[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: hello current tv land. somebody please hold me. i had this horrible dream that a big, fat angry man was yelling at me all night long. i might have left the honeymooners on. >> i had a dream about stepford wives last night. >> stephanie: really? >> they were like zombies. >> stephanie: what was your favorite scary moment? >> what happened to janine turner? >> oh, i know. >> wow. >> when did that transformation take place? >> stephanie: i saw a screen shot. the chiron department is ridiculous. >> the ann coulter case of her.

>> i remember northern exposure. she was on the grungier, hot crunchy side. >> she had an extreme right wing makeover. >> she is brassy. >> you're not allowed to look northern exposurey for the g.o.p. >> stephanie: take a moment and say ann romney is very pretty. >> yes, she is. >> jacki schechner you rocked on current's coverage last night. >> thank you. it was a lot of fun. it was a good little -- what do you call it? a good little soiree. >> stephanie: you're probably sleepy now. here she is probably in her footy pajamas is jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. we still have one eye obviously on the republican national convention. the other on hurricane isaac. he made landfall for the second time early this morning. the storm had been hanging out over the waters just off the louisiana coast which means unrelenting rain and a greater

chance of flash flooding. water has topped one locally-maintained levee but all in all the big levees that failed miserably during hurricane katrina seem to be holding strong so far. we will obviously keep an eye on that. it is supposed to linger off the coast until tomorrow or at least keep some sort of form until tomorrow morning. meanwhile, the republican national convention continues in tampa. tonight's big speech will be from paul ryan. and the obama campaign getting out in front of the v.p. contender with an old timey video. take a look. >> mitt romney has chosen paul ryan to be his vice presidential candidate. mr. ryan is new to the national scene. with out-of-step views from a bygone era. >> you know about ryan's conservative views on women's issues and the damage that his budget blueprint would do to social programs, the education medicare, the middle class a new "washington post" pew research poll shows people have

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>> stephanie: i was not kidding at the top of the hour. so i fell asleep early so i didn't see it live. and i woke up in the middle of the night. thought i was having nightmares. i thought the honey mooners was on nick at nite. there was a big fat angry man yelling at me. >> more like -- >> stephanie: he was so mean. >> screwups. >> stephanie: don't they coordinate the speeches. >> who let the came talk? is it is about respect. >> it is not about a sandwich. >> he's going to need more than a sandwich. >> stephanie: this is a platform. no cames talking here. >> her job was to humanize him. she uses the message of love. >> stephanie: needed to humanize her first. >> she yells i love you women! which is a very romney thing to say because it sounds like something an alien wearing a human skin would say. i love the females also. >> stephanie: he sid at the top of the hour because we have to say one nice thing, she's

very pretty. she's stunning. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] i'm not sure what women relate to her. >> she loves women. >> she has to say i love you women because if she said i love women, it would sound like she was converting. so she threw you in which sounds like you people. you women like she isn't one which so weird. she she should have said -- >> stephanie: i'm surprised she didn't launch into a charming story i remember one time i rang the bell for consuela. i had to walk to the west wing. do you know what i'm talking about, ladies, about how hard we work. >> all five of my boys pulling me around in a wagon. that's the sort of ridiculous part though that she comes out and she goes i'm going to humanize him by saying he's human. that's it. not what makes him human. >> i love mitt romney. therefore he is lovable. therefore vote for him.

no more conversation. that's all of the information we're getting. >> stephanie: he will not fail. like a robot. >> i am incapable of error. incapable of error,. [ explosion ] >> little boy, run back to mitt romney and say -- or he'll destroy us all. >> okay. >> these trees are the right height. >> what is it? >> this does not compute. this romney bot destroyed. >> he starts singing daisy daisy. >> i swear to god. here's the thing. you know where rakes came from? they were there because they didn't know the difference between a person and a coma and a dead person so they basically threw one last party. we'll make a lot of noise. >> like anything we can do. just one last -- >> just don't bury him alive. in last case, we'll put a bail in the graveyard and tie a

string to his finger. mitt romney last night looked like he was alive at his own wake. >> stephanie: it is only one day -- how irritating is the we built it already. you see the ann romney -- someone scripted the joke for ann romney. she rushed to it. i can tell you no one -- he built it. bam, i nailed it. >> a delay because there's -- nobody knows how to do a set-up. so there's no swell to oh, here it comes and we go. it is always like -- and here's that tag line. that was the tag line. [ applause ] then i will talk for a second. tag line, tag line. >> oh, i didn't. >> stephanie: i switched over in the middle of the night because msnbc had rerun it because i missed the original. chris matthews must have yelled a hundred times. he doesn't even look real. >> the best line of the night was chris matthews when he was going he looks like a vice president who's there for papau

new guinea. watching people in skirts dancing around going they seem to be excited about something. and it did. >> stephanie: almost everybody that i heard saying -- because i actually have seen chris christie better. i've seen -- when he does extemporaneously, he can be funny. he was really weird and angry. someone said he smiled like once at the beginning and then he didn't smile again. >> when he talked about his mother, he was smiling. he was telling a cute story. the gag was 80% of his speech essentially. and then after that, when he started talking about mitt romney and paul ryan, he just got angry. >> stephanie: really angry. he looked like a big bully. >> and again that kind of governor crypt keeper finger thing that ann romney was doing i want you to hear this and she stuck her finger out you know. >> stephanie: i felt like the help. listen to me, there are spots on the glasses! i told you --

>> we give to charity because you give to charity. you don't brag about it. then she proceeded to brag about their charity contributions. yes, do you. you talk about it all the time. >> we tithe to the church. look at us. >> stephanie: we're taking their word for it because we can't see the tax returns. i'm hearing that more and more. people have mormon friends that they're like they undertithed. that's why they can't release their tax returns. we don't know. they can say -- >> we give a lot of money to charity. no, you don't. you tithe a big chunk to your church but that doesn't mean your church doles it out to poor people. they use it to build buildings and if you don't give 10% you'll lose your bishophood. he'll stop being a bishop. excommunicated. >> stephanie: how do they know what 10% of your tax return is? you have to show them? >> yes, you kind of do. >> stephanie: so the mormon church can see his tax returns but the american people who he wants to lead -- >> we had on my show on

saturday, we had a former mormon come on and talk about the fact if he shows his tax returns and it turns out he didn't give 10% of his actual income and he may have given 10% of his taxable income -- >> stephanie: he wants to avoid paying taxes which wouldn't surprise me. >> if he didn't give all 10% of that, he could be excommunicated as a bishop and lose his status. >> stephanie: ann in one interview said that he actually made the joke that's the only time he cries when he has to write a check. >> and to the church! to charity. >> the charity that they love giving to so much. >> stephanie: speaking of crying, can we talk about john boehner's speech. what the [ bleep ] it was a tavern story. first of all, it was so sad. it was like -- i don't know, dinner show at yuck yuck's. they were milling around. no one was listening. >> open mic night.

>> current tv was covering it. >> as was msnbc. >> current. >> stephanie: okay. they were all covering it. let me talk about the tone. first of all, i can't believe seriously, jim, it was like one of your skits. whole story was about a guy walks into a bar. but the tone of it, a lot of people talked it was disrespect to the president the whole speech was about that guy walked in our bar what do we do? we would throw him out. it was the visual of -- >> talk about the g.o.p. guy who got kicked out. >> right. that's right. so they kicked somebody out of the -- there was somebody ejected -- a g.o.p. attendee was ejected for throwing nuts at an african-american cnn camerawoman and saying this is how we feed animals. >> stephanie: she's a black woman. >> fantastic. to the credit, they ejected the guy. >> stephanie: anyone seen this? >> it's been going around facebook. it is the obama poster -- they cleverly changed it to rope and it is the president being hung

by the neck. being lynched. >> let's be fair. it's the same on both sides. both sides. >> of course. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: get out! >> some people would like to see mitt romney's tax returns. exactly the same. >> exactly the same as saying he should be lynched. it is an accountant lynching. it is a cayman islands lynching. that's what it is. >> stephanie: a lot of people talked about this was border line violent imagery. throwing the president out of a bar. we would throw him out. >> we don't want your kind here. >> yeah. >> what is he? c3po all all of a sudden? >> that was an al gorean racism. >> welcome delegates to the 2012 republican convention. set your watches back 400 years. [ applause ] >> stephanie: somebody moved my recycling. in fact, let's see.

we have -- someone does this every year. i believe rachel maddow's staff sent me this. most wouldn't sit and watch the whole thing. 8:30 music. trample by ted nugent. 10:30, women's rights, what's the big fuss, little lady? dominated by eric kantor. 11:00 a.m., why i'm holier than thou ministered by rick santorum who remains a colossal [ bleep ] as charlie pierce would say. >> the curse of irrelevancy solved by john boehner. my gun's bigger than yours or is that a politician in your pocket. lunch provided by chick-fil-a of course. 12:30, how to make the united decisions. time paid for by karl rove. keeping your cadillacs primed and dressage driven by ann

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kills you. ♪ the candy man can ♪ >> stephanie: we have a big show coming up. alan combs on the big show today. we have dnc executive director patrick despard and much more. chris christie's main nemesis from new jersey will be on the big show. all right. kids carbonite. you can tell your kids to back up their important computer files, term papers, notes projects but when is the last time they listened to you? they need carbonite. just do it. get it. gets it once -- get it once, it automatically backs up your computer. the guy who invented this is because his daughter lost his entire college term paper. >> if only chris christie had lost his speech. >> you sure he didn't? that would have explained it. >> stephanie: carbonite is essential for every computer you and your family is using. $59 for the entire year includes any time, anywhere access to all of the files. we have carbonite here at the show. i have carbonite at home on my

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morning. >> stephanie: yeah. it is "the stephanie miller show." >> the freaks were on pretty much all day yesterday. including -- janine turner. >> i missed that. >> stephanie: i swear to god all i saw was a screen shot. i thought they mislabeled it. >> yeah. >> what happened? >> don't you have to bleach blonde your hair to be allowed? >> stephanie: to go right wing. >> i love boehner's speech or whatever. did anybody ever think to bring up to him that starting off with a sort of a bar joke at your kind of -- was one of the most famous jokes told during the primary was when one of the republicans set up and said a conservative liberal and an independent walk into a bar and the bartender said hi, mitt. remember that? >> that would have been a good one. >> stephanie: sure. >> truth hal. >> stephanie: that's sayin'. >> that's dogged him through the primaries. it is not going to change. pick the angriest sound byte

from chris christie. i don't know why i reverted to a teenage girl. god, dad calm down. i wasn't that late. he was scary. okay. at least -- i'm concerned for him. i really am. i don't think he should get that worked up. he didn't look healthy is what i'm saying. >> we're demanding that our leaders stop tearing each other down and work together. >> you idiot. >> tonight we're going to do what my mother taught me. tonight, we're going to choose respect over love. >> respect. >> wait a minute. even in that sentence -- >> stephanie: her whole speech was about love. >> literally, it was the theme of her speech. i love mitt romney and you should too, here's why. love is very important and love, love keeps us together. >> love is like oxygen. you get too much, it makes you high. not enough and you're going to die.

>> exactly. >> and basically here comes chris christie to step on your airhose. [ laughter ] he kicked it -- >> stephanie: like a feel bad speech. sometimes you gotta say no. wow! >> the subtext of we'll take respect over love. >> stephanie: by the way what is he talking about? compromise and working together? he's like won by crunching all of his opponents. >> i'll sit on your head. >> as dumb as it was, that was the most coordinated part of the speech which was we need to reach out to independent voters. at the keynote, one of the things we have to do -- >> stephanie: angry rhetoric. flabbergasted. i don't know what happened here. it was just a lot of angry attacks. >> i'm reaching out with this finger. >> stephanie: one finger jersey salute. carol from arizona you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi, stephanie. it is very nice to talk to you this morning. >> stephanie: thank you. you, too.

go ahead. >> caller: the only thing that was missing from ann romney's speech last night were the pompoms. she was bouncing up and down like a 15-year-old cheerleader. >> stephanie: what was the charming story about the dance wasn't it? >> he's going to take america home. >> stephanie: like he did me from the dance. >> going to drive you home and try to pick your lock, america. >> that's the first time i've heard that euphemism. >> stephanie: america, he wants a little top action. mitt romney wants a little first base. >> mitt romney is going to take america to first base but he won't go to second base until he talks to your dad. >> stephanie: okay. john and pam show, everybody. fresh from the columbus sexy liberal. ♪ from ohio ♪ ♪ it's the john and pam show ♪ ♪ it's the john and pam john and pam john and pam show ♪

>> stephanie: good morning john and pam show. >> good morning, everybody. >> stephanie: good morning. >> good morning, honey child. >> i love you women! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: how did enjoy the big show last night? >> big show was great especially steph when one of your lines was stolen by scott walker. >> stephanie: what did he say? >> somehow he put his speech you lying bag of crap. >> stephanie: did he really cry someone a lying sack of crap? really? i would have given him my jingle. >> also he said that -- sean guilbeaux from the station -- >> stephanie: in columbus. pam is the cutest little coach. >> he said to tell you guys hi. pam and me were on the show talking about different things going on around here in ohio. >> stephanie: can i say one thing. chris christie needed mrs. christie like pam is always next to you going honey less

angry, smile. smile. >> what we were talking about in ohio, the secretary of state moved two democrats 27 years service on the board and that and everything to stifle votes here in ohio. >> stephanie: i know. because they might allow too many people to vote and that would be bad. yeah, that's what he needed. we needed mrs. christie under the podium. smile. you look jowly. >> you're scaring everyone! you're literally scaring everyone! you're scaring mrs. romney. she just gave a speech and it sounds like you're threatening her. >> stephanie: we have the new jersey democratic chairman who is the vain of chris christie's existence joining us next on "the stephanie miller show." speaking of jobs in the economy we'll talk to representative henry cuellar from the great state of texas next on "the

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[ ♪ music ♪ ] >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> what's the matter with everybody? everybody's so grumpy every morning around here! >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." hump days with hal sparks. 34 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12 toll free from anywhere. chris christie, let's see he told americans to hold on to the hard truth. it was the feel bad speech of the year. truth telling blah, blah, blah. >> we're screwed. >> yeah, we're going to compromise. by being respected and not loved and telling you guys -- >> stephanie: teacher's union -- >> respect this! >> stephanie: i vaporize the

union. >> leadership delivers. leadership counts. leadership matters. and here's the great news i came here tonight to bring you. we have this leader for america. we have a nominee who will tell us the truth and who will lead with conviction and now he has a running mate who will do the same. we have governor mitt romney and congressman paul ryan and we need to make them the next president and vice president of the united states. >> that was the first mention after six hours. >> stephanie: an ode to me. >> stories about himself. >> enough about me. >> it was like woebegone days. i'm surprised they didn't wheel him out in a chair with a giant book. >> stephanie: i would give anything to read mitt romney's thought bubble. did they catch him looking at his watch. how much longer -- >> great grandfather came over here -- >> stephanie: we have the new jersey democratic party chairman with us, assemblyman john wisniewski.

good morning john. >> good morning, how are you? >> i'm scared by chris christie's speech but you deal with that temper all the time, don't you? >> it took him 16 minutes to remember -- to speak about mitt romney and not himself. >> stephanie: he thinks a great deal about himself. >> you think? you know it is interesting to hear him give that speech on a national stage when we have been hearing things of that nature here in new jersey since he was sworn in as governor. he talked about telling the truth. we're going to tell the hard truths. he doesn't seem to recognize that that applies to him too. when he talks about -- talked about balancing a budget. he's one of 49 other governors that's constitutionally required to balance a budget. it is not a discretionary act that he finally got around to doing. everybody balances the budget in new jersey. >> stephanie: john, i thought interesting they were going to keynote for mitt romney when his

record is about the same as romney's in choose. 48th in job creation. >> when mitt romney was governor, he was 47. so i guess they are -- right at the same number. >> stephanie: the unemployment rate is 9 point -- what is it? >> it is 9.8. it has just gone up. when that number came out governor christie said you can't look at those numbers. what he was -- when he was candidate christie, that's all he focused on were the numbers. >> stephanie: that's the worst since 1977? >> 35 years. 1977. the worst we've had. this governor, one of his apologists in the legislature said it is a good thing because it shows there are a lot of people looking for work. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: interesting how that's all different. referring to a republican governor and not the president. it is interesting john. i'm sure you listen to a lot of the analysts, too.

i've seen him give a much better speech. this did seem like a really angry speech to me, didn't it? i've seen him be more charming or use more humor. give better speeches, haven't you? >> i think he has a charm quota. if he uses it at one part of the year he can't use it again. because this was really -- you know, the vintage chris christie that we've seen in new jersey where you know, he starts out. he tells a sha multy story about mom and his family history but then he gets into the diatribe about how we've done it right and they've done it wrong and how we're the -- we're the protectors of truth and light and justice and the fact of the matter that's really true. he talked about cutting taxes in new jersey. property taxes have gone up 20% under this guy's watch. >> stephanie: that's what i don't get. how he even convaguely cast himself as a tax cutter. >> that's how romney is doing it too. isn't he using the same methodology. raise fees and other things so

you don't have to -- >> just so everybody listening understands, he came in. i'm going to address the budget by cutting homestead rebates which helps local people pay taxes, cutting aid to school districts which again helps offset property taxes and cutting aid to local towns which offsets property taxes. you take all of that money out of the system, it gets made up by raising property tags taxes. he came in as governor he took his problem and he made it somebody else's problem. passing the buck. this is something the governor says we shouldn't do. >> stephanie: do you think mitt romney -- we were talking about what he was thinking. do you think he was thinking what the hell was i thinking. it was stunning how long it took him -- it was not a full throated endorsement. >> the only thing he didn't do was look at his watch like george bush. he was thinking about it. i think he was looking around the auditorium to see where the watch was on the wall that he could look at discreetly and say when is this guy going to mention me?

>> stephanie: unfortunately you know the impression we took from the primary is that nobody likes mitt romney. you sort of got the same impression from the convention already, didn't you? >> well, they're spending a lot of time in this convention saying really, he's a nice guy. he's really a nice guy. and they bring out his wife and they bring out his children and everybody has to convince america he's a nice guy. it gets you wondering if you gotta convince people he's a nice guy and you're spending your entire national convention convincing people he's a nice guy, what is it that people see him in him that make them think he's not a nice guy. his record in massachusetts would say this is not the formula for america. his record at bain capital says this is not the record. this is not the formula for america. >> stephanie: john, a lot of people have not seen chris christie to this extent. i've only seen clips here or there. this appearance or that on tv. but he, to me, came off like the bully that i feel like he's always -- he clearly is famous for governing new jersey with.

like crushing the teacher's unions and picking fights. he came off to me like an angry bully. >> that's his shtick here in new jersey. that's what he sells here in new jersey. the irony in all of these things, he talks about telling the truth and his speech is full of misstatements. he talks about respect. important part of leadership is respect. so then his way of working through respect is to say you ought to take a bat out on our senate majority leader and he calls democrats skunks and he says about teachers that they're only interested in their own salaries. that certainly is not show for example respect for anybody. >> stephanie: teachers never have the kids' interest at heart. that would be crazy. he's been like sort of the poster boy for demonizing teachers. i mean obviously this has happened with a bunch of republican governors. i don't know how this -- we just had lisa bloom on yesterday who wrote the book on education. when do we start rooting for

less teachers? for public layoffs? >> well, i think it is part of the republican philosophy we ought to privatize public education. we ought to turn it over to corporate interests who have a profit motive. but it is certainly something that hasn't worked here in new jersey and the fact of the matter is this governor has criticized the education system when new jersey is consistently ranked first second or third in the nation in terms of its education system. so this is all just republican talking points. he took shots at the president that really have no substance and nothing to back them up. this is a president who's presided over 29 months of job creation. this is a president who saved the auto industry. this is a president who got us -- getting us out of iraq and decimated al-qaeda. >> stephanie: john, a lot of people made the point that interesting for people that seem to believe so much in their principles the name george w. was never uttered once! if those policies were so

successful, why not crow about the last republican administration that tried these same ideas? >> well, you know, the interesting thing was did you see the hutzpah clock they had on the wall? they call it the debt clock. because it takes a lot of hutzpah showing the national debt on the wall when they're the guys that did it. >> stephanie: paul ryan voted for all of it! >> bill clinton left office with a surplus. budget was generating a surplus. george bush and karl rove and all of these guys got control of the levers of power and they took that and they spent it and then they spent more and they're racking up the national debt. now they have the nerve to appoint a democrat to say look what they've done. >> paying too much tax. >> stephanie: in terms of chris christie, you know, we all remember that obviously the famous obama speech that launched his career, you know, the blue state/red state speech, when he gave the keynote in 2004, do you feel like -- it would be harder to launch chris

christie but my point is do you think -- i just don't. maybe i'm wrong although what i'm saying is i've heard a lot of analysts say they were surprised. it was not a good speech for him. i didn't think it was. i thought it came off so angry. i don't know, do you feel like it launched him to the same degree? >> it launched him. i'm just not sure where. it certainly -- you know, people will remember this speech because of the things it didn't say because of how long it took him to mention the party standard because of his strange read on the truth or respect. but it is certainly not something that people came away with saying yes this is the model for america. this is the kind of party we want to be because he seemed, as he got through the speech, he started out nice, warm and fuzzy and he got you know, just angry and kind of preachy. >> stephanie: i have to say john, i don't know what you

think but it gave credence to me, the story that was out there that he denied that he turned down the v.p. thing because he doesn't think romney can win. that's what the speech seemed about. it seemed about 2016. screw mitt romney. this is about me. >> that's really the theme that we in new jersey have been pointing out about this governor. this is governor me. his policies in new jersey have been tailored to get him attention on the national stage. when he attacked access for women to quality healthcare and he cut that out of the budget. when he reduced the earned income tax credit. when he's protecting millionaires and providing protection for them from paying their fair share of the cost of running the state. this is all out of the karl rove republican national playbook so he could get on to last night's stage. >> stephanie: yep. >> now he wants to continue that so he has a shot at 2016. he spent a third of his time out of the state this year campaigning for mitt romney, not fixing the problems of new jersey.

>> stephanie: yeah exactly. how they think of -- what did you say? 47th in job creation. how they thought of putting the governor of the state in 47th for the governor that was 48th in job creation, you have to hand it to them. >> i think it's just -- it is certainly creative policymaking on their part and you know, what they've done, what the republican party has succeeded to do is they solve problems by having people get angry at someone. he's what chris christie did here. he couldn't figure out a way to solve our pension problems in new jersey. he said let's get angry. >> stephanie: robert gibbs was on our show yesterday. he said that last night on tv. he was actually surprised that it was so much comprised of just angry attacks. what's great about mitt romney or what's mitt romney going to do. anyway john, great stuff. so nice to check in with someone that's spent so much time with chris dristy. i envy you that. he is delightful. >> oh, yeah, right. >> stephanie: john, we'll talk

again real soon. thank you sir. [ applause ] there he goes. >> wow. here's the thing. >> stephanie: it is like a really scary scene from the sopranos. >> teachers are going to sleep with the fishes. just sayin'. >> the more i think about it, the more i think romney and christie have a lot in common. the only difference is that christie has personality and his inward stuff gets out. i think romney with that whole i like being able to fire people and stuff he has -- >> stephanie: with the governor 48th in job creation still available? >> he has an antiseptic view of it. almost like -- >> i enjoy swatting flies. >> the sociopathic version. >> chris christie feels like he's in a real fight. whereas romney just doesn't care. i swear to god, i was like trying to lip read what he was saying romney when he was

watching. i swear to god i think it was oil can. >> stephanie: 47 minutes after the hour. when we return, more hump days with hal on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: call stephanie now. she's easy. 1-800-steph-12. >>now that is politically direct. (vo) every news network will cover the convention. but only current coverage will put you at the collision of tv and social media. we'll provide unsurpassed insight into the most buzz worthy tweets, posts and pontifications, from the entire social stratosphere including you. join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage. >>now that is politically direct.

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night. at the republican convention. >> this stage and this moment are very improbable for me. a new jersey republican. [ cheering ] >> stephanie: boom. okay. >> amazing. >> stephanie: let's go to mark in charleston, south carolina. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi mark. >> caller: good morning. how you doing? >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: so the cofounder of costco and former ceo and he said a month or two back obama's given billions -- of tax credits for small businesses to grow. don't believe the false and misleading romney ads. he was speaking at the democratic national convention next week. >> stephanie: by the way, the costco shirts do not come in three packs. >> that was my next point.

fox news -- obama takes kickback on lifetime supply of costco t-shirts. >> you know, do you see the david letterman ann and mitt romney lies segment that they did. >> not up that late. sorry. >> oh, my gosh. >> stephanie: late night program of some sort. >> he loved -- i've been buying him these costco shirts in three packs. lie! because it was just -- such baloney. when a regular politician -- >> stephanie: when i'm there buying a thousand pound bail of chee-tos, i'll pick up some shirts. >> when someone like john boehner is campaigning and his wife/significant other, whomever that person may be go yes we go to target and we go shopping -- you kind of almost buy it a little bit. it seems like pandering a tad but you let it go because it is border line truthful. this is just so off the charts

ridiculous. >> stephanie: this is spit. >> he ironed his own shirt yesterday. >> stephanie: oh please. >> she should have tacked on for the first time. >> stephanie: can you picture him doing laundry at the laundromat? >> he was so awkward even holding the bottle of tide. >> who are they trying to reach across to? quite frankly, they've been vacillating between i'm a super millionaire get used to it. that's what she said last night. ann romney. >> i'm a regular guy. >> but she was saying is this how we're going to punish their kids. tell them not to be successful. what the hell does that mean? barack obama was raised by a single mother, studied his butt off, became head of the harvard law review then a senator and president of the united states. we don't have a problem with success and hard work. we have a problem with -- all work is the same which is an issue. >> stephanie: so we were talking about just the tone -- starting with boehner talking about -- throwing the president

out of a bar. >> guy comes into the bar throw him out! >> stephanie: not really -- you know, once again this sort of new low and respects the office of the presidency. we were talking about this going around the internet. this hilarious -- it says rope instead of hope and it is the obama thing but he's being lynched which is -- right wing humor. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] i don't know. jim, i was talking about this yesterday. i don't think because between the convention and isaac, i don't think -- this has gotten a lot of press. four army soldiers based in southeast georgia kill a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group. they plotted a range of anti-government attacks including assassinating the president. >> neo-nazis. >> stephanie: they brought $87,000 worth of guns and bomb components. right out of the homeland security department. right wing went crazy about. the prosecutor said the militia group had big plans planned to fake over fort stewart.

talked of bombing the forsyth fountain in savanna. in washington state they wanted to poison the state's apple crop. goal was to assassinate the president. >> and one of the guys who has turned state's evidence, it was apparently released that the guy who was funding the whole thing one of them who had $500,000 from the death of his wife, there was some talk he had killed his wife for the insurance money and that guy -- and the other two, that was one of the big problems they have. not with the plot to kill the president and stuff. he had killed his wife to do it. >> stephanie: okay. >> call in an air strike. >> stephanie: al in georgia you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi al. >> caller: i'm not very far from fort stewart to be truthful. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: you know, i'm a veteran. i've been to afghanistan iraq. we do have that fringe, just

like you've got the tea party fringe in politics. we've got our fringe in the military that sort of go off like that every now and again. but anyway, i watch the speeches. i agree with everything the guy said about christie. and i know -- i guess i'm not the target audience for ann romney. >> stephanie: i don't know who the target audience is. >> caller: i don't know. the philadelphia suburbs, i guess. but look, you know, come on, the reason why people don't like the romneys is not because they're rich. it is because they're phonies. they're a couple of phonies. and you know, it just sort of cracks me up. the whole costco thing. the speech last night. >> stephanie: please stop trying to humanize him. i can't take it anymore. more hump days with hal sparks next on "the stephanie miller show." medicine school. he was talking out of his mouth at that point. [ laughing ]

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♪ hechner in the current news center will be all over the convention coverage again tonight and mr. medicare himself, paul ryan will be speaking. and i love this -- you sent us this study -- they did a survey out of how many employers plan to drop health insurance once the affordable care act subsidies come online. that number? >> zero. [ ding ding ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: they fear mongered it. everybody is going to drop it. >> not one company said it was planning to drop health insurance coverage. not one. >> stephanie: nicely done.

nicely done with the fear mongering. good try. >> it won't work. it won't it won't, it won't! >> stephanie: they said he's not afraid to talk about medicare. he's going to lead with it. i'm sure he'll have some thoughts on that on current television. >> i can only see where that's going to go. >> stephanie: we'll be watching you tonight. jacki schechner in the current news center right now. >> good morning, everybody. matt has a must read piece up at rolling stone today where he talks about how mitt romney really made his money and it boils down to just one word. that word is debt. according to him the press has not been reporting romney's fortune came from borrowing money leaving others to pay it back. bain capital would buy with investment capital charge company for advice to pay down the debt and who to fire and minimize expenses then bail with profit once that company went under. the whole story obviously a little more complicated but totally worth the read as he calls romney the perfect front man for the wall street greed

revolution. you may or may not have noticed that the words bain capital didn't come up at all last night. not one speaker praised mitt romney for his work with the private investment firm that is supposed to be the foundation for why he can turn our economy around. "the huffington post" points out even when ann romney referred to mitt romney's time at bain capital, she called it that company and never mentioned baby name. the republican convention is doing nothing so far to turn around tampa's downtown economy. it is a combination of bad weather, ultra tight security and a changing rnc schedule that has left restaurants empty and streets deserted. according to the app hotels and limos are doing well but the downtown businesses are not seeing the customer traffic that they expected. tampa's mayor believes the rest of the week should be all right and make up for what's been lost so far. estimates the city should come out about $150 million ahead when all is said and done but we'll have to see how the rest

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we were walking from the show to the meet and grope. i happened to see john and roland walking next to me. i saw you and hal locked in a hug walking behind us. you guys were so cute. isn't it great? >> we had a nice stroll. >> we were groping each other. >> yeah, yeah. warming up. because you gotta limber up for a meet and grope. >> stretch your hamstrings. >> because the first hand is always colder than you think it will be. >> stephanie: kids, get the tickets going fast for september 29th in seattle and sexy liberal palooza at the beacon theatre in new york city. get it, get it! before we dive into right-wing world -- >> wheel of right wing hypocrites. >> you hardly ever see a headline like this. prop 8 donor charged with sexually assaulting young boys. >> as recently as last week! and since the '80s this has been going on. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ]

>> stephanie: long time activist elementary schoolteacher. taken into custody august 17th after admitting inappropriate contact with young boys. he was a long-time youth volunteer with the very, very homophobic free church. has confessed to abusing numerous teenage boys. he recanted his confession and changed his -- >> pleaded not guilty. >> he needed to have -- >> because he wants to be put in general pop. the amazing thing i guess -- first of all let's state openly the man is not gay. he's a pedophile anymore than a man who molests a young girl is not a heterosexual in that regard. he's a pedophile. that's what it is. i think that the guys like that who are against openness about sexuality in the conversation that we have either gay or straight is a way of culling the ability of their victims to speak out. the more open a society is and comfortable with the topic of sex, the easier it is for a

victim of sexual abuse to go to an adult or go to someone and say i was abused. if everybody is afraid to talk about sex period, it makes it impossible for a victim to do anything about it. that's why this guy would fight for that kind of -- against that kind of openness. prop 8 as it were. >> stephanie: before we dive into the recorded right-wing world, let's do a live one with billy. ♪ billy's hangin' around in that texas town ♪ ♪ with a phone call from the range ♪ ♪ just let him go ♪ ♪ if you want to know ♪ ♪ how his talking -- >> stephanie: here we go. hi billy. good morning billy. >> caller: good morning. listen, you folks on the left have no business -- >> stephanie: it such a divisive way to start a conversation. >> have no business what? >> caller: telling blatant lie

on the floor like harry reid did. >> like what? >> caller: what do you mean what? that romney didn't pay any taxes. >> how do we know it's a lie? prove it. >> prove it! >> caller: he paid taxes. >> how do you know? >> if he didn't pay taxes, it would be big news. >> did he pay income taxes? >> stephanie: how do you know that? >> because he's not in jail for not paying taxes. >> stephanie: that's not the point. our tax system -- our tax system is unfair. people like mitt romney -- >> caller: he's not no business -- >> you said he lied on the floor. you have evidence to prove that he lied on the floor? >> yeah. >> what? what was it? >> caller: it has been proven. it is well-known he paid taxes. >> it has not been proven. >> to charities. >> it has not been proven. >> he gave money -- he gave money to a church. which is great and admirable. >> stephanie: billy that's exactly our whole point about

the unfairness of the tax system. people like mitt romney can get away with paying zero. exxon mobil pays zero. there are so many loopholes and shelters -- >> zero taxes. >> by the way while using the american system to protect every one of their interests the military to protect their oil interests overseas, the electrical system of the united states. trucking shipping, ports they take -- the legal system. intellectual property rights to take advantage of the courts. in every sense and pay zero taxes on it. >> stephanie: chris speaking of paid right wing callers you know yesterday when the call miner called. -- the coal miner called. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] what about the president? he's getting rid of the coal miners. the fact is coal production is not down. the president is closing all of the coal mines and we're all losing our jobs. >> the president cannot close coal mines. the companies are. >> stephanie: i heard him on other shows.

did you see this story? coal miners say they were forced to attend romney event. a group of coal miners, remember the photo op? >> it was an unpaid day of work. it was mandatory that they show up. >> stephanie: they would have been fired and contribute to his campaign and to make matters worse, they lost a day of pay for their trouble. >> unbelievable. >> stephanie: they called into various radio shows and said we were told the romney event was mandatory and we would be without pay. yes, letters have gone around with lists of names of those who have not donated to political events. >> which proves that harry reid lied. >> the reason the coal company gave for not paying them was they were worried about the legality of paying employees to go to a political event. so they decided not to pay anybody. but you had to go. >> stephanie: it is one more phony thing about the phoniest candidate i've ever seen. these guys were human props. they didn't want to be there. they were forced to be there. that was the tableau of the day. oh look, coal miners support

mitt romney enthusiastically. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] wow! let's dive into the right-wing world. oh, my goodness, megan kelly had flag and flur and tagg and all of the romney kids. >> the romneys the other narrative that's out there you guys are kids of privilege. your dad is successful. your grandfather was successful. but it turns out that your dad is, in many ways, self-made. he started off with a $75 a month apartment basement apartment with your mom years ago. people really understand that they did have some struggles. >> yeah. we heard from a nanny who claimed to have been familiar with the family. she always -- child privilege. >> stephanie: father ran american motors. what? what are you talking about? did you read the david brooks piece? the real romney. it is kind of hilarious. mitt romney was born on march 12 1947 in ohio. florida, michigan and virginia

and several other swing states. he emerged hair first believing in america and it national parks. he was given the name mitt after the roman god of mutual funds and launched that he would some day become the arrow shirt man. >> p.s., he got his nickname myth from the mitt of michigan. >> stephanie: oh awesome. thank you for that. brit hume on our speaker tonight, paul ryan. >> this is what paul ryan has brought to this race. this young man is a potent political being in the sense that you sense his earnestness and his knowledge. when he says that he's not in this just to win he's not worried about the next election, i think voters may be more inclined to believe that from him than they would from many other politicians. >> like mitt romney. >> stephanie: you mean as opposed to -- >> potent as in virile.

>> he doesn't have abs. >> stephanie: that's your personal little bugaboo. >> it is. he's skinny. >> stephanie: the official muscle head of "the stephanie miller show." >> apparently there is a big push to find shirtless pictures of him. >> tmz posted some shirtless pictures of him. he did not have abs. >> stephanie: flex the pack of hot dogs in the back of your neck. >> i'm not going to flex anything for you. >> not on camera. >> stephanie: dana intereven know on the five. >> why does the house republican why is it any worse than the senate democrats? harry reid as head of the democrats are not have been have not passed a budget in four years. the governing is so lacking. it is a mystery could me why republicans are hurt worse by congress being about -- >> stephanie: well, oh, because you're a bunch of obstructionist douche nozzles that's why. because the republican congress

has a 10% approval rating which is why you said, hal that's why john boehner had to speak the chair. they're not letting eric kantor near the convention. >> boehner came out carrying a tray of eggs and sausage. i'll do a speech while handing out breakfast. the reason why they haven't passed a budget largely is because getting one through the house that doesn't include psychotic changes in every aspect of american life would be nearly impossible. and so they just do continuing resolutions and they just keep the budget as wrote and make amendment changes which is, by the way what you do even in a business every year. you don't create an entirely new budget from scratch in your business. you modify the one you have based on growth or contraction. >> stephanie: that's right. eric bolling on the five. >> president obama has been nothing but an extremist. a leftist extremist. he gutted the constitution with

obama care. he gutted free market capitalism when he took over g.m. who was going to fail and who was going to survive. gave them $100 billion between g.m. and chrysler. chose them. absolutely wiping out shareholders and bondholders. that's extreme political social and fiscal engineering. for them to say that romney is an extremist like i said, it takes one to know one. >> stephanie: wow! so you know better than the supreme court as to whether affordable care act is constitutional. >> beyond that, for pete's sakes, he's going -- he's picking winners and losers. >> ford, chrysler, g.m. over toyota honda mercedes-benz. we're picking american companies over foreign companies. we're protecting our industry so that it is not ravaged by foreign industry. >> stephanie: which is it? is he a socialist that's anti-business? so he saves all of the american businesses.

>> proof that he's a communist. >> he nationalized the banks. didn't you hear that? and by the way, they make all ford cars are now made in the basement of congress. they're assembled by eric kantor's staff. >> stephanie: of course. 17 minutes after the hour. >> they're government cars. do you know that? >> stephanie: we need a jalopy to run this with go to meeting. you and your team may be all over the place like we are in different cities. charlotte next week. t-bone will be back here. we'll have to have us some go to meetings. you can meet online with clients and colleagues. you can collaborate, do power points graphics. booking sheets, anything we need to do for the show. with hd faces you just need a webcam and one click and there you are. you're in an hd videoconference. you can participate from your ipad. i can do it from my iphone if i'm in the airport. i love go to meeting. you're going to love it, too. once you go to go to meeting

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>> i love that little robin williams bit from 1980. >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." 23 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12. we continue right-wing world. greg on the five. >> we aren't santa claus. it is hard to run against santa claus. which is what you're dwog the democrats. you're running -- obama is santa claus but we're reality. they've got a show -- they've got to show that with santa's promise comes satan's -- >> stephanie: santa and satan? >> they have the same letters. see? >> stephanie: they both wear red. >> the way you get off a marginal show on the fox network which is at a crappy hour is you become a sociopath. you turn crazy and mean and then they'll give you a prime time slot. >> that's pretty much it.

>> that's how he got it. >> stephanie: no one is watching at that hour. >> he used to do red eye. >> he still does red eye doesn't it? >> is it still on? >> stephanie: wait a minute. red. red. >> satan wears red. >> red eyes. >> satan! [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] >> compassion has the same letters as communism. >> stephanie: compassionate conservative. >> wait until you hear this one. >> tropical storm isaac which everybody a desperately hoping becomes a hurricane. they are. they're desperately hoping it becomes a hurricane. it's the democrat's wet dream that this thing hit new orleans. so you know me. my middle name is solutions. i have no ideas for the republicans. and how to deal with the tropical storm/hurricane hitting new orleans. first thing we do is send bags of money instead of sand. once we publicize that we have

sent 500 bags of money -- whatever number of bags, bags filled with money to shore up the levees, what will happen? the poor of new orleans will storm the levees and steal the bags. thereby putting themselves at risk for the eventual flooding that will happen once they remove the bags of money and that way the republicans can get rid of more democrats in louisiana and shore up the state for themselves. >> wow, he's gotta cut back on the oxycontin. he wanted the poor people of new orleans killed. >> yes drown. >> not killed. semi passively this is his plan. the idea that poor people -- >> why would democrats want new orleans to drown? >> stephanie: speaking of which -- [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> it falls apart after republicans sending money -- >> stephanie: this is an unfortunate time for the republicans to have a convention and do their small government thing when gee, bobby jindal, everybody else is screaming for fema to help them more.

get on privatizing that. he was already complaining the obama administration is being stingy with federal resources before the hurricane isaac made landfall but the usual fema predisaster protocol has been granted. it has earned praise from even david bidder down there. everybody. they're literally trying to precriticize the president for something that he hasn't even done yet. >> horrible. they meant solutions. but that's not enough. >> why isn't there enough? >> the same group of people who are -- you know, getting pictures of themselves with giant checks handed over to local constituents and federal funds and then saying the stimulus didn't work and that -- this is the exact same thing. it is now a methodology. plus they're doing -- we built this stadium with government funds. that one that they're in down there was built with federal and state subsidies! >> stephanie: i do think it is

kind of hilarious that paul ryan is speaking at the we built this convention when he got his start because his family was wealthy from building roads with government money! >> he himself got social security and used that to go to college. >> stephanie: okay. bill in illinois. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi bill. >> caller: hi. good morning everybody. >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: i don't know if you caught this. i found this very interesting. you guys are -- it took 1600 words and 15 minutes for chris christie to mention romney's name. when they did, you know, i was watching msnbc. and they did a cut away to ann and mitt and everybody was standing up except for mitt and ann made the gesture stand up, stand up. i wonder how mitt romney feels about that speech and how chris christie is going to be involved in future campaigns for him.

because even though he would like to say mitt is opaque and you can't see his emotions, you can't read them. >> he was not happy. >> he was not a happy camper. >> stephanie: that was definitely irritation we saw on his face. >> it was like what the heck took you so long to mention my name? i'm watching it saying well this is one heck of a speech for a guy who's running in 2016 except it is 2012. >> he was not happy. >> not since his car elevator malfunctioned has he been quite so irritated. >> it was interesting to watch because you kind of had this -- he had this oops look on his face. >> this might have been a good choice for a keynote. >> ironically, chris christie took a car elevator. >> small go-cart limo drove him out to the podium. >> stephanie: 29 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show."

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why they're trying to marginalize the ron paul voters because their libertarian leanings, it is hard for them to push this caricature -- they believe -- they say they believe when they're actually confronted with having to act on it. >> stephanie: speaking of porn -- palin impersonating porn star very popular. >> very attractive too. >> a lot of parties in tampa. >> stephanie: she was in the 2008 porn film who's nailon palin? the film opposed the -- posed the question to which the answer was everyone. lisa ann bears an uncanny resemblance of sarah palin from the neck up. >> stephanie: she once made her way to the strip club. >> from the neck down, she bears an uncanny resemblance to performers in that arena. that's all i'm saying. >> stephanie: the article concludes the hooting crowd seemed to have approve of her

positions, her platform positions. >> 38dd. >> you know her? you memorized the breast size. >> in the title of the article. [ laughter ] >> well, all right. >> stephanie: rick santorum last night. >> president obama rules like he's above the law. [ applause ] americans take heed. when a president can simply give a speech or write a memo and change the law to do what the law says he cannot do. we will no longer be a republic. >> it is funny santorum didn't give any speeches like that when bush did the exact same thing a billion times. >> stephanie: a billion statements huh? >> i love this hear ye, hear ye, listen now or forever hold your peace in this town square. the king has no clothes.

[ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: this may be one of my favorite quotes. romney pollster said we won't let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers. what? called out for the thousandth time by everyone about this completely false welfare ad. politifact rated it pants on fire. romney pollster saying we're not going to let our campaign be affected by fact checkers. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] a in french. romney political director rich beesen laughed chuckled about the voracity of the ad stating reasonable people can have a disagreement about whether the ads are false. [ buzzer ] >> no, two plus two does not equal seven and a half. >> i will agree with him 50%. people can have a disagreement. reasonable no. >> stephanie: by the way speaking of facts would you like the facts, the fun facts

the fun fact check. have you seen this? obama 2016? it literally has -- first of all, it is just based on the opinions of the -- dramatic reenactment with actors. what? people treat this like it's -- >> a documentary. >> stephanie: so yeah. this is the fact check on the obama film by independent fact checkers. 2016 obama's america argues obama i was influenced by the colonial beliefs of his father. >> anti-colonial. >> exactly. >> the original founding fathers? >> stephanie: who was, by the way, largely absent from the president's life. desouza travels he cites several action and policy issues to support the thesis that obama's ideologically rooted in the third world and harbors contempt for the country that

elected him. the assertion of obama's presidency of his father's beliefs, the roots of obama's rage. it is almost entirely subjective and a logical stretch at best according to fact checkers. it even sees clues in the book's title. notice it says dreams from my father, not of my father. what does that mean? >> in german, the word from means both of same as de in french. >> stephanie: "the associated press" continues it is difficult to see how obama's political leanings could have been so directly shaped by his father. the elder obama left his wife and young son when obama was 2. and visited him only once when he was 10. >> he stamped his anti-colonial ideas right on his brain! >> stephanie: because you know there's nothing that 10-year-olds like to talk about more than colonialism and stuff like that and how they may grow

up to run america and downsize it. >> p.s., what's the difference between that thought and ron paul saying we need to get out of the rest of the world if we're not involved -- if it is not in america's best interest. that similar thing? >> stephanie: our favorite guy. pop psychologist? >> dr. keith ablow. >> stephanie: new york university psychologist who psychoanalyzes the president. having never met him. he says in obama's case, the abandonment by his father meant he has the tension between the americannism and the africanism, he is himself an intersection of major political forces in his own psychology. then that's the evidence desouza uses. i love this -- the article says from there the evidence desouza uses starts to grow thin. that was where you were following it? and now he interviews a psychologist -- >> i would like to know what

roots desouza's view has on that? >> stephanie: in hawaii -- >> proenglish? in that process? >> stephanie: check this out. desouza asserts with no evidence, obama associates with ha why yoons -- hawaiians. he asserts with no evidence that obama has been coached to hold the views at the prep school he attended in honolulu. >> that's insulting. >> in kenya, he interviews some guy named phillip a lifelong friend of the president's father who obama didn't really know. >> met once. >> no, no. he met his father once. >> right. >> stephanie: who claims the elder obama was anti-colonial. he discusses his own political views. this is the friend of the father that barack obama didn't know or meet. >> complaining about u.s. policy in iraq and afghanistan and say it is paining israel which he calls a trojan horse in the middle east. desouza seems to suggest if a

one-time friend holds his opinion, the president obviously does too. >> being black and all. >> stephanie: that's a straight line there. >> desouza goes through a list of actions obama has taken to support his thesis. many don't hold water. he talks about the debt rising. but fails to mention -- >> by the way using the argument then paul ryan not only believes everything that todd akin said but is todd akin, just wears a skin to serve two offices. >> and an eddie munster suit. >> stephanie: obama is weirdly sympathetic to muslim jihadists in afghanistan, pakistan. he doesn't mention that he -- >> shot osama bin laden in the eye? >> drone strikes. >> stephanie: nothing like a drone strike to say i love you. and i sympathize. >> desouza claims barack obama once returned control from the faulkland islands to argentina.

obama has done nothing to impede iran's economic ambitions. desouza says he removed the bust of winston churchill. >> there were two busts. the bush administration returned the original one back to england. >> stephanie: it was scheduled to be returned. >> did desouza say that rachel maddo with is a guy? >> it was based on obama's derangement syndrome. >> stephanie: there is a market for obama's derangement syndrome. this is some sort of fact-based documentary. yesterday he was saying -- it is based on a book. a documentary is supposed to be like an exploration to find the truth. it is a political ad based on his theories in his book. okay. and but he got the guy -- [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] that knew his father once, that the president met once. >> there is a bunch of my dad's friends who are lovely people. >> stephanie: right. >> but they believe some bat crap crazy stuff from when i was

a kid. my dad has a great friend named nick who i love dearly but is a little spun. and looks like a blonde charles manson. but he's -- he's nice in a barbecue hang around kind of a way. but if anybody ever went -- nick believes this so blah, blah, blah. so hal has to have -- i hung out with him. >> stephanie: some of the stuff i overheard at my dad's poker parties! >> by the way explain to me, desouza, explain stephanie miller. i'm dead serious because your dad ran as the v.p. of the g.o.p. >> stephanie: i'm sure he's working on a documentary about me. >> views from your father were what? >> stephanie: not mine. >> by the way i'm sure he palled around with some people who knew nixon and mccarthy and all kinds of people because they served in congress together. >> stephanie: desouza is

working on a do you wantry about my father's dream for me. it would be called -- >> the point is if you're going to make -- psychoanalyze somebody. this is clearly this had an influence. you were around him a lot. you see? >> stephanie: so let's -- we have dispensed with that. 45 minutes after the hour. back with the remaining moments of hump days with hal sparks on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: it is like a mensa meeting with fart jokes. it is "the stephanie miller show." direct.

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♪ up in the morning girl ♪ >> stephanie miller. ♪ playing that song ♪ ♪ up in the morning ♪ >> stephanie miller. ♪ playing that song ♪ >> stephanie: yeah, yeah, get up baby. "the stephanie miller show." okay, this is the most hilarious picture of the week. the queen rolling with her homies in a hoody driving a range rover. >> then george zimmerman shot her. >> stephanie: no, stop it! [ buzzer ] >> it was god's will. [ laughter ] >> that's awful. >> are you going to make me lose my mind up in here. up in here. you are going to make us go all -- up in here. up in here. you're going to make us -- unlike harry. >> ma'am. >> naughty bits. >> ma'am, shall we. let the dogs out? >> yes. let the dogs out by all means.

>> who let the corgis out? >> did i mum. you said take them out and give them their afternoon treat. >> stephanie: this hour brought to you by go to meeting. very best way to host an online meeting. try it free for 30 days. gotomeeting.com. click on the try it free button. type in the promo code, stephanie. did you see this? [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] huge story! donald trump. what is his deal with arianna huffington? he's not very perceptive. he said her husband left her because she's unattractive. okay a she's beautiful. b, he's gay. >> technically speaking, he's right in that he's not attracted to her because he's attracted to men and she's a beautiful woman. so there you go. that didn't work. >> stephanie: i don't know what his deal is. he said she's unattractive both inside and out. i understand why her former husband left her for a man. he made a good decision.

[ whatever! ] now he's sending gao get well twitters to rosie o'donnell. he's picked a new target. rosie o'donnell got married. they're going to have another family, i'll bet donald trump will give her away. the world has gone insane. >> that wedding cake is huge. huge. >> flip-flop world. we all just live in it. do we? no, we don't. yes, we do. whatever i said, i stand by it. >> stephanie: hal, we got a late of hate letter. explaining comedy to us. because we don't have the number one comedy album in the country. okay. jack, subject line you are so stupid. >> so? does he drag it out? >> i listen to a few seconds of your show this morning. i cannot believe how stup you and your clowns are. you played the clip from rush limbaugh and you idiots took it as being serious. it is what we normal people like

to call a joke. hello. are you so retarded. >> because thousands of people drowning is hilarious. >> stephanie: we don't get -- because we're -- >> we're aware that he thinks it's funny. we're aware he thinks he's cute. but we're also -- >> stephanie: wait, i'm not done. hey, you support barry and his stupid policies. he has zero leadership experience. >> actually, he does now. >> four years worth now. >> you think he's the best thing since white bread. i better not say white bread. i hate him because he's stupid. and has no -- stupid, you don't understand a joke. stupid. thank you. thanks for that. [ applause ] >> there you go. ladies and gentlemen jack! rush limbaugh's belly crader will for the afternoon. the man who will walk around rush limbaugh with a broom and a bucket like an elephant -- like

an elephant janitor. >> stephanie: lawrence in -- i want to see a sumo match. lawrence in houston. >> caller: by way of new orleans. >> stephanie: yes. >> caller: yes, hey, mama. how you doing? first of all can i be the official evacuee hanging from a tree correspondent of "the stephanie miller show"? >> did you really hang from a tree after katrina? >> absolutely not. >> okay. >> caller: but that's as close as i'm ever going to get. rush limbaugh is a complete idiot because he -- any time something hits new orleans he has something to say. >> right. >> caller: i mean seven years ago to the day seven years ago when hurricane katrina hit, he had all of these horrible, horrible things to say. then when the floods happened in

the midwest i think it was like 2008 or 2009. he somehow pulled that toward us again. and now he does a bag of money thing. >> stephanie: republican humor always seems to be based on death of some sort. >> the death of people weaker than them. and sort of -- and insinuating that's a good thing overall and there should be more of it. that's the general -- that's the baseline but then, of course, it is not really rush limbaugh's fault. he lives in a country that's been going down the tubes since women got to vote. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: here's the new -- we heard this on some callers. romney said obama passed everything he want and failed. we've heard that before. he had a democratic congress and he got everything he wanted. >> wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. >> not so much. >> i want to look up that filibuster. >> stephanie: the record number of filibusters.

the stimulus is -- again i understand a difference of opinion. many people thought it was too small. >> too many tax cuts. >> stephanie: scale down. repeated filibusters on healthcare ate up a year of democrat's legislative time and obama's subsequent effort toes boost the economy have been met with -- >> an objective to make him a one-term president by denying him any kind of victory as well. >> stephanie: he got everything he wanted. yeah. okay. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] mayor of -- mayor of l.a., mayor villaraigosa, you can't just check out a spanish surname and think they'll vote for your party. this is the deportation of 11 million people. what country in the world has deported 11 million people. a slew of recent polls show romney scraping the bottom with latino voters even behind the disastrous 2008 performance. >> won't be able to vote this year anyways.

>> stephanie: democrat will earn 70% of the latino vote. >> stephanie: i have never in my years in politics seen the african-american poll. it is romney, zero. >> that's hard to do. >> which is what i'm saying. within margin of error which means there could be a black poltergeist or fetuses that also hate mitt romney. >> you couldn't get herman cain to vote for you. >> that's increasingly clear. >> john boehner came out and said we hope they don't vote. >> beyond hope they're trying to stop them. that's the whole point. if you're going to disenfranchise large groups, the problem they have with women voters is that you can't directly disenfranchise them the way you can with hispanics or black people. you can create laws that will hinder them but it is harder to do that with 823% of -- with 82% of the electorate. >> michele bachmann said only the republican party had a woman who won the straw poll so we're

a party of women and we fielded an african-american candidate cain. >> how far did you make it? >> stephanie: two disastrous candidates. >> you and sarah palin both had the same favorability rating and inverse number of people who believe you're electable and can run. so they get like 11% when people say should they be president. they got 65% 70% in likable and like their policies. clearly, the only problem is your vagina. >> she's the only one married. >> stephanie: hal sparks. you can see hal sparks with me and sexy liberal. go to sexyliberal.com for tickets in seattle and new york. where else will you be? >> everywhere. i'm actually in new york this weekend. i might be launching a sirius satellite radio show. >> what? >> stephanie: hal sparks.com. we'll see you tomorrow on "the stephanie miller show."