♪ [ theme music ] ♪ oh there we are. there she is. hello, current tv fans. happy friday. how is our ailing news woman jacki schechner. >> i am a thousand times better. i think it was the soup. >> we sent her soup tomorrow. you now how you are family

momma, how does jacki schechner that scrawny little news anchor get off eating key lime pie. she better not be trying to lure my future husband jim ward, you tell her to back off, and you tell her anyone who is 695 can be a redhead. >> oh! >> that's a lot of hate for a friday morning. >> so welcome to the family. >> i feel so loved. good morning, everyone. president obama is headed to chicago and minneapolis today for a total of six fund raisers. that is the most his campaign has ever had in one day. but before the fund-raising kicks off, the president is focusing on the next step on his

congressional to do list and that's setting up a job corps for troops coming home. the president is going to tour the honeywell facility in minneapolis which pleas 65 veterans. and yesterday honeywell's ceo said this. >> what do you think the ultimate effective tax rate should be on corporations. >> zero. >> zero. >> yeah. the problem is from a fairness perspective nobody would be able to stand it, but if you look at where jobs come from they come from companies and if we wanted to create the most effective pipeline you have ever seen we would have the lowest rate possible. >> we know from experience and current economic conditions that that is not necessarily true and not in line with the president's economic policy. the president's agenda today is

going to focus on veterans and give veterans certifications for high-demand manufacturing jobs. join us in chat, current.com/stephaniemiller. tides.

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>> yes it's almost blinding in person. >> i'm talking about the sexy liberalness of john fugelsang. in person, live in studio in l.a. thank you, tv viewers for the extra eye candy. [ applause ] >> dave from boston here. remember last year when you came to boston you and john and hal gave me a big hug. that was awesome. see you on june 9th. [ applause ] >> what a show. >> tickets almost gone. >> this is my first time seeing you in person since we were in indianapolis. that aisha taylor it's like a whole different show. >> yeah the first three-way tea

bagging demonstration now has like a billion hits on youtube. >> the tea bagging pegging. >> aisha was not tea bagging you -- >> i was two layers down -- >> i didn't realize i was her prison boyfriend either until i saw the video. >> she took you out to the yard. >> considering i struck out with both of these women that night, it was actually very successful evening. >> all right. a good time was had by all. >> come to boston. >> by then birtherism already back -- >> huge! [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> huge! >> and it's funny because it was one year ago this month that barack obama released his long-form birth certificate and

donald trump gave that bizarre press conference. >> yes. >> now we're all birthers. ♪ i used to be alone in the crowd, thanks to the internet you see, i connect with idiots like me ♪ ♪ i'm a birther, he's a birther, she's a birther, wouldn't you like to be a birther too ♪ ♪ be a birther, scream birther ♪ >> the dr. pepper theme. >> oh birther why art thou. [ applause ] [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> breaking news today. the job rate hadn't ticked up as much as we had hope. but i remember when bush was in

office him talking about the catastrophic losses. >> no, i don't remember that. >> 750,000 jobs a month we were loosing. >> and the media was featuring on the new, the new. >> it reminded me because bush was there yesterday doing the unveiling -- doing that stupid laugh. [ laughter ] >> that guy -- okay. >> he was making jokes yesterday and i wasn't laughing. >> i like having him on tv as much as possible because there is a collective amnesia of what happened when he was in office. >> lost 750,000 jobs a month. >> and what stopped that job loss? what slowed it down? the stimulus. >> yeah. yeah. obviously all of that said, not good numbers, and they are going

to use that as more fodder. but the fact they were getting along so well gave credence that he is now working for the obama administration. because when he wrote a book about how to fix the economy -- >> if you are economical you will -- >> i'm like really? before the election on a book tour about how to -- >> look romney is bringing donald kryptonite trump out with him every chance he gets. donald trump will not be doing fundraisers with romney come october, if you know what i'm saying. i don't understand why donald

trump is so devoted to hurting his own brand like this? >> and they had a -- you know there was -- what was i looking at -- a piece of here we go again liberal bias. there is once again no such thing. they are trying to make analogies between -- like we don't remember how many stories there were about president obama. "politico" did a piece about them doing a story about mitt romney in high school. and why didn't they talk more about the president's dope smoking. first of all the media has bun bias and that's for a story. >> and it has been out there. >> obama already wrote about it himself. and it was covered exhaustively in the last campaign. >> yeah. >> if anything the bias was this was a news story. >> because the media dwells so much on that -- >> sure. >> i will believe the media is

liberal when they pay as much attention to an anti war rally as a tea party rally. >> yeah. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> john edwards, by the way my unpaid personal legal analysis marcia clark she was right mistrial. >> yeah. >> not guilty and hung. >> excuse me? a lot of people have been making the case why was this tried in the first place. >> right. >> the obama justice department -- probably wanted to avoid bias so they prosecute john edwards and not -- >> a lot of our republican friends down south said the same% thing. that it was a witch hunt against john edwards.

>> yeah. if douchiness was a crime, the entire fox network would be on trial. >> if he was found guilty it might really ruin his reputation. >> while he may have been a bad president, she wasn't a criminal. >> yeah. and they go looking for financial malfeasance and they find sex. >> yeah. >> here is good news from brad freeman. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> yeah. we talked about that. >> let's see if we can do that, if they can really block it. >> we used our bull horn yesterday tell eric holder -- >> the bull horn saves everything. >> right. >> if you can't be right, be loud. >> uh-huh. >> no, we were right and loud.

>> it works on a lot of shows! yeah! yeah! see! i'm right and loud! we agree as libber at it fors that the bush tax cuts work! yeah! see! okay, boss. >> the other big news -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> on the gay rights front was the doma ruling yesterday. and ted butrose -- >> golly. >> yes. >>, jr. will join us to talk about the impact of yesterday's ruling that doma is unconstitutional. >> and two-thirds of those judges were republicans. >> right. it is all coming together. [ mysterious music ] >> i'm glad that doma is in the headlines again, because the more we can talk about why bill

clinton signed doma the more we can talk about president obama's compromise. there was a risk at the time that if he didn't sign it and vetoed it, that bob dole might become president. so bill clinton helped gay folks because it kept him in office four years longer. >> although ironically had bob dole been elected we might have had a health care plan back then. [ applause ] >> exactly. >> we would be further ahead on health care, farther behind on gay rights. >> right. [ mysterious music ] >> and bill clinton going to wisconsin. [ applause ] >> that's nice thanks democratic party with four days to go. >> yeah, we'll see what

happens -- because from what i am told there are all kinds of different polls and some of them are showing it very, very tight. >> i was going the governor spitzer show last week -- [ bell chimes ] . >> -- and i said can we please do a whole piece about wisconsin. and it seemed like the democrats were really letting bennett hang in the wind. and debbie wasserman schultz went last week and last week the dnc wrote their first check -- >> little behind sexy liberal tour. we have given twice. we lapped you guys. >> it is great because this is going to be the future of organized labor. >> and please get my squeezy

alert ready. hot actress anna chumsky, she needs to buy a vowel -- you remember her as a child store. >> of course. >> she is on chris lavoie's favorite knew show -- >> it is historically funny. >> this is the best thing she has ever done. >> she plays her chief of staff, right? >> yes. she is wonderful. she has done a lot of theater and it's really great to see her on the tv. >> she does a great job of keeping a lid on all of the panic that she feels underneath her. her character is just like everybody that rebecca and i call in dc. they are just -- >> tightly wound? >> yes. >> the vulnerability that the

jack abrams of the world go for. >> we'll be talking to her this hour. [ overlapping speakers ] >> oh, that was me talking over me again. i hope you are panicking over your job. >> totally. >> all right 18 minutes after the hour, right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: i just barfed oatmeal out my nose. it is the "stephanie miller show." >> all right. we are still up on the thing. >> oh, no. >> yes. >> hold back. [ show playing in background ]

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show." welcome it to. 24 minutes after the hour. that haunting presence over there, live in studio john fugelsang -- >> stop it with the ghost jokes. i am irish, english, german okay. in seattle appear tan, and in alaska i pass for haitian. and i have played hitler's dad. >> is that because you know german? >> partly. >> you pink devils are hating on the white man. no black person has ever made fun of me for being pail. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> mitt romney gives the

president f on the economy. [ laughter ] >> this is a governor that took his state from 35th to 47th in the nation. all right. >> we brought the orientation of a financial engineer who's career has not been about generating jobs. it's been about -- >> can we talk about those ass hats shouting in the background. >> yeah. >> can we do that now. >> definitely. >> i think our serious thing should be boogity, boogity bang! >> i don't understand.

>> is that french cheese. >> we see this polls where he is neck and neck in the swing states. again, nice enough guy, but when you look at his record as governor, don't look at that and don't look at his record on the olympics he got millions and millions and millions in earmarks that we brought back and now all he has to run on is his corporate buyout. >> yes, they talked about his disastrous tenure. >> and the decent thing he did was the health care plan that he runs away from. the earmarks for the olympics were a good thing. >> oh, you mean all of the % government he got with which to run the olympics? >> dozens of millions of dollars --

>> that would make him a socialist practically -- >> yes, and it was a good thing he did it. >> and it was successful. >> yeah, thanks to all of that government money he got? >> absolutely. >> all he wants is 51% of the vote. you have no idea who he is. and i guarantee you his supporters now will be the first to hate him. david axelrod said mitt romney applied the economic philosophy he learned in the private sector to disastrous results. it crashed our economy in the first place. massachusetts couldn't afford romney economics and neither can america. >> he had his own failures -- >> yeah. i don't think the president has time to stand in front of all of the businesses that mitt romney crashed, does he? >> no.

>> it's a corporate condo flipping network. >> massachusetts plunged to 47th out of 50 in the nation in job creation. he cut taxes for millionaires like himself. >> and can we point out the taxes for millionaires right now are the lowest they have ever been. and they ain't doing any creating. when we raise taxes, eisenhower and clinton, and look at how prosperous we were at that time. >> all right. more on the president's call to romney as we continue on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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current tv. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> can't start the day without that special feeling. >> it is the "stephanie miller show." happy friday. more specifically happy fridays with fugelsang. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> beth from minneapolis! >> good morning. i heard on the bbc this morning that communist china is going through an economic slowdown and they are planning an economic stimulus package dedicated mostly to

infrastructure. would somebody please send smoke signals to the republican party. >> yep. >> thank you. >> you can't because there's too much smoke over china because it is the most polluted country in the word. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> there is a weird thing going on over there. >> these people that hate capitalism hate socialism. human greed, causes you have to have what we have with the peanut and chocolate together of the socialism and capitalism. >> uuuuum. peanut butter. [ mumbling ] >> now you are speaking my

language. >> my metaphor just ate my point. >> what do you have over there, your stale kale leaves? >> beef and broccoli stir-fry, but the beef is on. >> yeah, ginger on twitter says what is steph eating this morning. it looks brown and mushy. >> it's not. sit delicious. >> three-day old garlic it sounds great over there. your day could signal a plane with your breath. >> oh, wow! [ laughter ] >> so i was mentioning obama called romney and congratulated him on his victory. he called him and say mittens game on, beotch.

romney said the call which had the potential to be frosty was short and cordial. >> the sad fact is if mitt romney becomes president, i'm going buy a boat. mitt is pretty funny. >> yeah. what we were praying for yesterday is that orly taitz wins the -- >> oh, please god for that debate. [ laughter ] >> i am a dentist! let me speak. >> yeah capturing a northern

california racist vote. [ laughter ] >> god. >> so romney out on the campaign trail said obama has repeatedly demonstrated hostility to job creators. >> whatever! >> the romney camp singled out obama's health reform. >> ah! ah! ah! >> the health reform that allen west is trying to keep? >> yeah. >> these misguided policies have prevented new jobs. >> oh. >> and it's more and more republicans want to keep elements of the affordable health care act. this guy obama he killed more terrorists, repealed more on documented workers, taxes have never been lower and they call

him a stinking -- >> when you say it is never enough, it is zero. >> they would like negative tax. >> yes so would i. >> exxon mobil already has that. >> honeywell senior executive said he believe corporate tax rate should be zero. the effective rate fell to -- these are fun facts. >> oh, okay. >> fell to a 40-year low in fiscal 2011 despite corporate profits, the u.s. actually has one of the lowest effective tax rates in the developed world -- >> say it again. one of the lowest corporate tax rates. >> yes. it was around 12% which is well below those existing around the world said warren buffet.

corporate taxes are not strangling american's competition. [ applause ] >> he doesn't think that honeywell should say for the goods and services that they use that the united states go provides? >> no. >> i see. okay. >> maybe he should be extradited somewhere. >> sure. how about china. >> obviously they are going to be all over the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2. we added 169,000 jobs which we were saying -- shouldn't they have been like we're losing 750,000 a month! [ screaming ] >> yeah, and hannity is telling us why this is bad. >> and the auto industry where sales have been booming >> that's bad. >> governor grandholm wrote a

great piece about how mitt romney should shut his pie hole. >> i don't think she said it like that. >> i would like that every night, why mitt romney should shut his pie hole. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> i have talked to hr professionals who told me how much businesses like the affordable care act, because now that people are covered under their parents policies until age 26, it is inspiring so many people -- >> i'm going to higher a much younger producer that can stay on his parent's health care plan -- [ applause ] >> instead of the elderly decrepted people that have repeated muscle injuries. >> exactly. >> i honestly don't think i have used my health insurance once. >> good! >> what does that say about me? i don't know.

>> youer to your quadriceps again? >> and i throw staplers every day. >> he does his own stitches. >> i got it. >> chris cauterizes his own injuries with a lighter. >> manufacturers are very concerned about europe, because a blow up in europe -- which we were saying the president has no control over -- >> thanks to awes -- austerity measures. >> yeah. >> some other stuff i hadn't -- i don't know nothing about, but she said the recovery's roller coaster

trajectory may be largely dilutionary, and the warm weather should be over by now, she said her research showed historically may is the most dampened after a warm winter. i have never -- this is like -- >> huh? >> what the season alibis a has done is make the recovery look like a stop-start recovery and instead it has been very moderate but steady. all i'm saying is -- >> and the economy was crashing in flames under george bush. >> yes and we should have been saying -- it should have been on the network every night. >> raising taxes on the rich doesn't create jobs. >> right. >> open the window and stick your head out and yell i'm mad as hell, and i'm not going to

take that anymore! >> that seems partisan though. >> we have to leave it here. >> this has cannot be seen as george bush's fault -- let's talk to a pendent who says it is clinton's fault. all right. we'll leave it there. >> where were you honey? >> out shopping with the girls until 2:00 in the morning. >> we'll leave it there. >> oh, dear. >> oh, dear. 44 minutes after the hour. we'll be back with actress extrordanaire anna chlumsky. >> chlumsky. >> i got it right.

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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rivals ♪ ♪ eye of the tiger ♪ >> it is the "stephanie miller show," welcome to it. we're pathetic. 49 minutes after the hour. fridays with john fugelsang. thank you. it's macauley culkin. not anna chlumsky. i was just getting some basic -- i don't want to be the

kathy lee gifford of this interview. anna welcome, good morning. >> thank you so much good morning. >> i'm sorry i was reviewing the plot of my girl. i remember you being fabulous in the movie, but i didn't remember -- okay. it was mcculley culkin's character. [ laughter ] >> there wouldn't have been a my girl two if she died in my girl. >> it's only the character. i loved you in those movies, but rather than growing up to hold up 7/11s, you have a part two of a successful career. you are great on the "veep." >> thank you that is so good to hear. >> chris was saying they deal

with people like your character and he can feel the panic. >> the way you contain that barely contained panic is so perfect. >> well, thank god. it's the least i can do. >> john fugelsang is here and he said he has loved julia louis-dreyfus since the s&l days, were you intimidated to work with her? >> not at all. she has that quality where you feel very invited into her world, you know. and i think that that's one of the things that makes her -- her work so good and so -- yeah i wasn't intimidated, i was kind of like i get to meet julia. >> i have always thought one

thin, the people that are the best at playing bitches are the nicest people in person. what is that about? [ laughter ] >> yeah kim simons who plays jonah on our show was saying something like that. it gives us an outlet right to say all of the things that sometimes we want to say to some stranger on the subway, but we never can. [ laughter ] >> it's like taking a vacation from being a nice person. >> exactly. >> exactly. i was reading an interview you did with cnn, and you said people have good days and bad days, everybody uses the bathroom. when we mythologyize our presidents. >> yeah, obama -- some people

talk about disill lou shunment and stuff, and i say that means you were lusioned in the first place. >> yeah. >> look at somebody's job and see if it holds to what the intentions were, and then make your decision that way. and to me i think that it is a pretty positive outlook at this point. >> right. i think it's interesting -- that's why in my opinion mitt romney isn't resinating because he is so inauthentic. >> yeah. >> and i think that's why your sereries is doing so well because it seems so real. >> yeah. >> right. >> yeah, i think that too. i think -- you know it's -- i think that's something that our creator and exec producer has really captured in his satire is

just -- like we can all be mature enough to admit that people are people, and sometimes folks are good at their jobs and sometimes folks are bad at their jobs, and isn't it the most fair to look at it that way instead of making some kind of a ferry tail out of it all. >> when you bring up your creator, are you speaking of the love of my life frank rich? >> oh! >> is he the creator? >> he is not the creator, [ inaudible ] is the creator along with his writing staff, simon blackwell, tony roche, and wealth of amazing people out of the uk. frank who is ahwesome -- >> i swing when i say his name too. >> yeah, it must be all of his years critiquing musical

theater. >> yeah, we had him on every week, and i would basically read his column back to him. >> oh, my gosh. >> anna this is john fugelsang. i want to congratulate you on the show, and for those of us who have followed your career it is very gratifying to see. >> oh. >> and you were in in the loop back in 2009 -- >> word. >> did you just say word white girl. >> yeah, i do it all the time and people have started calling me out on it. >> consider yourselves called. >> no keep saying it. it was nominated for best screen play, it is a british, irish american film and really

hilarious, did that role play a role in this show? >> it did have a role in my casting for sure because that was all armando and simon and tony, and the catalonian mafia -- [ laughter ] >> yeah definitely -- >> because armando directed in the loop. >> yes. and as far as a role preparing me, i think what i was prepared for because of in the loop i got to work with process, he workshoped, he -- he is very, very you know -- it -- encouraging and spontaneous type work when you -- when you do -- when you work with him. so the process was kind of what i was prepared for, but as far

as liza they actually are very dissimilar. liza is kind of -- still kind of a -- a very -- not low-level, but she a lower-level staff member -- and i do think that they think in a different way. >> it is almost like you are saying there was acting involved -- [ laughter ] >> i invited my own anna chlumsky savant in today john fugelsang. because you were a former child star, i was hoping you had gone wildly off of the rails, and eaten someone's face on the off ramp -- >> naked. >> yeah, i'm kind of boring like

that. >> all right. well, i'll just make some stuff up then. >> you can do that, and then -- you know, our people can talk. [ laughter ] >> let's talk about when you held up that stuckkys. >> it's because you have a great mom. and congratulations on "veep" on hbo, and i am going to watch it this weekend in fact. >> thank you. i'm so happy that everyone is watching it. it's fantastic. >> awesome and unlike my girl nobody dies. >> and i'm going to be creepy and watch gold diggers in my trench coat. [ laughter ] >> oh, my goodness. >> anna chlumsky what a pleasure. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> anna was born the week john lennon died. so something good came out of that week.

>> you're a geek. >> all right 58 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." 05 ♪ all right. well here it is hello, current tv fans. jacki i just want to know how much i love you. jim had to go pee. i am peeing in my pants so i can be here to introduce you. >> do you remember the astronaut who drove with a diaper -- >> who could for get that. >> that was inspiring. but it was a love story.

>> when you love somebody you cut the acme birdseed the rocket skates -- >> her bag had everything that wiley coyote had. >> duct tape and chloroform. >> and somebody who does not need chloroform to bag a man. >> as far as you know. good morning, everyone. the justice department has now gotten itself involved telling state elections division to stop purging the voter roles in the state. the justice department says the state's process has not been cleared, according to the voter's right act. since florida's primary is less than three months away, florida does not have the right to legally make any changes to its voter roles. florida has compiled a list of

182,000 potential non-citizens and local officials have sent out a batch of 2600 letters, giving those people 30 days to prove their citizenship in order to be licensed to vote. the miami herald has found that the purging disproportionately targets democrats, hispanics, and minority voters. the new rules for third-party votes that require that they notify the state within ten years if a and plea stops working for the organization. the u.s. district judge in

tallahassee called the burr ben useless and unconstitutional. we are back with more after the break. stay with us. mr. vice president. >> they're swimming against the tides. [ train whistle blows ] [ ball hitting paddle ] [ orbit girl ] don't let food hang around. yeah! [ orbit trumpet ] clean it up with orbit! [ orbit glint ] fabulous! for a good clean feeling. ♪ eat, drink, chew orbit! ♪

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[ laughter ] >> 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. that's okay. because john fugelsang is here it's fridays with john fugelsang. >> you have heard of tv on the radio, this is radio on the tv. i love your voice. it's very depressing to be v to be over in the boo radially studio in new york -- >> it is great to have you here on camera. >> it's great to be here with you on camera -- you all right? >> i have to strike out with her every day on the show. >> he'll be striking out with me again next saturday night in boston. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> and i'll be doing guilt a love story in minneapolis. >> and then we'll be on the

[ overlapping speakers ] >> it used to be a chain of theaters -- >> this has been a great year because i got to headline the blue state ball and then sexy liberal with you at the safety so my goal to play every single theater in minneapolis is continuing at place. >> good luck. >> there are a few adult houses i have scheduled in the fall. >> good luck. >> steph, skip as a vietnam vet has been plagued with health problems lately. cheryl ann decided to contact scott brown, and within a week they received help and a personal letter from scott perry. scott brown's office never responded. caroline said i guess we know who to vote for. yes, you do.

elizabeth warren! ♪ it ain't a man ♪ >> no. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> in other naked samb brea news -- >> the naked-face eating. isn't face eating titillating enough as a headline. >> right? >> it's the news. >> it's face eating. the fact he is naked is completely incidental to the entire thing! there are naked guys in the street all the time. it is mandatory in parts of san francisco. >> enough. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> the face-eating victim will recover -- >> remember the monkey lady who got her face eaten. >> he is in stable condition. >> and that's bath salts. >> yes. i know right?

hal sparks sexy liberal comedy bit -- he tried to warn -- >> first he tried to say it was lsd, and i'm like really where can i get some of that. but now they are saying it is bath salts. >> we don't know that for sure. >> it might have been recreational bath salts. >> the victim is expected to live. despite losing 80% of his face including his nose and left eye. >> a woman in new jersey now thinks that is her father and she hasn't seen him in 40 years. so i can only hope this is the best period of his life and he will be back in touch with his family. >> should he choose nicolaus cage of john travolta's face? >> john. >> i just gave you an ounce of

sincerity and you brought it right back -- >> now here is more goofball crap -- [ laughter ] >> the guy -- >> they were naked too. >> i wanted to finish the story with somebody who has had worse luck in romance that me. and that would be the woman married to the face-eating guy. jenny, she married him, eugene in 2005 -- >> how is her face? still intact? >> yeah. thank god. described him as a troubled moon. really? >> you don't say? >> hum. >> hum. >> what? >> she said i wouldn't say he had a mental problem. really? >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> i would say he's completely mental. >> not anymore he doesn't. >> but he always felt like people was against him. >> people was against him. >> well -- i always feel that way too. >> yeah, but you don't eat

someone's face. >> i don't think she had the best taste or grammar. >> no one was for him, everyone was against him. [ applause ] >> he was the victim, apparently. that whole incident had better dialogue than the whole last season of walking dead. >> how is that story. hey, that's my husband. >> that show was really about heroic zombies trying to save us in a soap opera. >> talking dead. >> yeah, the talking living. >> all right then. all right. >> and he was naked. >> and also did he mention he was naked. >> being maked is the most mundane part of your story -- >> that's a story. you got to run with that.

[ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> there he was mr. 750,000 jobs a month loss george bush in the white house. >> got to picture another george w -- [ bush giggling ] >> it was a nice ceremony. >> they were very gracious. >> what were they going to do eat each other's faces off? >> you need to see these heads getting along. >> president obama thanked george bush for his kind words, plus you left me a really good tv sports package. that's a joke. [ whacky comedy music ] >> and bush had a good bolly madison joke. >> yes. >> the month before i took

office was a difficult time, but we wouldn't know until later just how breath-taking the financial crisis had been, still over those two and a half months in the midst of that crisis president bush, his cabinet, his staff, many of you who are here today went out of their way, and george you went out of your way to make sure the transition was as seamless as possible. >> that was very nice. >> although i detected a big there. >> from time to time, those months we have had the privilege to hold this office turning to the only people on earth who know the feeling. we may have our differences politically, but the presidency transcends those differences. we all love this country and want america to success. >> as long as you blame it on the black guy. that wasn't me.

>> george i will always remember the gathering you hosted for all of the living former presidents before i took office, your kind words of encouragement, plus you left me a really good tv sports package. [ laughter ] >> that's what we call an ease the crowd in the comedy world. >> i use it. >> and then george started with the jokes. he said the gallery of presidents now starts and ends with george w. >> he is the founder of our country, and i tried to wreck it. >> he used the same line in his convention speech in 2000. >> repetition is the greatest thing. laura bush was funnier, she said nothing makes a home like having 47 occupants staring down at you from the halls.

>> and she made a bobble head job. and how do you not love her. >> yeah. >> michelle obama took the stage and observed that there were not enough tissues to go around jenna and barbara are just a mess. well -- >> kids are off limits haven't you heard. >> yes. >> just ask bristol palin about that. >> who is giving the president parenting advice. >> and you tax tips from wesley snipes. [ laughter ] >> mittens -- that was clever he was in front of solyndra -- and as i was saying president obama does not have time to stand in front of all of the companies that mitt romney bankrupted. >> yeah. >> the decision to put money in this enterprise represents a serious conflict of interest. >> didn't bush begin the

solyndra deal? >> yes. it one more. >> free enterprise to the president means taking money from the taxpayers and giving it to his friends. >> really? >> haliburton! haliburton! no bid contracts for dick cheney's friends. that's capitalism! >> and you and your cronies win that describes bain exactly. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> didn't bain and batman exist before bain capital? >> no, bain capital has been around for years, and bain came into batman in the 80s. and talking about comics is my

form of birth control. [ laughter ] >> all right. we'll be right back with right-wing world. >> announcer: it's her political party, and she'll cry if she wants to. it's the "stephanie miller show." >> we're still up on the microphone. >> hi current. >> hi, this is us. sounding very sincere. >> very sincere. and almost like an announcer. >> courtney says hi back. >> hi, courtney. >> john fugelsang is going to take a while, he might be back -- [overlapping speakers] [ laughter ] [ show playing in background ]

on the next gavin newsom show: google's sergey brin and anne wojcicki give gavin a hands on look at google's glasses. >>that's facinating. [ show playing in background ] >> yeah, sorry about that.

>> all right. look swords and elves. >> oh! >> it is a great show. >> i know. i know. >> the british accent is terrible. and it is so funny no one will admit it how bad it is. it's like [ inaudible ]. >> yeah, uh-huh. >> it's like he knows how bad it is. [ inaudible ] >> and he was engaging -- >> oh he played richard iii in the public theater -- ♪ i'm bringing sexy back ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ get your sexy on ♪ >> oh, yeah. yeah. 23 minutes after the hour. >> i'm trying to convert -- trying to get him to

turn -- >> it's not dungeons and dragons. >> he is such a geek for a sexy liberal. >> that's a good show. >> i can't do swords and elves. >> how many times do i have to tell you there are no elves. >> all right. bring it back. vick i have to listen to you on the radio, because if i watch you on tv, i hear nothing you say. okay, that was for you. [ buzzer sounds ] >> what was her name. >> hey guys i'm going to see you in boston. i'm so excited. >> you get to meet aisha tyler, and stephanie and me.

>> yeah i just want to tell everybody to go out and vote because this is getting very dangerous. >> yeah. maria, you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hi, momma. hi, everybody. >> you saw john fugelsang's show guilt. >> i did. and i'm the official not so civil stalker of the "stephanie miller show." >> how many sexy liberals have you been to? >> five. bell [ applause ] >> wow. >> and it has been a different show everybody time? >> of course it is. john you were incredible. i was so blown away by it. it was really wonderful. >> thank you. thank you. >> no, thank you. >> where did you see him? >> madison. >> awesome. >> yeah. and the best part was afterwards he stayed and said hello to every single person in the audience. >> oh, that's because i am

lonely. all of the credit goes to my director by the way. i just show up and read the lines. >> why do you go to so many cities, are you running from the law, are you in fact a phase-eating zombie. >> i wish i could say otherwise but there's a knock on my door i really got to go. see ya! >> she played along with the skit there. >> are we calling you at a bad time? >> and are you in fact naked. >> if you are still listening, thank you for coming to see my show in madison, we're in minneapolis two weeks. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> condy rice will endorse mittens. >> oh, what a shock. >> and nicky haley wrote whoever governor romney chooses will be

part of a dream team. oh. >> my preference would be bobby jendel or condy rice. >> hi i'm bobby jendel boy governor. >> and he exercises a demon -- >> exactly right. he performed exorcisms -- >> comedy wise he is my number one choice. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> how many of you didn't do exorcisms back in college, some on now. [ theme song to "exorcism" ] >> i did the dyslexic version -- >> jane fonda's exorcism workout. [ whacky comedy music ] >> we did dereflective exorcist which was your mother cooks socks to hell.

that's not dirty, i checked with the scc. media -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> [ inaudible ] like the north the obama camp hasn't fainted at some trump-related body blows. think about this, today our opponent is facing the same fund-raising deadline as we are but the people i'm counting on could not be more different. he is relying on high-powered ex-executives and a tv personality who spent the last week talking about where i was born. >> he does not need to talk about that. because the more he talks about

it, the more trump is going to realize he is helping the president every time he opens his mouth. >> right. shhhh. hi, carol. >> hi testifyny. john hunking sexy voice, john fugelsang did a great job substituting for eliot spitzer. >> oh, thank you very much. >> and we in florida need to get a process started to remove this governor down here. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> yeah. >> you can try to have a recall against governor scott, it might be easier to find all of his whore cruxes. >> all right. john fugelsang. >> he has gotten more fugelsome as the show as gone on. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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thank you rebecca taylor. >> even with her mouth closed she is surly. >> you know the kind of news i have rushed in $4,000 golden vibrator stolen. thank god i have that information. >> you have to read the story now. >> i normally prepare what am i kathy lee gifford. [ laughter ] >> wow, talk about coming into money. i don't have time to write anymore jokes for this. [ whacky comedy music ] [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> an armed man in brazil has heisted a $4,000 vibrator. he walked into the store, tied up a clerk -- >> he was armed. a no-armed man could tie nobody

up. >> he stole the vibrator and nothing else. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> it's high season for erotic shops in brazil. i may have to switch my vacation plans. >> it's golden vibrator season. >> the store owner says the robber may get no satisfaction from the steal, she said the swedish vibrator has a steel core. and he didn't take the charger. >> oh, hate it when that happens -- >> you know how many times i have had to call hotels do you have the charger -- >> every hotel in america has a box full of phone chargers and

stephanie miller chargers. >> just use the cubic zirconia, she will never know the difference. >> the cubic zirconia for her pleasure. >> you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> i love your show. i was watching morning joe this morning -- >> awe! >> there was this ed gillespie on there who is romney's assistance, and he was giving president obama fs for foreign policies and -- i am so upset i don't know what to do. [ romantic music ] >> you have come to the right place. >> i am telling everybody about current tv, and i am so happy to have found you. >> thank you, karen, spread the

word. >> i am definitely doing that. [ applause ] >> but also there was a comment made also on morning joe about president clinton and saying that he supported romney's good business skills. that was upsetting to me -- >> yeah, i would cut out your morning joe entirely. >> yeah. >> that's what i am trying do. >> come along now. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> for someone who doesn't watch morning joe, she sure watches or mourning joe a lot. >> as we call it shut up mica. >> shut your pie hole mica. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> john edwards, mistrial. >> yeah. >> on one count -- no mistrial on five counts not guilty on one count. >> he spoke yesterday. >> there is no one else responsible for my sins. none of the people who came to court and testified are

responsible. nobody working for the government is responsible. i am responsible. and if i wanted to find the person who should be held accountable for my sins honestly i don't have to go any further than the mirror. >> that's not the first time you looked in the mirror. >> actually i never leave the mirror. >> he didn't need to make that statement. and it was still self-serving. >> his lawyer did not want him to make a statement at all. >> yeah. here was the other weird moment with his daughter standing behind him -- his daughter who -- you know, was standing right behind him, i get that he talked about his child are rielle hunter -- >> quinn. >> right. but it was -- a lot [ overlapping speakers ] >> he didn't really need to -- >> and finally my pressure quinn, who i love more than any of you could ever imagine -- >> totally self-serving --

>> too much sharing. >> and i am so close to and so so grateful for. so grateful for quinn. i'm grateful for all of my children. >> that was just weird. >> can i say something in defense of john edwards here. if john kerry had asked bob graham of florida to be his running mate. he would have trounced him in the vp debate carried florida, and within a one-term democratic president. thank god john kerry picked john edwards for his running mate. >> a lot of people wondered what this meant. whether this is him talking about a future in politics or not. >> i don't think god is through with me. i really believe he thinks there are still some good things i can do. and whatever happens with this

legal stuff going forward, what i'm hopeful about is all of those kids that i have seen you know, in the poorest parts of this country, and in some of the poorest places in the world, that i can help them. >> that statement might have been too long. he might have been just like thank you -- >> he could, john edwards -- he has enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his life. he will never get elected again. >> he can be a lawyer. >> no, i don't think he'll be able to be a scevey lawyer -- >> i don't think his license was taken away. >> it was not. and he went to haiti after the quake, and that's the sort of work he needs to do. if he really devoted himself now -- some say rielle was the one who had the influence on

him. ralph nater endorsed john edwards in 2008. he was the most progressive viable candidate that year and it's a shame to know what was happening at the time -- >> by the way just another historic "stephanie miller show" example of how these two were wrong, and i was right. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> there is something about him i don't trust. >> the worst thing is not that he cheated on his wife. he is human. the worst thing was that he had this love child and his girlfriend, and he was willing to get the nomination with this secret. he was willing to go into october knowing that uncle rupert could spring it around halloween week about the love child and he was willing to give mccain palin the entire election. >> here is my new feature. what up with chicks? [ nbc "nightly news" theme ]

>> there was a woman on the jury flirting with him. oh, my god he is so cute when he gets upset. so hot. >> yeah, america wouldn't be the same without women who think, i could change him. >> yeah. >> isn't it weird when i got my ap alert on my cell phone that i didn't rush to the television to see what happened? >> no, it was a non-issue. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> it doesn't have been prosecuted in the first place. >> yeah. >> texas photo id law stopped. the justice department declared on monday the objection is now in federal court in washington whether texas and south carolina will be allowed to enforce its

knew voter id requirements. the justice's move blocks the requirement until the court rules. eric holder has been especially vocal about voting rights. good. >> yeah. >> we need election systems that are free of partisan influence. so a lot of people obviously calling the white house and saying look into florida. >> thank god, because the big lie that our republican friends are giving us is that voter fraud is a terrible problem in america. it is not a problem, but they need to talk about voter fraud as much as possible so nobody will be surprised -- >> here is the thing -- >> election fraud -- >> here is the good thing about google, we used to have this where you can instantly fact check guests on the show. typical republican going voter fraud it's crazy -- [ screaming ] >> and it turned out it was seven cases. [ bell chimes ]

[ applause ] >> out of millions that they were saying there is this rampant voter fraud. >> they lie about it to hurt poor people. when they say acorn there was never a single instance of voter fraud. acorn got screwed. they paid someone and they got screwed. and the gop lied about it. and called voter registration fraud, voter fraud. >> yeah. yeah. all right. we will give you the latest on what is going on with all of this florida stuff as we continue 45 opinions after the hour. fridays with john fugelsang. >> announcer: call the political party line now, 1-800-steph-1-2. ♪ >> we're not through just yet, mr. vice president. >> they're swimming against the

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♪ i want to and roll all night and -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ every day. i want to rock and roll all night and -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ every day ♪ >> it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 50 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. fridays with sexy liberal john fugelsang. >> hello. >> dominique in chicago. hi, dominique. >> hey, stephanie thanks for taking my call. in the last elections, the republicans did find fraud and the biggest guess who it was?

>> mitt romney? >> yeah, mitt romney and he was voting in his -- technically so he could vote in massachusetts but he was living with his son. >> that's right. and another one ann colter committed voter fraud. >> that's two. [ applause ] >> jim, fan letter you. carry writes steph thursday's show with jim flinging papers around and trying to punch them had to be the best show ever. there was a republican to through the bill papers in the air and started punching them as they went down. >> uh-huh. here is what i think of your bill! [ groaning ] [ applause ] >> that's the latest republican with an anger management prom. >> that was jim ward doing physical comedy on the radio. [ laughter ] >> yeah. here is the news out of florida

election supervisors confirm u.s. citizens improperly included in this voter purge that governor scott is doing. a list of presumed non-eligible voters is riddled with errors. supervisors have found a large number of the voters on the list are indeed eligible. there are 66 or so other county supervisors, spending a clear message to the scott administration at a tampa conference two weeks ago, one after the other they got up and talked about the errors. >> and florida -- he spoke parcel tongue. >> florida was decided by 537 votes -- >> uh-huh. >> i'm a liberal. i believe in giving criminals a second chance, but the governor's mansion in florida, not so much. >> exactly. while several supervisors have

expressed concerns -- blah blah one supervise has drawn the line in palm beach country. she sent her county 115 names of voters considered sure matches. her office determined the list to be not credible and has not sent out the letters asking for verification. since when do you get your right to vote taken away like this. what happens if you are on vacation or you think is it junk mail and you throw it out. >> it's just despicable and if these guys really believed in their ideology, they would don't this. 2000, a man would have said count all of the votes, and let's make sure the voices of the people of florida are heard. >> yeah. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> florida gop chair compares

voter fraud to drink driving. the purge is based on with the error riddled list -- blah blah, blah. according to curry, purging voters is like a dui check on it. he said law enforcement put up check points to ensure drunk drivers didn't threaten motorists. a few moments of inconvenience to law-abiding drivers are worth it to maintain safe highways. where do you start with how this is not -- his metaphor would only make since if police had

jammed drivers with false accusations -- >> it's arrostacracy versus democracy. this goes back to when they forced jefferson to keep slavery. they don't want people voting. george bush senior vetoed the motor voter bill. saying in a free country, you can't force people to vote which was a law. they don't want people voting. >> yeah. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> this disproportionately affects hispanics and democrats. >> wow. what a coincidence. >> the voting rights act forbids

laws passed specifically to target minority voters it always has a greater impact on minority voters. >> coincidence. just like all of those voting machines that slipped john kerry's numbers. >> exactly. >> hi ed you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hi, steph. i just switched over from morning joe, and i agree with john that that program should be called shut up mica. >> yeah. you are just a chick. >> it is incredible that a guy who supposedly is a small government conservative would inter interject himself into an issue like a woman's right to choose. and the other thing i want to say is before we elected our first african american president, there was no such thing as a tea party. >> yeah. >> and when i listen to the

interview that they did with george -- with dick cheney on there, i got the impression that that was such a soft interview that they must have been afraid that he was going to water board them. so i made the switch and i'm telling all of my friends. keep up the good work. unfortunately i'm a substitute teacher, so i won't be able to keep my cable on over the summer -- >> we did no pay our teachers more to they can get cable during the summer yes, please. andy you are on the "stephanie miller show" welcome. >> good morning. i do agree with you that current tv may be the salvation for this country. >> i think so, yeah. [ romantic music ] >> i'm so happy to have you in this world. >> promo. and the scare comment about the

edwards trial, but first i do have a question regarding the upcoming supreme court decision on health care. and if they throw it out, by default will massachusetts health care be thrown out? >> of course not. >> and how that could be an upside for elizabeth warren's campaign. >> yeah. >> it will be an upside because she is point out the hypocrisy on it. but they can't finish the ruling because clarence's wife hasn't finished writing it yet. >> ted boutrous is here to talk about the very, very important doma -- >> really? >> yes, it's a good day. i'll just be over here talking to myself. >> ah. >> 58 minutes after the hour, more fridays with john fugelsang, right? yes.

on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ ♪ >> i'm on air guitar with jacki schechner. here we are, hour number three. fridays with fugelsang. jacki guess what we do on the commercial breaks? >> what? >> the guys perv out over you. john was asking how was the party last weekend and jim said you missed jacki schechner dancing. [ laughter ] >> i did win the dance contest. >> yes clearly. >> we did collectively agree that i won. >> rub it in. >> this is my first chance

having the opportunity to strike out with jacki. >> go for it. >> oh, it's already done. [ laughter ] >> all right. and here now is jacki schechner in the current news center. >> good morning. good morning, everyone. it's not easy to put a positive spin on the new jobs number this morning. the administration is calling on congress to do more to create jobs and restore middle class security like enacting the president's to do list. harry reid said it's time for republicans to be more by partisan and work on democrats on passing legislation. republicans are on the attack with mitt romney calling the new numbers devastating news. and john boehner issued a statement saying this is the sad new normal. here he is. >> if they would have taken our advice and worked with us the economy would be better. more americans would have better jobs.

>> wliel republicans want to make the new numbers and the whole economic situation a referendum, the obama campaign is working to make the election a choice between two economic visions going forward. the obama can pain is out with a new video this morning. it shows rick santorum newt gingrich, rick perry, john mccain all going after mitt romney's job history. >> while the rest of the country was losing 7% of the manufacturing jobs while he was governor, 14% of the manufacturing jobs left the state of massachusetts. >> all part of this new obama campaign strategy to focus more now on mitt romney's tenure as governor of massachusetts. you can join us on line in chat at anytime you want.

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>> hello, mr. squeezy. >> and john fugelsang you did an ah some job on eliot spitzer and we need you after jennifer grandholm. >> that's so kind of you, i will be filling in for governor grandholm in september -- >> you are a little bit of a liberal man huhsy, aren't you. >> yes i am. >> jim who said the decision by the circuit of appeals court that marriage inequality by any level of government violates our nation's core principals court after court has affirms it is unfair, unjust and unconstitutional. >> marcus bachmann. [ buzzer sounds ] >> no that was a really bad guess. >> the executive director adam

haffer. >> that was a very good marksist impression -- >> that was good. >> you nailed him. >> he would try to degay me if i had. >> super lawyer unlike supper marcus. ted boutrous joining us now. good morning, ted. i apologize for the backstage crew. >> no problem. >> this was big yesterday. obviously we really had a string of breakthroughs on the marriage equality front. >> this is a huge development. the first circuit court of appeals in boston struck down as violating equal protection the perversely named defense of marriage act which allowed gay couples from getting equal

protection, and the court found it violates equal protection. >> i'll never forget hearing senator boxer speak in person a few years ago, when i first heard defense of marriage act i literally thought it would help married people, and when i found out what it was, i was like what? and it seems like more and more courts are fining that. >> it captures it because it is called the defense of marriage act, and one of the thing it talked about preventing a gay couple of getting married would

prevent straight couples from getting married. >> this is obviously on a number of tracks now -- talk to us about what happens. i know this is the first time a federal appeals court has recognized our constitution will not -- tell us what happened. >> absolutely. we now have a nationwide -- both coasts have now said that -- whether it takes federal law or a state law, that targets gay people who want to get married and discriminates against them in the context of marriage and violate the federal constitution. the first circuit's decision says where the federal government denies federal benefits to couples who happen to be gay, but provide those benefits to straight couples that that violates the protection. in the prop 8 case we have the

9th circuit hold that by taking away the right to marry, that again targets a minority group for unequal treatment and violates equal protection. both cases are now likely going to be headed towards the supreme court, the proponents of the law both going to seek supreme court review, the court could say those decisions are right, we don't need to hear it but they are important issues. >> that's the thing, as we have talked about before, they are almost creating a legal perfect storm here of obviously if the federal government has a law -- what is it now, eight states have marriage equality. >> uh-huh. >> the ruling was authored by a judge widely regarded as conservative. and the three-judge panel may be seen as conservative and if

states are creating ban of gay marriage -- how do you see this all playing out down the road? >> everything is trending the right direction. the state's right i don't think suggests anything about banning same-sex marriage. but if you look at what has happened over the last couple of weeks, you had president obama saying he personally favors marriage equality colin powell and when we brought the case three years ago, and it has now been three years to the day since i first came on the show -- >> oh it's our anniversary. [ romantic music ] >> it's wonderful. but it has been a bipartisan wave, really, and so i think that helps us in the courts and any public, so i think tremendous progress has been

made, and having republican appointees, democrat appointees saying this violations the constitution to discriminate gays is a major, major development. >> for those of us who knew it was wrong 20 years ago, it's nice that the adults in the federal government have finally come to agree with us. >> the court did mention that this was major bipartisan support that president clinton signed it into law, i think he now says he regrets that but it was political pressure. when marriage rights are put to the test when -- in -- in north carolina most recently, politics is not the way to resolve individual civil liberties, so that's what happened back in '96. that's why it is the federal constitution that is the ultimate protector of those

rights. >> exactly right. that's what i'm asking you, how you see this playing out. because you are right, it is trending towards -- what is the martin luther king quote? do you ultimately see that happening for marriage equality and how so? >> we do see that happening. when we brought the case three years ago we knew sooner or later this issue was going to get to the supreme court. we knew the whole group that -- that brought this effort forward -- >> just had dinner with him this weekend, i thanked him. he is like oh, stop thanking me. >> he is a modest guy. but we thought this is going to get to the supreme court, and in the meantime the wave of popular political views has been changing and getting it right but i think ultimately the supreme court is going to decide these issues, and find that

equal protection, due process, ban restrictions on same-sex couples there's no reason for it it's irrational and punitive. >> and the next -- you know -- the headline i'm reading this morning minnesota could test obama influence on gay marriage. and you know -- we have already seen really unprecedented movement in the african american community towards acceptance of marriage equality since the president spoke out. how do you think this is going to play politically? i think it is going to play politically positive for president obama. and i think people understand there are different political views and -- and different personal views but i have found when i talk to someone who either is ambivalent or says i'm against that and if you talk to

most people for five or ten minutes and explain, these are just people who want to live a life that they love, and have a family. >> tell me if you think this is going to work, the chief strategist in the california push frank schubert was recently announced as the manager from minnesota for marriage. here we go again. they got all of this mormon money that flooded into california last time. he said i want to complain in california, democrats pick and choose when they follow the president and when they do not. in the meantime we have seen this memo that was leaked that said we're going to try to drive a wedge between blacks and gays on this issue. it seems like this is working less and less well ted. >> i think you are right, frank schubert, the one regret i have about the prop 8 case is they suggested they were going to call him to the stand, and then

they never did call him to the standing. but we got their play book. it was basically let's tell people it will be bad for children. and it sounds like they are going to try it again. they can sometimes prevail at the ballot box, but at the end -- it's a short-term strategy, because the constitution is going to win the day on this issue, and really it'sout rageous what they are doing. >> i'm disappointed for you, you must have been salivating like pavlov's dog. >> exactly. and ted olson has said from day one that marriage is a conservative value that you want a stable family with children raised in a stable atmosphere. and they are saying we don't

want that possibility. >> they said we can all make fund of the president for saying he is evolving but what obama did is demonstrate how a person can go from thinking about the realities of the situation, to embracing it as a fundamental freedom. >> that's exactly right. and people think about it about look at it from all perspectives, you come to one conclusion, that it doesn't have any effect on you. this is just allowing everyone to have the fundamental right to marry, be happy and raise their children. >> there are a lot of older democrats maybe folks from rural areas who might say i don't really know anyone who is gay, and this doesn't really affect me. oh, trust me there are rural gays. [ laughter ] >> since jesus never once said a

thing against same-sex relationships you can't say this is the christian point of view. >> i just have never understood it, and i'm hoping that as -- again, this evolving point, i think everyone sees at some point this is going to be like it was a weird period of history that people were even fighting about this issue. >> right. >> because it's a basic fundamental value. >> that's what rob reiner said that one day our kids will be going what? what was that about? >> bigots have always been on the wrong side of history, and now we get the fun office pool of seeing which state will be the last one. [ laughter ] >> ted boutrous always a pleasure. check in again with you soon. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> what a guy. what a guy. >> john fugelsang catholic

cardinal paid thousands to pay off pedophile priest and then had nothing on gay marriage. >> announcer: dammit jim, i'm not a doctor but i think i'm dying of laughter. it's the "stephanie miller show." [ show playing in background ] >> all right. that's dolen right? >> dolen was the name of the guy in the story? dolen is the story you just read? >> oh -- >> yeah. >> yes. yes. >> okay. [ show playing in background ] and i sea food differently.

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>> too bad about her [ inaudible ]. >> yeah. >> i got to be in studio when steph was on her show last month, and i was like five feet off camera trying to make steph laugh. [ laughter ] >> oh my. >> oh, my. [ show playing in background ] ♪ ♪ one, two, one, two, three, four ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ she wore a raspberry beret the kind you find in a second-hand store ♪ >> i have never seen one in a second-hand show.

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[ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> hey how about this headline catholic priest paid off pedophile priest and -- >> the clip of the child, it's profoundly creepy and he quotes a versus of romans that has nothing to do with consensual adult same-sex relationships, it's two words i can't really pronounce, but they refer to men who are weak or soft. okay. and the translation into english over many centuries became homosexual. the original mean has nothing to do with same-sex marriages. >> i'm sorry with reenter jekt

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ps george and i are going to a zombie party on saturday and we plan to wear i'm a sexy liberal caps. naked zombies -- >> sexy liberal naked dead people. >> can we been the official sexy liberal flesh-eating zombies? [ applause ] >> cardinal timothy dolen has lead the charge against same-sex marriage as unjust and unnatural, but church documents show he paid off priests. >> and he also led a protest against the white house against contraception. >> taking contraception is bad. >> at no point in the bible does it receiver say thou shall not wear a jimmy hat. >> actually it would be more of

a jacob hat. >> you are right. i'm so disgusted at this story, you can get rid of the completely unbiblical celibacy law put into place because the church didn't want priests leaving land and wealth to their kids, and get rid of this celibacy law and you might see these pedophile problems go away in a generation. >> ken in ohio. >> homosexuality is a behavior. it is not the same as being black. >> how do you know this? >> well, i tell you what you have a guy stick a penis in your mouth -- [ buzzer sounds ] >> okay! [ overlapping speakers ] >> yeah. >> he clearly has some experience -- >> have a guy stick a

penis -- i'll keep going it over and over to remind myself how had it is -- i have to have a lot of sexist men to remind myself how disgusting it is. i hate every gay man i service at the truck stop. jesus never said a thing about gay people okay. >> marcella disagrees with you -- >> no. i wanted to agree. i wanted to ask john i got an argument with a friend of a friend who turned out to be from a black church in chicago. and i was like how are you fighting this? i wanted to ask john, i kept thinking of you and thinking where can i go to get all of john's -- >> what would john fugelsang do. >> well, you know, you got to go to jesus, my friend. go to jesus, because jesus was

not a homophobe. if you want to believe the one part in leviticus that says men with men is wrong, you have to start stoning our children to death. >> we just need a place with a -- a fact sheet. >> i'm writing one, because -- >> are you writing the bible for dummies. >> yes because the baseball has six or seven references to same-sex relationships, and about 4,000 references to help the poor. >> sharon you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hey steph, i have a tri-part

tri-parteyed comment. i called in once before and asked about the [ indiscernible ] inside the machine, and a lady called up and said you need to be a poll worker, which is admirable but if they count the voters signing in, and then count the votes listed, that doesn't do anything about votes that may be changed in the machine. but there was that guy doing all of those demos if you could have him on -- >> yeah, we have had him on. >> brad friedman? >> no, it was somebody we have had on -- but he did it in several seconds. and it was like, oh there you go. [ romantic music ] >> because you know we are going to have the birthers out in force voting. ♪ i used to be alone in a crowd,

but thanks to the internet you see ♪ ♪ i connect with idiots like me i'm a birther he's a birther, she's a birther, we're all birther, wouldn't you like to be a bitter drink birther kool-aid ♪ ♪ be a birther scream bloody murder ♪ [ applause ] >> that's rocky mountain mike. >> the birtherism is racism. these folks have never once demanded a caucasian politician show a birth certificate. >> not even john mccain who was born in panama. [ buzzer sounds ] >> don't bring that up. >> if mitt romney says he only has one wife we take him at his word. >> yeah. [ buzzer sounds ] >> did i say more than one. >> let's see donald trump produce his original hair. >> let's dive into the

right-wing world. pastor curtis knapp from seneca kansas, please and thank you. someone is trying to out do someone in north carolina. >> they should be put to death. that's what happened in israel. that's why homosexuality wouldn't have happened in israel. it limits people coming out of the closet. so you are saying we should start killing them. no i'm saying the government should. they won't but they should. [ laughter ] >> wow. >> there -- >> i guess the fact that my former girlfriend was from israel -- [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> and israel, which is -- you know, the old testament is where you get the definitive anti-gay laws, they allowed gay people to serve openly in the military long before we ever did. >> if you are encouraging the

government to kill people you are a nazi. >> thank you. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> you just heard a christian call -- you just heard a christian calling out for a state-run genocide. >> yep. >> there are very few people in the media who want to take michelle obama on, i think you and i and a few others stepped up to the plate to talk about all of her disparaging mark remarks about america. the remarks that earned her the moniker in my words of the bitter half of the obama administration. >> oh. >> michelle malkin thinks she is clever. [ mysterious music ] >> yeah. every day -- >> michelle malkin the anchor

baby? >> yeah. >> the people in our culture two scream about other americans the most -- >> i wonder if she has ever smiled or laughed. >> no, she is quite -- >> she is the angriest anchor baby in the world. >> i just won the lottery. dammit! >> being a self loathing asian-american has paid off for her big time. >> bill o'reilly >> much of the media is actively working to see that barack obama is reelected. how much will the liberal press influence the election. in a tight race those votes could be enough. >> media matters wrote a great story. they talk about the "politico" article to the gop bias is embedding -- they covered the

romney story in high school. and not the president smoking pot. they did cover that. >> yes, they certainly did. >> why aren't they covering it now over and over and over again. >> they covered it a lot more than other presidents possibly doing cocaine. >> yes. >> with romney he didn't do us the courtesy of writing a memoir of his -- >> now they are having four years of the hate obama network. do you really think they want to be the defend romney network. the week obama got in office hannity and bill o'reilly were given four-year contracts. obama is great business for him, and they want him back. >> media mattersens with a great point. people with a bias idea -- less

they were tarred with the liberal bias. >> exactly. and the media is bias towards green. >> all right. 45 minutes after the hour. we continue with fridays with frugal sang. and john fugelsang's soughts on parenting. >> oh, we're going there. >> yeah. >> i'm going to brees feed jim during the break. >> yeah. >> that crowd is foul -- >> current will stay on for that. they won't go to commercial break for that. >> oh, look it's the [ censor bleep ] cam. hello. >> announcer: if you turn her on, she'll turn you on. >> oh, god. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ until the truth reveals itself.

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♪ reach out and touch -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> yeah. 50 minutes after the hour. john fugelsang live all three hours. what a tweet. >> johnny cash covered this song. >> yeah. the justice department in texas, but i'm not sure i mentioned florida. the justice department sent a thwart florida secretary of state demanding the voter purging has not been

cleared under the voter's right act. [ screaming ] >> we were saying yesterday -- because we use the bull horn, call the white house and tell the justice department, so they did. >> yeah, they heard you. i think i said texas because i did that as well -- >> you are like the [ inaudible ] on game of throwns. >> oh, my god. >> you might as well pick up a sword right now. [ applause ] >> sean hannity. >> republicans hate latinos, that's a lie. just like the president says we want dirty air and water. i'm getting a sick and tired of this. you know who i'm really happy with, donald trump. he is saying take any gloves off and start fighting because they are pounding you and will say anything to get reelected. >> more birthers. >> no one has ever said

republicans love dirty air and water. what they said is republicans go out of their way to protect and reward polluters. >> that's right. rush limbaugh. >> they look at the [ inaudible ] ah oh and applaud and so forth and i was just hoping that somebody would have put a cartoon bubble on bush's face or near bush's face and inside the bubble said miss me yet? >> yeah, me too. >> we may do a mock up at the portrait at rushlimbaugh.com. >> yes. >> oh, yeah. >> i miss him. >> and also put up how many jobs a month he was losing. >> uh-huh. >> adding a month under obama. >> mrs. george bush greedy mill airs, and comics. >> and do we have to end with us agreeing with sean hannity on

something. >> the city of new york's mayor, and you can't get salt unless you ask for it at the ran it, no smoking anywhere, and now you can't get a drink bigger than -- what 16 ounces if it has a lot of sugar in it. >> that's the nanny state. >> it's a republican -- >> yeah. >> but i kind of agree with him. >> me too. >> you get free refills what is the difference -- >> bloomberg has gone for a lot of overreach. when the smoking ban first began, now it's like hey, my clothes don't stink when i get home. i like it. and it was great when he banned trans fat, but this too much. >> alanis morrisette is addressing the effect of the

recent time magazine cover where -- i think he was 40 -- >> almost four. [overlapping speakers] [ laughter ] >> asked if she was breastfeed her 17-month-old son at five or six years old, she said yes, i'll stop whenever he wants to stop. and as carol leafer said, guys are never done. [ whacky comedy music ] >> there is -- the american pediatric's society -- i hosted the -- and this was one of our topics at the attacks on parents -- and i think the media has pretty much milked it. >> hey! >> but they recommending that a mother breastfeed a child until the mother and child mutually

agree to stop. i think you do it as long and late as you want -- my issue with that cover was that child had no agency of putting his name on that photo. >> well, again as an elderly childless shut-in looser but attachment parents is more than that. it includes close sleeping with the child, constant skin on skin contact, but that seems a little weird to me. and working women and mother's worldwide have accused the -- atlantis said i have the privileged position where i have the time and money to breastfeed for a long time -- >> exactly.

i don't judge attachment parenting, i slept in a bed until i was 12 with my ma-ma-ma-mother. >> i just think i'm going to barf norman! >> there's no right or wrong answer. it really depends on the sanity of the parents, and it's really not our place to judge how other people do it. i do judge this woman who is incredibly wealthy by the way, her apartment in new york is insane, and she did this and she is allowed to pursue fame and use her kid for it, but putting the kid's face and name on the magazine is wrong. >> it is attachment parenting that i leave the tv on for my dogs at home. >> you shouldn't try nursing. >> they like it. is that wrong.

[ buzzer sounds ] >> mary indicate olson is dating [ inaudible ] brother. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> is that allowed? >> thank heaven for little girls. >> yeah they are 17 years apart. >> they are not that little anymore. >> the age difference suits her just fine. >> i can tell you how that ends. [ somber music ] >> the same people who complain that men are immature get angry when men date younger women. [overlapping speakers] [ laughter ] >> that's right. >> that's funny. john fugelsang.com. >> yeah playing in minneapolis on june 16th. please come out and see us for father's day. >> and tickets going fast for boston sexy liberal. we will see you then. and see you monday on the "stephanie miller show." >> love you. >> love you, doll.