrote to the log cabin republicans he used to be -- >> tony you are on the "stephanie miller show" show. welcome. >> tony? all right. martha you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, martha. >> hi stephanie. this deal with the gay kid, you just don't do anything like that to anybody ever. and when he was asked about it

yesterday, he kind of laughed about it, so i guess he still thinks it is funny. >> yeah. >> somebody who doesn't have a conscious, there is a name for those people, they are called sociopaths. >> yeah, i said it is interesting how every single person involved in this even the ones helping him felt horrible abit. >> yeah. and on a corporate level he was a sociopath. when you came to your job and found out that bain just bought your company and you have been fired but you can be rehired tomorrow with no health benefits. >> yeah. >> 29 minutes avenue the hour back with fridays with john fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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>> awesome and then you will join aisha and i in minneapolis tomorrow. >> right? >> hi, dave. >> hey, momma, i'm so glad you are going to be in town. i'm going to have any meet and grope tickets -- >> and you previously handled me at a ball -- >> i did. and my ring tones is -- the background is me sticking my tongue in your ear. >> i can still feel it. >> maybe you should wash honey. [ laughter ] >> i'm a 57-year-old -- >> thanks for getting the wax out by the way. >> handling stephanie at a the blue ball can put you in a blue ball state. [ whacky comedy music ] >> yeah! >> i'm within of those guys we

can talking about. the whole thing with mitt romney is beautifully awful. i'm a 57-year-old man who is still -- every now and then thinks back to what i went through in high school, being called fem, i was called that in a little town called glenville d minnesota, and i was picked on because i was different. at that point in my life i didn't even know why i was different, i just knew i was. all you do is struggle to fit in and be normal and you can't understand why you are not. and then you hear about someone like this with all of this wealth and power -- >> and who's dad is the governor of the state. >> exactly. and you live with that all of your life. it does affect you. you always have this note of caution that someone is going to look at you and say this guy is different. let's do something to him. what happens now is everything

single person that has ever been bullied for any issue, or any other person who has watched on now when they look at the television screen and see that pasty face all they are looking at is the face of the person who has done that to them. >> yeah, he is sorry for the thing he doesn't remember doing. >> yeah, he is have sorry for the thing he doesn't think happened. christine pelosi. she's the chair of the california democratic party's women caucus -- chris lavoie has had a couple of roman flashbacks -- >> and talking to you carol fisher. i was not par of the joke. but with the mook here, i need a

confession. mitt romney put out a call for all of his high school friends to back him up. i'm putting out a call to you guys because if i were to run for president later, this would found very romneyesque. however, there is a difference between the person is in on the joke. >> yeah and mitt romney's friend said the kid was not in on the joke. >> so margaret, and jean, i am calling on you, because i think we were all in the same car. and my friend had a broken leg and was on crunching in buffalo and when we were dropping her off at her house, i pushed her into the snow bank and threw her crutches, but she was in on the joke. >> how can she be in on the

joke? >> high, steven hockey let's see how smart you are without your wheelchair. >> she was laughing and we only drove like ten feet and then came back -- >> you drove away! >> in the snow driving away makes it funny? [ laughter ] >> yes, and then we came back and i helped her back up -- >> of course you broke her arm. >> all right. i'm done with my confession. >> it's funny steph. you make a very good point, none of us want to be judged on the worst thing in high school -- >> who is we all? >> everyone was mean to me. but i did some mean things to other kids because you displace your anger and your teenage years is the last time you are allowed to be a cold hearted evil person and get away with

us, but for me it is a pattern in mitt romney's career. >> yeah, and some girls stay mean girls or mean guys or whatever they were in high school. >> and we didn't get to talk about this last week but when mitt romney's gay spokesman had to resign -- >> yeah. what kind of character does that show. >> if you are a gay man or woman and you are trying to make mitt romney the president over barack obama, you are a terrible horrible person. and you say i may be gay, but i vote my pocketbook. then you are an even more horrible person, because you are willing to let your brethren suffer. this is guy mitt romney who gave thousands of dollars to planned parenthood, and now lies about what planned parenthood spends their money on and is promising to defund planned parenthood. if you care about people with breast cancer and senior citizens and you vote for mitt

romney, you are a horrible person. >> hi, [ inaudible ] you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hi how, everyone. >> steph pushed me into a snow bank. [ laughter ] >> who is meaner? steph or romney. i just want to say it boils down to morals and character and having a social conscious and romney just doesn't have that. the fact of the matter is what he did was reprehensible, and there could not be a starker contrast between our president and governor romney. >> i heard president obama tried marijuana when he was a teenager. >> marijuana is natural, but rom-bot isn't. [ laughter ] >> that's the difference there. all right. and also -- also mary murphy put a cat kidney in my hair brush in science lab. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> why did you have a cat kidney

laying around -- >> it was dissection class. and she new i brushed my hair at the end of every class, and she put a cat kidney -- or something. kidney -- a frog kidney -- >> frog kidney -- >> even since we had to dissect a pregnant frog i have just blanked out all of science class. >> what did you and the pontilla brothers have to do? >> shhhh. >> hi, stephanie, you guys are so funny. i just wanted to make a couple of comments one about fox news and another about mittens, romney. the first one, fox -- i just happened to be at a friend's house a few nights ago, and he was watching bill o'reilly and he was talking about how will

smith said he agrees with hiking taxes. this country has been so great to him, and he is very blessed, and he would not have a problem with paying fore taxes -- >> yeah, what a jerk huh? >> and here is the shock, okay. bill o'reilly said that will smith is a patriot, because it was the patriot and pin head segment or whatever. and i was like wow, you he is a patriot, but you are against tax hikes -- >> so you went to bill bill's show to find consistency. that is so cute. >> trickle down worked under reagan at 50%, but doesn't work under obama at 36%. >> right. shirley you are on the "stephanie miller show." welcome. >> i have been a fan of yours since longer than you want to know. and i have loved you the whole time. >> thank you. >> love you more all the time.

>> oh. that's really the reverse of most of my relationships but thank you. just kidding go ahead -- >> no, i stand by you and i have waited a long time and i would wait longer. >> thank you. [ romantic music ] >> i have waited a very long time. >> okay. speaking about romney i haven't heard the word gay bashing, i haven't heard the word hate crimes, and i don't forgive that it was in high school. it's constant. he's -- he's a bad guy. >> yeah. >> and the emotional scars that this man has had his entire life -- >> yeah. >> he is not the same he will never be the same and this jerk will never be the same. >> yes, and his policies that he advocates now are institutional bullying.

>> exactly right stephanie. >> states could have their own decisions with regards to the.com owesic partnership rights, but my preference would be to have a national standard for marriage. >> that's american writing discrimination into our constitution. >> this is from a guy who's great grandfather left the country because he wanted marriage between a man and several women. >> exactly. 45 minutes after the hour. back with fridays with john fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." >> this is so amazing. it's all anybody in my class is talking ab! >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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everybody, of course? but alls well that ends well. >> biden walked into the oval office and said he was sorry -- >> yeah went to apologize -- >> when you have two cabinet members coming out in the same week -- >> i don't know, john. >> the guy has a little bit of control over what his staff does -- >> yeah. >> all of the reports i was hearing is he had -- as you said completed his evolution and was planning on saying something before the convention but this accelerated his timetable. >> that's what he toll you. >> i believe him. i love him. and he is handsome and romantic. [ laughter ] >> what he did was to advance the cause of civil rights in such a personal as well as presidential way that it's -- it's more important than any political consequences.

>> to heck with her what was crystal pay lengthy? >> oh, my god! wow. >> bristol palin is on the table now -- >> right. >> and sasha who by the way are not pregnant by the way. >> she has inserted herself politically into the conversation, so yes, she is absolutely fair game. >> palin -- boy, the apple doesn't fall from the duh tree. she writes let me get this straight, it's a problem if my listened too much to my dad, but it's heroic move when the

president changed his mind after listening to his teenage daughters. he should have explained to his daughters that while their friend's parents are no doubt lovely people, but we know kids do better growing up in a mother and father home. ideally fathers help shape their kids view. i guess we can be glad they aren't younger -- >> this is an unwed -- >> -- instead of reflecting what mean teenagers think after too many episodes of "glee." >> she didn't write a word of that. she is not that eloquent.

i guarantee. >> remember somebody criticized her and there was a homo phobic slur. >> david letterman should demand an apology. this is a woman who gets paid thousands of dollars, and she just slammed the president for listening to his own daughters. >> she said yes to putting her name on it. >> yeah, if it is written in her name, and she puts her name on it they are her words. >> now her kid brings sasha and milia into this because the president is mentioning them. >> yeah it's good to know that

hype -- hypocrisy and bad judgment go hand in hand. >> eric in california. you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> good morning. i want to say hello, to my son edison who is 12 and records all three hours of the show. >> his name is edison what a name to live up to. why not name him einstein. >> when this poor kid is in science class, what are you working on now, edison? must be tough to be a genius edison -- >> sorry it's bumlying day here on the "stephanie miller show." >> yeah. no, i agree with throwing out the worst thing you did in high

school, but, you know, it just sounds like there are so many things where even if you throw out the worst thing he did, there are still a lot of other worst things there. and he doesn't seem to remember a lot of stuff going on. >> yeah. >> he really is reaganesque. >> yeah, and why so little at attention of the deliberate steering of a blind teacher who a door. [ evil laugh ] >> what a jerk. i mean seriously. melinda in tacoma, you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hey, steph. so good to talk to you. >> you too. >> i can't wait for the sexy liberal show to be out here. >> my birthday show. >> and she gets so horny when she is in seattle. >> yeah, too bad we're not going to be close enough to get any dna on us --

>> the front 26 rows usually get drenched. >> yeah. >> okay. we have a chance. if the tables were turned if this would have been obama having this brought up on him he would have been called a thug, a gang member. >> oh, yeah. >> exactly michelle in los angeles you are on the "stephanie miller show." hey, michelle. >> hi, stephanie. i was okay at first until i heard about bristol palin, oh my god. i don't even like to talk about her, because honestly she is a non- -- nothing. but the audacity to sit up and talk about marriage. wait a minute hold on isn't she heterosexual? ant they religious? >> yeah, she was a teenage unwed mother who is an adult now and

she is making fun of kids. >> isn't that a harlet according to the bible? >> yes it is. >> isn't she a fornicate for? oh, my god. >> we weren't going to get all judgmentally and bibly. >> by the way' collieses and call mook romney said blatantly homo homophobeic things in can't of a congregation. >> and if you are going to have unprotected sex with levi you don't get to question anybody's judgment ever again. >> no, you don't. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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bank too? >> yeah. >> jacki's milk shake, ah she could instructor ah as substantial, ah, ah financial renumeration. [ laughter ] >> right. isn't that the weirdest one yet, jacki? >> do you know how long it took me to get that lipstick off? jesus all morning. let's start with a little republicans behaving badly this morning. christy has just set up exchanges that would let people shop for health care plans. he says that the federal government may not provide sufficient money for subsidies, it may be too hard for the plans to meet the qualifications, and then he says it may not be

constitutional anyway. if a state doesn't set up a working exchange by 2014 the federal government gets to come in and do it itself. mitt romney is trying to change the subject from gay marriage and his high school behavior to jobs and the economy. he will be campaigning today in north carolina, and then he is going to be giving the commencement speech at liberty university which is evangelical. excepts of the speech indicate that he will put a lot of emphasis on the family. there is a new "washington post" poll out this morning showing the public is split on the president's economic recovery program with 47% saying they are for it, and 48% saying they are against it. you know what we're for you

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>> yes good morning, everybody. >> hi, datety. >> good morning. >> this is the official dog walking bartender of the "stephanie miller show." >> boy howdy. >> i'm going to your show today. i'm so excited. >> i am so honored. this is very serious theater. there is nothing sexy or liberal about this. >> but you will be on stage, so it will be sexy. but i'm going with people that i met in the front row of the sexy liberal chicago show who live in madison madison, they said you are not going by yourself. you are going with us. >> oh the sexy liberal family. [ romantic music ] >> sexy liberal at the state theater, there are very few tickets left, so i would get them fast.

that was two hours ago, though. >> and wasn't there a student discount or something? >> at noon tomorrow there will be a student rush -- [ screaming ] . >> -- we open up the mezzanine -- >> and this rush will not call you a whore if you use contraception. >> hey! [ whacky comedy music ] >> aisha tyler, really funny lady too. >> the recently emmy nominated aisha tyler. >> for "the talk." >> that's right. good for her. i'm so proud. kids one of my favorite reporters, for example and for example, of the l.a. times joins us now. robin abcarian joining us now. hi, robin. >> how are you? >> i'm good. and we also used to do a little radio together. >> yes, we did back in the day. >> yes. we have been talking about this all morning like everybody has.

you quote some people like saying this isn't going to hurt him. but we were saying, unfortunately it seems like part of a pattern with mitt romney. these policies to me are adult bullying, when you talk about writing discrimination into the constitution, et cetera. what do you think? >> it's really interesting. i have gotten a lot of feedback from readers on this and i think it really does fall along partisan lines. i heard from somebody who said you know what, if you were bullied when you were a kid this is going to mean a lot to you, this is going to really persuade you. so i think it's sort of what you bring to the issue and whether you are a democrat or republican. people really are trying to minimize it on the right, that it but 50-year old antics of an immature high school student, but on the other hand he was 18 years old, and yes, standards

were different at that time but, i mean one of his contemporaries -- >> wait, wait robin. standards weren't different. whether it's today on social media -- we all recognize bullying, and for him to say homosexuals we didn't know anything about that in the 60s. please. >> i do think that was disingenuous, but one of the witnesses to the event said that, you know, sure we didn't have the vocabulary we didn't know the word gay, but we certainly knew about homosexuality. >> as you wrote robin this was a kid that was known for his quote non-conformity and presumed homosexuality. >> yeah, and i think it's disenagain wows that even though

it was 1965, which arguably was a worse period in time. >> yeah. but as you point out the other thing is this wasn't the only student. it was this closeted student in class that he used to shoot at-a-girl all the time. >> i think it would probably pretty difficult to be a gay kid in 1965 to be in an all-boys' prep school. but is this indicative of some character fall or can you say this hand when the guy was 18. he has changed. he has grown up. he is matured. he is different. he has apologized several times yet while claiming not to remember the incident. while claiming to have no idea

whether this kid was gay. but he said i did pranks. they went too far. i apologize to anybody i hurt or offended. so he knows that this could be potentially damaging and hi is trying very hard i think to finesse his way through it. >> uh-huh. >> and i don't know whether there will be lasting damage. >> i think as you say first of all, as a reporter it doesn't pass this smell test it's like i apologize for an incident i have no memory of. >> it worked for reagan didn't it? >> it's a -- probably a time-tested policy [ inaudible ]? some ways. but the alternative is for him to say, yes, i did it. i'm a horrible person. what was interesting is the way

the campaign handled it initially, which was saying everyone who knows him knows he doesn't have a mean bone in his body. instead of addressing what hand and what it was like in that school. and he clearly was the entitled son of the governor at the very top of the social pyramid. >> you point out that this one point in your story, one man said he wondered whether he would get in trouble, but no one was punished. in the end it is another story of a rich douche getting away with something that the rest of us wouldn't. >> yeah, the guy who wrote this story did such a good job telling about the story, because this kid who was thrown down and his hair was cut by romney, he

later was kicked out of the school for smoking a cigarette. >> yeah. philip maxwell told abc he witnessed the incident and called it assault and battery. it is funny how vivid it is for all of the other people and romney doesn't remember it. >> yeah. >> you said there are going to some that talk about high school, if you really think that is important, be my guest. you know what i do. i think what he did at bain was bullying. >> and what mitt romney did to this kid in high school would not bother me at all, if he said what i did was wrong, i know better now. my heart and mind is open and i

want to take care of our gay brothers and sisters. >> i haven't even been to aa yet, and i make amends to people all the time. [ laughter ] >> i think it's interesting that this is gay marriage week he did go on neil cavudo's show yesterday afternoon and completely reiterate his stance against gay marriage and wants a national standard, enshrining marriage as being between a man and a woman, so on this issue, his heels are dug in. >> yeah, he is against civil unions if they approximate marriage in any way. >> yeah, and he thinks states should have beability to define the rights that would apply to gay couples. so he said it's okay for a gay partner to visit a gay partner in the hospital, maybe another state doesn't.

advocating that kind of patch work to gay civil rights, i think is only going to firm up his support on the far right and the -- >> robin you mentioned character, and as i torture my cohosts all the time with american president quotes when he said this job is not partially about character, this job is entirely about character. and barack obama showed his true character. and this shows romneys. how do you think this will all play out in the fall? >> they are battling over the strife in the middle of the independents and moderates, and i think -- i mean -- i don't think we can know at this point how it is going to play out, but i will say this, the march of history seems to be on the side of gay marriage, and if you look at the polls and how they have changed and even in the last 20 years, it's a dramatic change in the people who are now

supporting gay marriage. and if you look at the youth -- i think it's like 25 and under, 60% of that demographic support gay marriage. so i just think you could argue that people who do not support gay marriage are on the wrong side of history. >> yep. >> because there is an inevitable march toward that in history. i don't think it is going to win him people he didn't already have in his corner. >> robin abcarian, you know you have been my favorite reporter forever, and i would ask you to marry me right now if it weren't for the fact that i'm and i am a loser. >> i know. it's so sad. i could make an exception for you. [ laughter ] >> thank you so much. [ applause ]

>> boy, she is great. and the american people are getting better. we're seeing evolution. when i moved to greenwich village in the '80s i wouldn't have believed there would be this kind of outpouring. >> i'm on a tear i'm all over the place. >> you asked courtney to marry you last week. >> in the current news room really? >> yeah. >> steph maybe some pro flowers would help you. >> that might put my name over the edge. never know. i can ignore somebody's straight marriage. [ mysterious music ] >> i can handle gay marriage but gay-straight marriage no way. >> john, hi my friend is getting

married, and we are going to your boston show to have our bacheloret party. whoo! >> i got a month to regroup. [ laughter ] >> all right. 18 minutes after the hour. back with more fridays with fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." >> this is brilliant. >> announcer: it's stephanie miller. >> all right. five minutes. [ recorded show playing in the background ] ♪ >> what have you got for the [ inaudible ] -- i'm sorry. >> 13-hold on. ♪

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>> he had produced a country album -- a country star like remake. it was successful but we had him in studio talking about that, and during a break, he turned to his manager and said, am i really here right now? is this really happening? >> wow. >> oh. oh. >> eugene handy or whoever it was, psychiatrist, pusher. [ recorded show playing in the background ] >> nice gentleman, but really -- >> yeah. not all there. >> no. ♪ >> they call me -- >> announcer: stephanie >> ♪ they call me hell they call

me -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ they call my name ♪ >> okay. got it. >> i call you monatmouse. >> all right. 25 minutes after the hour. bill, hi. >> good morning, steph mooks and john. >> hello. >> i would like to be the jay polish truck driver of the "stephanie miller show." >> oh, there are so many jokes in there, i can't even start with them. >> and an unhealthy crush on chris lavoie. >> get in line. >> am i allowed to call you a polelock for that, because i'm a polelock. >> yeah. i think we have to demand that

the media stop getting views on this from people like tony perkins. >> yeah. >> they actually make it look like there's credibility -- >> yes. >> by the way, we heard during a break, i don't know if it's news, but john is writing a book sort of like an idiot's guide to the bible, which is the best idea ever. >> ever! >> we need that book john. by the way the' kleeses and call mook here is causing a lot of people to confession. hi steph my confession when i was eight years old, i used to fill my water with water from the mountain and spit it on pipe the pumpkin outside of my

teacher's classroom. the funnened when one of the girls reported me. i was petrofied that i would be sent to our ghoulish wall eyed principal. i also felt guilt, shame, my question is if i can remember all of that in such detail why can't mittens remember this incident. >> i recall them as being zany hijinks. >> when you are bullying vegetation, that of fens me. >> yeah. britt writes momma and the mooks, i was playing my sand volleyball game, we usually get drunk before the game and then

stick around after the game for more drinking. >> the sand. >> thank you. i was stuck behind a very slow hummer with a bumper sticker that said "i stand with scott walker." i started to sing "i sand with stephanie miller." so while scott walker may be ruining wisconsin, he is getting more listeners. ♪ her boxed wine for a double and the jokes fell apart ♪ ♪ what a sexy liberal, who's radio show is so smart ♪ ♪ we will stand by stephanie miller ♪ ♪ because she's really not that old --

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maybe bristol needs to practice a little lesbianism and then the taxpayers won't have to pay for her illegitimate children. >> that's right. >> here is what leviticus has to say. then they will bring her out of her house and stone her that she will die. >> whatever! [ applause ] >> something else. >> it's almost like that book was written by insecure men. >> ya think? [ laughter ] >> let's go to clark in phoenix. >> hello. george clooney had a dinner last night $40,000 a plate, and i guarantee you every one of those people that bought a ticket

there have their accounts offshore -- >> you do guarantee that -- >> i can guarantee it, because it's how account acts set up people with -- >> i don't think you know that -- >> multi-millionaires don't throw money away -- clark -- >> and yet sir these are all multi-million neirs who are fighting to have their taxes raised to help the country. >> but the meantime they have their money offshore -- >> clark you don't know that -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> they may actually believe in america unlike mitt romney. >> mitt romney and bain do nothing different than what obama did with the auto bailout? >> oh. >> what? >> hang on a second -- you mean saving jobs is the same as outsourcing jobs? >> when you take over a company that is going to fail and you cut off parts of it, you employee some people while you reap the rewards. bain took over companies that

were collapsing. >> no in many cases not, the took over healthy companies and all they cared about was him sucking the profit out. >> they are rich -- i guarantee you -- you guys are just as evil and selfish as i am -- >> why do many of the right-wingers sound like drew carey. >> and why don't they modulate! >> they have to talk louder! >> all right. speaking of people that need a detroit rescue -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> yes, a communications guru posted this. stephanie miller fans angry at program change. by the way we are on many channels. he writes fans of the popular liberal talk show hosted tuned

in at 9:06 expecting to hear steph and the mooks, and they were angry to they had been released by some right-wing guy. they exploded with comments ranging from how they will never listen to the station to others. this happens to what happened when steph was replaced and the ratings fell 90%. bain capitol one of the primary owners of clear channel. i'm just saying a lot of fine clear channel stations have my show across the country, a couple of stations -- you know. stephanie miller is a big supporter of president obama. stephanie miller top-selling

comedy album, top-selling comedy tour -- please don't pay attention to me. she also trimmed current tv ratings, blah blah blah she is number 11 in the country. whatever. thank you, communications guru! i appreciate your fine americannecessary. >> you can connect us and let them know how you feel. >> politely. don't be rude. >> after you. >> oh, no you first. >> and do not threat tone give them haircuts. >> no you appear to have made only errors in your programming. here are a set of suggestions i have. anyway fundraisers all of this money for the president! president obama was here, yesterday in los angeles. $15 million. i am giving the wrong kind of

parties. i don't know what -- [ laughter ] >> he called his endorsement of marriage equality an obvious extension of his vision for the country. he is captain understatement -- >> a little bit. >> he said the truth is it was the logical extension of what america is supposed to be and we as a country gives everybody a and treats everybody fairly. earlier at a fund raiser in seattle, he drew cheers that american should be able to success no matter what you look like, what your last name and no matter who you love. [ applause ] >> the famous hope poster was an image of he and george clooney together. he said this is the first time george clooney has ever been photo shopped out of a picture. and it will never happen again. [ whacky comedy music ] . >> that's very funny. >> i know exactly where the

house is at. heading to clooney's house, children manned a lemonade stand with a sign that said president's drink free. >> oh. >> a our gay family says thanks mr. president. [ applause ] >> oh. >> oh. >> just handsome and romantic. wow wee, i used to try to climb the fence -- because they actually had the party on his basketball court, and i used to gawk at him and his friends playing basketball without their shirts on. i decided to skip this one because they had anti-terrorism unit and air support among many others -- >> yeah. oh, my god. >> i must have hit a breeze

yesterday. i decided not to brave that gauntlet. >> that sounds like a helicopter orgi. >> can you imagine what the neighbors said. hold it down over there. >> cher romney is a douche. she slammed romney and paul ryan. he said these people don't care if people starve, and then she got tolded by all of the concerned trolls. somebody said go [ censor bleep ] your old [ censor bleep ]. >> wow. that's one way of convincing cher you are right. >> and cher wrote back nice mouth, did you learn that on how to press your clown costume

class. and monica crowley wrote ouch. i bet you just lost half of your fans. cher wrote, thank god i have the half that things. [ whacky comedy music ] >> cher will always win. >> cher will [ censor bleep ] you up. i tell you what. [ laughter ] >> okay. let's go to -- let's go to diane in chicago. hi, diane. >> hi good morning. >> hi. >> i keep listening to -- and first of all, i applaud what you do. love the show and i am very proud that president obama gave his opinion, and, you know i am so tired of hearing [ inaudible ] he is going to lose his base and, you know, the black churches or whatever. i have gone to a black church all my life. one thing i can tell you is gay people are there.

>> what? >> nobody cares. >> they are everywhere. they are gay people! >> that just proves it's a conspiracy. [ laughter ] >> by the way, john, i'm going to come out a bumper sticker log cabin republicans, really? still? >> the log cabins art clark cooper was quick to discredit obama. really? >> yeah, that was a douchy move. >> calling it cold comfort and offensive, and callus. >> i know a lot of gays said it was very, very warm comfort. >> wow, you are saying that log cabin republicans are being illogical. >> they said -- he said that the president has chosen today when lbgt americans are mourning the passage of amendment 1 as callus? lgbt have a right to be angry,

that this calculated announcement comes too late. so you are going to continue to give your dollars to people that hate you. >> exactly steph. we care about gays and obama doesn't. so we're voting for a man that hates us. >> yeah. >> oh hey, ted nugent, in green county, the editor said an armed revolution will be necessary if the president is reelected. i have to say the editor's name because it is punch mcafee. >> it is not. you are lying to us and the audience. >> i tell you what! i'm punch mcphee. >> punch. >> christopher hecker was charged with a felony for threatening to kill the president. this is your republican party

today. [ applause ] >> punch. >> punch. >> mcphee. >> punch mcphee. [ deliverance music ] >> i bet he starts every sentence with i tell you what. >> i have an uncle that starts every sentence with i tell you what? >> and what they usually have to tell you is not good. >> no. >> all right. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> what in the hell is going on here? >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ down on the days top stories in search of facts that inform. >> we don't stop until we get answers that are truthful, serious, and not based on simplistic answers. >>we're here because we're independent.

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>> bristol is giving advise on parents and marriage? >> yeah. [ applause ] >> tony in texas. you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hi, how are you? >> good, go ahead. >> i think mitt romney is a coward like most bullies. >> yes, sir. >> bully is a bully is a bully. >> and satan is making a special room in hell for all of those guys who supported serving other people to vietnam but would not serve themselves. >> all right. let's dive into the right-wing world world. it's james dobson. >> praying even harder about

this upcoming election because there is so much at stake. marriage must be maintained. it's been in existence on every continent on earth since the garden of eden -- >> they weren't married. >> but wherever man kind has taken root marriage relationship between one man and one woman has been -- >> no. >> no. >> -- has been honored in law and practice. >> no. >> adam and eve were never married. >> the world has flourished in many places. >> you haven't read the old testament. >> personal comedy jesus? >> adam and eve, never married?

who performed it? the snake? [ laughter ] >> every society has documented same-sex relationships. sane people say this is part of god's plan. >> except for the 60s in the united states of america at cranbrook school. >> exactly. >> then there were no gays. >> no, just weird people we have to punish for being different with zany hijinks. >> this president successfully hid who he really was -- >> so this is not surprising -- >> this reinforces that he is radical left, no president has ever taken this position. >> yeah. >> and he was put in a box because if he didn't do it he was hiding his agenda just as he promised putin -- >> nobody puts -- >> barack in a box. >> yeah. >> wouldn't radical left be hey,

gay guys have all of the gay sex you want and you can never get married? >> yeah. >> here is gretchen carlson. >> president obama makes history, but is there tolerance for both sides or is he demonizing those who disagree with him now? >> what? >> he may have already -- >> is he demonizing those who are demonizing gays -- >> yes. you demonizing people who demonize people -- >> kind of those who were invading iraq were demonized by fox news. >> yeah. >> boys and girls are having their views formulated on gay marriage through the public school system, and that's why it is becoming generational. this is not what kids are being taught at home, and that's why you are seeing this discrepancy, younger people support gay

marriage, their parents and grandparents do not. >> rush limbaugh who is on his fourth marriage? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so we're talking about gay marriage. we're sitting here. we're minding our own business and they put gay marriage in our face for three four straight days. they have introduced social issues, and it's perfectly understand why they wanted us to shut up. >> the far right in north carolina introduced this amendment so the far right is the one that put it in your fat face, rush limbaugh? >> and what business were you mining in the dominican republic? >> this is a man who hires hookers, hates gay people and i hope his wife thinks about this. >> and john bolton.

>> our vice president made some news in the past couple of days when he said the following. we wanted to get your reaction, sir. stand by. >> when we took office let me remind you there was virtually no international pressure on iran. >> i think vice president biden should stick to gay marriage. the fact is there were successes, security counsel resolutions, including after i left the job imposing sanctions on iran. >> we could have a literally a secretary state john bolton -- [ screaming ] >> the building in new york has 38 stories, if you lost 10 stories today it would not make a difference. >> yeah that building is not the right height apparently.

>> won't someone stand up for the dick? really? >> get behind that dick. >> kids have a happy mother's day weekend, i want to thank steve again for sending me the squirrel singing walking on sunshine. >> that's so strange. >> yeah. it is awesome. [ applause ] >> okay. that is it for us. john fugelsang and i will see you tomorrow night in indianapolis for sexy liberal. tickets going fast. john is at the barrymore tonight with his one man show. >> thank you stephanie. >> thank you john fugelsang, i'll see your sexy ass tomorrow. and we'll see you monday back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪