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hour number three, and the girl that runs comedy centrals indecision blog. >> yeah, and gavin newsom coming up in hour number three. >> have you seen the new gavin newsom promo. i watched it with the sound off. it was impressive. [ laughter ] >> good morning, everyone. they are calling it a new york night, but how much cooler would it be from f they went this sex in the city. the president and first lady is going to have dinner at sarah jessica's house. and they are giving you a chance to win a spot. sarah jessica parker is going to have some big monolas to fill

after george clooney's fund raiser. the president is going to announce a new food initiative that will be geared towards alleviating hunger in africa and then meet with the new french president, and the president will tell president obama he plans to pull all troops out of afghanistan by the end of year. a little note about camp david it has been a weekend refuge for president ever since fdr started staying there. but this will be the first time that two foreign leaders will gather at the same time. it will be a much more tranquil meeting spot for them before

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let's start with the piece on violence against women act. it is sort of stunning that something that used to just be bipartisan that you would think is not controversial suddenly is, right? >> [ inaudible ] like how the republicans loved -- [ inaudible ] as long as they are sarah palin or january brewer. >> that kind yeah. >> right. [ inaudible ]. >> like january brewer who will sign really egregious anti-women bills. >> yes, absolutely. and january brewer has gone over the top. now it's like not only can your doctor lie to you, the thing with this violence against women act is it is really in the wake of them -- the entire republican party saying that the war against women is something that

the democrats are making up. it's just in your imagination honey except for the fact that now your doctor can lie to you. i had a legal pregnancy for about 12 hours. it was very jarring. this is a very -- extreme time in the house, and i would like to note that this is the first time in 30 years that we have actually seen a decline in the amount of women in the congress. >> yeah. >> we have fewer women now in the congress than we have since the very -- since the '70s and so there's all of these just extreme pieces of legislation that are going through. you see this also at a state level where republicans kind of cleaned up in 2010 and now -- and the first thing that they did instead of fixing the economy and bringing back the constitution or whatever their tea party -- their tea party

slogans were two years ago. now it's all about how we can make women into legal, public incubators. >> yeah. let's talk specific about -- as you talk about the ugly provisions in the violence against women act. one of the big -- as you say most egregious is the requirement that immigration officers can consider any and all evidence gathered from the abuser. if you were trying to make this really egregious against women you could barely do this right? >> yeah, it's basically better than no law at all. it is gutting what it has been for the past 20 years, and it's literally worse than nothing. >> yeah, well, i mean it's just amazing how -- it's like they find people -- basically people to bully. don't they? it's native american women, lgbt partners -- >> right.

so anybody -- anybody that they disagree with. anybody who is not christian they are all for being for religious freedom as long as you are talking about whatever sect of christianity that they happen to approve of. it's anybody they don't like. we're just going to go after people who we disagree with. >> tina i loved your piece on gay marriage. the republican love affair from the past. let's have nostalgic music. i refuse to roman ta size any era before the advent of antibiotics. >> yeah. >> they picked gay marriage to condemn as the evil to kill us

all, because for the republicans there is a time to be nostalgic for. and here we are again, right? >> right. exactly. and sodomy was made legal by the supreme court in 2005. and so far nobody has reported anyone else turning into a pillar of salt. >> have you researched that thoroughly, tina dupuy -- >> of course. i would not say something factually on your show that was not proven. >> right. >> all of these things are going to happen if we let minorities have the same rights as other human beings, i know. i know. and no one really pays at attention anymore or remembers. we no longer talk about -- wait for it -- don't ask, don't tell. it just went away and nothing has changed.

and it just made life easier for a couple of people in america to serve openly and love openly except for that they can't -- most places they can't have their unions -- >> right. >> recognized. >> right. tina wouldn't it be nice for people like john mccain to come out and say i was wrong? >> that would be like a week long of him talking about being wrong. he would really have to clear his schedule. >> yeah. it's not the policy it's not the policy. okay. it was the policy. when gay marriage comes the norm, you will know the same amount of gays as you know now. won't that be the greatest day when nobody cares anymore. >> nobody cares. >> yeah. if we really want to boil it down, spousal privilege is so

boring. i was trying to write about gay marriage in 2012, and i was like i have done all of these jokes already. it has been five years -- it's like -- no one cares anymore. most of the public now agrees with president obama on this issue. they disagree with the republicans. the republicans want big government when it comes to people who they personally disagree with, and -- you know and going back to the violence against women act, that really started as a human rights issue, and we stopped talking about human rights in this country, as soon as we opened [ inaudible ]. but human rights was something that in the '90s was a big issue with the democratic party and the violence against women act was an attempt to -- to have human rights for women and human -- also applies to gay and lesbian and transgender individuals, and we -- we have gotten away from that because we have now -- you know --

>> you know what it's almost good for us politically, tina that they keep running the same old musty play. >> yeah. >> by the way now that we have you here let's finish right-wing world with you. with harry jackson from the american family radio. it's great that the homophobes already sound like lunatic fringe. >> it's special kind of marriage for the radical gay activists. >> huh? >> and they want to impose their will on the culture and many christians are sitting back and we aren't speaking out, but the reality is, just like during the times of hitler -- >> what? huh? >> you have people coming after one group after another group, after another group, and folks are saying this doesn't affect me. i'll let this slide. we have a problem that really we have a whole generation of

people who want to affect not only their lives and choices, but the choices of the others -- >> so he is saying -- >> gay people getting married -- >> is kind of like -- >> like hitler. >> i guess they are getting married in concentration camps -- >> like going after the gipsies. >> i see. they are really coming after the breeders, tina that's what it is. >> it hit really all of the hot buttons. christians aren't speaking out. which is hilarious. it's like really? really? but it has this rape fantasy fear mongering. not only are we going to indoctrine at it you, but we're going to rape you. >> gay rape camps, that has always been on the homosexual agenda. >> yeah. and the nutty sunday that we come to expect from these people, they are nazis!

and it's just like the nazis. i went to the civil rights museum in memphis, and it said race mixing is communism. [ laughter ] >> what? >> it was like of course it is. >> we figured it out. >> anyone would come to that conclusion. tina dupuy you remain a complete delight over there. >> thank you, stephanie. >> over at there "crooks & liars," and as a carbon-based life form, we love you. >> you are the best stephanie. thank you. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> ah. she is awesome. >> 17 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> hey it's a freak show! >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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>> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ so-so what, i'm still a rock star, i got my rock moves, and i don't need you tonight ♪ ♪ i'm all right ♪ >> it is the "stephanie miller show." so what? 22 minutes after the hour. >> she is still a rock star. >> yeah right? 1-800-steph-1-2. maria in chicago. welcome. >> hi, stephanie. >> hi. go ahead. >> i just wanted to make a comment about the taxes and how some of the job creators don't want to pay their fair share. the think i find ironic is they want wars, and subsidies but they don't want to pay for them. >> yeah. yeah. >> i find that very ironic. >> yeah. exactly. yeah, none of the numbers make sense. >> right. if you are scott walker you just

make up new ones. >> that seems to be the conservative way of life, though, they want all kinds of things from the government but they don't want to pay for it. >> yeah. did you see the ap interview, walker not afraid of the recall. i don't care. i don't want it anyway. i'm supposed to be president. >> maybe he is one of the boring white guys that mitt romney is considering. >> he says he is not afraid to lose the recall election. but if he wins he intends to govern in a more inclusive kind of way. oh! ♪ you are a lying sack of crap ♪ >> like they are going to fall for that again. i always ran on union busting. [ mysterious music ] >> yeah, that's the problem. all of the stuff he is doing he didn't run on. this is like wiley coyote.

i'm going to be much more inclusive. this time i have really learned my lesson. >> this time i won't pull the football away. >> here have a cigar. [ explosion ] [ laughter ] >> here i'll put the movable hole -- [ mysterious music ] >> come through here follow me through the movable hole through the side of the mountain. put on these racket skates. >> they won't make you go over the cliff at all. >> and they are just the right height. >> he refused to say whether he would veto a bill that would make michigan a right to work state. oh, you can't believe a word the man says. >> hello he lied. >> hello. >> rick in ohio you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, rick. >> hi, stephanie. good morning to you. good morning to you. >> here is where i'm at. i need to ask this. they have been talking about the

obama administration creating 4.2 million jobs. i'm kind of like the deacon commercial. prove it. tell me the number of people that were hired by the companies, because i have been unemployed for eight months -- >> so you don't believe any of the numbers that george bush was losing 700,000 jobs a month -- >> no, but i have been unemployed for eight months and i contacted them and they said rick i'm really sorry, nobody is leaving. we're losing jobs in our county -- >> the government includes the republican congress you realize? >> i understand that. >> rick, i don't know what to say, job numbers are obviously generally believed by both sides of the aisle because those are official numbers.

>> that's right. >> it's a non-partisan -- from the congressional budget office -- >> well, he also said -- >> i have been out of work for eight months -- >> he also said he is in the mental health field. that's a pretty specialized field. so there aren't be as many jobs as say factory workers -- >> i'm in the mental health food in that i'm -- [ coo coo clock chimes ] . >> you are crazy cuckoo bananas. >> yeah and there are no more openings. >> don't bother selling crazy here we're full up. >> okay. >> they are kind of contracting. i'm very lucky to have a job here. i realize that. >> dolly hello. >> hi, steph! >> hi! >> listen romney has this self

rebelatory capacity. which i hope his handlers don't straighten out because when i hope nobody remember some things, but he -- >> he is billy in family circle. >> not me. >> not me. >> or eddie haskel. i mean i'm dating myself there, but -- >> family circle -- >> family circus. >> right. i meant family circus. >> that's almost as funny as marmaduke. >> or howard huge. >> yeah. hi, carol in new hampshire. >> hi, stephanie you have a

great show. and i almost everything you say, i check out the facts, and it's true. i'm originally from massachusetts, and i just moved up to new hampshire in the last couple of years. and they ask why people in massachusetts aren't enthusiastic about mitt romney and it's because they know mitt romney. >> right. >> he is a coniver. >> he is. he ask wicked coniving is he? >> absolutely. >> if you know you are going to lose your home state -- >> yeah, your home state usually backs you. >> don't they consider this? why isn't massachusetts behind him? >> that's right, because he

sucks. >> all right. carol thank you. >> i love her. >> how much do we love our new tv fans. we love them. >> pam and john. >> yes. >> aunt bee in tennessee. >> yeah. >> let's go to jessica in maine. >> hi, i'm the official volunteer of your show. >> yay! [ bell chimes ] >> and we're fighting for marriage equality here in maine. >> yay. >> i was at my doctor's office a couple of weeks ago, and she has a poster on her wall with a woman with a black eye, and she said just because her partner loves her, doesn't mean she can hit her. >> oh, wow interesting. all right. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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show. premiers tonight at 11 eastern/ 8 pacific. only on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> you are crazy, you are like margo kidder hiding in the bushes kind of crazy. [ laughter ] >> you will believe a man can -- blau! >> it is the "stephanie miller show." 1-800-steph-1-2. gordon in illinois you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, gordon. >> hey how are ya? i panted to point out something. that audio clip you had a while ago. the guy talk about gay marriage.

the guy is -- i think he is actually defending gay marriage and comparing himself to hitler. take the first sentence out. it is just like hitler first they come after one group and then another -- >> that's not what he means -- >> the american family radio would not book somebody -- >> because ironically the first group they came after were the gays, and the gipsies, and then the jews -- >> and then the social democrats. >> yeah. tina in chicago welcome. >> hi, stephanie. i'm a 77 year old black woman from chicago and i have two things to say. >> okay. >> the christians that are talking about abortions and things like that would come from church and go out in the field

and hang black men -- >> that's right. >> uh-huh. >> that's right. >> the other thing i have to say is that if the latinos, the african-americans, the gays and all of these people are for obama, how on earth is that other man and obama neck and neck. i don't -- i don't understand that. maybe you guys can explain that to me. because i don't understand it. thank you. thank you very much. >> some of the polls are -- skewed right. they only ask certain people -- >> interesting the fox poll is the one that has obama up by seven. and i think the average real politics have obama up by 2.5 or something. >> yeah, and the press has a stake in making it look closer than it is. >> and don't rule out obama derangement syndrome.

there are a hunk of people that will vote for anybody but obama. including this guy, did you see this plan the defeat of barack hussein obama the spending plan to get rid of ricketts. it includes preparations for how to -- i love this part. >> mr. ricketts. [ laughter ] >> or don knots character. >> i love this. it includes preparations for how to respond to the charges of race baiting and visions mr. obama top former ties to mr. right. how do we prepare for the inevitable charges that this is racist? the group suggested hiring a spokesman, an extremely literate african american -- >> put the black guy out there. he'll fool people. >> isn't zimmerman done with his

convenient black best friend? >> god. >> who can argue that mr. obama mislead the nation by what they call a metro sexual black ab lincoln. >> they do know that abe lincoln was a republican right? >> larry elder, conservative black radio host here in los angeles has been contacted about serving. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> he is really busy because he is the only black person at the republican convention. >> he will tell you he is a libertarian, until the republicans pay him enough money, then he'll say he is a republican. >> that sounds kind of help serving. >> if only we could say what my former black best friend and pro do you seer used to say, but i can't. [ buzzer sounds ] >> okay. but we loved him.

he was always very nice to me. >> he was nice in the holloways. >> all right. okay. somebody was saying earlier, who knows if this wasn't already coordinated. they throw this out as a trial balloon, which thuds and then it allows mitt romney to look like the good guy. and say oh -- i read this on aircraft now and i'm outraged! >> i hope your campaigns can respectively be about the future and about issues and a vision for america. [ mysterious music ] >> look forward, always look back -- no no no not forward. >> i would like to ask mitt romney's preacher what he thinks about issues but i can't. because all of that is hidden inside the temple. >> yeah.

mitt romney again yesterday. >> the centerpiece of his campaign is quite clearly character assassination. and my is to get america working again. >> you were happy to have every superpack eviscerate every one of your opponents in the primary -- >> yeah. >> i'm running on my record as governor of massachusetts and bain capital. >> and this is what i did. >> and then well, that's character assassination. >> i repudiate that effort i think it's a wrong course for a pac or a campaign. >> unless it's my pac. >> yeah. [ affected laughter ] >> mr. rickets' pac. >> i have to hear this again. because it is hilarious, i stand by whatever it was i said unless --

>> unless it is something i disagree with. >> and then i don't anymore. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> i'm -- i'm actually going to -- i am not familiar precisely with exactly what i said, but i sfand by what i said whatever it was. [ laughter ] >> we have it from earlier this year. what you said about reverend wright >> i'm not sure which is worse him listening to reverend wright or him saying that we -- that we -- we must be a -- a less christian nation. >> oh, well i don't stand by that now -- [ affected laughter ] >> i may be standing by it but i'm looking in the opposite direction, so it doesn't count. >> there is not enough panicky laughter for this situation. >> standing by it -- oh boy. >> did you hear the latest one they caught him in yesterday. talking about how great bill clinton is. apparently he and obama hate

each other -- and then they cut right to -- during one of the primaries -- i did whatever i could to vote against bill clinton, because he was horrible. >> etch-a-sketch. [ laughter ] >> whoo, whoo whoo. wooka, wook. >> is that what an etch-a-sketch sounds like? >> i don't think so. all right. peggy in texas. hi peggy. >> hey, steph. i'm totally hooked on your show. >> thanks. >> i am so sick and tired of these bible thumpers calling themselves christians. i'm insulted and offended that they insinuate that democrats are so immoral. they are the ones who are so immoral, unforgiving, and

unchristian, and i'm really coming to the conclusion that the church is the one becoming the antichrist. >> well, it's not the church -- i have often said this -- i think you need to take your religion back -- >> uh-huh. it's the leaders that are becoming too powerful, i think. >> yeah. >> uh-huh. >> you need to say -- like this guy, for instance. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> hum. we told you about -- there was been a rebirth of the reverend jeremiah wright thing, and birthism is back. >> yeah they are going with it again. they are plucky. >> i hear on right-wing radio that the obama campaign is desperate, panicky. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> that's what gretchen kaufman said. the republican of colorado after being caught on tape again, delivering a rant about how

president obama is not an american. he said i don't know if he was born in the united states of america. i don't know that. but i know within his heart he is not an american. he is just not an american. >> wow. >> but now -- ♪ >> wind that back a little bit. >> he is backtracking. i misspoke. [ laughter ] >> how is that misspeaking. >> that was pretty definitive. >> i misspoke and i apologize. i have confidence in president obama's legitimacy. he didn't say anything about american -- he said i don't think the president was born here. >> you are liars! you are medaling in things that are none of your business! >> it's like the breitbart sites. they still try to have it both says. if you have to start a piece

disclaiming that breitbart is a site that has never advocated the narrative of birthism -- [ laughter ] >> we're not saying -- >> right. we just post it. >> but here is a lump of crazy for you crazies. the latest installment of breitbart.com concerns a 1991 pamphlet that erroneously describes obama as being born in kenyan! [ dramatic music ] >> they claim they are not publishing this as bait for the unkillable birthism conspiracy -- but they are not too sure. oops, how did that get there? >> another typeo. >> those damn elves, they come and put things on there that don't belong. >> yeah it just have been the

is same -- who removed the ws from the typewriters. >> uh-huh those same elves. those dana lohse elves coming around. >> sure. 45 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: eek, i just spewed on my dashboard again. it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >>arrangements were made. >>(narrator) independent unflinching. >>there is a wild west quality to it that permits them to do whatever they wish. >>(narrator) and above all politically direct. >>facts are stubborn things.

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make the most of your color with the very best paint. ask sherwin williams won't you? >> wow, maybe to get the conversation off of the etch-a-sketch prop. mitt romney has a new annoying prop, have you seen it. the debt clock? >> yeah. [ ticking ] >> or as media calls it mitt romney's incredibly dishonest campaign. >> there is a switch. >> mitt romney campaigning with a large debt clock behind him. tracking the american debt. incredibly dishonest when he has no serious plan to cut spending and reduce the national debt unless you count paul ryan's marvellous plan. >> marvellous. >> which would add $5 trillion to the debt. >> by diminish i mean increase.

>> i won't go! >> mitt romney refuses to touch the military. he has fear mongering over what he has called massive cuts, and also gets rid of some of the eye land of misfit military toys that we discussed. >> the tank that shoots gape jelly. >> yes, the ship that doesn't float. the plane that doesn't fly in the rain. >> the truck with square wheels. >> nobody wants a charlie in the box. >> no child wants to play with a charlie in the box! [ laughter ] >> hi, deb you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> good morning. happy friday. >> thank you you too. >> the reason why i'm calling is to make three statements. the gentlemen who said he is having trouble finding a job in

the mental health problem. he needs to point directly to the republicans, because the republicans keep cutting government jobs. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] . >> i love all of these polls, but one of the things i wanted to tell you a couple of days ago, was when we had our primary here in oregon the president 256,000 votes, but there were still 60 thousand republicans that couldn't fill in that bubble for mitt romney. >> there you go. john boehner. >> people look at me like i'm

carrying a sword around trying to budgen somebody. >> you don't budgen people with a sword. >> unless it is really dull. >> then it's more of a sword. >> no. right? >> it's hip flask. it's multi-tasking. >> yeah, it's hollow he keeps his liquor in there. >> hi hair rot, welcome. >> hi, steph love your show. >> thank you. >> listen maybe you can explain to me why is it so wrong with this immigrant guy with facebook to renounce his citizenship -- >> doesn't it tick you off? >> and mitt romney hides his money so he doesn't have to pay taxes -- >> and not releasing his tax returns so we can see what he did with his money. >> yeah, eduardo made his

fortune in america, but doesn't want to pay it back in any way shape or form and evades taxes by moving to singapore. oh maddening. >> right. delegate bob marshall -- let me take a moment to say -- ♪ you are an idiot ♪ >> he is the delegate -- he is -- he explains his decision to block the gay judge -- >> in virginia. >> yeah, he is the one that said sodomy is not a civil right, which first of all you are wrong -- [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> the holding of lawrence versus texas which established that consenting adults had the right to do what they wanted in their sexual conduct. >> there was a specific question. are you a homosexual.

he had to say no. he took an oath of office which he had to depart. dr. martin luther king never took an oath that they broke -- sodomy is not a civil rights element. he was critical of the don't ask, don't tell. he criticized our attorney general simply for explaining what the law of virginia is. >> here is a fun fact. unlike the gay judge he just blocked. he never served -- [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> -- in the military. >> delegate bob marshall? >> yeah. his lifestyle contrary to his obligation to uphold the state constitution -- yes. so he double downed on what he said before. he apparently had the audacity to serve his country when he was gay.

>> what a bastard. >> his gay son has spoken out. he said of his father he was given the opportunity here to actually be a leader, i guess he didn't take that leadership role. it should have gone to the house floor for a vote and essentially he prevented that. >> wow. >> so cats in the cradle bob marshall. >> when are you coming home? >> yeah. right? >> stay away from train tracks. >> what? >> never mind. harry chafe in -- >> oh, god. really? >> let's go to shirley in philadelphia. >> hey, shirley. >> hey, welcome to philly. i have a great idea for the guy in mental health. i work in the newspaper industry and lost my job. >> that's a little bit worse than radio. >> right. and then i volunteered.

and through my volunteer job i got a job at a hopeless shelter for women and children that are victims of domestic violence. and this gentlemen could help these people much more than me. and so maybe he could try to volunteer and help out in an industry that will never go away. >> yeah. by the way i do my part i read the paper every day. >> yeah, it's sad. >> i like the actual paper. i don't care, i'm old timemy. 58 minutes after the hour. next we have john fugelsang, and sexy gavin newsom as we continue on the "stephanie miller show."

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>> yeah, he said you could vouch for him. and so i said okay. as long as we keep it to a minimum. >> well turn about is fair play. how about you and i perv out about the fact that john fugelsang and gavin newsom is going to be on the show on this hour. >> that's a lot of sexy. >> yeah. jacki schechner in the news-plex thing. >> facebook ceo mark zuckerberg rang the opening bell this morning. based on the ipo price of $38 a share, facebook will share for 20 times what it was projected to make this year. theco founder is in singapore, and he is making news for renouncing his u.s. citizenship

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sexyliberal.com the sexy liberal website. get it and go. tickets flying out the window. columbus in august check it out. there is new sexy liberal hats and merch as they say in the business. oh look at what you are wearing. [ mysterious music ] >> there is the big man's shirt. and then there is the really cute girls shirts now. >> i tried one of those. didn't fit. >> nothing fits over those guy norrous man boobs. >> oh, yeah. >> mary phillips-sandy is here to discuss what the indecision blog is. it must have been done like a libra like me. because i'm very, very

indecisive. >> you know [ inaudible ]. >> yes. first of all tell us what the blog is. >> comedy central's indecision is the blog for political comedy. in late 2007 started -- election because obviously there was a lot to talk about online as well as on the television and in the past year, we have really grown. we have added video photo galleries, we have launched an app for iphone and ipad. we're everywhere you wanted to be on the internet. >> we were talking about the latest poll. you did a piece about the fox poll. because oddly i didn't really hear that reported on fox. you say, oopsy, someone at fox likely got fired for this. >> it does happen. everyone makes mistakes now and

then. we're all human. >> i'm sure they will have someone in the khron department making that note. i heard everybody on fox news saying there is some other poll saying see there is no war on women. because romney in that poll was sort of like they were dead even or romney was one point ahead. >> i feel like it's really early to be taking these figures to the general election. whatever people are saying now, give it a month, two months we have a long road ahead of us. obviously for joke-writing purposes, we're going to follow it. but as a human who votes, i'm

not getting too upset about it. >> yeah. it's like the marriage equality thing -- [ screaming ] -- >> it is really hurting the president. but like you say it is so early. >> it. and all of these little things that bubble up on the internet, little scandals, it's so terrible, i can't believe he said that, and then the poll numbers don't move. the approval ratings don't really change, but we make a big deal with it, but people -- i don't know that they take it seriously. >> we're 75 to 80 gasp cycles away from romney and it is only may. >> it is. and there is a lot that can happen between now and november. and whatever it looks like the scenario is today might not be the case.

>> you wrote about obama strongly favored to win in jersey. even when matched up against the governor of new jersey chris christie. >> yeah, chris christie one of the great gifts to political comedians. i -- yeah new jersey -- i think -- obviously new jersey is a democratic state so i -- i don't think he is too concerned about that. i think that's the other thing, though, there is so much time between now and the election the pollsters have a lot of states to sell, so they will be doing this and we'll report on it, and i don't know that it matters. >> we're in the veeps stakes. and guess what doesn't help him in new jersey picking chris christie. as you were saying gallup poll

seconds mixed messages on obama's recollection chances, right? >> yeah, it is true. the average layperson looks at the newspaper, cares about the gallup poll, is that really something to worry about? you can look at the same question from six different polling agencies and come up with completely different answers. and you just have to answer. people are different. that must be the answer. >> one of the things you guys must have loved over at the comedy central blog is sort of the comedy of the punditry because i remember during the last election cycle, and the primary cycles they are like those bobble heads. no, working class whites will never vote -- and then it is just one thing after the other. >> sure. >> i remember when he picked palin after the first speech, oh my god it's over now, she a

super star. >> yeah the media picks a story line and runs with it until they find something shiny in the corner and then they run there. it is great for us. >> this just in shiny just picked jingle as his running mate. [ laughter ] >> all of the pundits were all the etrade babies. well-spoken but easily distracted by shiny objects. i hope you'll check back in with us. it looks terrific. he hope to be talking to you again. >> fantastic. thanks so much, stephanie. [ applause ] >> has pat buchanan been alerted that the brown people are outbreeding the white people.

[ explosion ] >> it's a catastrophe! >> black is the new white. oh dear. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> this actually is the first time in the history of the united states this has happened. slightly more brown people. path buchanan! [ explosion ] ♪ na, na na na ♪ >> and even worse for him, there are people who are beige! >> yeah, pick one color on another! >> i don't know which epithet to hang on you! what are you? >> debbie in new hampshire, welcome. >> hi, guys. i enjoy your show. one of the ladies -- a 24-year-old lady called about religion and she made a comment about maybe the catholic church is the antichrist and i just wanted to say that miss stephanie dealt with that really

welly, because i'm a religious person, and her comment was unbelievable. she just said maybe this is an issue that you as a christian needs to take your religion back. and i think that is the issue. >> take it back from people that are misusing it. that's right. >> exactly. because the bible -- there is a passage in the new testament that jesus said. the bible was just a tutor, was just a tutor to the law. i am the law, so therefore you need to get away with all of that that is in the book. he die for all of us. >> yeah. >> and everyone should be included and not excluded. >> okay. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> the obama -- growing number of african-americans come out for marriage equality.

>> i'm guessing allen west isn't one of them? >> no, same douche nozzle he always was. a growing number of black leaders and community members have come to embrace the issue. and this is again what we talked about, what leadership is. it doesn't happen overnight. and hearts and minds don't open overnight. but representative john lewis said dr. martin luther king took a simple position he said individuals get in love and get married. he said my position is very very simple i fought too long and hard against race discrimination, not to stand up for marriage discrimination. we must respect the dignity of

every human being. 54% of africans americans support president obama's position. that's the highest i have seen compared to 41% of african-americans who supported it in the last poll just in mid-2011, early 2012. there was an 11-point shift for marriage among african-americans in north carolina where obviously -- that is just -- 11 points. that's huge. >> huge! huge! >> it's only 27%, but it's up from -- let's see bla bla, bla. our poll found only 20% favoring gay marriage and now 27 expressed support. james clieburn said i like the president have evolved. i have grown to the point that i

believe we have evolved to marriage equality, if we consider this a civil right, and i do i think we should have a national policy on this. a pew research survey said that most african-americans did not alter their opinion. >> pew. pew. [ applause ] >> okay. >> pew! pew! pew! >> all right. >> sounds like it's a 70s computer. >> it's friday, and we need a nappy. >> desperately. >> it's 17 minutes after the hour. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> can you guarantee it will produce an orgasm. >> yeah. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." >> we're up on the thing. >> yeah. >> do something amusing. >> was i supposed to do this sponsorship?

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morning long. >> excuse me? [ buzzer sounds ] >> let's just leave that. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> in other hip hop news -- [ laughter ] >> i do have some. >> jay-z is performing for the made in america two-day festival. he said i'm going to call and try to get president obama to do a little al green. >> oh. >> computer says naaaa. >> he is handsome and romantic though. play it. do we have it? >> no. >> all right. wow, don't you hate when this happens. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> when hot rocks explode in youring pants. >> excuse me? >> this is worst than when your crystal meth lab explodes in your pants. a 43-year-old woman undergoes

surgery after who rocks she collected exploded. [ explosion ] >> wow. those are real pop rocks. >> her day gets worse. she tried to stop drop and roll, but was unsuccessful to get the flames off. when they pulled the shorts, the husband had successfully gotten the shorts off of his wife and was hosing her down on the front porch with the -- >> oh, my god. >> after rocks have -- >> exploded in your shorts. >> yikes. >> i blame nixon. >> yeah, right? >> something he did clearly. >> oh, my god? >> wow. >> fire and brimstone. >> a bunch of hot firemen show up, and there you are with no shorts being hosed down by your

husband. >> is there an explanation of why these rocks exploded in her pocket -- >> i'll try to find out and bring it to you. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> don't you hate it when you steal a diamond and swallow it, and then the police have to wait, until you [ censor bleep ] it out. police in ontario is holding a man who allegedly swallowed a $20,000 diamond, for as long it takes for him to produce the evidence. [ flatulence sound effect ] >> that can't feel good. >> no. >> that's the hardest substance -- >> i have heard of diamonds on the souls of your shoes -- >> every time and then you go

what did i eat glass? [ screaming ] >> you know what i'm talking about? >> no, i don't. >> sometimes it's sharp and you don't know why. >> what is that? >> have you just released a little too much about your bowel movements? >> we should don't a show on friday. i'm so tired. i'm just babbling. >> what is wrong with you! >> did i swallow a spear last night. >> did i eat a christmas tree sideways? what? >> it's true? >> did i actually steal a diamond and swallow it. what have i done. >> oh, my god! >> when did corn get that sharp? [ laughter ] >> diamonds? when did i eat diamonds. >> wendy in ohio follow that. >> i'll try. >> okay. >> i'm mormon, who used to be a republican, and now i'm democrat, and i voted for obama both times. >> oh, yay for you.

>> thank you. >> that was our own little polling right there. >> yeah mormons they are not monolithic, they don't vote enmass. >> let's do a poll on how many people and it a diamond, or swallowed a spear or ate a christmas tree sideways. >> we are not going to do this anymore. >> why don't you ask gavin newsom what he swallowed. >> i don't want to be associated with these people. >> and now here is a really important senator. [ flatulence sound effect ] >> john fugelsang can share what he has eaten. >> he is the ecclesiastical mook. 29 minutes after the hour.

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they have been making solar panels in america since 1975. rebecca wasn'ten born yet in 1975. >> she was just a surly fetus. >> it's friday everybody! ♪ thank god it's friday friday ♪ >> with john fugelsang. >> good morning, children. >> good morning personal comedy jesus. >> i should point out donna summer's first single came from the thank god it's friday soundtrack. >> wow. >> so did brick house. >> he, he he. john fugelsang you are in florida for what reason? >> i'm working as a diamond mule. [ laughter ] >> no, you are not. >> i listened to that whole conversation, i said somebody is going to go to the doctor with bling in their stool. [ laughter ] >> i'm doing the guilted love

story down here. >> yay! >> i'm performing there tomorrow night. so it was doing a lecture this week in michigan, and monday night i was getting kissed on stage, and now i'm sitting in the very same ritz carlton bar where i had to pull a drunken stephanie miller off of alan grayson. >> i don't remember that at all. we were talking about this super pac that was going to run theed a against obama, and romney is like, that's horrible -- we shouldn't be talking about religion. >> yes, that's great. reverend jeremiah wright are vitally important to this election, but bush's policies

from four years ago is ancient history. >> romney was happy to have the pacs complete i will eviscerate his opponents and now it looks like they floated this trial balloon, it landed with a thud and it allows romney to come out and look like the good guy. i think he it is about that. >> it also shows that mitt romney is the human equivalent of an inflatable guy outside of a car dealership. so if they are allowed to talk about that, we're allowed to talk about where mormons go after they die. >> doesn't every guy get his own planet -- >> yes. and he has a hundred wives.

>> a hundred wives. >> maybe joseph smith was a better negotiator -- what 72 virgins? how about a hundred, and i'll throw in a brazil power crystal. >> yes and every religion has shameful pasts to it. when mitt talks about the faith of my father's that's what he is talking about. we all know wonderful mormon folks, but mitt is really screwry, and if you think joseph smith's checks out, you better not talk about what obama did as a little child for a teenager. >> i only found out all of the fun facts this week. i earlier this week coined my

own religion because i found once a jenny cream ail can, and i formed my own religion based around it. [ laughter ] >> i had the church on twitter threaten to protest my show tomorrow night. >> nice. >> they tweeted me saying consider this our rsvp, so i hope they are not teasers. >> and we are such helpers here chris and i will fedex you some cream rinse. >> yeah, and a delousing kit as well. but that's what i get for defending the first gay president. i couldn't believe that headline, even if the casket buchanan is still in the closet. who is the first gay president going to be? i'm hoping for a lesbian atheist. >> yeah! >> take your organ out won't

you. [ organ music ] >> he suggested that obama was gay. >> yes. >> he is -- pastor paul increasingly started to believe president obama is gay. he expanded on his initial comments host asked cameron whether he made the choice not to be gay, he said he reacted to the environment. when asked if we could be attacked to the host. he answered at my age it is impossible. but the culture kept him from becoming gay with some effort by the time i was eight, nine ten i was thoroughly interested in girls. >> like most homosexual boys.

they. they tend to hate the sinner. he said he will never have gay kids because he'll teach them right. and it's all bigotry and a way of getting attention, and these guys have learned the more homophobic they are -- >> my -- >> that's why they are calling obama the metro sexual abe lincoln. >> if as a more man fan get your own planet and wives, how soon will newt gingrich be claiming he is mormon. >> exactly. >> how do you -- john first of all -- we have been talking all morning about polling. how do you think ultimately the marriage equality debate is going to affect or not --

>> i think it is going affect it positively. all of the right-wingers who just said that obama lost the election, maybe you are right, but he just won the history books, and that's more important -- >> not to me. >> i think the president did the smartest thing by saying it should be left up to the individual states. i think what he has done is completely, completely revitalized his young voter base. and that's is going to make a big impact. it will make a big difference if it inspires young people to turn out and do the moral thing. >> angie welcome you are on with john fugelsang. >> hey, how is everybody. ♪ angie angie ♪ >> i wanted to give you a status

update, because i have your big black back stephanie. >> thank you. as the official black-arican i'm working on all of the men around to move to accept gay marriage. >> right on. >> if they want to have the same piece of toast for the rest of their life, more power to them. >> i would like to call on every straight woman in america to offer a threeway, if that is what it takes to bring your man around -- >> i'm done for the cause. >> well, hell! i don't know how i knew that you and jim would be supportive of that, john? >> i had a great threeway with you and aisha tyler -- >> yes, and by that way that has

gotten about a billion hits on youtube. >> i hope boston is ready for this. >> aisha wasn't quite tea bagging you, john -- >> aisha was doing simulating tegging while i was tea bagging. >> yeah. it was pretty hot. and as we speak the tickets are flying out the door in boston -- >> i'm going to tea bag myself this weekend in the parker play house. >> don't forget to stretch. >> hey barry. >> hey, stephanie. how y'all doing? >> good. >> i notice you guys haven't talked about it but what is the deal with this whole george zimmerman everybody is defending him saying don't rush to judgment. there was a kid who was a burglary, i give you that -- but

the video clearly shows when he realizes he is caught and the cops cuff him and then beat the crap out of him and people say well, he shouldn't have run. >> yeah exactly. the fact is george zimmerman should have stayed in his car. >> exactly right. >> instead of stocking him with a gun. >> right. >> and the damaging thing was -- i am here in florida, so i was listening to a lot of right-wing radio, no one is talking about the fact that the officers believed if zimmerman had stayed in his car this wouldn't have happened. and trayvon was involved in no illegal activity whatsoever. so if this guy wasn't profiling that kid would still be alive.

>> and we were hearing another expert say it was such a small amount, it is not relevant. >> now the same conservatives who have been telling us for our whole lives that pot makes you lazy are now saying that it made trayvon martin violent. exactly. >> john fugelsang we'll see you next week. >> i'll be filling in for governor spitzer on wednesday and thursday of this coming week. >> awesome. we have gavin newsom who is lieutenant governor of california is debuting tonight, and we will talk to him next on the "stephanie miller show." >> oh, my god, i am already have a great time!

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will bid you his knew show. and joins us now. good morning governor? >> good morning. >> listen not since i had to do a panel with you, and i had to be right in your air space have i been so excited. >> i'm not sure that's true but i'm honored to hear you say those words. >> i have been dying to talk too you. how does it feel to have the first sitting president of the united states confirm your views? >> i did not expect to hear it before the election. i was hoping to hear it in a second term, of course, i have been hoping to hear it from years. not just from the president, but from other leaders in our party. so match our rhetoric with action. what the president did was symbolic, certainly. the substance was an affirmation for millions of people, and

there was real substance there. but at the end of the day, the issue where he still needs to go a little farther is the notion of federallizing the issue of equality. we have done that with basically everything we have done to advance rights in the broadest term. we need to do that with marriage equality. it can not be a state-by-state effort. >> yeah. i agree and i think it was john lewis that said that yesterday. so i think it has been enormous progress in a short period of time on this issue, don't you think? >> extrordanaire. eight years ago, i was certainly an outlier when we started providing marriage certificates to thousands of same-sex couples. at the time the great debate was still around domestic partnerships. and we were just getting into the debate around civil unions.

now civil unions seem to be a safe place for everyone but mitt romney. which is extraordinary to hear him not only not support marriage, but also reject civil unions. that's an argument of 20 years ago. >> and gavin worse than that has signed a pledge to write discrimination into our constitution. >> yeah, pretty remarkable. here is a guy -- these 10th amendment guys and he wants to move forward with a federal constitution issue. imagine the president of the united states saying i'm signed a pledge and i will actively engage in introduceingeing legislation to have a constitutional crisis across this issue on the issue of

same-sex marriage. and he has the audacity to claim that the president is using this for political issues. it's nonsense. >> yeah, you bring up the politics of it because obviously as someone that you say was an outlier on this you took some criticism back then. >> yeah. >> how do you feel the politics is going to play this time or this is going to work or not for the president this cycle? >> i have always -- i had the warm embrace of dr. king's words there is always the right time to do the right thing. you can always make an excuse of not doing the right thing. because there are different elections. so there's always an excuse, and it is never the right time if you want to play it safe but it is always the right time if you want to play the history and stand on principals that make this country as wonderfully

extraordinary as it is. the politics are wonderful. i was criticized mostly from my own party leaders, democrats, not republicans in 2004 to your point, that i was moving too fast, too soon too quick. but we had to force the issue and put a human face on it. and i have no regrets, we were talking in '04 to a president at the time who is doing exactly what mitt romney is claiming he wants to do and that was george bush, and that needed to be countered with stories of real people's lives. >> interesting, you were one of the people that inspired me since i did that panel with you, i have come out for the very same reason, putting a human face on it and trying to move

forward. >> yeah. >> dr. king that's the one thing that makes me feel better. >> yeah. >> let's talk quickly about your show. there will be a california touch, obviously. people from silicon valley hollywood and beyond. tell us about the show. >> it's a political show but i don't want to have too many politicians on the show. i'm humbled that you put me on your show. >> we are honored. >> at this stage what i want to do, and i love your show and all of the other shows out there, but i want to really focus on what to do and have a real discussion about that from folks that are not necessarily insiders but outliers and in the debate. the designers, the artists, the entertainers. folks on the edge of new technology innovators at the end of the day it's a show of not who is to blame, but what

there is to do. and we are having a lot of fun with it. and i'm learning an extraordinary difficulty in booking good talent. [ laughter ] >> bagging you was the high point of our morning. >> seriously. >> the couldn't be more excited about it, and to welcome you to the current family. >> thanks. and watch out for lance armstrong tonight. >> awesome. talk to you soon. >> take care guys. [ applause ] >> vapors. vann jones last night, and gavin newsom today. my stars! [ laughter ] >> everybody have a great weekend. we'll see you month on the "stephanie miller show." ♪