>> stephanie: well, hello current tv world. it is monday morning which means a, i am -- >> drunk? >> stephanie: yes. do not go drinking with aisha tyler in minneapolis. >> she likes the scotch. >> stephanie: wow! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: and i met friends of yours and you can tell they're friends of yours because they have equally large man boobs much larger than mine. hello, we're friends of chris. >> one of them is an m & a

fighter. >> do you know what that means? >> stephanie: no. >> mixed martial arts. >> it is like boxing with an extra kick. >> boxing with with no rules. >> stephanie: like the republican convention. >> exactly. >> stephanie: i screwed that up because i'm -- >> drunk. >> stephanie: speaking of which, guess -- i went hiking and drinking. jacki schechner. wild woman. wild woman in the current news center. does she have pants on? i can't see her. good morning jacki. >> i made back alive. good morning stephanie. good morning everyone. no, supporting gay marriage does not make you gay but the cover of "newsweek" today appoints president obama the new -- excuse me, the first gay president. the photo shows president obama with a rain bow-colored halo over his head and refers to the article written by andrew sullivan. an excerpt shows sullivan defending the president's announcement of support of gay marriage as the culmination of three years of policy and not an

election year stunt. >> tony morrison called president bill clinton the first black president back in 1998. mitt romney may expect to have an advantage once he shifts the focus back to jobs and the economy and away from the issue of gay marriage but the obama campaign is out with a hard-hitting new ad that focuses on mitt romney's time with bing capital. the two minute spot is set to air today in five battleground states. iowa, virginia colorado, and ohio. it is online now. you can see it if you don't live in those states it features former employees of steel who lost their jobs, pensions and health insurance as bain capital ran the company into bankruptcy and cashed out with millions in profit. >> they made as much money off it as they could and they closed it down and filed for bankruptcy without any concern for the families of the communities. >> republicans are pushing from

a former advisor who is calling the ad unfair but at the same time the advisor says that romney never should have said he created 100,000 jobs with bain. we'll be right back.

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tyler in minneapolis. not that you'll have an opportunity to but if you should, just say no. >> single malt? >> she orders drinks i've never heard of. >> do you have -- i don't even know what she asked for. she knows every kind of weird fancy cocktail ever invented. thank you minneapolis! wow! what a show. what a show. chris, they say because i don't know because i'm -- >> drunk. >> stephanie: i'm told once again, best show ever. [ applause ] with aisha tyler off the hook. i would hurry and get tickets for boston because people were going crazy in minneapolis. it was a great crowd. what a fun show. dave in minneapolis. jean in minneapolis the official mental healthcare expert of "the stephanie miller show." thank you, minneapolis. >> what was the mental health expert's opinion of the show?

[ laughter ] >> stephanie: that it wouldn't exist if we all were healthy. >> you all are mental, i must say. >> you're completely mental, i must say. >> stephanie: boy, oh, boy. "the stephanie miller show." sexyliberal.com. there are audience pictures -- in honor of the president coming out for gay marriage equality, we had the first ever three way teabagging demonstration. >> aisha can't tea bag. she doesn't have the equipment. >> stephanie: there was something else happening i couldn't see. that will be on the inner tubes later. >> glad your mom come come to this one. >> stephanie: it was like a naked twister. i was on the bottom. who knows what was happening up there. that was their business, you know. i'm a small government person. not my business what was happening above me. >> oh, my god! >> stephanie: okay. all right. and then somebody said it was worth the price of the ticket to watch aisha and i do the double

gangster mic drop. [ applause ] i think it is a guy in the q&a made a joke about don't worry about getting dumped by your much younger girlfriend because parts of you are younger than her. bam! it was a triple smackdown. it is a joke about -- bam! >> but after you do the mic drop, you're supposed to leave the stage. >> stephanie: no. we faked then we came back. >> and hope the mic still worked. >> stephanie: right. hoping that wouldn't -- >> very sensitive mic. >> stephanie: we were giving the sexy liberal cause is marriage equality. minnesota's for one family. i can't remember the name of it. for marriage equality in minnesota. but i know -- i hope we didn't break the mics but we didn't. >> someone must love the gangster mic drop. >> stephanie: it was like a relationship. bam, i'm back. just kidding. >> hello! hello!

>> stephanie: it was fun because this is our return. i said so much has changed since i i was here last. the president is for gay marriage and marcus bachmann has gotten even gayer. if that's even possible. >> i'm iwoen no, i'm not. i'm swiss. no, i'm not. >> she's crazy. >> stephanie: have you ever noticed that? [cuckoo clock sounds] >> stephanie: his christian there clinic where he does the -- >> tennis rackets and pillows. >> stephanie: i did have to back him up on one thing. he's right. you're not born gay. it is minneapolis airport that makes you gay because if senator larry craig is any -- >> i love my wife. what do you think of that? >> stephanie: it is true. i was straight as an arrow on the plane. bjs left and right and then like the minute i hit

minneapolis airport, know what i'm saying? >> i don't think it works that way. >> stephanie: the minute i hit the bathroom, wow am i hungry. i've got to have some [ bleep ] immediately. >> um -- >> stephanie: you know how minnesota nice they are. that woman was immediately like okay, darling, there is's [ bleep ] right down the street. it's very reasonable. >> is it reasonable? >> at the radisson. >> stephanie: the one at the radisson. [ laughter ] >> ya! >> stephanie: oh boy, oh boy. so thank you minneapolis. what a great fun time. all right. you know who had the less of a fun time? >> who? >> stephanie: mitt romney got heckled at jerry falwell's -- >> conservative christians. >> stephanie: there was one god warrior. i think they said jesus is the only way mitt. something like that. >> she's not a christian! >> stephanie: a couple of god warriors. >> a god warrior? >> a lot of empty seats there.

>> stephanie: yeah. [sound of crickets] >> apparently the seats were empty out of protest. that's not the kind of place that encourages protests. >> stephanie: they're frowned upon in that establishment. >> conformity are us. >> stephanie: look at here. what do you call? josh romney got booed by ron paul supporters. got booed off the stage by ron paul supporters. >> that was a tad crowd. [circus music] >> stephanie: josh! >> that's like children of a lesser romney. >> stephanie:. >> stephanie:. >> stephanie: good one sparky or buckwheat whatever your name is. >> stephanie: we can't afford four more years of president obama said josh romney, the third of mitt romney's five sons. he had to stop repeatedly as people booed and asked for ron paul. >> they wanted him -- >> stephanie: now we got booed and heckled by a ron paul

supporter at the san francisco sexy liberal. although he was quickly drown out. remember that? what did he say. he was like oh, obama is a war criminal. vote for ron paul. he paid for a ticket. we were like -- [whatever] >> stephanie: please and thank you. >> we'll take your money. >> stephanie: we obviously talked a lot about the mitt romney teenage homophobic bully. >> yeah. ♪ ♪ long haired freaky people need to go outside. ♪ so they pushed me all around they didn't want to tell me why ♪ ♪ he said you look like you need a haircut now ♪ ♪ ♪ there might be some pain ♪ ♪ so ten years later the sky

quickly took over ♪ ♪ mine, mine, everything is mine ♪ >> stephanie: here she is, jean, the meant ath health expert. >> caller: hi, steph. you guys killed. >> stephanie: really minnesota nice crowd. >> caller: it was an awesome night. i mean truly you guys better with age like fine wine. >> stephanie: aw. we were saying the show goes so long when we have aisha because we're -- two girls, i could talk to you all night. you're so cute and funny. [ laughter ] >> caller: i just want to tell everybody who hasn't seen the show and i am the original steph head, the official psychologist for "the stephanie miller show" that this is my third show and it is an amazing show. and it really just is so totally

worth the evening. everybody who hasn't seen it has got to get to this show. i know have my boogidy boogidy cheese hat! >> stephanie: i have my shirt on today. the boogidy cheese hats. isn't aisha amazing? >> she is. >> stephanie: we started a panel. she was sitting too far away. i said what is this? a session regated -- a segregated panel? move over here! we were laughing about -- because we sat together on the plane on the way out. i was joking abouts i would be like robert hayes talking about julie haggerty arrive the break-up for four hours. >> pouring gasoline on herself. >> stop talking! >> stephanie: all right. and oh god. can i do one that's going to make me cry? because i have to disclose this. [magical sounds] >> stephanie: these people have to stop making thee cry. you know ray and bonnie were at

the chicago show. they own great lakes shoes amazing place, sponsor of our show on wpct in chicago. bonnie came to the march 3rd chicago show in a wheelchair on oxygen. she has since passed away. so ray and i have been writing each other back and forth. i read this letter. their daughter was going to be there. of course she was and we burst into tears and then we saw each other at the meet and greet. she's battling cancer, too. >> oh, my god. >> stephanie: anyway, but i just want to -- this is the kind of people that come to the shows. it is more than a comedy show. it really is -- they're incredible. she writes steph, it was fantastic to meet he you last night in minneapolis. during bonnie's treatment they realized laughter helped. a phone call from my parents always referred to something from your show. when i was diagnosed, they told me to listen to stephanie miller. ing about at your march 3rd show was important to bonnie and ray. the love you gave them after her

passing was an honor. you were mentioned during her funeral services. my dad was so happy to hear i got to see your show on saturday. ps, i know you'll find love, somebody to kiss your head. i wrote her back -- stop making me cry. because ray and bonnie were such an inspiration to me, not just for a love story but courage and just their daughter is the same way. that's what happens. all of these people are connected. we have people that go from city to city. other sexy liberals. see now i've gotta take commercial break so that i can weep in jim's lap. he likes it. you want it. 17 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: call stephanie now. she's easy. 1-800-steph-12.

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>> stephanie: it is mine and jim's business what i do in the bathroom on breaks. don't you mock us musically or mock our love. >> that was a little too fast for consoling. >> stephanie: i'll make it up to you later. >> what is wrong with you two today? >> stephanie: it is monday. it is our thing. 1-800-steph-12. >> because we're juveniles who write for "newsweek" and "time" magazine. >> stephanie: when i saw this -- >> "time" magazine had this woman breast-feeding her 4-year-old kid. i would have thought -- that was

cool when i was 18. >> i know you're desperate for readers time and "newsweek." first gay president? >> how about james buchanan? >> stephanie: he's rolling in his grave. spinning. >> his boyfriend referred to his aunt fancy. and secondly -- >> stephanie: i thought they didn't have gays until the '60s according to mitt romney. we didn't know anything about that in the '60s. homos, no! it is a little weird in that you kind of go is that offensive? maybe. >> if you support gay rights that, makes you gay. >> stephanie: because for parts of the country that's not a compliment. that's the problem. all right. dave in minneapolis. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi dave. >> yeah, mama. sure a nice show you put on. >> stephanie: for sure, you betcha. >> it was a hot patootie.

it was absolutely fantastic. >> stephanie: good to see you at the q&a thanks for not fleeing the interview. [ laughter ] >> caller: what did you say? >> stephanie: i said thanks for not fleeing the interview. >> caller: oh, yes. >> stephanie: don't you start boggling me. >> the wood chipper. >> anyways i almost tripped on one of those chairs. very bizarre setting we had to put up with. but i brought my partner. he had never heard you before. he had never -- only when i told him, i think he doubted half of what was true. but afterwards, he went she was really funny. the whole group, they were great but i just got one question. why does she lay down on the floor so much. >> stephanie: i'm napping. >> caller: that's the only position she's used to most of her life. >> stephanie: oh, dave louise. >> you were so teeny tiny.

i wrapped my arms around you twice. >> stephanie: you're such a big huggy bear. new partner is cute. way to go. let's go to mike in chicago. hey, mike, welcome. >> caller: steph, hey, mooks i talked to you guys since you've taken over current. >> stephanie: we have taken over current. it was a hostile takeover. >> caller: the best news, no one talked about it. bush, cheney and rumsfeld were found guilty of war crimes in malaysia in kuala lumpur. no one has been talking about this. let me read this to you. the second kuala lumpur war crimes tribune alfound bush, cheney, rumsfeld and all of the legal advisors guilty of war crimes. at this point, the trial held in malaysia's capital city featured testimony by people who were tortured and at this point they can go forward to the international criminal court the united nations and the

security council. additionally the tribunal has requested the names of bush, cheney and others be added to the commissioner's register of war criminals. >> stephanie: wow. we won't have time for that here because we're too busy with the john edwards trial which is much more paramount. yeah, he's a dirt bag but really? >> campaign finance problems. how about the koch brothers? talking about campaign finance reform. >> stephanie: you were right. that would be better to hear tom brokaw report that. >> falling asleep. >> there were a lot of ls in that paragraph. >> stephanie: tribunal in kuala lumpur in malaysia. >> stephanie: diane in palm springs, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning, steph. i just wanted to say to you guys this morning that i am really upset at the so-called black preachers who are coming out that -- one said he won't vote

for obama because he made his personal views known. they had a big scandal with a preacher down in atlanta. no one spoke out against it. he had a big scandal with the president of the national baptist association whose wife found he was having an affair and burnt his house down in florida and they said nothing about that. come on. we're not a one-issue community. >> stephanie: no. that's exactly right. it is the same thing diane it doesn't matter race. those who protest the loudest story after story like that, right? >> right. i can't sit up in the pulpit on sundays and preach about being good and forgiveness and fairness to god and then vote for this man because he made his personal views known. come on! that's so hypocritical. >> stephanie: exactly. the good news in the first poll, majority of americans say obama's gay marriage endorsement won't affect vote. 60% said it won't affect their

vote. 20% said they were more likely to vote for obamaers obama versus the 13%. >> this really only affects black religious conservatives where it could be a problem. it is a win probably in every other way. >> stephanie: if you parse the numbers, approximately half the less likely group are republicans who won't vote for obama. among ind independents, 63% said the evolution makes no difference. the one thing they're saying, figures suggest his gay marriage position is likely to cost him more independent and democratic votes than he would gain in independent and republican votes clearly indicating it is more of a net minus than a net plus which a is what makes it courageous in the first place. however the figures underscore it is a relatively limited group of voters. fewer than one in ten republicans or democrats whose votes may change. we'll talk more about that and rude pundit. 29 minutes after the hour. "the stephanie miller show."

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i'm an african-american female. i can tell you right now i couldn't be more proud of the president and i think that he is still going to get a significant amount of the black vote. probably more so now than he did the last time. >> stephanie: wow. >> caller: he is going to get the independent voters because at the end of the day it will still be about the economy. and also, i'm not sure if you guys have checked it out the web site that the obama administration pulled up called romney economics. and it tells about his dubious practices at bain capital and how -- it was about gaining wealth and eliminating jobs. at the end of the day that's what it is going to boil down to. romney has to answer for bain capital. he will have to answer for the offshore bank accounts. >> stephanie: i think you're right. even already today, it is back to the economy the discussion. and mitt romney's record on that. because look, there was a memo that came out, a top republican pollster advising the republican

party to embrace gay marriage. not that romney isn't timid on everything but the timid iity of his response knows they're on the wrong side of history right? >> caller: exactly. back in 2004, the whole marriage gay marriage issue was a wedge issue and they used it to re-elect bush. that's not going to work this time. i think that the american people have wised up to the tactics -- >> stephanie: you're right about television. of course they're going to find the black minister that will vote against obama now to make this a big story. but i have to tell you i interviewed my black best friend aisha tyler because as a liberal, i'm required to have a black best friend. typically racist way skid her what do all black people think of this? she had just come from a meeting and she said they're fine with it. [ applause ] >> stephanie: okay. it is monday. >> the rude pundit.

♪ good morning. >> not very minnesota nice. >> stephanie: that's just rude. good morning, rude. >> good morning. >> stephanie: speaking of rude, i love your mitt romney always the bully because everybody of course had their take on this -- i mean it really is interesting isn't it, a lot of people say what you did in high school ought to -- except like you say, if it hadn't been so -- it is now reflected in his policies. and this particular story and the way he handled it is what put a spotlight on it, right? >> right. first of all, he didn't just come out and say okay, look, i did it. i'm sorry. it was well, if i offended anybody. dude, you offend people every day! >> stephanie: right! but as you say as with many things about mitt romney it is hard to believe he was one of those pampered boys because he would get raped by the ghost --

took out his young adult hormonal rages through pranks. so he treated a nearly blind teacher like mr. magoo. talked him into walking into a door with the urging of other prep school boys. it is two homophobic incidents right? >> it is a couple of homophobic incidents, the yelling attagirl which, according to the other -- the people that were interviewed, apparently the teacher even at times yelled attagirl. so, really a fine unconstitution there. i think really eminem was right about it. >> stephanie: you point out the same thing. at least two acts would be considered felonies. >> right. you take out a police badge and you use a police flashing light pull somebody over and threaten them, that's kind of a crime. like it is a serious crime.

and the cruelty of these pranks. >> stephanie: the other one was assault. >> right. the other one was blatantly assault. you're being held down. imagine the terror this guy went through that he just -- and he was already somebody who was depressed, we learned later in his life. he had problems with depression. but he's a closeted gay guy at this prep school and now he's being held down while somebody comes at him with scissors. >> stephanie: can i just say also, kind of a [ bleep ] ass assault. when you have your buddies hold someone down, it is -- it's like that scene in the godfather here i go where they -- the police captain has them hold michael so that he can hit him. [ applause ] i'm not saying he deserved to get shot in the throat. >> it is the lamest version of the thugs in clockwork orange, for instance. >> yes exactly. >> instead of having a cane,

he's walking around with scissors. a little derby. ♪ i'm singin' in the rain ♪ >> instead of tampons they have scissors. >> stephanie: i think we should stop with the movie references. >> we're culturally educated. >> stephanie: you made a good point. you gotta wonder, there is an emayor ta, like a frat not talking about hazing. if the mult in.sources were able to talk about what a bucket of [ bleep ] romney was they must hate him on a visceral level much like everyone does as an adult. maybe it is because romney was even then an out-of-touch reletist who judged people on their wealth. >> that was another nice detail in the story. that he kept asking -- i don't know if it was that story or the times story that he kept asking people about how much money they had. >> what their dad did. >> where they lived. >> stephanie: i had somebody e-mail me that said that he

taught summer camp with kids that went to cran book there and he said it just nauseated him to hear their parents comparing their ferraris. so hey -- >> stephanie: i was in college. i worked at a camp for overprivileged children like that. yeah, same thing. >> you just want to -- >> stephanie: horseback riding lessons, one looked at me and said we have a horse. i know how to do it. okay. sorry. >> just want to punch them in the chest. just hard punch them. >> cut their hair off. >> you have a horse. >> now you've got a broken chest. >> stephanie: i told you the story. i had to drive the bus and one kid said i can't go to camp today. we're going to europe instead. i was like sure, okay. >> why did he need to tell you that? >> stephanie: i don't know. >> because he's better than you. >> a bus? i'm used to the concorde, bitch! >> stephanie: you say another

good point here, someone shows the story where romney stood up to someone more powerful than he that's what happened at bain capital. [ applause ] >> what did bain capital do? it bought smaller companies and they simply pushed them around and squeezed as much as they can. they asked -- he asked for their lunch money and then threw them aside. >> stephanie: the other thing, by the way, not that this is a shock to anyone, there was a betting pool on how long -- how many days he would be for gay adoption. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: less than a day before he flip-flopped and said i'm for gays adopting, no, i'm not. >> i hadn't heard that. that's brilliant. that's great. hey, let's talk about his horse for a second. >> only came in 16th. >> you know, it is really a shame when somebody who is so proud and full of money gets to the finals and then fails

completely. >> stephanie: aw! me thinks after the election he will be in the stall com comcomforting each other. >> ra fall ca is taking a ride on the roof. >> stephanie: he has to ride on the roof of the plane on the way back from europe. >> the new pink slime. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: we obviously talking a lot about the president and historic week coming up for marriage equality. you say as a political cal dulation, it diminishes mitt romney in ways that make him seem microscopic in stature. it energizes progressives enough to get in the game again. you say as a symbolic gesture it is like the -- as only you can, it is like the first time guy you're crushing on invites you back to his place for a beer

and a [ bleep ] job. >> always exciting. >> stephanie: only you can compare the tipping point and the civil rights battle of our generation to a beer and a [ bleep ] that's why we love you. >> you know what? the only thing that would make it better. three stooges on the tv. >> oh, look! >> a wise guy. >> stephanie: have you ever yelled out his name? >> no, curly jo. >> one of the lesser stooges? >> you know, i figure he doesn't get the love that curly gets. >> stephanie: i have to say to have a favorite line in the rude pundit column that you're talking about i believe the national review. how they talk about obama. and you say so now they want obama to be seen as once having been hopey the change negro who has been transformed into blacky the panther. hopey would never have used osama bin laden's death in an ad. don't we all miss hopey.

don't we all hate blacky? [ applause ] >> that's awesome. >> stephanie: i have never heard hopey the change negro. >> hopey the change negro is the funnest care bear of them all. >> stephanie: yes. he's much better than that scary blacky the panther. >> blacky panther is going to stare at you mean. just like gargamel. >> stephanie: we'll see you next week. love you. >> bye. [ applause ] >> rude pundit. >> stephanie: 45 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: there's a tea party in her pants and you're invited. call now 1-800-steph-12. >>we're here because we're independent.

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>> announcer: stephanie miller. >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 49 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number. eric boehlert from media matters at the top of the hour to cohost right wing world. debbie in miami you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> hey mama. >> stephanie: hello. >> caller: i just wish you guys would come down here for a show once or twice. >> stephanie: we did ft. lauderdale. you missed it. come on up to boston next month. come on. >> caller: i just got laid off. when i got laid off, i was so happy to see that you were on tv make sure i wake up at 9:00 every morning. just to watch your show. >> stephanie: hate to get you up so early.

>> caller: that's okay. i had an issue with you. you said something about chris having man boobs. >> stephanie: well they're sturdy ones, yes. >> caller: i think he's hot. >> stephanie: he is. i mean like rock hard man boobs. the good kind. >> caller: all right. [ applause ] >> someone defending you. >> you get up at 9:00 in the morning. that is tragic. >> stephanie: yikes. >> jacki schechner is in the current news plex going -- [screaming] >> stephanie: i get up at holy [ bleep ] o'clock. guess who we booked in hour number three? our healthcare expert, jacki schechner. all right. by the way oh, so the three-way teabagging with me, aisha and hal is up on sexy liberal facebook. someone said wow the first three-way interracial tea baggage. >> you won't see that at liberal

university. >> maybe you might. >> stephanie: somebody writes when will we see this on current tv with steph chris and rebecca? i don't think we're ready for that. joe in minneapolis. your owe on "the stephanie miller show." >> good morning, steph mox just wanted to say thank you to you and becca and rolling for getting me the tickets to see your show saturday. my wife and i had a ball. >> stephanie: well said after the teabagging demonstration. >> there was more like four of them. we had a good time. it was wonderful. we got to see fellow sexy liberals right next door and have a few cocktails before the show. >> stephanie: the state theatre told us this was the highest alcohol consumption of any show in the -- my people. these are my people. that's all i'm saying. we are party people. wow! we've never sold this much hootch in the history of ever!

somebody posted on the teabagging picture oh, lord, what the heavens did they do tonight and where do we send bail money to? does the itchy kitty have an atm? sherrie in philadelphia, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi, steph. i just have a brief observation. >> stephanie: all right. >> caller: jenny diamond mitt romney give us a moral lesson every time they speak on tv. that object lesson is it is no longer a sane strategy to be an honest human being in america. >> stephanie: yeah. you know, you gotta read the piece on bain capital and what they did there. by the way speaking of total lack of principles, i mentioned this to rude. mitt romney supported same-sex adoption for one day. that's not the record. >> hello, i lied. >> stephanie: he said originally he was fine with same-sex couples adopting

children saying that's something that people have a right to do. by friday afternoon, he was backing away from the position suggesting he merely acknowledges that many states offer same sex adoption. >> i think all states but one allow gay adoption so that's a position which has been decided by most of the state legislators and legislatures rather including the one in my state some time ago. so i simply acknowledge the fact that gay adoption is legal and in all states but one. >> you didn't. >> stephanie: what a weasel. >> i mentioned that it exists. >> you kind of said you were for it. >> no. >> stephanie: somebody told him ahead of time he's not for it. >> that was rit mominee. >> stephanie: wow, what a bunch of serious homophobic douches. did you hear about rand paul? >> yeah. >> stephanie: it is unbelievable. senator rand paul, the united states senator, at the -- the faith and freedom coalition meeting in iowa.

>> recently weighed in on marriage. and you know, he said his views were evolving on marriage. call me cynical but i wasn't sure his views on marriage -- [ laughter ] >> what's that mean even? what? >> stephanie: a, it is using gay as a pejorative. didn't think his views could get any gayer. >> must be really hard at it. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: what is this? eighth grade on the republican side? >> he's a sitting u.s. senator! >> shame on him! >> stephanie: we were talking about this saturday night. really literally is the most racist sexist homophobic primary i can remember. i was saying once again the bullies, all of them. that's why chris christie didn't get in. they would have killed the fat

kid with a rock. when you see his code name as piggy, you know it is time to -- >> he hasn't gotten in yet. some people feel that chris christie's veto of some healthcare reform thing in new jersey -- over the weekend. >> stephanie: pick me. >> was a signal to romney. pick me. i'm on your side. >> stephanie: pick me, please! pathetic. jordan in florida on romney. >> caller: how you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i was listening to what you were saying about romney and how he's not for gay marriage and i've always been pro-gay marriage but i think you should be entitled to your opinion. but he has to remember that his grandfather fled to mexico because americans didn't like the whole having multiple wives. >> stephanie: he thinks it is rude for you to bring that up. >> caller: i'm sure he does. i'm sure he doesn't like it when anybody calls him on this. >> stephanie: yes, don't say

it. we call [ bleep ] on him. exactly. let's go to jeremy in chicago. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi sharemy. you're calling on polygamy as well. >> caller: i am. i guess my question, i lean more toward conservative than liberal ideology on the political spectrum. the whole -- gay marriage question, for me, i'm all for equal rights for same-sex couples. >> stephanie: equal financial rights? >> that's romantic. >> caller: well, i'm not talking about romantic. >> most gay people are talking about romantic relationships not just sex. >> caller: no, i understand that. i totally get that. but i'm saying for me, my big problem with gay marriage quote-unquote is the redefinition of the term marriage. i guess my question -- >> stephanie: it is not redefining it. it is expanding it to include everybody. >> caller: okay. so going on that then, my

question is at what point is marriage -- how far do we expand it? for example -- >> stephanie: slippery slope train coming. >> caller: no, it is not a question of a slippery slope. i'm curious what a quote-unquote liberal or progressive definition of what is the -- what is the cutoff point? >> stephanie: would you hop on the polygamy train? we were waiting for that. >> caller: if we're talking about consenting adults then is polygamy, does that fall under the jurisdiction of the -- >> stephanie: no. no, it does not. because marriage is between two people. i think -- >> caller: but why? >> stephanie: all right. too bad we're out of time. >> because the bible tells me so. >> stephanie: there you go. >> and other doris day songs. is it? >> not a doris day song. >> stephanie: i was wrong on that. well, quay serra serra. eric boehlert next on "the

stephanie miller show." >> stephanie: oh, hello. it is how we communicate during a break. it is just monday whining. that's pretty much all you've missed. getting ready for hour two on the big radio show. eric boehlert from media matters coming up. i'm going to guess without looking, just vaguely homophobic right wing world. >> little bit. >> little bit. >> i said i'm a little bit. >> stephanie: okay. all right. >> i got things. i got things. >> stephanie: we also have

representative joe courtney from the great state of connecticut talking about -- oh, you're kidding. the republicans are being obstructionist douche nozzles this time on student loans? a little bit. then in hour number three healthcare expert/super newswoman jacki schechner. i will be able to hear her unlike now when i can't see or her hear but i have to look into the camera and say here's jacki schechner in the current news center. >> good morning, stephanie. good morning everyone. "the associated press" is now reporting that ina drew, the chief investment officer at jpmorgan chase is retiring. that after the bank lost $2.3 billion in a bad trade late last week. two other top executives are expected to be gone in the next few days. resignations being used. the "wall street journal" says that losses could top $4 billion when all is said and done. ceo jamie diamond has been on crisis communication overdrive over the weekend calling his bank's behavior sloppy and

stupid. while jpmorgan chase didn't lose taxpayer money it did lose its own money. the big mistake, he's turned the spotlight on to financial reform in general and the vocal rule in particular and specifically how lawmakers could close loopholes that would allow financial institutions to take these kinds of risks in the first place. in other news, a new poll in wisconsin has republican governor scott walker out in front of tom barrett by 9 points. the two will face off in the walker recall election on june 5th. talking points memo is keeping track of an average of polls in wisconsin and also has walker out in front by seven. there was a state convention this weekend of republicans in wisconsin and the focus was on voter turnout. also, there was conversation about how the recall election june 5th could set the precedent for the november election for president. and the defense will start today in the john edwards trial. ed warses is charged with using close to a million dollars worth of campaign funds to hide his

affair with rielle hunter. no word on whether edwards himself will take the stand. we'll be right back after this break.

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800-745-3000 or by going to the wilbur theatre box office at tremont street in boston's historic theatre district. that's the stephanie miller sexy liberal tour on june 9th. it is sure to be both wicked and awesome. >> wicked hot. [ applause ] >> stephanie: the pictures are up at sexy liberal facebook of the first ever three-way interracial teabagging demonstration starring john fuglesang, aisha tyler and i. in honor of marriage equality, by the way stephaniemiller.com dwight in sterling, virginia with a point i hadn't heard. steph, i think you and the media are missing a point that mitt romney bullying the man. he was running with scissors. do we really want to trust our country to a man who runs with scissors. thank you. good point, dwight. [ applause ]

>> stephanie: monday, my favorite time of the week. eric boehlert from media matters for america doing the lord's work as usual. ♪ hurts so good ♪ ♪ come on, baby -- >> announcer: eric boehlert. >> since i stepped into the right wing world. >> stephanie: eric boehlert is from media matters. ♪ hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: good morning eric boehlert. your tweets, my weekend pleasure, i must say. you write right wing logic obama's diet as a 7-year-old must be vetted. boys in high school, cannot be discussed. >> the bullying from last week created a rather comical problem for the right wing media particularly the bloggers because they're obsessed with this whole vetting -- obama wasn't vetted. they never wrote about his past. et cetera, et cetera. media matters and others have pointed out probably no president and no presidential

candidate has been written about as much as barack obama. but -- >> stephanie: you made a really good point. for each passing day, right wing media becomes more hilarious. romney doesn't question the story. >> that was one of the many problems. romney basically said, you know, yeah, i think it probably happened and i'm not going to question it. he did not question any of the facts. no one from the campaign contacted "the washington post" and said it wasn't true. the problem is they had five sources for the story. four of the classmates on the record. no one is questioning the story. the andrew bright bart site posted 18 responses to "the washington post" story, a story the romney campaign does not question. >> stephanie: yeah. >> so this tells the detachment from reality. they don't care whether the facts are in doubt. they don't care if the romney campaign has a problem with the story or not. it is all about whipping each other into a frenzy. so the first day, there was sort of this minor outrage.

and by saturday it was just this non-- unstoppable tidal wave of venom. it is amazing. >> stephanie: you put it perfectly. the same type of partisan -- they're the same ones who spent years obsessing over his birth. suddenly think reporting disturbing incidents from romney's high school days is out of bounds. >> they went back to obama's birth certificate. what kind of school did he go to? what did he eat? remember a couple of weeks ago. oh, he wrote about eating dog as a young boy overseas. all of these things are very, very important but the romney story suddenly is out of bounds. the romney story we're told is a waste of time. and why is "washington post" -- why are they wasting their time writing about romney's high school years. if you go back, you can find the long stories in the

"l.a. times." you can find the long stories in "the new york times" about obama's high school days. it is called vetting. every presidential candidate, it happens to all of them. basically the right wing is saying go bonkers go crazy on obama. overturn every fact about his youth. by the way, you're not allowed to write about this very disturbing and well documented assault that -- romney apparently led. >> stephanie: i don't know if you're a betting man but i sense you might be over -- he would flip-flop on the support of same-sex adoption. it lasted one day. >> lasted one day. that's par for the course. it really was fascinating and it really did show this so-called conservative media criticism. it is detached from anything. it is really like i said just about playing victim and really is just sort of whipping each other into this media-hating frenzy. it takes a couple of days. but you know, this romney story was a hitch hob, it was a smear

it was a disgrace. oh and by the way romney doesn't question any of it. we've never seen anything like this in a campaign before. >> stephanie: let's dive into the right wing world. karl rove on fox and friends on "the washington post" story. >> this is a sad day for american journalism. we're talking about high school pranks that may or may not have taken place over 40 some odd years ago. this was a sad commentary for a once-great newspaper. >> stephanie: yeah. great to hear karl rove talk about dirty tricks and bullying. >> this is a guy who rode the swift vote veterans to victory in 2004, smearing john kerry's war record, making stuff up. he's upset about journalism. and truth telling during a campaign season. you know, it is a disgrace for "the washington post" to have five sources for this news story. look, this was -- irregardless of what the topic was, this was

a great news story and by all accounts, it was not handed to anyone. this reporter went out and found it and tracked these people down and talked to them and got them on the record. when was the last time any controversial story had five sources? it is almost unheard of. it adds to the irony and it adds to the fact that the right wing attack on journalism doesn't have anything to do with what's produced. it is a right wing attack on journalism. >> stephanie: the fact that it happens on fox news, questioning journalism. here's megan kelly. >> there are questions about the accuracy. >> i'm sure they're not happy today to have this controversy this furor growing over a story that was not -- this was not a story that was crying out to be told. it was a story that they enterprised and thought maybe it would be interesting and they could get something out of it and get some eyeballs. at least they got eyeballs. i doubt this is doing a great deal to bully up their credibility.

>> stephanie: hmm. they're talking about shotty journalism. >> fox lec schruering "the washington post" about credibility in journalism. i don't think fox news uses five sources all week in a single story. so again these people, nothing imploded. nothing controversial about the story. the facts are today as they were last week. it is probably one of the most talked about stories of the campaign. again, it was surprising. it was detailed. and it was all essentially on the record. that is good journalism. >> here's my concern. if this is what we're going to do to candidates, george, who's going to want to serve or put their name on the ballot if they know people will be dumpster diving in your high school or prep school. >> check your war record. >> let's review briefly what the right wing bloggers did to barack obama during the 2008

campaign when they quote vetted vetted"barack obama. they claimed he was igniting bombs at columbia university. they claimed he was the son of malcolm x. they claimed he was born in kenya. they claimed he had gay sex in a limousine. they claimed michelle, his wife found out about a girlfriend of his and had -- she had her exiled to some island somewhere. i mean suddenly, they're concerned about the dirt the republican candidates have to deal with? where was the silence in 2008 when these people were not digging up concocting out of thin air -- >> stephanie: there is a new one from right wing media. chris or jim told me this morning. barack obama and rahm eman well go to the same bath house. >> jim saw that online. >> it is nice the republicans are suddenly concerned. >> stephanie: journalism remains intact on the right obviously.

all right. you know what? let's take a break. we'll come back. you gotta rest for a minute before bill donahue. >> oh, god really? >> get your strength. give eric a little -- he's winded. 17 minutes after the hour. right back with eric boehlert and the rest of right wing world. >> i'm known for having a twisted sense of humor. >> announcer: it is "the stephanie miller show."

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♪ the princess is here ♪ ♪ everybody get on the floor ♪ >> stephanie: 42 minutes after the hour. >> don't ever say that again. >> stephanie: eric boehlert from media matters in the sidecar to continue right wing world. bill donahue from the catholic league on the fox business channel on marriage equality. >> marriage is about children. nature has ordained and nature's god that only a man and a woman can have a family. gay people have been disqualified from nature. why would a society not take its social ordinates from nature? why would we want to run against nature? why not work with nature? >> okay. a, my first question is why was this on fox business channel? what does this have to do with business? >> stephanie: i can't continue the interview because i've been disqualified from nature. [ buzzer ] i've been naturally selected.

>> the only good news is the wake of announcement last week is donahue is just sort of the -- the last gasp. we don't really hear that much of this sort of un-- naked hatred of gay people in the context of gay marriage. even the far right media anymore. so they were upset. obama was conniving or manipulating. it was a charade. we didn't hear. donahue is so alone. that's the only good news. >> stephanie: you've heard this memo sent out. a top republican pollster is advising the party to embrace marriage equality. >> six years late. they're getting the message that the tide has turned on this whole thing. >> isn't forced celibacy being disqualified from nature? >> you know, there was also some whining, i saw online that fox news wasn't mad enough about the whole gay marriage thing. and why have they given into this -- you know, this socialist

agenda or this agenda. so the tide has turned a bit. donahue is even more ridiculous. >> stephanie: the machine only goes to 9. they can't get it to 11. >> news corp., as a company has actually excellent domestic partnership benefits. >> just like as a company they're pretty good on green issues. but it doesn't always transfer on air. >> stephanie: sean hannity hasn't gotten the memo yet. >> it is snowing in the winter. it is al gore joke here. rush limbaugh on the president. >> see how easy people get played? see how easy the media narrative or template to create and have everybody fuss. all of these people writing checks today. do not know he's been all over the ballpark on this. for the most part, 2006, he said he's for it. he's nothing but a john kerry, i

was for it before i was against it. >> stephanie: nice try. your candidate mitt romney, not a flip-flopper at all. >> not exactly all over the place. he had a position i think he articulated in 1996. this is different than that. it is not like he's gone back and forth odd years, even years. limbaugh didn't unload on the issue itself. it was again obama has been lying to us. he hasn't been telling the truth. it is all about money and things like that. they don't really attack the issue head-on. >> stephanie: i think, you know, andrew sullivan who writes the piece in "newsweek" this week, i think for the most part, people think it was pretty honest evolution like most americans. reflected in the polling. i think people have recognized that authenticity as opposed to say mitt romney. >> and he's also not the first politician to change his mind on an issue. again, the full outrage machine

there was a lot of heavy lifting to get that thing cranked up over this issue. >> stephanie: our final sound byte, a new feature called proving eric boehlert's point exactly on the whole vetting issue. mike huckabee. >> he seems to forget how he got into college because we've never learned. there has been this speculation the reason he didn't release records is because he was able to get there on scholarships based on the need for being a foreign student. he seems to have forgotten what courses he took. and what kind of grades he made because we don't know. >> we don't know he's not a martian. >> stephanie: they give that out as a lovely parting gift, the presidency of the harvard law review, right? >> anyone can get that. especially foreign students. it all goes back to square one. what was the most spectacular vetting effort of the 2008 campaign? obama wasn't born in this country. he was born in kenya. he's foreign. we're going to send someone to

indonesia to find the birth certificate. all of this nonsense. they have the audacity to claim that no one ever looked into obama's past. they looked into it. they couldn't find anything so they spent a lot of the making stuff up. >> stephanie: talking about mitt romney in high school is an outrage. eric boehlert from media matters. always a pleasure. see you next week. >> stephanie: all right. there he goes. [ applause ] let's go to elaine in arizona. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi elaine. >> caller: hello, stephanie. >> stephanie: hello. >> caller: i'm so glad to be able to talk to you. i've been listening for a long time. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: listen, i'm really tired of student counselor and -- i'm a school counselor and administrator. had mitt romney been in my school, i think i would have had to suspend him because had that child -- just based on saying he was different, the kid was white, blonde hair, what if that

had been a child of color? what would he have done to the child? that's the question that we need to -- >> stephanie: i'm guessing that there were no children of color at the cranbrook institute in 1964. >> caller: i know, stephanie because i had to work in schools where there was the beginning of integration. i was the school counselor and a lot of work had to be done on talking the children -- develop relationships based on this friendship and not color. >> stephanie: it is part of the same thing. different rules for the top 1%. didn't matter what he did to the governor's son. different rules for different people. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show."

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the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that. >> you're not a jaguar. >> she's a cougar. >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. the president last week. the president last week. >> you should be able to give your kids the chance to do even better than you. no matter who you are no matter where you come from. no matter what you look like. no matter what your last name. no matter who you love. >> what a socialist. >> stephanie: we played bill donahue, the red wing blowhole, catholic league blowhole. pardon me, my mistake. >> you do understand the

catholic league is that one guy. >> stephanie: it is the one blowhole. he changed the name of it to that one blowhole. so we'll be better able to identify it. he was saying that gays, it is unnatural because marriage is only for having children. paula points out steph if for marriage and no children, rush is against nature. >> forced celibacy in the catholic church sounds pretty unnatural. >> about as natural as a hollywood breastess because they're all fake. okay. megan writes steph the one thing that's driving me crazy about the marriage equality issue is that it alters the original definition of marriage. it is the transfer from one family to another cattle.

>> complete with a dowry. >> i speak for all of us when i say -- andrew in california, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: how you doing stephanie? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i'm an educator and a victim of bullying when i was in middle school and high school. romney's apology to me sounded very insincere because what i would have liked to have him him say is yes i did that and i regret it every day of my life. i would like to take this opportunity to speak out against bullying and if i was president, i would try to have a national initiative to wipe out bullying. he's a coward. he would rather not face the issue. the president is courageous and faces an issue. >> stephanie: did you read charles blow his piece in "the new york times," mean boys? he makes exactly the point you're making. this was an opportunity to talk about this. first of all, the fact that he laughed.

at first when he was on the radio about it. >> consistent narrative in one sentence. he was saying well i don't remember that's ever happened. i take their word for it but i didn't think he was gay. well, which is it? >> stephanie: you do remember that you didn't know he was gay. you're right. first of all, he clearly responded by lying. and that's what i'm saying. some weird disconnect he was laughing. even if it didn't happen which it clearly did with that number of witnesses. you know, the fact that you're chuckling over it like oh, it is funny even now. makes me chuckle warmly. remembering the tears in his eyes. >> if you were truly sorry and embarrassed about the incident, you would not be chuckling. [theme from jeopardy] >> stephanie: there is so much wrong with romney's response, i hardly know where to start. if a haircutting ins dent happened as described, it is not a prank. it is an assault.

second, honorable men don't chuckle at cruelty. if it happened his explanation of doesn't remember it is a searing account that it would have been more so in the doing. how can such a thing melt into misbehavior. how can it echo even now? >> bill donahue. >> no, charles blow. >> don't say is that who he is. that would be homophobic. [jeopardy theme] >> who said it isn't a real apology? even if no one felt hurt or offended, if you feel like you've done something wrong, you can apologize on that basis alone. this would have been an amazing teaching moment about the impact of bullying if romney had seized it. that's what we would expect any adult to do. charles blow in "the new york times." great piece of mean boy. [jeopardy theme playing] >> stephanie: who said while i have real reservations about holding senior citizens to

account for what they did in high school, i have no expectations for a candidate for president address the mistakes they made. there was a malicious streak at the core of the high school boy. romney's muddle and confusing explanations and half apologies emphasize there's something missing from the core of the man. who said that? >> random task? >> it was jennifer aniston talking about brad pitt. bonus round, people understand regret. romney may have been applauded if he had chosen to express to redeem himself. he didn't. he chose obliviousness. romney has an uncanny act to turn a bad thing into a worse thing by failing to be forthright. >> who said that? >> no, not the cat. charles blow in the new york times. mean guys. all right. oh, here's the love letter. i forgot. this is very important. i don't know if you remember on friday, when we had my personal comedy here. we got a serious letter from norma in arizona.

♪ >> i didn't know he was an illegal. >> stephanie: jesus kicking comedy names and comedy ass in minnesota. we got a serious letter on friday. serious person the fact that someone was asking me for relationship advice. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: thank god i had back-up and john was here. it was very serious. she's been in love with this man living with him for many years. about to get married. he became a born-again christian and when they talked about the president's being in favor of marriage equality, he wasn't sure if he could marry her. he had to get counseling about that. she's partially disabled and depends on him financially. john, we talked about it on the air. and gave some advice. it is a happy ending. >> oh? >> in a romantic way. not a dirty way. >> it might have been in a dirty way as well. >> stephanie: john spoke bible to her. norma writes steph, thank you

for reading my letter and the response. i think you've saved my relationship. >> stephanie: i might as well do it for somebody else. i dvred -- the show and was able to play it for my fiancee. he heard my e-mail and what was said to him. he said he may have overreacted. well i thought it was time to tell him my daughter since he has raised since 1 and a half years old and calls him dad the 18-year-old came out to me. oops, there was a bonus round! >> didn't know about that part. >> she said on the phone to me, does he know i'm gay? he does now. no wonder i'll have her back. long story short you may well have saved our marriage. maybe on the sexy liberal show, we can get straight married. >> getting straight married is so rare nowadays. >> stephanie: it is exotic. >> okay. >> stephanie: mitt romney.

>> there is no greater force for good in the nation than christian conscience in action. >> stephanie: that was at jerry falwell's -- >> that university, he's not a christian. >> stephanie: he got heckled. [screaming] >> stephanie: jesus is the only way, mitt! [screaming] >> stephanie: awkward. let's go to justin in tacoma. hi justin. >> caller: hi, steph. love the show. i just wanted to call in about -- we were talking about the issue with the romney bullying in high school and cutting the kids hair off. >> yes. >> eric was saying how the campaign hasn't -- the family of the victim said the story isn't entirely accurate. reason being, the guy wasn't gay. >> stephanie: no. that's inaccurate. guy was gay. the guy did turn out to be gay and the family hasn't said anything. thank you wherever you heard that. thank you for whatever web site

you got that off of. >> everybody who was interviewed for the article had the impression this kid was gay. >> stephanie: that kid -- >> they attacked him because of his -- for his gayness. >> stephanie: he was gay. it was in the entire "washington post" story. he has since passed away. >> he's not here to fight for himself. so all of this is kind of speculation now anyway. >> stephanie: all right. maurice in norfolk virginia, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: how are you? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i have another angle in the whole same-sex marriage issue. when amendment one passed last week with the vote, i've been hearing a lot of news outlets basically use it as an indicator that president obama's going to lose the state of north carolina. even though i read a report that he eclipsed romney by like 125,000 votes in the primary vote in north carolina. i just wanted to get your opinion on that. >> stephanie: well like i was

saying, the media's job is more to look for a story line. of course they found the two black preachers that won't vote for obama now to use that as an all black people won't vote for him. and again, i don't think the latest polling shows -- 60% polling they just did said it had no effect on their vote. i don't know. but i assume most people are not single issue voters. this is telling. top republican pollster advises party to embrace gay marriage. that should -- george w. bush's pollster. memo sent out by republicans pollsters making the rounds, the party needs to embrace gay marriage as part of its platform because of recent trends showing increasing support for this most important social issue. should be fighting for gay marriage like ted olsen the brilliant piece in "newsweek," the conservative case for gay marriage emphasizing freedom means freedom for everybody. >> the memo contains polling

data not only support of gay marriage increasing but it will be open to gays and lesbians and hospital and visitation rights. yada ya d.a. he explained how they can support it as a conservative issue. this will be hilarious if mitt romney flip-flops because they're saying -- any pollster can look at that and go this is an avalanche. we're losing this issue and they're talking about in terms of polling this issue has gone -- very accelerated pace compared to any other issue. i'm telling you, mitt romney is going to be like that was always my idea. right after the auto bailout i always said marriage equality. >> i really think it is energized obama's base that left him in 2010. >> stephanie: i didn't think i could get more energized. >> you're quite the energy -- >> stephanie: wee! the energizer bunny. 45 minutes after the hour. >> announcer: god, what did you have for breakfast this morning?

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friend, woody. he writes you are a very good-looking young lady. however -- >> young lady. >> stephanie: it gets better. we know it is not woody allen if he considers you young. >> stephanie: however your brainpower is in the wrong direction. you should be right not left. i learned me mistake 20 years ago. >> bless his heart. >> stephanie: my brainpower is in the wrong -- i haven't learned me mistake. i can see clearly now -- >> the rain is gone. >> stephanie: wait for it. wait until you get 50ish you'll see. [magical sound] >> i'll let you know when i ever get that ancient woody. do not be fooled by young darling, your new friend, woody. >> stephanie: i'll check back in with you when i'm 50ish. >> that face-lift really paid off, didn't it? everyone thinks you're less than 50. [ buzzer ] >> how many procedures have you

had? >> a bunch. >> tommy -- someone pointed that out at the q&a in minneapolis. many parts of me are younger than my last girlfriend. tommy in north carolina. here on "the stephanie miller show." hi tommy. >> caller: hi. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: i was debating mitt romney's antics. it became obvious he was hard wired at a young age to take advantage of people who -- i mean he walked a blind man into a door. >> stephanie: i have to say that was one of the most disturbing things to me. particularly the way they describe his reaction. giggling furiously. by the way i forgot i have some more -- give me some comedy music because i forgot. gail collins a piece from "the new york times." more pranks we haven't heard of. >> more pranks and hijinks. >> stephanie: talk amongst yourselves because i probably shouldn't have said that until i

actually had located it somewhere. >> oh, dear. >> stephanie: okay. let's take another call while i find that. >> you won't pay attention to the call. you just admitted it. marty, you're on "the stephanie miller show." welcome. >> caller: good morning. i have two questions. the first question is i have both the boogidy boogidy cheese shirt -- >> stephanie: uh-huh. >> caller: the sexy tour shirt. i don't know which one to wear to columbus in august. >> stephanie: i would go with the brand new sexy liberal one because that will be -- in columbus with us. >> boogidy cheese is kind of aisha's thing. >> would it be possible to get the other one autographed? >> stephanie: absolutely. august 18th, columbus. >> you sneed help over there? >> i've got it. nobody help me. mama's got it. >> this is quality television and radio. >> stephanie: how is it different from rush limbaugh -- it is in the stack somewhere.

>> you need to -- >> stephanie: my producer is real and not fictional. hard on television to have a fictional producer. all right. >> never seen snerdly. >> stephanie: in "the new york times," he has a long-standing long-standing -- invited to the wedding in which his wife was one of the braids maids. romney livened up the afternoon by snitching the grom's shoes and using nail polish to write help on the soles everybody could see it when they knelt down to say their vows. >> i'm sure the bride sends him a thank you note for that every year. >> stephanie: during the clinton administration, romney protested when he was handed a red visitor's badge with the letter a. er he should be wearing the scarlet a not me.

the staff didn't find that funny. >> it is always funnier when you repeat it several times. >> during his stint in france, romney entertained a home sick and edgy young fellow missionary by coming to his door and wearing a sheet and impersonating a french terrorist/bandit. >> that's not funny. >> stephanie: the teacher whose students enjoy making fun of his poor eyesight was walking with romney. when they came to the glass doors, he swept his hand to indicate the second set was open as well. get the can of laughter ready and laughed hysterically when the teacher smacked into the closed door. [ laughter ] >> he's blind. >> stephanie: see how that's -- >> did he take the crutches away from a crippled kid? >> what a douche. >> stephanie: rhonda in atlanta, georgia you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: i was calling about

the slippery slope guy. the keyword in the term marriage equality is equality and the reason that polygamy is not on the slippery slope to legality is because marriage between two consenting adults doesn't bring with it social problems. polygamist marriages do. in utah, there is a whole system of social service agencies that have been set up to help quote-unquote lost boys. and these are preteens and teen boys that the male leaders of these families kick out. like at the age of 12 and 13 because they don't want the competition for the younger women. so if you were one of these young women and you had a choice, however slight the choice was to marry somebody, who are you going to pick? the fat old guy who already has five, six, seven eight wives or the young man with little or no baggage? >> stephanie: rhonda captain slippery slope they always forget that there are things that are already illegal. no, you can't marry a child. no, you can't marry your

daughter. no, you can't marry a goat. >> because marriage equality means a partnership between two equals. >> consenting adults. >> the women are subordinate. the girls are property. social problems are created. that's why mr. slippery slope guy, this is not on that slope! >> stephanie: there you go. he will forever be known as mr. slippery slope guy. >> nanny nanny boo-boo stick your head in doo doo. >> marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. >> and wives. >> not what your great grandfather thought but oh well. >> frothy is back. frothy the santorum. >> i think all states but one allow gay adoption. >> not that one. we're skipping to rick santorum. >> this is a very potent weapon for governor romney if he's willing to step up and take advantage of the president who is very much out of touch with

the values of america. >> stephanie: mm-hmm. okay. jr in new york on romney's speech. hello, jr. >> caller: how are you today? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. kale you played an excerpt from willard's speech at liberty. he said something about the fact that christianity is the most important thing and blah, blah blah, whatever he said. it is that about christianity. first of all what does he know about christianity? he's a mormon. secondly -- >> stephanie: somebody pointed that out to him. a heckler. >> caller: why doesn't he convert? >> stephanie: because he was trying to have it all ways. that's the basic fact. i'm not saying -- the people in that audience don't think -- >> but the people of the lds church could worship jesus as their lord and savior so it is a christian sect. >> stephanie: back with jacki schechner, superwoman, healthcare expert as we continue on "the stephanie miller show."

>> stephanie: oh, hello current tv fans. here we are getting ready for hour number three in the big monday show. representative joe courtney is going to join us to talk about the republicans being -- i know, i know it is shocking, obstructionist douche nozzles on student loan rates letting the rates double. that ought to nail down the youth vote. >> thanks, republicans. >> stephanie: then we're going to talk more about the marriage equality debate. bristol palin's thoughts as someone said who cares what the daughter of some failed vice

presidential has to -- never mind. [ laughter ] >> never mind. the rest of the show is canceled. [ laughter ] guess who we have booked for after the top of the hour. healthcare geek, newswoman extraordinaire, jacki schechner. first here is your first heaping helping. >> brace yourselves. good morning stephanie. good morning everyone. ron paul is not going to catch mitt romney in delegates and become the g.o.p. nominee but earlier this month, we told you his loyalists have a strategy where they're trying to make the road to nomination tougher for mitt romney by blocking some of the delegates on the state level and it seems that strategy may actually be working. talking points memo reporting today that paul will have a sizable presence at the republican national convention in august and likely could roll enough delegates to put his name up for a floor vote. there is also the question of what pro paul delegates will do once they get to the convention. paul and romney supporters

clashed this past weekend both in oklahoma and arizona. the paul campaign says it does not condone a hostile takeover of state delegate conventions and paul told cnn his efforts are not aimed rather to disrupt the national convention but rather he wants to have an impact on the party platform. pr reporting we're already starting to see the impact of new voter regulations in florida. with more than 80,000 fewer new voters compared to same time four years ago. republicans passed an election law that has multiple time-consuming steps to registering new voters. instead of ten days to hand in new forms canvassers only have 48 hours. they have to check and recheck and then submit within two days. groups like national counselor are going ahead with their voter registrations and the obama campaign has set up some 27 field offices to help date

volunteers on how to comply with the new laws but league of women voters are taking it a step further. they're challenging the rules in federal court. we'll be right back.

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serious, and not based on simplistic answers. >>we're here because we're independent. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it's "the stephanie miller show" show. ♪ i'm walkin' on sunshine ♪ ♪ i'm walkin' on sunshine ♪ ♪ and it's time to feel good ♪ >> stephanie: thank you, minneapolis. six minutes after the hour. do not go drinking with aisha tyler in minneapolis. that's all i'm saying. she orders alcohol i've never even heard of before. she orders the fanciest of

cocktails. >> i don't think she orders cocktails. i think she just orders good scotch. >> stephanie: no, she ordered something but i don't know what it was. we were drinking wine and everything. sexy liberal on facebook. there are pictures of up of the first three-way interracial teabagging demonstration. >> she also enjoys a good cigar. seriously, she does. >> stephanie: thank you minneapolis. are you referring to her cracker, her husband? 1-800-steph-12 the phone -- looky here, another unsolicited testimonial. i sent flowers to my mother-in-law. she's a tea party type. i'm hoping by having typed stephanie in the box some super secret process will drive it from her brain. the money i sent to whoever michele bachmann's opponent is won't be canceled thought time. [ applause ] >> stephanie: all right. devon writes steph current needs an app for listening to your show live rather than a podcast. people in the south can only hear you on tv. i need to take you on the road

with me. chris lavoie, give him the fun facts. current doesn't have an app. >> there are lots of apps where you can listen to "the stephanie miller show." i heart radio, tune in radio or stitcher. you can listen to the show on stitcher. all three of those among others are ways you can listen to radio.com has an app. you can listen to "the stephanie miller show." there are lots of ways you can get an app. >> stephanie: current does have a lot of fancy exciting things. here's one of them now. oh, my god. for the first time ever, i can hear jacki schechner. >> good morning, stephanie. good morning chris. >> good morning, jacki. >> good morning. >> stephanie: i understand that the people at current are working on the fancy audio that i will actually be able to hear you. >> there is a soup can string thing. >> stephanie: we could just do walkie-talkies, you're right. so we got to go for my patented friday hike and drink on friday --

>> it is not actually drinking while hiking. >> we did wait. >> stephanie: seconds after we were done hiking to start drinking. >> it would have been more fun had it been drink than hike. >> stephanie: one of the many things i found out about the fascinating persona of jacki schechner is you are a big healthcare geek. >> huge dork. >> stephanie: what did you do -- you were at cnn then tell us what you did before you went to current. >> it was the national communications director forhealthcare for america now. it is rcan. >> this is what happens when i know fancy healthcare good geeks. global push to guarantee health coverage leaves u.s. behind china, mexico and otherú countries far less affluent working to provide medical insurance for all citizens. it is viewed as an investment. >> imagine that. we have a real problem here because we have the for profit

health insurance industry, right so they don't actually provide healthcare services but they make money out of our healthcare services. >> spend a lot of money on big fancy signs. >> exactly. we've got the problem here all over, the corporate interests trying to make money off of something that should be a guaranteed right to the citizens of the united states. >> like they do in those socialized medicine countries. >> you make the point i've never gotten. it should be a right. shouldn't it? when your house is burning and you call the fire department they don't ask if you have insurance. how is this something that shouldn't be a basic right particularly in a country like america. >> because we have all of the corporate interests who make so much money off of it. what's happened over the years is they have so much money to lobby against changes to our system that would allow us to have it be somehow a part of our social fabric. and so it comes into play where the big insurance companies even the pharmaceutical companies, some of the medical conglomerates have too much invested to be a wholesale

change that would actually take care of our citizens the way i think we should. >> stephanie: does this article make you as mad as it made me? i think it is another example of how -- backwards this republican party has become. how regressive they've become because literally, the first paragraph, even as americans debate whether to scrap president obama's healthcare law and his promise of guaranteed health coverage, many far less are moving to the opposite direction to provide medical insurance to all citizens. that says it right there. we finally achieved this here and the republicans want to roll that back. >> what's astonishing to me is i don't think healthcare reform should have been a reform issue. when the company denies you it doesn't ask when you're a conservative or progressive or republican or democrat. they say we don't think we want to pay for this or is it experimental or we need additional 17-step approval process to get you covered covered for something that should be included according to your policy.

there's nothing in health insurance reform or healthcare reform depending on how you look at it that should be partisan either way. unfortunately -- >> stephanie: this was bob dole's healthcare plan. this is what i mean by how far right the republican party has gone and how that's such a huge impediment. if you as a american pick up the story and read china after years of underfunding healthcare is on track to complete a three-year, $124 billion initiative projected to cover more than 90% of the residents people start self-deporting to mexico. i'm going to self-deport to get better health insurance. mexico which covered less than half its population just completed an eight-year drive that dramatically expanded mexican's access to life saving treatments to o access for treatments for leukemia and cancer. wait for it, jacki. in subsaharan africa, rwanda and

ghana, two of the world's poorest nations are working to create networks of insurance plans to cover their citizens. we're getting faced by ghana. >> that doesn't bode well for us. one of the things the article went on to say is in the electoral process, it is a positive in india and chile, for example, in those countries if people run on the issue of healthcare or they stay away from repealing any sort of healthcare because it is what people want and like. and then there's the economic concerns of course. >> stephanie: i was just going to say. the dean of the harvard school of public health saying this is a global movement. as countries advance they're realizing creating universal healthcare systems is a necessity for long-term development. it is increasingly leaving america behind. the experts said we're really an outlier. >> i think the latest numbers are 62% of bankruptcies are due to medical debt and every 90 seconds another family declares bankruptcy due to medical

expenses. it is extraordinary how much of our money is going toward paying medical bills. and it is money we're not investing in other aspects of our lives. if you have to save money to pay for medical bills or you go bankrupt, you can't pay your mortgage, you can't shop. there's all sorts of things you can't do. >> stephanie: jacki, the point you just made, they're saying this with mexico. before emparking on its healthcare push, the mexican government found four million people being driven into bankruptcy by illness. that was a huge drag on the economy. mitt romney is going to get his dream of people self-deporting for a better healthcare. it really is infuriating, isn't it? >> the romney thing is extraordinary because when we were going through this healthcare fight in 2009 and 2010, one of the big arguments was this was going to be so modeled on massachusetts and the problem it has, while it has most of its citizens covered that it actually has a trust problem because there's no mechanism in place to actually control cost. so it has the coverage but it hasn't dealt with the cost issue.

we were very concerned as the national plan started to look more and more like chiou. that was actually going to be a problem on the national level. it is astonishing to me that mitt romney is turning around and trying to run against it or saying he will repeal it because the national plan looks so much like it. >> stephanie: his alternative doesn't include any provision to guarantee coverage as this article said. two decades ago, the article goes on to say many former communist countries in eastern europe dismantled their universal healthcare systems to set up free market economies but popular demand for insurance protection has killed nearly all of them to rebuild their systems. similar coming from asia and latin america. they have braised expectations for better services. >> it doesn't work in healthcare. free market economy doesn't work in healthcare because everybody is going to need healthcare at some point. it is not a free market economic product. it works totally differently than any other economic market. >> a lot of the money here isn't going to healthcare but to bureaucrats who sold jobs to deny people coverage.

>> absolutely. >> that's how companies make their money. >> stephanie: and also, jacki the article raises a point. this stabs in stark contrast to america's historic leadership in education along before countries in europe and u.s. insured access to public school and today, the u.s. is alone among the world's richest nations and not providing healthcare to all citizens. the key questions are how do we get here and how do we get out? >> that's the $64,000 question. or $64 billion question. >> you're jacki schechner for god's sake. >> i can answer everything. i don't know what we do. the idea that we had a healthcare system that would put some cost control and competition into place is what we were fighting for. that's why the public option was of such interest. it wasn't utopia. it would have put cost control into place and driven down the cost in the market overall. we'll see what happens. we won't have full implementation until 2014. >> jacki, remember during this debate, they kept -- the right

wing kept bringing up chile. but they talk about this in this article as well where free market reform has eroded the universal health system. a socialist candidate won the presidency in 2000 for the first time in 30 years on a promise to renew guaranteed healthcare. it goes on to say many political leaders have concluded creating a system of healthcare is crucial to remaining competitive globally and sustaining economic growth which is exactly president obama's arguments. >> that's what he ran on. it changed a little bit. he ran on the idea of a public partner -- public private combination system. and then when he started to work on it, we ended up getting rid of that public component. but that was what he originally ran on. that was part of the campaign. >> if romney wins, i think the conclusion of the article has one solution. that is move to rwanda. >> i think we should go. take "the stephanie miller show" on the road. >> stephanie: in ra rwanda, citizens who joined the

healthcare, less likely to be hit by a healthcare problem. >> die recommend taking the show on the road to rwanda. we can take the show online but not the isd. >> what happens if someone machetes the line? >> we have to get one first. i don't think we can. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: jacki, are you the healthcare geek that you promised. >> i don't lie about that. >> technically wishing her morning because it is late afternoon for her. >> stephanie: it is your bedtime. >> fabulous newswoman. jacki, thanks so much. talk to you again soon. there she goes. jacki schechner. 18 minutes after the hour. kids carbonite. i gotta tell you everywhere i go even live shows people thank me for telling them about carbonite because it is not something you think oh, i don't need that. what happens?

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concubines. they were good enough for king dave. i want some, too. >> stephanie: all right. king dave to you. >> throw me some. >> stephanie: jen in maryland. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi jen. >> stephanie, i love you so much. this is the official write the book already nag. >> stephanie: i'm writing the damn book already. >> caller: i have a new title for you. i try to come up with something that's pep peppy and relevant. the next title should be the stephanie miller story, who's got my big gay back. [ applause ] >> stephanie: awesome. >> are you almost done with the book? >> no. i just started. jerry in pennsylvania, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi jer. >> caller: hi, steph, i love the show. tv and radio. about romney and his half-baked excuse for the bullying, i'm about his age.

i think he's a year older than i am. i'm 64. i think he's 65. i think every adult out there knows he's lying. >> stephanie: oh yeah. >> caller: because i can go back and remember every -- every incident i ever saw in school. >> stephanie: jerry, the caller they called, apparently the kid's family has come out i think and challenged, i don't know if he was gay but it is not the point. he was perceived to be gay. all the kids in the article said the kid was perceived to be gay. it was not the only homophobic incident reported in the story. >> unless you have alzheimer's any adult from 18 to 90 can remember something like that. >> stephanie: it was pretty vivid. exactly. he once again made a bad thing worse by lying. >> apparently lying keeps you young because mitt looks awfully good for 65. got a painting in his attic. >> he doesn't drink, doesn't

smoke. what does he do? >> stephanie: goody two shoes. oh mittens. >> he fires people. ♪ ♪ they push me all around they threw me on the ground and they didn't even tell me why ♪ ♪ he said you don't look like a fine upstanding young man we'll give you a haircut that's what we'll do ♪ ♪ corporations are bullies too and as a matter of fact, it is all ♪ ♪ mine, mine, everything is mine ♪ ♪ practice but don't have mine ♪ >> it's mine, mine, line, all mine! >> mike in raleigh. slam dunk! hey, if firing people keeps you younger -- >> you're fired.

you're fired! >> stephanie: i feel better already. >> that's how they stay so young. >> stephanie: kim in st. paul. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi kim. >> hi. mama, i want to let you know it was barely noticeable you were out drinking with aisha before the show on saturday. >> stephanie: actually we drank mostly after the show. a little bit. >> it seemed like you were drinking before but that's just me. >> stephanie: a tiny bit. we had a fred flintstone sized steak with it as well. >> maybe it was a food coma. i was calling to say -- i was calling, a little late to the party on the bill donahue thing. my men are nonprocreating heterosexuals. i'm tired of the gay s can't have kids. all of my gay friends who have kids, they're the people who should be having kids. >> gay people don't have kids by accident. >> they always choose to have kids. >> you don't actually sit on a turkey baster. difficult to do.

>> stephanie: unless you're a vicker. >> potatoes don't get you accident. >> stephanie: no thank god for him. okay. nick in new york real quick. hi, nick. hi, nick. hmm. nick going once, going twice. donna in texas? >> caller: hi, steph. two real quick points. one, i know romney is a 99 percenter. he ordered a burger in a present. it was wrapped in paper, he said oh, how quaint. a burger wrapped in paper. one other thing because jacki schechner talked about it real quick, i have obama care and i love it. >> stephanie: thank you. >> i have no other insurance. with pre-existing condition. it is only insurance i could get and afford and there's not a lot of people that know about it. so, we need to get the message out. >> stephanie: there you go. you just did. 29 minutes after the hour. representative joe courtney wrapped in paper next. >> how quaint!

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president. >> stephanie: it is representative joe courtney of the great state of connecticut who joins us now. good morning representative. >> that's the greatest introduction i've ever had! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it is interesting. representative, everybody says we're not going to get anything done. political season. but you just think even politically, this would be a no-brainer. you know, for people that claim to be trying to get the youth vote, how do you let student loans double? >> the power of this issue is something that you know really is broad and deep of the entire american middle class because when you talk about the financial challenges that people have just to survive today paying for your kid's college or paying for your own college is really now risen to the level of buying a house. yesterday by the way, there was a very good front page story in "the new york times" which you can still read online which just talks chapter and verse about this -- you know, incredible

transformation of college debt which has happened over the last ten years. it is great that we have the focus on this very clear choice on july 1st and letting the rates double for the stafford student loan but the fact of the matter is this issue frankly is going to require much more than a one-year band-aid. it is a -- real threat to young people in terms of their having the skills to succeed in life and whether or not our country is frankly going to have the ability to compete. and people get this. and that's why you know, mitt romney beat a hasty retreat once the president got on the tour and went to three college campuses. boehner who voted against the rate cutback in 2007 and voted for the ryan budget which locked it in, same thing. >> stephanie: it showed what complete disarray the party is in. they had no interest in stopping student loans from doubling until mitt romney is forced to

have to say he's for it and then they scramble going oh, okay, now we're for that. and yet they're still blocking it. so what happens next? >> well, again i think a the version that boehner put on the floor which again bypassed committees, no markup, no hearing. overnight showed up. again had -- took money out of screening programs for breast cancer, cervical cancer, heart disease, childhood diseases, i mean it was just the most disgraceful, grotesque attempt to try and gesture on this issue. president said -- the senate takes up the bill with a -- closing some corporate tax loopholes. show their true colors and wind up behind the filibuster. >> stephanie: incredible. it is literally like we need to take our focus off losing the youth vote to focus on losing the women's vote for a second. i mean their priorities are

just -- they're just so out of whack. you don't even know where to start with this. >> harry reid's plan again we're about 49 days to the doubling of the rate. i think really it is just to keep hammering this and keep forcing votes on this until they cry uncle which they will because this is something that is really danger zone for any political party to be on the wrong side. independent voters suburban voters. access to stafford student loans is something that you don't need to spend a lot of time explaining how important that is >> stephanie: representative, you happen to read the front page stories in "the new york times" about student debt? it is stunning. to use the word crushing is almost an understatement in how long it will take these kids to pay this off right? >> yes. again, full of stories of young

people carrying $25,000 plus amounts of debt. again, some in the range of six figures. if you really want to pursue a post-graduate degree on things like medicine, again six figure debt is almost automatic. glitch the reality that we have here. people are putting off decisions in terms of starting families, starting careers, buying houses, because of the albatross that is hanging around their neck. and you know, there is really -- again, a broad range of reforms that we need in terms of starting with just better information to kids while they're still in high school about you know, what this decision means. when you sign up for a program that may or may not really offer through gainful employment at the end of the day and which may involve a lot more debt than was initially hyped from the college admissions offices. we need to absolutely focus on. but clearly, you know, the stafford student loan program is

the workhorse of higher educational affordability. we need to protect the lower rate. >> stephanie: we've seen this playtime and time again. they'll do the right thing at the last minute when forced into a corner politically. right? >> absolutely. whether it was closing the default, the payroll tax cut you know, that's been sort of the m.o. of the 112th congress is they have to get dragged kicking and screaming to the table. long-range in terms of 2012, the youth vote which clearly slipped badly in 2010, frankly i think this is one of the back stories of why the republicans took control of the house. if you look at college campus precincts around the country, it was a dramatic drop-off, not from '08 but even '06. our party has to wake up and wreck that this issue is one of the reasons why you know, there is big dissatisfaction out there. but the good news is we're on the right track.

we own this. but we also have to talk about it. not just in terms of the one-year band-aid but of a long-term fix. >> stephanie: representative always doing such great work and explaining it so clearly for us. come back soon. >> thanks, stephanie. >> stephanie: representative joe courtney of the great state of connecticut. mary on this very subject. >> buenas dias. >> caller: first off, my husband and i are still basking in the aftershow of the albuquerque show. >> stephanie: me too. [magical sound] >> caller: i wanted to expand on what the representative just said regarding student loans and two very important points i want all of your listeners to know, particularly the conservative listeners and right wing muffins. when student obama did the student loan reform and cut out the middle man, that instantly reduced student loans. when i had student loans in college, they were at 9%.

i had $14,000 in debt. and it took me ten years. >> stephanie: the representative, when he talked about putting off getting married or having kids, i may use that excuse. i just paid off my loans. i'm just a loser. [ laughter ] >> caller: that's the first point. the second point is and this doesn't get out very often. when people talk about the student loan program, they seem to be talking about for college. what a lot of people don't know is you can apply the loans to trade and it technical schools. so i went to university -- >> stephanie: take that rick santorum. >> my brother went to automotive school on student loans. so it is not just for poafd secondary higher education. >> not snobby elitists. >> caller: exactly. dennis my right wing love muffin in south carolina. >> caller: the problem i have with the gay marriage talk over the last week. you have one man who is a leftist who approximately half

the country does not agree with his policies, come out and says he supports gay marriage. that's it. >> not a leftist. >> he's very centralist. >> caller: let me say this. >> stephanie: all right. >> caller: that's it. game over. either you're on the right side of history or the wrong side. >> stephanie: in his opinion. he stated his opinion. pardon me? >> caller: that's talking points from the left. there's millions -- >> stephanie: dick cheney is for gay marriage. >> caller: that's fine. what i'm saying is -- >> stephanie: my point is do you agree with leftists like dick cheney who are for gay marriage? >> caller: no, i don't actually. me and millions and millions of americans still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. and we're being shamed into your thinking. >> stephanie: you don't have to believe how we believe. it is america. we have a right to state our opinions. >> if you feel shamed, that's really your problem.

>> caller: you're stating it as a fact that we're on the wrong side of history. says who? >> stephanie: i believe that you are. yes. >> caller: okay well -- >> if you feel shame for that, maybe you should look inward. >> caller: i believe you're wrong. who's right and whose wrong? >> stephanie: i believe i'm right and you're wrong so nanny nanny boo-boo. >> we mean that in a very respectful, mature way. >> polls have shown since 1996, approval of gay marriage has gone up by 30% 40% something like that. >> stephanie: we have our first gay president according to "newsweek." the problem is because there's people like dennis who think that's a smear. >> but they're trying to outdo "time" magazine. >> andrew sullivan wrote this piece. obviously he talked about --

>> he was on the chris matthews show this weekend. >> stephanie: obama had discovered his black identity just as gays discovered their homosexual identity. let me simply say this. i think of all of the gay kids who know they have a president on their side. i think of all of those in the plague years shut out of hospital rooms thrown out of apartments, written out of wills, treated like human garbage because they loved another human being. it change no laws but reaffirms the integrity of this man we're lucky to have in the white house. his journey has been like that of other americans when faced with gay relationships. today obama did more than make a logical step. he let go of fear. he's clearly prepared to let the political chips fall as they may. let's play comparison and then you have right wing douche nozzle alan west. >> not illegal to hire or fire people because they're gya.

>> that don't happen here in the united states of america. >> you don't think people get fired because they're gay? >> i don't see thats a being a big issue. >> stephanie: in many states, you can get fired for being gay. >> it's not happening but i don't care if it is. >> if it did great. >> stephanie: who said i wanted to celebrate the bravery of the president's statement a statement long overdue but all the more appreciated in this political year. we're on the right side of history. who said that? >> marcus bachmann. >> stephanie: no. bad guess. the artist behind the new yorker who also is on the marriage equality. look at this. it is almost like a pattern of some sort. romney spokesman gleefully outed a transgender woman outing her career. one doesn't have to reach that far back to find instances of bullying from his staff. etch-a-sketch guy. eric outed a transgender woman effectively ending her political year when he was a reporter for

the "boston herald," the "gq" profile tells of glee when he found the representative's birth certificate. romney also abolished a commission working against lgbt bullying as governor. >> stephanie: hmm. >> he's anti-bullying. interesting. >> stephanie: in a totally unrelated story, paul from pinal county. >> pinal county, arizona. >> stephanie: sure. you remember he announced he was gay. >> i think the phoenix new times announced it for him. >> stephanie: i was accused by a lover of abuse his power which threatened to deport him. >> he knew he had no papers because he was apparently in his bed with no pants on. >> your papers. >> it is in my pants. >> stephanie: no pants. >> at the foot of the bed. >> stephanie: decided to withdraw because of complications about the

succession of his chief deputy. >> whatever! >> stephanie: completely unrelated story. he announced he supported same-sex marriage. not so much a fox favorite anymore, is he? >> haven't seen him on fox in quite awhile. actually not since this incident. >> stephanie: he was the tough on the border guy until they found out he was somebody not securing the border of his own -- >> bedroom. >> stephanie: bed. 48 minutes after the hour. we have that great new obama ad on the economy as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> it's really weird but it's also the coolest thing i've ever heard in my whole life. >> announcer: "the stephanie miller show." creative people, and with all the vexing problems we have we need creative thinking. >>(narrator) with interviews with notables from silicon valley, hollywood, and beyond. >>at the end of the day this show's simple. it's about ideas. ideas are the best politics.

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>> just kick them out of their homes. >> stephanie: mittens calls it a shiny object. >> you're going to find throughout the campaign season that the president's team will be doing everything in their power to try and hold up various shiny objects. >> like people stealing their houses. >> stephanie: president obama has three proposals to address the struggling housing market today in nevada. starting with the state's second highest -- foreclosure rate is in nevada. by yes, as you recall, he was the one who said don't try to stop the foreclosure process. let's let it run its course and hit bottom. >> so we can start living in boxes. >> stephanie: that was his housing proposal. let's hurry this up. it is a natural process. >> not everyone in america can live in a van down by the river. >> this recovery has been the slowest most tepid since hoover. it has been that way because the president's policies have not

encouraged the economy to grow. they've scared the dickens out of banks and insurance companies. they scared employers in the manufacturing sector. >> stephanie: the dickens. scared the dickens right out of them. >> get us out of the hoover doldrums was a democrat. >> stephanie: the president has a new ad out. romney's economic record. let's play a little skosh shall we? or not. >> little less than a skosh. >> stephanie: sure. all right. okay. [theme from jeopardy] >> he's chewing up our four minutes. >> dan et in georgia is on "the stephanie miller show" show. hi danette. >> caller: hi, stephanie. i'm slightly confused about how romney wants to tout his amazing acumen and then when called on his record, he wants to whine. >> stephanie: here's what this is about. here it is now. >> i was a steelworker for 30

years. we had a reputation for quality products. it was something that was american-made and we weren't rich but i was able to put my daughter through college. >> to have a good paying job you can support and raise a family on is hugely important. >> that stopped with the sale of bain capital. >> i know why jobs come and why they go. >> bain capital was the majority owner. they were responsible. mitt romney was deeply involved in the influence that he exercised over these companies. >> they made as much money off it as they could. and they closed it down. they filed for bankruptcy without any concerns for the families. >> they sucked the life out of us. >> it was like watching an old friend bleed to death. >> as i look around at the americans without work -- it breaks my heart. >> bain capital sought elimination of the pension plan and termination of employee and retiree life insurance and

health insurance. >> i was devastated. it makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all had more money than they'll ever spend yet they didn't have the money to take care of the very people that made the money for them. >> yep. there you go. bain capital. >> you can get the full story at romneyeconomics.com. >> that's how it works. >> stephanie: it is all over now. betty white has endorsed barack obama. beloved. she said she usually keeps her political views private as most people of herrera do. my 89-year-old republican mom has ordered me to stop talking about anything. i've had my time in the limelight. don't talk about that. i'm just saying betty white 90 years old. she favors president obama. she said she's very bipartisan. has stayed away from politics all of her life. she hardly ever says who she is for or against because she doesn't like to lose fans.

she likes how obama represents us. hop on betty. ♪ it ain't a man's world ♪ >> jersey shore has slammed bristol palin. so we're all -- >> reality show stars are now slamming other reality show stars. >> she said bristol should keep her uneducated ignorant mouth closed. you wouldn't have a kid. it is 2012. samantha ronson said we know when they grow up. really, bristol palin? how is your kid doing? snap! two snaps. in a circle. >> oh, dear. >> revenge of the reality stars. >> stephanie: someone said who cares. what a failed vice presidential's candidate's daughter thinks so i'm going to stop talking now. maybe i'll come back tomorrow. we'll see you tomorrow on "the stephanie miller show."