[♪ theme music ♪] hello tv world. we were all together in person yesterday. >> i know. >> now we're back in our brady bunch boxes. here's the story -- ♪ here's the story of a lovely lady ♪ >> down here? >> yeah, down there. no, you are in the alice box. [ laughter ] >> okay, jacki schechner and i were doing what every other carbon based life form was

doing, we were trying not to look directly at gavin newsom. >> i think it was stephanie who said when he smiles you can actually hear the ding. [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> fabulous. >> exactly. i think we heard the bling. it was like looking directly into the sun. >> he is appallingly good looking. >> yeah. >> oh thank you you did the bling. >> why didn't you do it? >> time for jacki schechner. >> happy rafalca day. ann romney's dressage horse has made its debut at the olympics. mrs. romney was in a vip section and reportedly on the edge of her heat as rafalca finished in fourth place. the ap reports the u.s. team has

a shot at bronze. we told you yesterday that president obama had tweeted a congratulations to michael phelps. here is a photo of him calling the women's gymnastics team. congratulating them. the president is campaigning today in florida and virginia. mitt romney is in colorado. and the president has wasted no time hitting romney on his tax plan. 95% of people would get hit by romney's tax plan while 5% could get a tax cut. >> mitt romney made $20 million in 2010, but paid only 14% in taxes, probably less than you. >> the romney campaign is pushing back and criticizing the non-partisan tax policy center as being liberal and biased. but this is interesting because back in november when the romney campaign was attacking rick

perry's tax plan they called the tax policy center an objective third-party analysis. all in the timing. back after the break. ♪ >> this court has proven to be the knowing, delighted accomplice in the billionaires' purchase of our nation. >> and you think it doesn't affect you? think again.

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>> it was fabulous whatever it was. oh, that is a warm crowd, isn't it jim? those television critics. a lot of clinking and slurping and staring. they don't normally let us out of the zoo here. >> right. >> a good time was had by all, go team current. >> we had a lot of fun. >> yeah, my eyeballs are still recovering from being that close to gavin newsom. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> i was right next to him. >> right? he is incredibly smart and funny and charming and he is he best-looking human in the world. >> and he has a clintonesque person atty. >> he does. >> i told him i love his show, but we have bigger plans for him.

[ applause ] >> yes. >> governor grandholm -- >> jacki. >> we want her live with us all the time now in the fort. i feel trapped in my little mime box now. >> big announcement yesterday, current ordered the tv documentary on sexy liberal very exciting. backstage stuff. there is some [ censor bleep ] that goes on. >> yeah. >> everybody is in it. and it's going to be fabulous. it's going to air in september. it's behind the scenes it's -- it's all at my house, i think. i don't recall i was drunk. >> we get to see the inside of the stately miller manner. >> yes. >> wow! >> even the bat pole. >> yeah. [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> we have david bender coming up who interviewed gorevadoll

many, many times. and alan grayson, another one that makes me go from gay to questions. squee. and at regular, mudcat saunders. >> yes. another one that makes you go skuee. >> right. and we also have -- >> karl. ♪ >> who was two years old, yesterday? dexter von frisch. >> that's right. >> how is our handsome romantic dexter? >> he is doing good. he is sitting on the floor right next to me. >> i picture you as someone who has a really extravagant birthday party. >> well we had dog bones at the

doc park. >> oh. >> i was backstage while they were shooting some of that documentary, and i'm still scarred for life. >> yeah being backstages can scar you. >> i now know what it is like to be the pole at the itchy kitty. >> i'm always just happy to see you, karl. >> speaking of gorbadol you said 50% of the people don't vote, and 50% of the country don't read the newspaper. >> yeah. >> exactly. exactly. all right, karl let's drive into the right-wing world.

right out of the box it's pat robinson. >> the gays have just gotten the -- the media microphone and the megaphone and they are shouting -- whoever heard of this, the man says okay. i believe in traditional marriage. big deal. the next thing you know these people are having sit ins, mayors are calling for people not to eat chicken because the head of the chicken company says i believe in a marriage between a man and a woman. how ridiculous can you get? it's america, ladies and gentlemen. >> nobody said don't eat chicken. don't eat that chicken. >> and dan cathy didn't just say he supports traditional marriage. he gives money to hate groups that say awful vial things.

one of the things that wind shape -- which is the charitable group that profits of chick-fil-a go to, they send $25,000 to lobby the u.s. federal government so they couldn't come down and condemn the kill the gays bill in uganda. >> i'm playing hurt today because i through my back out yesterday being in heels in front of tv critics but i drove by a chick-fil-a. and there was somebody with one of those god signs. and i'm really in hollywood, i am so cranky. get out of my way. >> and they are pushing the idea that all gays are pedophiles and

all kinds of kiddic louse nonsense. >> steph you could ask chris for advise on how to stand on heels all day. [ laughter ] >> and two it's not surprising that pat robertson would stand up for chick-fil-a as we all know he now operates 24 hours a day high. so he is just standing up for his munchies. >> tomorrow will be funion day. oh, really sarah palin? >> somebody who wants to protect our constitution including the freedom of speech should speak out on behalf of this individual who's business is being harmed by those who are hypocritical because they don't believe with

this man's personal opinion, and they want to see him shut down and shut out of some communities. that is the most narrow-minded and intolerant view they can take. all of our rights i would think would stand up and be great americans and say thank god that we have our first amendment rights. >> nobody is taking away your first amendment rights you twit. >> yeah, exactly. you can say whatever you want, and then we have a right not to buy your product. >> and we also have the right to protest and to freely assemble in protest, and that happens to be enshrined in the first amendment, but any day that sarah palin is lecturing me is a good day. >> i'm sorry, i wasn't paying attention because i thought the run-on sentence police were going to arrest here.

okay. sean hannity. >> freedom of religion is under attack because the owner of chick-fil-a has spoken his mind. and the obama administration assault on religious freedom is back on the forefront as the contraceptive mandate officially takes place today. >> huh? >> wow. how did he tie that in contraception and chick-fil-a. >> that was some map making that would make nick cage jealous for the next national treasury movie. [ laughter ] >> the mandate is not an infringement on people's rights. and the whole issue was blown up by religious fundamentals.

we have to remind people catholic institutions were already offering people these benefits in some of their health care plans, and furthermore they were offering viagra to men. regardless of whether or not those men were married. so certainly they shouldn't be too upset that women will be able to have access to birth control. >> when he come to my house he can't even get through the living room with condoms just left and right. >> ye. because you are having so much sex with men. >> right. >> you have such a need for condoms. >> every kind. what do they have now? is there still foam? what is there? an iud. >> i feel like you are bragging at summer camp.

it is just not believable. you are going to tell us about your boyfriend from canada. >> yeah he is from niagara falls area. you wouldn't know him. >> his name is gavin newsom >> yeah. >> here is rush limbaugh. >> who knows there may be some of you that if he picks somebody you don't like that you say, i'm staying home. i -- and -- and you might -- fine. you want to destroy the country go ahead. go ahead! destroy it. you are not serious about stopping obama go ahead. i just don't see once election day gets that the vice presidential choice could cause people to stay home. and what would be the end of the country as we know it.

>> wow. >> didn't he just say mitt romney was going to win in a landslide. >> something like that. >> if anybody wants to see the number of children born in the united states go down they should either listen to rush limbaugh because who would want to have sex after that. or elect mitt romney because who would want to have a child in a country that is run by mitt romney. but i think we'll see the vice presidential running mate announced any day now, and the only thing that mitt romney can do to get his taxes and bain and gaffes all over the world off of the headlines is announce his running mate. >> sure. to inject the sizzle of the tea party. >> yeah, they are going to be exciting compared to mitt romney. i was hosting for tom hartman yesterday, and i did a little poll and everybody thinks it is

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♪ and i'd like to say hello ♪ ♪ say what ♪ ♪ oh, yeah oh yeah ♪ >> what? it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. i love our discussion during the commercial breaks. is that too dirty to play on the air? >> yeah. >> conan has something on -- >> yeah he has chaz the chick-fil-a chicken. it's an intolerant chicken. >> all right. karl frisch rejoins us. stewart barney on fox and friends. >> elizabeth warren is going to play a very significant role. she has been given a prominent role at the democratic convention. a keynote speech. she is going to back up

president obama's leftist policies, she is a collectivist just like the president, anti-private enterprise just like the president. she is going to have a very significant role. >> and as a american i'm appalled. >> shouldn't he be in london celebrating the olympics. >> yeah. >> elizabeth warren is a perfect example of the great things that will be happening at the democratic convention in north carolina, and if people are really excited about mitt romney -- i can understand why they would, august tampa, mitt romney what kind of excitement does that conjure up. >> yeah a lot of frizzy bad here. awesome. all right. karl frisch see you next time love you honey.

[ buzzer ] >> your put my box together wrong. >> your box is dirty. >> you put stuff back in there wrong. >> it's not like i'm good with boxes or anything. >> if chris is putting stuff in your box, he is obviously doing it wrong. [ laughter ] >> eric ericsson so nice they named his twice, he posted that chick-fil-a will cater their convention. the red-state gathering -- >> oh, yeah. the red-state thing. >> the fourth annual red-state gathering, they have decided to make the anti-gay cause a focal point. >> great. ericsson's headline was gay rights components act like the third reich. >> hum. >> i believe mediaite said

history does not record the plight of chicken sandwiches. >> they were adverse. [ laughter ] >> by the way, jackie rights steph i'm down here in alabama, this was yesterday, and it's today's chick-fil-a appreciation day. i had a chick-fil-a bag everywhere at work. this is life in the south. self righteous bigots are sitting at home. and my husband and i have vipping tickets to the seattle show! [ screaming ] >> i bought them forever ago. >> they are traveling from north carolina to seattle? >> yeah. sexy liberal get it. tickets are going fast. i believe we're going to have another --

[ explosion ] . >> -- major sexy liberal announcement. tomorrow i'm told. all right. >> unice you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hi, stephanie. i'm so excited this is the first time i have gotten through to anything. i mean anything. i'm sexy lib and a sexy lib retired retired military wife. and i kicked my husband to the curve, yay! >> oh, okay. >> what i was calling for was that -- yay! >> okay. turn your radio down please. >> you guys should use that sometime. yay! you have to say it like that, though. >> okay. >> i'm getting ticked off about some of the media and some in the press and some on

radio -- yay -- that -- that, you know, won't call mitt out on his crap. >> oh. >> on his crap. you know what i mean? >> well, that's why we're here. yay! >> well, you guys do. >> okay. thank you, honey. >> okay. time to adjust the medication a skoesh. >> every time she heard it in the background she said it again, so it was like a loop. >> yeah. i thought she was going michele bachmann on our ass there. >> yay! >> all right. 29 minutes after the hour. right back. david bender talks about gorbadol next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ 29 minutes-- >> it's the silly season. >> stephanie: isn't it great. 29 minutes after the hour. speaking of jobs in the economy we'll talk to representative

henry cuellar from the great >>oh really? >>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true!

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♪ >> thank you -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> who insisted on performing despite being ineligible for a kindergarten talent show. >> it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. 34 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. time to return -- ♪ return to senor ♪ >> david bender everybody, our pal. ♪ return to bender ♪ >> yay david bender. >> slowly i turned. good morning, david bender. >> just munching a little

chick-fil-a for breakfast. >> sure you are. >> it is clear that enough of these people chew up and eat chick-fil-a they are going to need the affordable care act. >> that's true. >> so you interviewed gor vadal many times over the years. >> the last six or seven years he was my most frequent guests. it was one of the greatest privileges of my life. ten times. i looked at some of them yesterday, and he was one of a kind. there was really no one like him, which is exactly how he wanted it. he was an iconic class, he was most famous for the enemies he made. i remember a long with my dear friend grover cleveland going to the democratic convention and

watching him live on national television get into a fight with bill buckley. >> that's right. >> and i don't know -- chris do we have a little -- >> yeah. >> it's a very brief clip. >> it's a very famous clip. >> the only thing i can think of is yourself -- >> listen you -- >> let's stop calling names -- >> i'll hit you in the goddamned face. >> loved that. the whole video was awesome. >> people just fought with a different intellect. >> they were there to debate issues that howard k smith the anchor man from abc was sitting in between them and i think he thought he was going to get slugged, and the phrases -- it's hard to pick out from the audio, because they are talking over

each other. gor called buckley a crypto nazi, and in return -- and realize in 1968 this word did not exist in public discourse -- he called him a queer. and he said shut up or i'm going to slap you in the face and you are going to stay plastered. but here is how far we have come to our chick-fil-a moment in 2012, abc could play the phrase crypto-nazi, but they bleeped the word queer. because you couldn't say queer on television. >> wow. obviously the documentary, he talks about he added homosexual

reference to ben herr. >> yeah. and jim you more than anyone miss gor vidal. >> david this is part of your interview with him in 2006. here we go. >> in the long run, we have got to get rid of this gang before the gang gets rid of the american republic entirely. it's already have gone. it's going to take 50 hundred years to get back to where we were before the year 2000. they have wrecked the bill of rights. they have wrecked the voting system, allowed it to become tehranical, and they have established tyranny, and tyranny is something to be feared the founding fathers certainly saw it as a possibility for us if we have bad people at the helm.

we have bad people and tyranny is just around the corner. >> yep. >> he was saying that in 2006 at the height of the bush administration. he meant bush cheney rumsfeld but he could be talking about the koch brothers karl rove citizens united. in fact, in essence he was. >> yeah. yeah. david here's -- you have obviously a 6 degree of gor vidal. here is mine. he wrote rebecca breckenridge. and my friend played that with me in college. [ laughter ] >> mrry breckenridge was one of the first books iver head. i was 12. when i was 11 i read his first

political book. he wrote a series of probably the best books on american political history, it started with a book called "washington, d.c." in 1967 and it includes bur and lincoln and 1876 and all i can say to anyone the half of america that reads newspapers should be the half that read ts these books. he was probably our greatest living historian in terms of making history understandable for people who were not in the weeds. the founding fathers, our great leaders. his book about lincoln is magnificent. >> the most illuminating thing you just said about that whole thing was you were a baby political geek. >> i was a baby political geek along with mira breckenridge.

>> so scream play last summer, he has such -- he had such an amazing huge body of work. >> it was an incredible body of work. the best man i saw it not long ago, incredible revival there. dimming the lights on broadway in honor of this great playwright. he was an american original. his father was -- well the amazing thing -- his grandfather was the senator from oklahoma. as a very young boy, maybe eight, nine, ten years old, he would read to his grandfather who was blind. >> oh, wow. >> and it was gor who read to his grandfather and learned about history and government literally on his grandfather's

name. his father invented twa -- founded twa. >> wow. >> i didn't know that. >> while having an affair with amelia erhardt by the way. and he had a partner of 53 years, and he said the secret -- and for anyone listening, here is gor vidal's advise about the secret of a long-term relationship. >> hang on. let me get a pen. >> this won't be hard, steph, don't have sex. >> i thought he also said i never turned on an opportunity either to be on television or have sex. >> he did, but not with his partner. >> oh, okay. he was a swinger? >> he lived in a house in the 50s with paul newman he was

godfather to their child and was quoted at the time always a godfather, never a god. >> wow fascinating stuff. the only last thing we want to know when you were 11 reading gor vidal, did your parent ever say are you a freak? go outside and play. >> my parents thought i was from mars. so they tried to keep clear encase i had a death ray. >> okay. love you david. >> i was just doing the gor vidal bit saturday night. and i thought i can never do that again but next time i can do a meeting in heaven that will turn out in hell. [ laughter ] >> we have to do the milk shake thing, don't we. hang on we're getting it.

♪ warm it up ♪ >> warm it up. >> here we go. >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ my milk shake is better than yours -- substantial renumeration ♪ >> of course unless you are lactose intolerant. >> playing the hits. >> we apologize to the radio listeners who can't see his bugging eyes. richard you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi richard. >> good morning. listen if you are bigoted and hateful and phobic because you oppose same-sex marriage -- >> that doesn't make you bigoted and hateful. >> well that's what the whole

chick-fil-a thing is about. wouldn't the opposite christians believe marriage between a man and a woman -- >> not all christians believe that. >> can i finish? >> well it's my show, so no i get to talk. >> isn't it bigoted and hateful to christianity? >> because i don't want to go to chick-fil-a? no. >> should i call every single business and restaurant and find out what the belief of the owner is. >> this is the point that we have been making. he didn't just state his opinion. >> he gives money to causes -- >> focus on the family and [ inaudible ] are hate groups? >> focus on the family, yes, that is a hate group. >> that's exactly what happened in the 20s, 30s, and 40s in the

20th century in germany. >> nice biblical reference buddy. >> hitler put gays in concentration camps -- [ applause ] >> you can state whatever you want, and give money to whoever you want -- >> how dare you not eat our crappy product! you have no right not to eat chick-fil-a! >> all right. >> you will forced to eat chick-fil-a until you cheer up. >> who would have thought his far-right whacks would be so sensitive. >> yes and get so upset about me talking on my own show. i think he's taking away my right to free speech. like at these captain america

underpants. wow! >> you are a reporter, not an opinion person. >> it would never occur to me to think of myself as anything other than a reporter. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true!

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1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. former and future sque e! alan grayson coming up at the top of the hour. >> yay! >> you know what would have been funny if we could have changed that name on the sign to some idiot from illinois. [ applause ] >> you are the big got by forcing people not to eat chick-fil-a. >> yeah, what he is saying is they are allowed to voice their opinion, but they don't want to hear anything in response to said opinion. >> no. >> if you do respond you are a bigot. >> yeah. another story about mitt romney. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> another one? >> romney's ceo massachusetts lawmakers work for romney this the business corporate world didn't fly his top-down corporate management style

wrinkled democrats who controlled the house and senate at that point. somebody made a good point in this article. he is running on this thing, that, oh, barack obama said he was going to run -- blah blah blah -- >> whatever! >> but he didn't bring people together. mitt romney look as how he behaves thus far in the primary. it's like the corenation is taking too long. >> oh yeah. and by the way rafalca just hit the stage. [ applause ] >> our best wishes to rafalca. >> the point is nobody really likes mitt romney. ♪ somebody really likes something, but nobody really likes mitt romney ♪ [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> rocky mountain mike.

>> thank you rocky mountain mike. all right. coredel in louisville kentucky. hey, coredel. >> good morning, steph. and good morning, mooks. i'm going to try to maintain my composure because the idiot that you had on earlier is what i had to deal with all day yesterday on line not only from the right but from some people in our own party who were telling me i need to keep my mouth shut and should not be expressing myself on these types of issues. they don't even want me to have the ability to speak out and discuss my feelings on this topic. it's getting me to the point to where i don't even want to give my money to certain businesses anymore. why should i spend my money in a country that doesn't want to accept me because i happen to be gay. >> yeah. you know, i think melissa

ethridge made this point is why should i pay taxes if i don't get the same rights. >> and she pays a lot of taxes. >> yeah. >> how about not shopping at wool worth because you don't like rachel discrimination. >> rachel discrimination! >> why can't i work with people that ignore my blunders rather than highlight them! [ applause ] >> because they are so funny. >> don't you see my name in big lights back here! >> i can unplug that if you would like. >> but it goes to his point, you have the first amendment right in this country, and we have the same right.

>> you have the right to agree with me. >> mike you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> hey y'all. to show my solidarity to the community all right, i promise to only eat the straight chickens and that will increase the number of gay chickens. >> pat said we should open a restaurant and call it chicago-fill-hey! >> hey girl! >> chick-fill-hey! >> whatever. hey look who is on the phone. ♪ john and pam, john and pam show ♪ >> good morning, kids. >> good morning. >> good morning, baby cakes. >> love you guys.

>> you are so cute. [ overlapping speakers ] >> we love you guys too. and i am going to let john talk. >> okay. >> okay. >> okay. you are going to get a kick out of this i hope. i have mitten's lineup for his staff. vice president is going to be glenn beck secretary of state will be john moleton, the treasury secretary will be newt gingrich. defense secretary will be ted nugent, attorney general will be mitch mcconnell, secretary of labor is john meyer, and education secretary is going to be michele bachmann. >> oh, you kids worked out a skit for today. that was terrifying. >> wow. >> yes pam? >> i have to ask a question -- i made him give me the phone. [ laughter ] >> i have to ask this question about chick-fil-a. >> yeah. >> it was labeled supposedly as

customer appreciation day. now is he going to maybe donate all of that extra money that he got to charities and things? >> oh god, no. >> anti-gay charities maybe. >> once it is funneled into the wind shape foundation, yes. >> yes and i tell you something else, sweetheart i bet that sucker don't pay the percentage that we pay on our taxes. >> yeah. >> he probably rates up there with that d -- darn mitt romney. >> you almost slipped. >> i know darling. i got to watch this old heifer mouth. >> i love them. [ applause ] >> back with alan grayson and much more as we continue on the "stephanie miller show." we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show."

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♪ there goes a manta ray ♪ >> there goes a chick-fil-a. >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ >> it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. >> i'm guessing he won't be eating at chick-fil-a. >> no. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> vice president buzz around paul ryan swells to a crescendo. isn't that wonderful? >> isn't that wonderful, eddie? >> i won't go! i won't! i won't! i won't! you can't make me! >> he'll have to leave congress. i hadn't heard that one, had you? >> yeah, he is one of the three that are mentioned the most. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> the budget monster buzz. several pundits have been citing that paul ryan will be the running mate.

in june a poll showed 58% of the public opposes plan to reform medicare while only 35% support them. so i say go for it. [ applause ] >> this gal called in the other day, she is running for congress -- she called out of the blue. he is running for congress in the sixth district of illinois. her name is wanda and i just got to say, what a story -- she told us a little of this but i thought this was perfect. she said -- it's a whole biography. the true evolution of my journey began -- she had a devastating atv accident. she is a paraplegic. i couldn't keep my private health insurance because i could no longer work. during the time i was blessed to

use nearly every program available. i applied for medicaid social security assistance meals on wheels, medicare free school lunch programs, at age 32 i never thought i would be on social security. without these programs my family would have been homeless. she got a master's in social work going to school, and raising her family and she still worked a few part-time jobs, these programs aloud me to survive, and move forward. she went to work as a hospice social worker working with dying people and their familiar list, i have spent the last nine

years navigating the social safety network, and now i no longer need them. i'm running for u.s. congress to help those who need it in the future. i have no personal agenda other than to see our government function properly for all of our citizens. [ applause ] >> we don't need that. we just all need private islands. what is the big deal. >> just take some money out of your cayman islands bank account. >> hi, jerry. >> hey, steph. how are you doing? >> hi. go ahead. >> i would just like to talk about two things right quick. >> yes. >> i would like to talk about the -- the hypocrisy of fox and friends. >> uh-huh. >> where they try to call out

harry reid for his -- his lies. >> which one -- what are they saying are lies? >> that -- about mitt romney tax returns. >> how will they know he's lying unless he releases his tax returns. >> you know how it is. and the second thing i want to talk to you about is i think you and gavin newsom would make pretty babies. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >> steph is at an age where she is not making any babies. >> hush! he could reactivate them. >> make your eggs squishy again. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> he could make me girl again. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> if you replaced brian kilmeade's brain with a canned ham nobody could notice. >> that's true. >> jamie in north carolina welcome. >> hey guys. >> hello, jamie. >> new watcher to the show.

love it. you guys are doing a great job. >> thank you. >> i wanted to talk about these guys talking about chick-fil-a and free speech. these are the same crowd and people that boycotted the dixie chicks for their free speech. >> bam. nothing but net, sir. that was okay to put their records in a pile and burn them. [ applause ] >> right. >> i don't get it. literally like they scream it's squelching free speech. >> right. when we're just criticizing something they said. >> you should be forced to eat chick-fil-a. >> center isship is the government shutting down free speech. >> that's right.

alan grayson next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ themselves moderates or whatever are as moderate as they say they are >> we talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. it is the defining issue of this era. the candidate with the most money does win. this is a national crisis.

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answers. we're here because we're independent. >>only on current tv. ♪ >> blossoming new comedian -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> don't blow it! >> it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. 34 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. oh be still my heart squee! >> and now it's time for congressman alan grayson and your chance to meet the grayson. >> good morning. >> somebody walked up to me in a

cafeteria the other day, and said hello former and future. >> oh. >> what about that mitt romney european vacation? >> yes. it was a national lampoon movie. >> yes, he is clark grizwold. >> you can't write this stuff, can you? >> i couldn't. you probably could. >> yeah, you are right. it's interesting you think nothing could distract from -- that he is trying to distract from his taxes or bain stuff. here is governor strictland. >> he may have not paid any

taxes in some years, but we have no way to know for sure. >> what do you think? >> the scary thing is that somebody can actually get away from it. run for president and not pay taxes for years and years, and nobody can find out. that's scary. >> is he going to be able to brazen his way through it? it seems like he is going to dig in his heels and not do it, which would give you more reason to think there has got to be something really bad. >> he released one year in the primary in order to placate his own people. because the polls showed that he was tanking. and maybe the same thing will happen again. >> he released them from like a year ago. if he is running on his business expertise and he is not allowing us to see any of the years when he was actually in that business. >> right.

and we're not allowed to see any efforts -- maybe extreme efforts in tax evasion. >> yeah. >> what about the other years? >> yeah. >> that's the thing is will he be able to get away with this kind of arrogance. on abc he said i'll have to get back to you. >> yeah, i'll get back to you on november 7th. >> exactly. here is the president yesterday. >> under my opponent's plan who do you think gets the bill for these $250,000 tax cuts? you do! >> alan i sense this is going to play out differently this time, the bush tax cuts. what do you think? >> i think at this point post of the public realizes that the right-wing is just acting like babies. the president's proposal restores and continues the tax

cuts for 98% of the population, and the remaining 2% has to pay basically their fair share so we can reduce the deficit by $100 billion a year. >> yeah. the president -- listen one more time. >> he is not asking you to pay more to invest in our children's education, or rebuild our roads or put more folks back to work. he is asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a big tax cut. >> exactly. >> i feel like it is a perfect storm of the perfect candidate running against him. it is so more clearly making the 99% versus the 1% argument don't you think? >> of course. mitt romney wants a tax cut for the rich because mitt romney wants a tax cut for mitt romney. it's that simple. it's obvious. >> i have to ask you about ted

cruz the tea party candidate who won in texas. and you have some tea party challengers in florida. is there any extrapolation between that? >> we have seeing this all over the country. where every from the west coast to the east coast. the tea party has taken over the republican party. and this is the new republican party. it's the tea party. >> and he said it best here is ted cruz, who the leaders of the republican party are. >> i want to thank the national leaders who have stepped forward. first and foremost governor sarah palin. [ cheers ] >> i want to thank rick santorum. sean hannity. [ laughter ] >> wow! really. >> sean hannity the new leader of the republican party. >> he is you listen to his show and listen to the speeches given six hours later on the floor of

the house. it is the same material. yes, he is the leader of the republican party. >> would you like fun facts about ted cruz he believes that george sorus leads a united nations conspiracy to eliminate golf. he wants to gut social security. he claims two or more states could nullify the affordable care act so long as they work together. he is islamaphobe. it goes on and on. >> for his group, every time you say one of those things his group would go yee-haw! >> yeah, steve king said -- he is a birther as you know -- during a townhall he was

asked about his views whether president obama is an american citizen, he said his parents might have announced the birth certificate by telegram from kenya. [ laughter ] >> this is what they do when they have got no answers. they just try to distract people. they have nothing to say about 24 million americans who still can't find full-time work. they get into the president's religion, my religion. the president's supposed ideology. if the president were a marxist, i would have seen that by now. they just make up nonsense and act like it is true. >> you have more than one tea party challenger in your area?

>> yes. they with all right-wing whackos. >> should we go to congressman with guts.com do you think if we wanted to help? >> i think so. if it offends you as it offended me that one of my opponents said that i'm the most antichristian member of congress in history, simply because i'm jewish -- >> yeah. >> maybe he feels the same way about jesus, jesus is the most antichristian historical religious character in history. >> chick-fil-a -- the affordable care act which we have talked so much about healthcare. this is representative ann marie berkle. >> this is about the largest assault on our first amendment

right. >> because contraception is covered in the affordable healthcare act. and that's kicking in. >> maybe she can just talk in a certain way and nobody will get pregnant. [ laughter ] >> maybe that's how it works. >> here we go again. >> if money is speech then speech is contraception. >> there you go. >> here we are again, dan quayle's spawn. >> religious freedom is one of the principals of our democracy, and yet today that freedom is under attack. >> what about my religious freedom? and what about the fact that we have to deal with problems in this country rather than personal attacks when rush limbaugh said just a few months ago that president obama had a deep-seeded animosity toward white people, i think most people recognized that there was something deeply demented about

that comment. can we please talk about real stuff? >> yeah. well, i mean literally -- you know, we have had a string of calls this morning about -- this is -- chris what did sarah palin call it, squelching freedom of speech. >> yes sensorship. >> it is very revealing that all of these tea party people love greasy crappy food. >> and then they are going to need the affordable healthcare act. >> absolutely. it goes right to their veins. >> former and future, you are a delight. >> thank you. you give my life meaning. [ laughter ] >> oh. i love you. talk to you soon. [ applause ] >> his humor is just dry -- >> dry as the sahara desert. [ wind blowing ] [ crickets chirping ] >> it's as dry as a chick-fil-a

sandwich without mayonnaise. >> pat in wisconsin, welcome. hello, pat. >> hi, steph. he just stole my line that's what i want to do . let them eat it. they are going to want obamacare, or leave us. and isn't that what alan said, die quickly. >> well that's what he said the republican plan is. >> oh, for god's sake just die. >> announcer: dammit jim you made me snarf on my keyboard again. it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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the real world and politics collide. >> will your next doctor be a robot. gavin newsom probes for answers on "the gavin newsom show." only on current tv. ♪

♪ yeah everybody dance now ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ dance, everybody, dance everybody, make it hot in this party, don't stop, move your body, rock this party, dance everybody ♪ >> all right. >> it is the "stephanie miller show." [ laughter ] >> welcome to it, 50 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. it's just one long party, isn't it [ applause ] >> we're having another pool party this weekend. >> you are wearing my out. i just want a weekend to myself. >> we are such greeks we hang out all the time. >> but if we say no, then you'll fire us. >> well, paid friends, you got to have them. i'm like the mitt romney shooting off my mouth again.

>> governor romney just a few questions, sir? you haven't taken but three questions on this trip from the press. ♪ i can't wait to shoot off my mouth again ♪ ♪ i have this way of making enemies from friends ♪ ♪ and i can't wait to shoot off my mouth again ♪ >> there's this guy named mitt romney! >> the made of mi6. ♪ it's my way or the highway ♪ >> a few things that are disconcerting. ♪ off my mouth again, i just can't wait to shoot off my mouth again, i have this thing of making enemies from friends, and i can't wait to shoot off my mouth again ♪ >> rocky mountain mike! [ applause ] >> see. yeah.

willy nelson who we just had on last week. >> hah? lennie from wisconsin. hi, lennie. >> hi, how are you doing? >> good. go ahead. >> i have been watching your show and -- and listening to you and all of this and i -- the one thing that seems to bother me is when they talk about that chick-fil-a thing that nobody is stressing the fact that they have been discriminating against their employees for like ten years, and like the lesbians cooking, they found out she is gay, and they fire her, and the reason that [ inaudible ] in chicago is fighting this is not what they say it's the way they are treating their employees. and everybody seems to be ignoring that. >> yeah, we said that. it's not just what he said --

>> i'm not sure that chicago allederman and the major of boston were right in saying they were going to ban that business. >> that's what bloomberg said. you can't do that. >> i'm not sure that was right of them. >> a bush appointee has struck down doma. >> i know, right? [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> the judge she was appointed by george w, therefore ruled that doma violated the equal protection rights -- >> the what? ♪ >> the fifth dimension. i started drinking at the current vip luncheon. >> oh, you did. >> yeah, so it was a very long day. [ mumbling ] >> hey, gavin! no, just kidding. >> after the show -- i know that

after the show you said that you got some kind of current account and you were going to order all kinds of champagne. >> i did not do that! don't get me in trouble. [ buzzer ] >> i thought about it. >> come on up to my room. >> i had a break after the morning -- after we finished the broadcast and i had a break. i had a couple of interviews -- >> and a couple of shots. >> i think i texted you and jacki, i was like would it be wrong to start drinking from the mini bar at 10:45. >> computer says yes. >> check my bill current i didn't do anything. >> and i remember when we were on the road the guy trying to kill you for your insurance money made sure there was no mini bar -- >> yeah, there was a lighter

rectangular spot on the carpet where a mini bar used to be -- >> his wife said ron that is very controlling. [ laughter ] >> wow. here is another big gaffe. another small business owner upset with president obama's out of context comment that businesses don't succeed on their own. but the romney campaign has trotted out tanya burns and associates an insurance firm in florida is yet another beneficiary of federal spending and her firm has helped reduce her employees health insurance plans thank to the affordable healthcare act. >> shea in the chat room says you were just trying to test the components of complementary. >> that's right.

>> it is rafalca day, everybody. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> hi, mark. >> hi, stephanie. hi, guys. >> hi go ahead. >> i had never heard of dressage in my life, and i have been waiting for it at night, never comes on. and then i happened to flip over to microsoft msnbc, and there is rafalca. >> and she is in what -- 12th place now? >> yeah, the germans pretty much got it cinched up. but if you are going to be taking your horse up and those things are on the road you better move over because they walk sideways and tap dance -- >> they are dancing. it's choreographed. ♪ >> we think by marcus bachmann we don't really know. >> the athlete is the horse and not really anybody else? [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> that's why i don't get why they call horseback riding

exercise. >> you have to kind of stand. >> who gets the medal? it's not the horse. >> i don't know. gop report finds no connection between the white house and fast and furious. [ explosion ] . >> oh, no! >> gop report finds no connection. the white house was behind the fast and furious, a report released say it contradict's boehner's insistence. tommy asked when will issa apologize to eric holder and the american people for pissing away millions of dollars on this show trial. [ crickets chirping ] >> as soon as we apologizes for giving us governor schwartz

schwartznigger. and then cried like a bitch when he didn't get it. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> oh, jim ward. when governor arnold schwarzenegger got into the race, he cried like a baby. >> maybe he was on steroids. >> exactly. all right. 58 minutes after the hour. back with our new regular. dave mudcat suanders joining us next as we continue on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ i'm going to be on with the governor tomorrow night. she is awesome. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show."

rr [♪ theme music ♪] jacki schechner, chris lavoie has implied that you guys are not my real friends that you only hang out with me because we work together. that's not true, is it? >> no, it's not. would i take all of your phone calls? all 18 of them in one day. >> it depends on how needy i'm feeling. >> no, she is needy all of the time. you have taken the pressure off of me. >> jacki schechner staking the brunt of being my new bff.

>> what are you thinking? >> i love this sometimes i send stephanie stuff that she can chat about. facebook is saying there are 83 million fake profiles. they are saying about 9% of the users are fakes. >> see. >> but you are not on facebook personally, are you? >> no, and that's why. because i don't want to have to feel competitive. >> i only need one bff and that's jacki schechner in the current news center. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> or so you think. good morning, everybody. the obama campaign is out with a new tax calculator highlighting the non-partisan study of mitt romney's tax plan. you go to the website, you can enter your annual income let's say you make about $55,000 per year, the calculator will show under the president your tax savings in 2013 would be about $2,100.

under romney's plan you would end up paying about $640 more. mitt romney's taxes in particular, harry reid is now tripling down on his claims that mitt romney didn't pay taxes for ten years. in an interview, reid said he got a call from someone at bain capitol saying the reason he hasn't released his tax returns because he didn't pay anything for ten years. he is not giving up her sources, and the romney campaign is calling the charges baseless and below the belt. and romney's campaign manager is going after jim messina. it says that he used his personal email account outside of meetings of the white house.

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liberal who just got his own show on current that will be debuting in the fall. my first spinoff very, very exciting. >> he is maud to your archy bunker. >> yes. very exciting stuff. speaking of exciting. it is not often we just geek out about a guest coming up next. what do we say, mudcat! >> excellent, yay! >> i don't think this kind of magic has ever happened. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> we had him on once and then we called him up and said you are a regular sir. hi, mudcat. >> hey, guys. >> we're go excited about this. how are you doing? >> we continue to add stuff and build fort indications for the in coming that is sure to come at some point. >> yeah, mud let's talk about

your race -- obviously wayne powell amazing candidate in washington going to be running against eric cantor. i read your piece about what is going on with eric cantor in the stock act? >> the stock act. precisely. what the stock act did was i think it came out of that spencer baucus mess and they wanted to curve inside trading by members of congress and their staffs and families. well, what ended up happening was that the senate version comes out and the house version comes out, and mysteriously is i guess the word you use because they have told any number of different tails, the cantor's office have. the spousal exemption showed up in a house verse in a different section of the bill. the problem is eric cantor's spouse is a partner in a company called alternative investment management. >> right. >> they are close to a billion

dollars company. they have got $135 million hedge fund in the cayman islands. >> oh dear. >> and it's not hard to connect the dots on that one, why he would exempt his wife from the insider trading provision. and, you know, at some point in time, of course cnn broke this story i think thursday two weeks ago, the day of the shooting -- or the night of the shooting, so it was just covered up in the news. >> yeah. >> but this is going to resurface, and we're going to peel the hide off on it, because he deserves it. >> it is interesting the way this whole thing went down. eric cantor obviously is the one that stripped the provision. >> didn't deny it. >> and cantor's office when they knew they were caught his office said since new information has been brought to our attention

with regard to this discrepancy, so obviously this isn't new information to cantor. >> well, you know, the title with that is new information is can of beans for i got caught. he got caught red handed on it. and i just -- this guy is the smug owes human being that i have ever been around in politics, and he has a right to be. when you can raise money the way he can raise money. and he takes the money and throws it back to republican candidates to get them elected so they can vote for him for majority leader. and i don't think john boehner would deny this under oath. he is going after john boehner's job. >> absolutely. but you also make a point in here cantor was tarp's head cheer leader in the house, and once again as you were saying mrs. cantor formerly with

goldman sachs, obviously was a beneficiary of this. as you close your piece you say a moron can see that cantor has a personal and financial steak in the spousal exemption -- >> of course he does. there's no question. but eric cantor is a great flip flopper. he gets the bills the he wants them. and the stock act when it first came over there was a provision in the bailout that said that the money had to go to individuals and small businesses, you know, to help get the economy cranked up again. he was against that. when it came back the next time he stripped out that portion of it, which allowed the big banks to go ahead and do more mergers and more acquisitions, and now the too big to fail are even too bigger to fail. >> yeah. >> and it's just another case of him selling himself and selling

his soul for personal political gain, and it's a shame. and i -- i feel like a baptist preacher sometimes when i get out talking about this i get so passionate and quite frankly outright mad over it. i mean this is america, and we have gotten to the point now where we have a coin operated government and people say why doesn't congress work? just follow the money and you can see why it doesn't work. and we can get eric cantor but no bucks, no buck rogers. and your people have been great and will continue to be great, in fact we're going to have a fund raiser out there in l.a., and if there are any listeners who want to get involved, we would appreciate them calling the campaign office. >> when is that? >> we haven't scheduled it yet. but we certainly hope all of y'all come.

>> all y'all of us will in that southern speak of yours. >> that's right. >> i'm sure eric cantor thanks you for providing this new information to him. >> finally they came out of the darkness, and ap last week said -- they are covering two house of representatives races in virginia. they were just going to cover one, and now they have added ours. they did a story and -- anyway cantor's date in his political shop said they was bull of bovine exkriment. and i thought that sounds nasty. [ laughter ] >> we have this new poll shows the president up in the bottle grounds. what is your sense right now? >> i think it's a toss up. obama has been spending an

incredible amount of money, and that america the beautiful ad it was beautiful. with mitt romney singing america the beautiful and then talking about how mitt romney wants to give our country away. we're just giving the country away right now. >> who do you think his vice presidential pick is going to be? >> i absolutely have no idea. they are vetting people 100 miles an hour. usually i think the best thing is to pick somebody who can give you states. so i would put marco rubio types at the top of the list. but there has only been one election in my lifetime where the vp choice made a difference and that was in 1960 with lbj giving -- jkf texas, louisiana, and a host of other southern states. >> yeah, absolutely.

>> but he will get a bump out of it. >> yeah. >> right. >> is it going to take the heat off of the tax situation and the bain situation? is he going to be able to skate on all of that without revealing anything? >> i don't think so. mitt romney comes off as an elitist, and the one thing that america hates right now is elitist. i think that's the reason for the success of revenge is people are so anti-elite right now. >> yeah. >> and mitt romney, you know, he -- he is the type of guy that gets out of the shower to take a leak. [ laughter ] >> so it's -- he is just not going to sail with blue collar america and the american middle class. >> he probably wears tasselled loafers in the shower. >> i am falling hard for mudcat

saunders every time i do this show. mudcat, what is a mudcat, sounds like something that leaves a stain on my persian rug. [ laughter ] >> that's right. you were a guest star at sexy liberal in los angeles saturday night. >> oh, that's great. >> hey mud speaking of southern stuff. this chick-fil-a controversy is going on and we hear the same stuff over and over again about bigotry. somebody wrote me from alabama and said i saw chick-fil-a bags everywhere. people don't realize they are supporting bigotry. >> i'm obviously for gay rights and -- and gay equality. i work for the commonwealth coalition in 2006 fighting the marriage amendment.

but in all honesty i wish this thing would go away. it's just -- we made such -- you know great strides with gay equality and to put it right now in the middle of the presidential election and start dividing people again and bringing up this issue, when the numbers are moving so great in our election i wish they would have held off until next year because they're -- it's divisive, and i don't think right now the movement and -- like i said i'm all for it -- >> well, i think mud what people have been bringing up is how come it's okay to boycott the dixie chicks and burn the records when -- >> listen, i didn't -- >> -- gives money to anti-gay causes. >> i'm 100% in agreement with you. it's just i think the timing is wrong. especially when you are dealing with states like pennsylvania virginia, ohio that have a lot

of traditional voters and they are moving to our way of thought, and i just wish that it wouldn't happen now. i wish they would have waited until december and then took a wire brush to them then. [ laughter ] >> all right. mud when you come out for the fund raiser i will be with you and take you out for some non-bigotry chicken out here where you are a superstar. >> all right. we'll have a good time. >> all right. mudcat saunters in his very first segment here on the "stephanie miller show." we love you. >> we love you here too, honey. >> all right. talk to you soon. >> take a wire brush to him. i want to date him and kiss him. okay. 18 minutes after the hour. kids go to meeting that's how he operate around here.

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23 minutes after the hour, 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. debbie in new hampshire you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, deb. >> hi how are you. i'm not looking at you guys on my tv. there's a commercial on. i wanted to make a comment about these taxes and releases the taxes of mitt romney. >> yeah. >> this was a play that mitt romney did in 2004 in massachusetts. they forced him to release information of his tax because of the issue where he was living or residing. he did the exact thing where he refused to do it until he was pressed and pressed and kept insisting we needed to take his word for it -- >> yeah. >> -- and when the taxes were

released it showed that he filed taxes in utah but he was saying he was living in massachusetts. >> yeah, he is very shady. >> he is. the constitution of massachusetts says that in order for you to run for governor or any office you must reside for at least -- i believe that the report said seven years. >> yeah. >> he had to -- he actually went retroactively and tried to do that. >> yeah, that's not regular folks stuff. >> whatever! >> you can sign -- >> i didn't know you could do that. >> the same rules apparently don't apply to you. >> no. they are rich people's rules. >> i asked the guy that owns the show if i could just retroactively retire. [ bell chimes ] >> what did he say? >> only ifou live in mitt romney's son's basement. >> why? if only i could be drinking

boxed wine in mitt romney's son's basement. [ dial tone ] >> and then i would just hang up and expect a check. seems like a perfectly plausible plan to me. guess who our new handsome and romantic keynote speaker is julian castro. >> oh, nice. he is quite handsome. >> they are saying he is the new barack obama. because barack obama gave the keynote eight years ago. >> right. >> he is going to deliver the keynote. went to stanford harvard law school. said he is a strong supporter of affirmative action because it has been key in his life. [ applause ] >> good time will be had by all

in charlotte. >> you are going to be drunk the whole time. >> my republican mom is probably thrilled that the that the city will be filled with democratic liberals. go ahead you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> i was happy to talk to you new guy tee bone. >> yes. >> i saw this sign quoting leviticus, and then a line saying chick-fil-a was right. >> hum. >> and then i get to my bank and i was checking out the disclosures for accounts and stuff, and way down at the end of the pamphlets, it says valuing you the glbt community

and goes into great detail about -- talking about the benefits that they give to their -- not only to their customers but to the employees, same gender domestic partner medical benefits. >> great. great. >> all kinds of great stuff, so i took the pamphlet into the general manager and told them thank you. >> oh good. >> and i think if people know -- wherever you do business if you know people are openly supportive, to just say thank you. and someone needs to delve in like that other caller that said chick-fil-a has been discriminating against the employees. >> yeah. >> i think some people think it's just a free speech issue -- >> right. yep. you are absolutely right. did she say -- i think it is lgbt is what she went.

unless she was talking about a blt. >> i could go for a bltright now. >> anyway she is exactly right. they are picking and choosing. >> i'm going to cut my hair at the temples -- >> no chicks speaking in public. >> hey, speaking of chick. the new female on facebook on the board of directors. >> chicks know what they are doing. [ applause ] >> yeah, right. >> but then they get so emotional. >> shut up! [ laughter ] >> 29 minutes -- i somebody call t-bone with dating advise for me. >> oh, great. >> 29 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >> stephanie: all right.

hum humwhere is my babe. maybe the >>oh really? >>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true!

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[ ♪ music ♪ ] >> take your time amigo, i'm okay as long as i have -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- this is infection. >> it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. representative eddie bernice johnson coming up -- >> were you whistling. >> was that a nose whistle, are you getting older -- [ whistling. ] >> oh, it was a regular one. okay. visit gotomeeting.com and type in the promo code stephanie. [ applause ] >> what was the nose whistle bit

we did last week? i can't remember? >> kid we do one? >> i can't remember. let's go to kevin in indianapolis. hi, kev. >> hi. i remember chris bringing up the idea that states out of line that we're talking about investigating or not allowing chick-fil-a -- >> yeah the mayors of various cities. >> yeah, i think basically it was a matter of hiring practices that they were worried about. >> and that would be fire chris. if they felt like they don't want to have businesses that discriminate. >> right. well it's against the law to discriminate against gays in illinois. >> i don't think chick-fil-a as a company has a policy that says they don't hire gays. >> no, but they will investigate that, and if they find out they

do -- >> but until then until they find something out i don't think it's right for them to ban this business from their cities. >> i agee. basically i don't think they'll do that without that. >> yeah. >> and mudcat brought up the point that it was bad timing to bring up the gay marriage -- >> did he mean gay marriage or the chick-fil-a stuff? >> well i think the whole idea of -- of -- >> yeah, he said -- this whole chick-fil-a situation is probably not the best time for it, during a presidential election. >> i don't know who brought up the chick-fil-a thing first. i think it was the owner. >> yeah, that's true. that's actually a good point. all right. oh, jim, look. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> this is your pet peeve people texting while driving. peter frampton was injured in a car accident he claims it was

because a woman driver was texting behind the wheel. he tweeted -- i wondered if he was tweeting while driving, that would be ironic. woman driver ran into the back of me while i was stationary in traffic on the 101. [ applause ] >> uh-huh. happens all the time. >> i wonder if he has one of those voice things on his twitter. >> there was another guy who drove off of a cliff because he was texting. >> really? >> there was video going around of a guy texting on a train platform in philadelphia and he fell off of the train platform and hit right on his head. >> did he get killed by the train? >> no. [ buzzer ] >> oh, my god! >> it's just really dangerous to text while you are driving. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> my breaking news bff is on the phone. >> hi, jacki. >> good morning.

>> i have two things to talk to you about, kathleen yesterday, take a listen. >> we're here to mark a new day for women's health in america. >> right? this is an exciting day, a lot of this stuff, you got us nice things like health care. >> yeah, and a whole bunch of preventative services that became -- i hate to say free because essentially you pay for them, but essentially a whole bunch of stuff is now included in the amount that you pay with your insurance premiums. >> no woman should have to choose between seeing her doctor and putting food on the table for her family. >> right? it just seems like such a no-brainer. >> yeah, there were a lot of services like mammograms that women were forgoing because the copays were too high. so while people are paying their

premiums, the additional fees that were tacked on ended up being cost prohibitive, and it ends up being more expensive down the line because people are not getting screened early, and there's no mechanism in place to catch these things early on. so they a took look at some of these things, and made them free, in quotations so that you don't have to pay extra. >> the partnership for women and familiar list said this. >> no longer will women go without birth control because they can't afford the copays. >> you know as my new bff i'm always saying can you buy me more contraceptive devices. >> if you stopped wearing those

tight lace dresses with no underwear, we wouldn't have this problem. [ laughter ] >> so people understand, look at the pictures from sexy liberal. i'm not just making this up. >> it's a fact. >> as my bff -- this is how you know she is my bff, because after i got off the stage, she didn't say great show or whatever, she said we don't want the whole world to see your kutter. >> i don't think she even knows the pass word to her own twitter account. >> yes i do. >> can you clear that up. >> i think the pass word is kutter. >> it is now. >> steph is drunk again. >> yeah, right. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> and the other reason i wanted you to call us is because you are a crazy cat lady.

and we have a casesy cat lady. how is your cat? >> my cat is fabulous. i have a cat who is beautifully happy in the new apartment and she drinks out of any sink which means she meows in the middle of the night to turn the sink on for her. and we wonder why i'm single. >> and max comes up and gives me a look and that's my clue to open the door so he can get to the deck. >> that's why we're friends, because we are both pathetic. >> we are both losers. >> we have five cats though. >> because you are near here to hollywood, i wanted to offer, katy perry has a cat shrink. >> oh, really? >> what is the same of her cat?

>> kitty purry. >> see, i didn't name my cat after myself. [ laughter ] >> that's a little overboard. >> it is. >> she has hired a cat shrink to work on her cat's bad behavior. >> that jackson galaxy guy. >> oh, i love that. >> yeah. my cat from hell, i think is the show -- >> that is such a great show. >> i love that show. >> jim ward is also a kitty whisperer but of a different kind. >> the thing about the cat show is like my cat scratched my fiance's eyes out, what do we do about this? [ laughter ] >> yes. katy sees her cats more like friends than pets. >> do you have conversations with your cat? >> i start and she walks away.

>> yeah, cats aren't good conversationalist. >> oh, my god, are you drunk? i have heard this story before. >> this was in yesterday's news. >> yeah, and then they turn around and put their butt in your face. >> katy perry needs to write a new song, california cat whisperer or something. >> that rolls off of the tongue. >> it does make me feel a little better about myself. >> but she has the money to have a cat shrink. >> that's money that could be spent elsewhere. >> exactly. >> i am the person that shops at overkill.com. >> yes stephanie is like would this be too much? and i'm like yes, a new car

would be too much. all right. jacki schechner we love you. >> i love you guys to. >> what you thinking about funny face. >> what you doing now? >> penny for your thoughts? >> okay. by crazy cat lady. >> good-bye. [ applause ] >> let's go to robert. you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, robert. >> i have a couple of i would like to talk about. probably going to get that button pushed on me. >> huh oh. >> they talk about muslim and everything -- >> yes. >> the biggest regime is the republican party. they [ inaudible ] everybody and everything. >> yeah. yeah. >> that's what they are all about. >> okay. you were almost going to get the button but go ahead. >> oh, no. yesterday when you guys were at the hilton?

>> yes. >> i went there by luck because i couldn't pay the parking $8 an hour. >> oh, you couldn't pay the parking fee. >> yeah that was a little exorbitant. >> did you have to pay that? >> i had to pay 12 bucks. >> so the show cost us money yesterday. >> yeah, pretty much. >> awesome. i should have broken into that mini bar. >> i'm not insured to paying beverly hills parking prices. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> all right. we're required by law here in hollywood to cover the jacksons. katherine furious with her son. and diana ross is in the mix now. [ applause ] >> it was in his will if his mother was unable to care for

them, diana ross? >> right. >> if something happens to me lady gaga, i need to make some arrangements with max and fred. diana ross will share custody with tito's son or -- >> well diana ross was like a mother figure to michael jackson. >> all right. my mom will get max and fred, and if not lady gaga. >> your mom will get lady gaga? >> no. my mom -- >> lady gaga can take care of herself. >> my mom gets custody of lady gaga if something happens to me. >> would like to see that collision. >> pink needs to be in the mix somehow. >> i think pink will do a better

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1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. this is funny. >> what? >> david writes steph if you ever find yourself at chick-fil-a and want to order something make sure you get the bigoty bigoty chicken with the gigidy, gigidy cheese. [♪ circus music ♪] >> the documentary, it is awesome. there's stuff from the first madison show, the first l.a. show -- speaking of which oh it's a love letter to roland. >> oh. [♪ romantic music ♪] >> steph i heard you talk about sexy liberal announcements. yeah, i big one tomorrow.

big, huge! >> huge! >> with john fugelsang. >> john fugelsang who is going to have a new show on current. my spinoff, my maud. >> oh geez. >> i am so happy because i was getting very worried sexy liberal was going to be ending and it means so much to us in the middle of the country. yes, i was hoping that as well. >> yes. >> i'm a four-time sexy liberal goer. that's a steph head. wow! can't wait to add to my list. thank for roland for answering our questions on facebook. we know he has a lot of other things to do -- like pick out my hooker dresses. >> yeah. >> katreen speaking of sexy

liberal. steph long time fan of the "stephanie miller show." i find myself in connection with you in so many ways not the least of which is box wine. i have decided to devote myself to wednesdays and calling it dry hump day with hal. [♪ circus music ♪] >> all right. which we could don't yesterday, because we had to do our show from the beverly hilton and all of the current folk -- hopefully hal will be back next wednesday -- >> he is shooting a show. >> okay. one more unsolicited testimonial. steph i just want to tell you i have been a podcast subscriber for years, i had to have a

prostate surgery and the podcast helped distract me. >> i think laughing during a colonoscopy is probably a bad idea. you don't want your doctor says oops. >> oh, boy, that is going to be bad. lucy in vermont. >> hi, steph this is the first time i have seen your show and i am thrilled to death to have discovered you. >> i was afraid that sentence wasn't going to end well for me, but thank you. [ laughter ] >> i was born in a very conservative family, and i am the only liberal, so you can only imagine the arguments around the table. >> i have no idea what you are talking about. [ fighting cats ] >> i just wanted to tell you

quickly about insurance and copays. i work for a medical monopoly for about six years and every october we would get a 4 or 5% raise, and you would get to enjoy it until january 1st, and then they would raise our insurance premiums the portion we paid about 4 to 5%. so basically our income would remain flat and remain flat the even years i was there, so ieveryone who thinks they have great insurance and they are working for a large corporation to add up not only what they pay as far as, you know coming out of their -- out of their income for their portion, plus every single co-pay, and they will find as i did that basically they are better off looking at obama's plan and socialized medicine is not a bad thing. >> yeah. thank you. exactly. that's why mitt romney

complemented israel's system. >> it's a fabulous program. >> okay. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> it's not really news when lindsay lohan gets in a fender bender, so that happened. >> again? >> she was very hesitant to shoot a steamy sex scene. >> she was just in playboy. >> yeah and you can see her kutter every time she gets out of the car. she asked the whole crew to strip down to their boxers and so they did, and so then she did. [ applause ] >> so alls well that ends well. or ends naked. >> tj holmes did you see this. >> yeah, i did. >> one mile from his atlanta home and ho was pulled over.

he noted twice the officer speaking with him was having trouble speaking the reason he was pulled over. he officer just wanted to verify he had car insurance. >> you can't pulled over just for car insurance verification. >> i had that happen to a friend in beverly hills. >> computer says no. >> that's it for us. >> senator bernie sanders on the big show tomorrow. >> very excited. i would like to thank chris lavoie, jim ward tee bone courtney, jacki, everyone out there in the current tv room see you tomorrow on the "stephanie miller show." ♪